Our Lady of Good Success foretold about modern times

Our Lady of Good Success prophesied that devotion to her under this title, so popular in the 1600s, would fall away but it would become resurgent in the 20th century, the era in which we would sorely need to "gird our loins" for battle.

In 1577, a small group of religious sisters completed an arduous journey by ship from Spain to Ecuador to found the first convent in Quito, Ecuador. With the five founding sisters who traveled to Quito was a 13-year-old girl named Mariana de Jesus Torres. At a later time, Mariana was to take her vows and eventually become Mother Prioress herself.

In 1582, when she was 18, the Blessed Mother appeared to Mariana and asked her if she would be willing to offer her life for the sins of the 20th century, particularly for the sins of blasphemy, heresy, and impurity. In this apparition, Mariana was given to know all that was to happen during this time and appeared to die from the knowledge of it.

Our Lady of Good Success was quite clear that the decline of the Catholic Church would be blamed on a lax and perverse clergy. Certain members of the Catholic clergy would become as thieves stealing the tabernacle light, stealing what is rightfully ours by virtue of our baptism in the Catholic Church—our Faith. They would rob us of doctrine, dogma, and tradition, ransacking the Church and leaving it in total darkness without even the light of the presence of the Holy Eucharist, Jesus Christ Himself. Our Lady of Good Success explained the reasons for the extinguishing of the light.

The first reason why the lamp would be snuffed out was because in the end of the 19th and 20th centuries, heresies would prevail not only in Ecuador but universally. As these heresies spread, the precious light of Faith will be extinguished in souls by the almost total corruption of tradition.

The second reason was that her religious community in these times would be infected with bad attitudes and false charity as a result of the pervading situation of the Church at the time. Many vocations would be lost as a direct result. The faithful souls would suffer a continuous and slow martyrdom, weeping in secret and imploring that such dire times be shortened.

The third reason the light failed was due to the fact that during those centuries a worldwide campaign against the virtues of chastity and purity would succeed in ruining the youth. Our Lady of Good Success affirmed, "There will be almost no virgin souls in the world."

The fourth reason the lamp would be put out would be the freemasons and other secret sects’ malevolent influence on society and the Church. Our Lady foretold: "During these unfortunate times evil will invade childhood innocence. In this way, vocations to the priesthood will be lost, resulting in a true calamity."

Adapted from Our Lady of Good Success