On this night, watch with Mary to “dissipate the great darkness”

On this night, while the greater part of my children spend the last hours of the year in amusement and dissipation, watch with me, my beloved ones, in silence and more intense prayer.Prayer of thanksgiving: for all the graces which, in this period of time, have been granted you by the Father, in the Holy Spirit, by means of my Son Jesus and through the unceasing intercession of my Immaculate Heart.

This world is at the mercy of my Adversary, who is ruling it with his spirit of pride and rebellion, and who is leading an immense number of children of God along the road of pleasure, of sin, of disobedience to the laws of God, and of contempt for his Will.

It is immersed in the deepest of nights, and no beginning of a year can dissipate the great darkness in which it is walking. Indeed, it has been created for the glory of the Father; it has been redeemed and saved by the Son, and it continues to be transformed by the action of the Holy Spirit.

Nothing can resist the power of the merciful love of God, which wants to transform this poor world into a new creation. And so, the interventions of my Immaculate Heart will become steadily more numerous, extraordinary and miraculous.

For this, give thanks with me to the Most Holy Trinity which is making use of me — its little handmaid — to lead all creation to the perfect glorification of God.

Prayer of supplication: to obtain from the merciful Heart of Jesus days of peace and not of affliction, days of serenity and not misfortune…

Today the majority of mankind no longer observes the Ten Commandments of the Lord. Your God is publicly ignored, denied, offended and blasphemed. The day of the Lord is more and more profaned. Daily an attack is being made upon life. Each year, throughout the world, by the tens of millions, innocent children are being slaughtered in their mother’s womb and the number of murders, robberies and acts of violence and kidnappings are increasing.

Immorality is spreading like a flood of filth and is being propagated by the means of social communication, especially the cinema, the press and television. By means of this last-mentioned, a subtle and diabolical tactic of seduction and corruption has found its way into every family. The most defenseless victims are children and youth, whom I look upon with the tender preoccupation of a mother.

Only the powerful force of prayer and reparative penance will be able to save the world from what the justice of God has prepared because of its obstinate refusal to accept every demand for  repentance.

Listen at least now to the voice of your heavenly Mother! I need much prayer of reparation and suffering, offered with faith. Pray your rosary always.

A message from the Virgin Mary given to Fr. Stefano Gobbi on December 31, 1982

Fr. Stefano Gobbi (22 March 1930 – 29 June 2011) was an Italian priest. He founded the worldwide Catholic movement, the Marian Movement of Priests following an interior locution in 1972 at the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.