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Father Gobbi has been given his last public message from the Blessed
Mother.  Below is the official news release from Father Roux, National
Director of the Marian Movement of Priests along with the text of the
entire message given to Father Gobbi.  I thought this was an important
milestone and should be shared.

The entire message is available on the web-page of the Marian Movement of
Priests:

http://www.mmp-usa.net/

Mike Demos.

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                              IMPORTANT NEWS RELEASE

                                  FR. GOBBI RECEIVES
                              HIS LAST PUBLIC MESSAGE!

 To:        M.M.P. Members and Associates
 From:        Rev. Albert G. Roux
          National Director
 Date:        January 20, 1998

In her message to Fr. Gobbi dated December 31, 1997, Our Blessed Mother says,


   "As of now, all that I had to say to you has been said, because all has
been revealed to you.
   Therefore, on this night, there come to an end the public messages which
I have been giving you for
   twenty-five years; now you must meditate on them, live them and put them
into practice." (604kl)


Because of the importance of this message and in order to assure that parts
of unofficial translations of the messages, which are already circulating,
are not taken out of context and disseminated indiscriminately, I have
decided to release herewith the message in its entirety.

The 1997 messages have already been translated into English by Archbishop
George Pearce, S.M., our official translator.  We are now in the process of
preparing them for publication. As soon as the 1997 supplement is printed,
a copy will be mailed to all who are on our mailing list.

                                      * * * * * * * * * * *

Following is the official translation of the December 31, 1997 locution. I
invite you to read it attentively and also to read the reflections which
follow:

 604

                                                         Milan, December
31, 1997
                                                            Last Night of
the Year


 All Has Been Revealed to You
 a      "Beloved sons, in silence and in prayer, spend with me the final
hours of this year which is about
     to end. Do not spend it in dissipation and entertainments, as so many
of my children do.
 b     This year has been particularly important for my plan. You are now
entering into my times. For
     this, I have traced out for you a light-filled way, along which all of
you must walk, in order to live
     the consecration which you have made to my Immaculate Heart.
 c     Now all has been revealed to you.

 d     All has been revealed to you: my plan has been prophetically
announced to you at Fatima and,
     during these years, I have been carrying it out through my Marian
Movement of Priests. This has
     been revealed to you in its gradual preparation.
 e     This century of yours, which is about to end, has been placed under
the sign of a strong power
     conceded to my Adversary. Thus, humanity has been led astray by the
error of theoretical and
     practical atheism; in the place of God, idols have been built which
everyone adores: pleasure,
     money, amusement, power, pride and impurity.
 f     Truly Satan, with the cup of lust, has succeeded in seducing all the
nations of the earth. He has
     replaced love with hatred; communion with division; justice with many
injustices; peace with
     continuous war. In fact this entire century has been spent under the
sign of cruel and bloody wars,
     which have claimed millions of innocent victims.
 g     So then the Most Holy Trinity has arranged that your century be
placed under the sign of my
     powerful, maternal and extraordinary presence. Thus, at Fatima I
pointed out the way along
     which humanity must journey for its return to the Lord: that of
conversion, prayer and penance.
     And as a safe refuge, I offered you my Immaculate Heart.
 h     All has been revealed to you: my plan has been pointed out to you
even in its painful
     realization. Humanity has fallen under the domination of Satan and of
his great power, exercised
     with the satanic and masonic forces; my Church has become obscured by
his smoke which has
     penetrated into it. Errors are being taught and propagated, causing
many to lose true faith in Christ
     and in his Gospel; the holy Law of God is openly violated; sin is
committed and often even
     justified and thus the light of grace and of the divine presence is
lost; unity is deeply split apart by
     a strong contestation directed against the Magisterium, and especially
against the Pope; and the
     wound caused by painful lacerations becomes ever wider.
 i     In order to give the suffering and crucified Church of your time my
motherly help and a safe
     refuge, I have brought the Marian Movement of Priests into being and
have spread it through
     every part of the world, by means of my book, which traces out for you
the road along which you
     must journey in order to spread my light. With this book, I teach you
to live the consecration to
     my Immaculate Heart, with the simplicity of children, in a spirit of
humility, of poverty, of trust and
     of filial abandonment.
 j     I have now been guiding you for twenty-five years, with the words
which I have spoken to the
     heart of this, my little son, whom I have chosen as an instrument for
the realization of my maternal
     plan. During these years I myself have carried him several times to
every part of the world, and he
     has allowed himself to be led with docility, small and fearful but
totally abandoned to me, like a
     little baby in the arms of his Mother.
 k     As of now, all that I had to say to you has been said, because all
has been revealed to you.
 l     Therefore, on this night, there come to an end the public messages
which I have been giving you
     for twenty-five years; now you must meditate on them, live them and
put them into practice. Then
     the words which I have caused to come down from my Immaculate Heart,
as drops of heavenly
     dew upon the desert of your life, so threatened by snares, will
produce fruits of grace and
     holiness.
 m     From now on, I will manifest myself through the word, the person and
the actions of this, my little
     son, whom I have chosen to be your guide and whom I am now leading to
the painful summit of
     his mission.
 n     All has been revealed to you: my plan has been foretold to you
especially in its wonderful and
     victorious fulfillment.
 o     I have announced to you the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the
world. In the end my
     Immaculate Heart will triumph.
 p     This will come about in the greatest triumph of Jesus, who will
bring into the world his glorious
     reign of love, of justice and of peace, and will make all things new.
 q     Open your hearts to hope.
     Throw open the doors to Christ who comes to you in glory.
     Live the trembling hour of this second Advent.
 r     Become thus the courageous heralds of this, his triumph, because you
- little babes consecrated
     to me who live from my very own spirit - are the apostles of these
last times.
 s     Live as faithful disciples of Jesus, in contempt for the world and
for yourselves, in poverty, in
     humility, in silence, in prayer, in mortification, in charity and in
union with God, while you are
     unknown and despised by the world.
 t     The moment has come for you to come out from your hiddenness in
order to go and shed
     light upon the earth.
 u     Show yourselves to all as my children for I am with you always. Let
the faith be the light which
     enlightens you in these days of darkness, and let zeal alone consume
you, zeal for the honor and
     glory of my Son Jesus.
 v     Fight, children of the light, because the hour of my battle has now
arrived. In the harshest of
     winters, you are the buds which are opening from my Immaculate Heart
and which I am placing
     on the branches of the Church, to tell you that her most beautiful
springtime is about to arrive.
 w     This will be for her the second Pentecost. For this reason, I invite
you to repeat often in the
     cenacles of prayer that I have asked of you: `Come, Holy Spirit, come
by means of the powerful
     intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well-beloved Spouse.'
 x     With the love of a Mother who, during these years, has been listened
to, followed and glorified by
     you, I bless you all in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit."

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                    This message is part of a series contained in the book,
                         "To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons."
                        Fr. Stefano Gobbi, an Italian priest from Milan,
                            has been receiving "interior locutions"
                            from Our Blessed Mother since 1973.
                   To obtain a copy of the book containing all the messages,
                                       please write to:

                                 The Marian Movement of Priests
                                     National Headquarters
                                          P.O. Box 8
                                   St. Francis, ME 04774-0008
                             Tel. (207) 398-3375 / Fax (207) 398-3352
                              New Web Site: http://www.mmp-usa.net
                              (Please share our new web address with others.)
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                               IMPORTANT REFLECTIONS:
                      M.M.P. Entering Second Phase of Its Mission

I want to take this opportunity to quell any rumors or misinterpretations
about the future role of the Marian Movement of Priests. This message does
not announce the end of the M.M.P., only that it is now entering into the
second phase of its mission. The mission of the M.M.P. in its first phase
was to call people to consecrate themselves to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary. Other movements have claimed that the mission of the M.M.P. was
approaching completion, and that their own movement(s) were chosen to lead
us into the final phase of God's plan for his people. This is an entirely
false interpretation. On March 7, 1996 (message #566i), Our Lady told Fr.
Gobbi,

   "Go, my little child, for yet a little while, along all the roads of the
world, to peoples and nations so far
   away, to whom I am bringing you with love and joy. You must now enter
into the second phase of your
   existence and prepare yourself to live out, in love and in suffering,
whatever I ask of you, however great
   it may be, so that your mission might be accomplished and thus you might
bring to fulfillment the task
   which I have entrusted to you."

Read, Meditate and Live the Messages!

She has told us all we need to know to live through these final hours of
the chastisement and purification. We must continue reading her messages,
in which she gives us the weapons we need to be able to be ready in these
last hours. By means of the messages, she is offering us a "basic training"
which will prepare us to live through the chastisement and the final
purification. Now, Our Lady says, the time has come when we must meditate
on the messages, live them and put them into practice. (cf. 604l) Perhaps
some of us have been too interested in the prophetical dimension of the
messages, wondering what Our Lady was going to reveal to us next, and thus
being rendered incapable of really benefiting from her spiritual teaching.
What will we gain, however, from knowing all the details of future events
if we are not spiritually prepared to live through them? There is still
time to deepen our knowledge of the messages and to let ourselves be formed
and transformed by Our Blessed Mother's teachings. The time is now!

Already in January of 1984, she was telling us that what we should know had
already been revealed. (cf. 284i) "Also a gift of my Immaculate Heart - O
yes, a most particular gift! - is the book containing my messages. In my
book what you should know has already been revealed. If you know how to
read it, therein is my total plan, in its preparation, in its sorrowful
actualization, and in its luminous and victorious completion. Read it, my
beloved sons, meditate on it, live it! Have no doubt; I am speaking to you.
Through these words I am present in it and manifest myself. Only tomorrow
will you understand the importance of this maternal message of mine."
(#284hij) And I truly believe that "only tomorrow" means "only after the
triumph." Let us not wait until it is too late to put into practice what
she is telling us!

She Will Never Abandon Us!

Because the public messages to Fr. Gobbi have now ceased, some of us may be
feeling an emptiness which can be compared to the feeling of total and
utter abandonment Jesus had to experience in the Garden of Gethsemane. Our
earthly journey is passing through the stages of the very journey of
Christ. We are still in the moments of the purification and the suffering,
of Gethsemane and of Calvary. (cf. 447c) Our Lady tells us that the will of
the Father so disposed that she would not be near Jesus during his interior
agony in Gethsemane, because the very absence of his Mother would make his
abandonment more complete. But, she says, .."in my soul, during the night,
I remained ever near my Son." (cf. 174bc)

She will never abandon us. She assures us that, "Till the end of the world,
I will always be close to you, sons begotten of the death of my only Son.
Above all, I am with you during these moments of darkness and
suffering.I am always near you to help you to suffer, to die and to rise
again, until the plan of the Father be fulfilled." (174qrs) As she did for
Jesus during his passion and death, Our Blessed Mother will now assist us
by her silent presence.

We are entering the times of the ultimate purification. No one will enter
the Kingdom which Jesus will come to establish in its fullness, unless one
is totally purified. Our Lady's messages to Fr. Gobbi help to prepare us
for these last times. Read through the messages again and again and try to
conform your lives according to her teachings and words of wisdom. Now,
more than ever, we need to live the messages. Do it quickly because 1998
will be a very difficult year for the world and the Church. All of us will
be tested, but our readiness depends on how well we will have let ourselves
be spiritually transformed by Our Lady's messages. Here is what she says:

   "I trace out a simple and beautiful road, but a difficult one, oh how
difficult! It is necessary to travel it,
   if you wish to live the consecration. I teach you how to live; I form
you in a practical way to live with
   me. I tell you the things which I have most on my heart, because they
are the very things which Jesus
   has told you in the Gospel, which today should be lived with the
simplicity of little ones, with the ardor
   of martyrs, and with the fidelity of courageous witnesses: it should be
lived to the letter!" (282ghij)

There Is Much Reason for Hope

I encourage you not to lose hope but to give her your total trust and
abandonment. There is much reason for hope. In 1994, and again in 1996, Our
Blessed Mother revealed to us that by the Great Jubilee of the year 2000,
there will take place the triumph of her Immaculate Heart, which she
foretold at Fatima, and this will come to pass with the return of Jesus in
glory, to establish his reign in the world. She further reveals that we
will at last be able to see with our own eyes the new heavens and the new
earth. (cf. 532i; 586de)

For now, we must prepare ourselves to live, as did Our Blessed Mother,
through the long Holy Saturday.

   "In the long Holy Saturday of these last times of yours, you must above
all keep watch with me in
   expectation. That which made lighter for me the great sorrow of this
day, was the certitude that
   Jesus was to be gloriously risen. The Saturday of the sepulchre was to
be succeeded by the first day of
   the resurrection. Even though you are still living the pain, the
fatigue, the suffering and the death of this
   long Holy Saturday, live with me in expectation. Jesus will return on
the clouds of heaven, to restore his
   reign of glory and to make all things new. Beloved children, live with
me today, in the expectation of
   this, his return." (446d)

Remain with Her in the Cenacle

In her final words to us, she tells us that the hour of her battle has now
arrived and that the second Pentecost is upon us. For this reason she again
invites us to repeat often in the cenacles which she has asked of us,
"Come, Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well-beloved Spouse." (cf. 604vw)

The Holy Father refers to the new era which we are about to enter as, "The
Golden Age of Christianity." We cannot fathom what God has prepared for us
for the year 2000 and beyond. The cenacles of the Marian Movement of
Priests are the "domestic schools" where Our Lady will prepare us for this
great triumph. The Evil One knows how important these are, and so he has
succeeded in convincing many people to abandon them, oftentimes for
apparently good reasons. I urge you to persevere in the cenacles. Do not
deprive yourselves of this urgently needed spiritual preparation. Come back
to them with more fervor than ever before. The cenacles are Our Lady's
guarantee of protection. She promises that her Immaculate Heart will be our
secure refuge.

Again in 1997, she reiterates how important are the cenacles which she has
so often requested of us:

   "It is the message of Fatima which is reaching its fulfillment in the
spread, now on a world-wide level,
   of the cenacles which I have asked of you in order to gather you
together in prayer, made with me and
   through me. .

   With these cenacles, you are able to obtain the grace of conversion for
many poor sinners, especially for
   those most in need of divine mercy.

   With these cenacles, you offer a great force of intercession and of
reparation to your heavenly Mother,
   who has intervened many times, in an extraordinary way, to shorten the
painful time of the great
   purifying trial.

   With these cenacles, you invoke the gift of the second Pentecost, which
is now close at hand, because
   my Immaculate Heart has become the new spiritual cenacle, where this
divine prodigy for the Church
   and all humanity will be accomplished." (594fghi)

A New Beginning - The Church of Light

The message of December 31, 1997 does not signify an end, but rather a
beginning. This beginning is the initiation of the second phase of the
Marian Movement of Priests leading to the new Church of light. From the
cenacles, there springs forth this new Church of light of which we are the
foundation, the pillars, the charter members. This new Church will be more
beautiful and resplendent than ever. She tells us that those who are
consecrated to her, who gather with her in prayer in the cenacles, are the
buds which are opening up from her Immaculate Heart and which she is
placing on the branches of the Church. (cf. 604v) Through her Marian
Movement of Priests, she is preparing the children of her triumph, her
apostles of these last times.

   "Jesus is now forming this Church of his, by means of the powerful
action of the Holy Spirit and in the
   garden of the Immaculate Heart of your heavenly Mother. It is the new
Church of light, which has a
   splendor greater than a thousand suns put together. It is being formed
in the hearts of the simple, of the
   little, of the pure, of the poor, of those who know how to receive and
follow Jesus with perfect docility,
   without any compromise with the spirit of the world. Jesus is building
this, his new Church, in a way
   which is invisible and utterly mysterious: in silence, in hiddenness, in
prayer, in simplicity." (429cd)

Now is the Time!

The events are upon us. Now is the time for more intense prayer; now is the
time to gather together more often in the cenacles of prayer, to deepen our
understanding of the messages and to strive to put them into practice in
our daily lives. How does she want us to live? She tells us: "Live as
faithful disciples of Jesus, in contempt for the world and for yourselves,
in poverty, in humility, in silence, in prayer, in mortification, in
charity and in union with God, while you are unknown and despised by the
world." (604s) We want to be prepared well by her to live out what will be
asked of us; to dispose us to receive the Holy Spirit when He comes to
enlighten and sanctify the world by the power of his divine Love; to be
ready to receive Jesus when He comes.

Let the resounding cry of the cenacles be: Come, Lord Jesus, Come!

c1998 The Marian Movement of Priests
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