I have been saying for quite awhile now that Pope Benedict XVI was powerless in the Vatican and that other forces had taken over the political Centre of the Church. In fact I wrote about it in 2011 in a past blog. Now one of the Medjugorje visionaries is saying the same thing.
Jakob Marschiner writes on Medjugorje Today: "...Benedict XVI was powerless, and his decision to abdicate should be seen as a great gesture from a Pope who realized he can contribute better and more by other means than working, Medjugorje visionary Marija-Pavlovic-Lunetti told Radio Maria on February 25.
“For all of us, this is a big thing. On the other hand, for me it is a great gesture of the Pope, this gesture of withdrawing, because he was powerless. I think he will give us even more than with his work, through his prayer and silence, like he told us” Marija said.
“Let us also pray for the new Pope, that the Lord will help illuminate him through the Holy Spirit, and that is a Pope who will guide us in this new time. Today humanity has much need of people like Pope. Let us pray that he is brave and strong, a true man of God, truly. The Holy Spirit will do so” the seer continued..."
The latest message from the Esseff visionary given on February 23 2013 is titled "The Resignation As A Sign".
"Jesus
The highest chair in the world will soon be vacant. It is not a position created by man or sustained by natural powers. This office has endured for centuries and will be present even when I return in glory. It is sustained by my promise that the gates of hell would not prevail against my Church. The papacy, like other institutions, has seen high points and low moments. Yet, this boat of Peter has navigated the tides and has never been shipwrecked. Now, this chair of Peter has been brought to this special moment by a pope who obeyed my inner word that he should hand over the keys of the kingdom to another.
What a solemn and unique moment in modern history. A living pope surrenders his powers so another pope can gain them. A living pope removes himself from the chair of Peter so another could take his place. Only I could have brought this about as my Holy Spirit stirred so forcibly in the heart of Benedict. He would have served as long as I wanted him to.
Understand the greatness of this act. Even more, understand the uniqueness of what I have done. See it as a sign that I have only begun to act. Would I bring about this highly unusual resignation and then allow the conclave to proceed in its usual manner. Why have I done this? What am I doing? All the cardinals must see this. They must not approach the conclave as they previously thought. Let them be ready for my special stirrings in their hearts and for my special actions within the conclave itself.
Mary
The cardinals cannot pull a curtain so that no one sees what they are doing. All the eyes of heaven will be upon them. All the eyes of earth will see someday what has taken place in these extraordinary meetings. The events will be recounted down through the ages. I know there is secrecy but secrecy does not pertain to heavenly actions and divine interventions. These must not be kept secret.
In the beginning of the conclave (and even before it begins) there will be divine signs. The cardinals will speak of “coincidences”. There will be so many of these that any cardinal with great faith will realize how much I am guiding this process. These signs will greatly influence the thinking of many. More important, the cardinals’ level of faith in direct divine interventions will grow strong and firm. This is the first stage – hearts that are ready to believe because they have seen.
As the cardinals gather more intensely in the days before the conclave, this will provide me with a greater opportunity. I will work in the hearts of my special cardinals by an illumination. They will begin to see, not a certain candidate, but a vision of the purpose of this conclave. This will shatter all their false reasoning’s and will purge them. They will be cleansed in my heart and made ready to act on by behalf in the conclave itself.
I will speak here only of the initial days of the conclave. There will be great confusion. Cardinals from all over the world, with totally different thought will gather, many for the first time. The opening days will be in the human spirit. This is quite natural. Let this human spirit be quickly spent, like morning clouds that pass away with the heat of the sun."
It is rather disturbing when Australia's Cardinal criticises the Pope and accuses him of destabilising the Church. If he had said this on the first day of the announcement it would be understandable as we were all in shock and felt a bit destabilised. However with time to reflect I think anyone of any spiritual insight would see that this move of the Pope (closely guided by Heaven and Our Lady) while destabilising the political cliques and structures in the Church, will in fact be a great stabilising for the humble People of God who with the Pope have felt powerless. Many see the Modernists or Liberals as the greatest threat but in fact it is the outwardly orthodox who are obsessed with control and canon law legalism that are a greater threat to the Church and the People of God. They speak much of getting a Pope who will tighten the reigns and get rid of those who are not running things according to their man-made rules. However the spiritually Orthodox are looking for a Pope that will be full of the Holy Spirit and ready to implement Our Lady's Fatima Plan for the Church and World. We await a great Eucharistic and Marian Pope to continue the wonderful renewal undertaken by Pope John Paul the Great and Pope Benedict XVI.
Note added 5 March 2013: The word translated originally as powerless has been changed to fatigued in the article on Medjugorje. Mark Mallet writes about these Esseff locutions on his blog:
"...While writing this meditation, I felt an urgency to call a dear priest I have mentioned here before, just to say hello. He is a quiet, humble, devout man who prays around the clock. The souls of purgatory visit him every night to ask for prayers in his dreams. St. Thérèse de Liseux also came to him, once audibly during the day, and warned that, what happened in her country—the French Revolution—will soon happen in America, and it is time to prepare. Finally, a few days before Cardinal Ratzinger was elected pope, this priest said something astonishing: “The next pope will be named Benedict XVI.” That information could only have come from Heaven, it would seem.
"...While writing this meditation, I felt an urgency to call a dear priest I have mentioned here before, just to say hello. He is a quiet, humble, devout man who prays around the clock. The souls of purgatory visit him every night to ask for prayers in his dreams. St. Thérèse de Liseux also came to him, once audibly during the day, and warned that, what happened in her country—the French Revolution—will soon happen in America, and it is time to prepare. Finally, a few days before Cardinal Ratzinger was elected pope, this priest said something astonishing: “The next pope will be named Benedict XVI.” That information could only have come from Heaven, it would seem.
When I talked with him on the phone, he suddenly began to speak from deep within the heart: “The next pope is chosen by Mary, hidden beneath her mantle. He has been prepared by her since his childhood to be the one who will bring to fulfillment the message of Fatima and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. He will then give the sacrifice of his life. I don’t know why I’m saying this, I just know it in my heart….” I stopped him and asked if he was familiar at all with the above prophecy, since it is a mirror-image of what he said. He had never heard of it..."
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