There appears to be a deceiving spirit, a fallen angel disguised as an angel of light, who is passing itself off as Jesus’ mother, Mary. This creature has been spreading false doctrine wrapped in a veneer of Christian obeisance as well as false prophecies.
It was a study into some of these false prophecies that lead me to write to Fr. Nicholas Gruner of The Fatima Crusader in order to pose some questions regarding these prophecies and those making them. The chronology of what follows is that Fr. Nicholas Gruner wrote an article in the year 1998 AD that made certain claims about prophecies that were to be fulfilled in 1999 AD and or 2000 AD. Once the year 2001 had come around, I wrote the following e-mail dated June 30th, 2001 AD (the usual pleasantries have been edited out).
Our Lady of Quito 
The 1956 AD Canonical Coronation of the false prophet Our Lady of Quito
In The Fatima Crusader article titled The Calm Before the Storm Part III [Autumn 1998, Issue 58] you stated, in the section titled Victory Before 2000 A.D.,
“All of these things are converging in the next few years. We have the prophecy of Our Lady of Quito, Our Lady of Fortune, who tells us in Her own way that the battle will be over by the year 2000. She speaks about the Church giving way to heresy for the latter part of the 19th Century and for the most part of the 20th Century. But it will not dominate for all of the 20th Century. Saint John Bosco’s prophecies tell us it is before the year 2000 that the triumph is won…According to some this will be March 1999.”
This article was published in 1998 and so the sayings of Our Lady of Quito, Our Lady of Fortune and Saint John Bosco were yet future events. Now being the year 2001 and considering the hard hitting nature of some of your articles I wondered if you have, or if you will, write an article which discusses how Our Lady of Quito, Our Lady of Fortune and Saint John Bosco were false prophets. If the battle has been won, we should shudder to think which side has won.
Saint John Bosco
The response, dated July 24th, 2001 AD, was written by Sr. Jane Frances Theresa, S.R., Apostolic Response, Fatima Center (again, the usual pleasantries have been edited out):
Father Gruner has asked that we thank you for your e-mail via the Internet of June 30, 2001. In answer to your question about the “Victory before 2000,” in Crusader 58, we can reflect that God’s ways are not always easy to recognize or discern. In “To the Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons,” of Fr. Gobbi,
Ch. 532, Dec. 5, 1994, Our Lady says, “I confirm to you that by the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, there will take place the triumph of My Immaculate Heart which I foretold to you at Fatima, etc.”
Ch. 586, Dec. 31, 1996 says, “…Enter into the time of immediate preparation for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000. This date should be particularly significant for you, because I have previously announced to you, for that date the triumph of My Immaculate Heart in the world.”
It is true that we don’t seem to see this triumph, and things don’t appear to be rectified, but we believe that the prophesies you mention are still genuine. We humans have our opinions about their interpretation, but the final word rests with God, Who knows all things. Perhaps in the future the explanation will become clearer.
We hope this may help you. Let us continue to pray, especially the daily Rosary, do penance and live good lives as Our Lady of Fatima requested. Please remember us in your prayers. God bless you and may our heavenly Mother Mary draw you ever closer to Her Divine Son Jesus. [emphasis added]
Certainly, an astonishing aspect of this response is that it made me privy to even more false prophecies, those contained in Fr. Don Stefano Gobbi’s To the Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons subtitled, The Marian Movement of Priests. Fr. Don Stefano Gobbi claims to get private revelations from Mary.
Fr. Don Stefano Gobbi with Pope John Paul II
But what is this triumph of which the prophecies speak? “She told us that world peace will come only by obeying Her request of the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary…the Rosary is the specific prayer given by Our Lady as a condition for peace.”1
The Fatima Crusader printed an add which advertised, “On October 16, 2002 the Holy Father declared next year (the 25th year of his pontificate) as the Year of the Most Holy Rosary. Please follow his directive and help us collect: 25 Million Rosaries to Attain World Peace and Stop Terrorism.”
This really is the ultimate goal of Our Lady of Fatima; world peace, which the very Word of God states will only occur by the actions of Jesus Christ Himself at His Second Coming. Need we even say a single word about whether terrorism has or has not ceased in the world?
Sr. Jane Frances Theresa stated that we don’t seem to see this triumph…but we believe that the prophesies you mention are still genuine. It seems pretty clear; there is no world peace and there is terrorism. I do agree with her statement that the final word rests with God, Who knows all things. Is there anything that God, in His infinite wisdom, told us regarding the subject of prophecy?
Here are two texts that apply to our discussion:
If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods”—which you have not known—“and let us serve them,” you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst (Deuteronomy 13:1-5).The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.” And the LORD said to me: “What they have spoken is good. I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.”
And if you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?”—when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him (Deuteronomy 18:15-22).
Clearly, if a prophecy does come to pass but the prophet leads us in the wrong direction then we can know to forsake that prophet. And if the prophecy does not come to pass then we can know that the prophet was not of God. In the case we have been considering we have both; a false prophecy and a prophet who leads us away from the Lord and towards a radically redefined, unbiblical Mary.
See for yourself who this false Mary is pointing us to as expressed in the book by Fr. Don Stefano Gobbi that Sr. Theresa quoted:
this plan of mine…I have led you…my plan…my Marian Movement of Priests, I have called all my children…this consecration, willed and requested by me…I have been able to form for myself the cohort of my little children, with which I will bring to completion my greatest victory…prayer, made with me and through me…I accept today from your hands, my little son, the homage which you are offering to me…these prophecies of mine…As of now, this plan of mine is being fulfilled with the triumph of my Immaculate Heart…I bless you.2
This is an infinitesimal example taken from one single chapter in a book that contains 604; this sort of example could be multiplied by the hundreds.
Of course, the typical qualification to all of this attention on Mary is that she points us to Jesus. And what does Fr. Nicholas Gruner state is Jesus’ message? “Jesus, our absolute teacher, tells us in the Fatima Message, ‘And you, have you revealed to the world what the Heavenly Mother asked you?’”3
Apparently, Mary is pointing to Jesus so that Jesus can point us back to Mary. The one true Jesus is not concerned about us doing what our Heavenly Mother asked since He has told us what to do, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel” (Mark 16:15). Yet, if we are to hear Mary, the one true Mary as described in the Bible we should do as she said, “Whatever He says to you, do it” (John 2:5).
And so we have no need to wonder if perhaps in the future the explanation will become clearer because the situation is all too clear, “false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect” (Matthew 24:24). There are Marian mystics all over the world, each offering hundreds of personal revelations, visions, messages, prophecies and sad to say, most go unchecked or, such as in this case, checked, verified as falsehood and yet, still heeded.
Note that in her greeting, Sr. Theresa stated, “may our heavenly Mother Mary draw you ever closer to Her Divine Son Jesus.” I must however follow what the Bible teaches in this regard, namely, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him” (John 6:44).
Fr. Stefano Gobbi’s version of Mary stated, “second Pentecost, which is now close at hand, because my Immaculate Heart has become the new spiritual cenacle [upper room], where this divine prodigy for the Church and all humanity will be accomplished.”4
Get the picture? The Pentecost at which the Holy Spirit Himself was present was inefficient since a “second Pentecost” is required and one that will be presided over by a false Mary’s “Immaculate Heart” which is the new upper room.
These are, sadly, mere examples of the hyper-Marian devotions movement which has taken Mary such a distance from what we know of her from God’s holy word and she is no longer Mary but a concept into which to pour any and every wild and false revelation de jour.
In this regard; do not miss the essay: Roman Catholic Church: Our Lady of Guadalupe – Officially or Unofficially the Goddess of the Americas?