In 1903, Pope St. Pius X wrote a short encyclical about the coming “restoration of the human race in Jesus Christ.”[1]n. 15, E Supremi He recognized that this restoration was fast approaching, for another key sign was also apparent:
For who can fail to see that society is at the present time, more than in any past age, suffering from a terrible and deep-rooted malady which, developing every day and eating into its inmost being, is dragging it to destruction? You understand, Venerable Brethren, what this disease is — apostasy from God… n. 3, E Supremi
He famously concluded “that there may be already in the world the ‘Son of Perdition’ of whom the Apostle speaks” (2 Thess.2: 3).[2]n. 5, Ibid. His view was in keeping, of course, with both Scripture and the Apostolic Timeline:
The most authoritative view, and the one that appears to be most in harmony with Holy Scripture, is that, after the fall of the Antichrist, the Catholic Church will once again enter upon a period of prosperity and triumph. —The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life, Fr. Charles Arminjon (1824-1885), p. 56-57; Sophia Institute Press
In the approved revelations to Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, Jesus makes it repeatedly known how the whole of Creation and His Redemption is to restore in man the “kingdom” of His Divine Will. This is the restoration that is now here and coming, what may be referred to in Revelation 20 as the “first resurrection” of the Church.
Our Lord Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta on October 26, 1926:
…in Creation, it was the Kingdom of the Fiat that I wanted to establish in the midst of creatures. And also in the Kingdom of Redemption, all of My acts, my very Life, their origin, their substance – deep within them, it was the Fiat that they asked for, and for the Fiat were they made. If you could look into each one of My tears, each drop of My Blood, each pain, and all of My works, you would find, within them, the Fiat which they were asking for; they were directed toward the Kingdom of My Will. And even though, apparently, they seemed to be directed to redeeming and saving man, that was the way which they were opening in order to reach to the Kingdom of My Will…. [3]ie. the fulfillment of the Our Father: “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”
My daughter, if all the acts and pains which my Humanity suffered, did not have the restoration of the Kingdom of My Fiat upon earth as their origin, substance and life, I would have moved away and lost the purpose of Creation — which cannot be, because once God has set Himself a purpose, He must and can obtain the intent…. [4]Isaiah 55:11: “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but shall do what pleases Me, achieving the end for which I sent it.”
Now, you must know that all Creation and all My works done in Redemption are as though tired of waiting… [5]cf. Rom 8:19-22: “For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God; for creation was made subject to futility, not of its own accord but because of the one who subjected it, in hope that creation itself would be set free from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now…” their sorrow is close to ending. —Volume 20
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Footnotes
↑1 | n. 15, E Supremi |
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↑2 | n. 5, Ibid. |
↑3 | ie. the fulfillment of the Our Father: “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” |
↑4 | Isaiah 55:11: “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but shall do what pleases Me, achieving the end for which I sent it.” |
↑5 | cf. Rom 8:19-22: “For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God; for creation was made subject to futility, not of its own accord but because of the one who subjected it, in hope that creation itself would be set free from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now…” |