with the faith of peter
feast of saints peter and paul
shrine of knock, ireland
1988.06.29
beloved sons, enlighten the earth with the light of christ.
beloved sons, bring all people to christ with the faith of peter.
it was upon peter atone that christ founded his church.
it was for peter alone that jesus prayed that his faith remain ever intact.
it was to peter alone that the lord entrusted the task of confirming his brothers in the faith.
today you are celebrating the solemnity of the holy apostles, peter and paul, during this marian year, consecrated to me.
as a sorrowful and concerned mother, i urge you all to look today to the successor of peter, pope john paul ii.
he is my pope.
he is the pope who has been formed by me in the depths of my immaculate heart.
he is the pope of my great light, in these times of greatest darkness.
with the faith of peter, he is enlightening the earth and confirming all the church in the truth.
the pope today, as a new peter, is reaffirming the total faith in christ the son of god and, as a new paul, is going to every part of the world to proclaim with courage his gospel of salvation.
support the pope by your filial unity.
pray for him, suffer with him, love him, surround him with a powerful force of humble and courageous obedience.
the heart of the pope is bleeding today because of one bishop of the holy church of god who, through an arbitrary episcopal ordination carried out against his will, is opening up a painful schism in the catholic church.
but this is only the beginning.
in fact many bishops are, as of the present time, no longer united with the pope and are moving along a road which is opposed to that which he is pointing out.
this is a greater and more dangerous deviation, even if it is not yet visible, and one which gives pain to my motherly heart and causes it to bleed and, as it were, causes my pope to fall under the weight of a cross which is too heavy.
i have prepared you so that you may help him carry his great cross.
for this, the hour has come when there must appear, in all its force and its splendour, the great army which, in silence and in hiddenness, i have been forming for myself during these years in every part of the world, through my marian movement of priests, for the defence and the strong support of the pope.
thus there is beginning to be delineated clearly the plan of the little flock, which will remain faithful to christ and to his church, guarded whole and entire in the garden of my immaculate heart.
Fr Gobbi 