In the absence of a revelation from God, man in his natural state would most likely never have divided time into seven-day weeks. The day, the month, and the year are all based on obvious natural rhythms, but the seven-day rhythms that exist in nature are not as obvious. (However, there are many, as documented in the book I Have Spoken to You from Heaven.)  Thus, the very fact that the whole world continues to operate according to a seven-day rhythm serves as a continual reminder of God’s Revelation in Genesis that He created all things in six days and consecrated the seventh day to Himself from the foundation of the world.

The Revolution Attacks the Seven-Day Week

As witnessed by the first Pope’s inspired and inerrant prophetic revelation in 2 Peter 3, the devil is determined to destroy our faith in God’s Genesis Revelation^[i] by substituting a false materialistic, uniformitarian account of the origins of man and the universe for God’s Genesis Revelation^[ii]

In the two principal satanic revolutions of modern times, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the demonically inspired revolutionaries tried to replace the seven-day week, with its silent witness to God’s work of six-day creation, with a week of a different length, to obliterate from the memory of mankind God’s revelation regarding His creation. In both cases, the revolutionaries made this change to the calendar with the express intent of destroying the entire social fabric built up by Christian civilization. Yet this inversion was so contrary to man’s nature that it was unable to be maintained, and the revolutionaries had to restore the “seven days per week” calendar.

Many Catholics do not realize that the timing of Our Lady’s request for the Consecration of Russia came directly on the heels of Josef Stalin’s attempt to abolish the seven-day week and desecrate the Lord’s Day.^[iii] On July 13, 1917, Our Lady of Fatima had told Lucia:

“I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If My requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church.”

(Read more about the Circumstances and Dialogue of Our Lady’s 1917 apparitions.)

However, the Blessed Mother did not actually make Her request for the Consecration of Russia in 1917. Instead, faithful to Her word, She returned on June 13, 1929. Appearing to Sister Lucia at the Dorothean Convent in Tuy (Spain), Our Lady said:

“The moment has come when God asks the Holy Father to make, in union with all the bishops of the world, the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means.”

God’s timing is always perfect. There are surely reasons beyond our comprehension for why God deemed that to be a privileged moment. Yet we can use our faith and reason to deduce some of the reasons. For example, Our Lady’s request makes perfect sense in light of events that were transpiring in the Soviet Union. As lamented by Pope Pius XI:

“This past year during the Christmas holy days, not only were hundreds of churches closed, great numbers of icons burned, all workers and schoolchildren compelled to work and Sundays suppressed, but they even compelled factory workers, both men and women, to sign a declaration of formal apostasy and hatred against God, or else be deprived of their bread rationing cards, clothing, and lodging, without which every inhabitant of this poor country is reduced to dying of hunger, misery and cold” (emphasis added).^[iv]

An Error of Russia – Desecrate Sunday

In 1918, as soon as they came to power, the Soviets began to attack the Gregorian calendar.^[v] They eliminated certain days from the calendar and created confusion by insisting two dates be given for the same day with one of the dates in parenthesis. In 1929, the Soviets created a new calendar, known as the Soviet Eternal Calendar. Although keeping the 365-day year, the Soviets created a five-day week, with every six weeks equaling a month. Intending to keep factories running continuously, workers would take staggered days off.

Each individual was assigned a color (yellow, pink, red, purple, or green), which corresponded with which of the five days of the week they would take off. Unfortunately, this did not increase productivity. In part because it destroyed the integral harmony within man created by God. Every man is meant to work six days and then rest one. Even worse, this new week ruined family life since family members were rarely all assigned the same color and therefore could never be together for a day of rest. Ironically, even the machines could not handle constant 24/7 use and would break down and wear out far too quickly.

We do well to note that an attack upon the sacredness of Sunday, as well as an attack upon the rhythm of work (six days) and rest (one day) which God decreed for man, is among the “errors of Russia.” As Our Lady predicted at Fatima, this error has been spread throughout the whole world. How many people consider Sunday to be a “regular day”? Few bat an eye at the thought of working on Sunday. Retail stores do more business on Sunday than any of the five traditional workdays. People mow their lawns and catch up on home improvements and house chores on Sunday. Tailgate parties, football, and other “entertainment” activities take the place of the worship of God.

We know the devil does everything he can to destroy anything and everything that points to God as our Creator. Atheists who deny God then follow the devil’s example. This is a foundational pillar in the errors of Russia: at all costs, deny God as Creator. (Today we see this reaching such an extreme that even our creation as male and female, in the image of God, is being denied by society at large.)

 Our Lady of Fatima’s Peace Plan Still Unfulfilled

Our Lady of Fatima’s peace plan involves specific requests for the Pope and the bishops, as well as requests for every member of Holy Mother Church.

If everyone reading this article were to consecrate himself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray the Rosary from the heart every day, wear the Brown Scapular with devotion, and observe the First Saturdays as requested by Our Lady, we would call down tremendous graces upon ourselves, our families, our communities, and upon the whole world.

When enough Catholics fulfill these requests and live their consecration to Mary in every thought, word, and action, we will see the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the consecration and conversion of Russia, and the Social Reign of Christ the King throughout the world in the era of peace.

Adveniat Regnum Tuum!

 

Ten-Week Course on the Six Days of Creation

Starting Tuesday, June 4, Hugh Owen^[vi] of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation will teach a 10-week online course on the Catholic case for 6-day creation. Students will read I Have Spoken to You from Heaven: A Catholic Defense of Creation in Six Days and will have the opportunity to attend a weekly online class with the author, Hugh Owen. Each week, Mr. Owen will give a 30-minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. Students will also be able to discuss the material with each other via online discussion boards.

This course will:

• Answer the question: What difference does it make whether we believe that God created everything over billions of years or in six days, as almost all the Fathers and Doctors of the Church believed and taught?
• Examine the true literary genre of Genesis – the consensus of the Fathers and Doctors, including St. Thomas Aquinas, on the meaning of the word “day” in Genesis 1.
• Discover that God chose out of love for us to create the world according to the rhythm that we must follow if we want to live a happy, healthy, holy life.
• See that, in light of the principle, lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of praying is the law of believing), all the liturgical traditions of the Catholic Church East and West teach the literal interpretation of “day” in Genesis 1 and of the whole sacred history of Genesis.
• Look at the historical evidence for the truth of six-day creation, as well as evidence in the realm of natural science that supports this interpretation.
• Answer most – if not all – the objections that Catholic scholars have raised against the traditional Catholic interpretation of Genesis 1.
• Examine the profound link between the rejection of six-day creation and the timing of Our Lady of Fatima’s request for the Consecration of Russia in 1929, and why it is so important for all of us to heed Our Lady of Fatima’s request to practice the First Saturday devotions.

Class Details:

 Maximum class size: 20

For ages: 16 and up

Time: 5:00 p.m. PST, 8:00 p.m. EST

Dates: Tuesdays, June 4 – Aug. 6, 2024

Students who miss class will have access to recordings.

The course text must be purchased separately. This book has an imprimatur, granted by the Bishop of Eldoret, Kenya on September 30, 2015.

For more information, visit: https://youtu.be/DzXJSF-sriY

Sign up at: Six Day Creation | Teach to the Text

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ENDNOTES:

^[i] Materialistic world views include the pagan idea that the world has always existed without beginning or end and the more modern “Big Bang” theory and its accompanying idea that men evolved from apes and all life evolved by random chance. On the other hand, God’s revelation infallibly teaches the six days of creation, the special creation of man, the Great Deluge (first destruction and re-creation of the world), and the final destruction of this world by fire (at the End Time and Final Judgment). After that, God shall create a new heaven and a new earth.

^[ii] The devil lies; he wants people to disbelieve 6-day creation and the Flood. Deny God’s creative work at the start, then why fear judgment at the end? Deny the Flood, then it’s easier to deny Final Judgment. The devil wishes us to have a purely materialistic worldview. What a great victory for him when we don’t even believe he exists (and the rest of the spiritual world).

^[iii] In May 1929 a proposal was made at the Fifth Congress of Soviets of the Union to have a continuous production five-day week, consisting entirely of workdays. At the start of June, Stalin supported the proposal, and the Soviet media propaganda praised it heavily. This proposal meant all Sundays would become regular workdays. During the first half of June, an estimated 15% of Soviet industry adopted this work schedule. By August the new work cycle was declared “essential.” Many historical books take October 1, 1929, as the official date for the introduction of the new calendar since that day was considered the start of the economic year.

^[iv] Public letter of Pope Pius XI, dated February 2, 1930, addressed to Cardinal Pompili, Vicar of Rome; cited in Free Michel de la Sainte Trinitie, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Vol. II, Ch. VII, p. 539.

^[v] Pope Gregory XIII led the much-needed reforms of the Julian calendar. He instituted our calendar with a papal bull, Inter gravissimas, on 24 February 1582. The calendar is named “Gregorian” after him.

^[vi] Hugh Owen directs the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation, which provides a forum for Catholic theologians, philosophers, and natural scientists throughout the world who defend the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation that was handed down from the Apostles and who are dedicated to making sure that the evidence for and against the evolutionary hypothesis is made available to Church leaders and to the lay faithful.

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