A Catholic Warning for 2026: Padre Pio, Fatima, and the Coming Chastisement
Just before his death, it is said that Padre Peio entered into his final vision.
Words and warnings long hidden or long neglected by distracted hearts seem now to rise again before the conscience of the world.
What he is believed to have seen concerning the times to come has stirred many souls because it appears to touch with unsettling closeness the wounds of our present age.
Something is happening in the world and yet many do not see it.
Many look but do not discern.
Many hear but do not listen.
The signs seem to unfold quietly at first, then with greater force, as though heaven were permitting the veil to tremble before our eyes.
The last visions.
Padre Peio was canonized in Rome in 2002 before an immense gathering of believers.
He had been known throughout the world as a priest marked by the wounds of Christ, the sacred stigmata, those mysterious signs of the crucified Lord which he bore for decades in humility, suffering, silence and obedience.
He did not seek glory from them.
He suffered under them.
He carried them as a burden, as a prayer, and as a participation in the passion of Jesus.
It was a silent night at the monastery of San Giovani Rotando.
The friars were asleep, and the world seemed wrapped in the ordinary darkness of night.
But inside Padre Peio’s room, something deeply solemn was taking place.
He knew that his time on earth was drawing to its end.
A soul that has lived close to God often senses the nearness of eternity not with panic but with trembling reverence.
As he prayed in profound recollection, a divine light is said to have filled the room.
And in that mysterious light, he witnessed events that would shake humanity.
He saw the world as we know it collapsing.
Not merely buildings, governments, or nations.
not merely the visible structures that men trust too much.
He saw a deeper collapse, a collapse of the soul, and that was the more terrible thing.
For when walls fall, they may be rebuilt.
When fields are ruined, they may be swn again.
But when hearts turn to stone, when faith vanishes, when morality is treated as an old garment to be thrown away, then man stands on the edge of an abyss and may not even know he is falling.
Padre Peio saw something darker descending upon humanity.
It was not only a worldly darkness.
It was spiritual.
He saw hearts hardened by sin, minds blinded by pride, consciences dulled by habit, and families wounded by the slow poison of rebellion against God.
Faith had grown weak, charity had cooled, morality had been corrupted until men began to call darkness light and light darkness.
This is always the first sign of ruin.
Not that the world suffers, but that the soul no longer recognizes its sickness.
In 1968, Padre Peio’s health had greatly deteriorated.
His body already worn down by years of pain, prayer, spiritual combat, and priestly labor seemed to be moving toward its final surrender.
A few days before his death, though weak and extremely ill, he insisted on hearing confessions.
This was his battlefield.
This was his altar of mercy.
He desired to die at his post on his feet after a day spent in prayer and ministry.
After having helped souls return to God, he seemed always at the very edge of his strength.
death appeared to stand close to him, not as a terror, but as a summons.
When saying good night, he often asked his Capichin brothers to recommend him to the Lord, because he did not know whether he would still be alive in the morning.
Padre Peio was not frightened of death, but he felt it near, looking over his shoulder, ready to take him from exile into eternity.
Several months before his death, Padre Peio asked that a picture of St.
Joseph be hung near his cell.
His confr noticed that each day he would stop before that image and gaze at it in silence.
Only later did they understand that he had been praying daily to St.
Joseph for a happy death.
This is the wisdom of the saints.
They do not presume.
They prepare.
They do not speak lightly of eternity.
They ask for grace to pass from this world in the arms of God.
Some of the capacins also said that during the weeks before his death, the monastery of our lady of grace seemed changed.
The corridors, the rooms, the gathering places, and the monastery itself appeared to be pervaded by a mystical silence.
It was as though heaven were already drawing near, as though the whole house had entered into vigil.
At that time no one fully understood that Padre Peio would soon depart.
When he knew the end was approaching, Padre Peio immersed himself in prayer.
His life had always been prayer.
The solitary prayers of his childhood in Petrol Cena.
The Our Father whispered in his cell during his last hours.
The rosary held in his hands.
The mass celebrated with tears.
The confessional where mercy and judgment met in the secrecy of the soul.
In temptation he prayed.
In joy he prayed.
In suffering he prayed.
In illness he prayed.
God had filled his whole existence with prayer until prayer was not one act among others but the breath of his soul.
In a sense, Padre Peio had always looked toward the end of his earthly pilgrimage.
He longed for his true home, heaven, where he could be united to God forever.
He once wrote to Padre Agugustino that life here below was wear to him.
To live in exile was a bitter torment.
What frightened him most was not bodily pain, not misunderstanding, not death itself, but the thought that he could ever lose Jesus.
That was the fear of a saint.
Not the loss of comfort, but the loss of Christ.
Not long before he passed away, he spoke to his superiors and asked them to pray for him.
With childlike humility, he confessed that when his time came to leave this life, if his heavenly mother were not there to hold his hand, how would he have courage? These are not the words of a proud man.
They are the words of a soul that knows its own poverty.
and therefore trusts completely in grace.
Soon after midnight on September 23, he made his final confession and renewed his Franciscan vows.
He was so weak that he could barely speak, yet he repeated the names Jesus and Mary while clutching his rosary.
Those two names had accompanied his life, and they now accompanied him to the threshold of eternity.
Then around 2:30 in the morning, he seemed suddenly to revive a little.
The saint who had known so many supernatural experiences appeared to see something that those around him could not see.
He managed to say, “I see two mothers.
” Then he whispered, “Maria,” and died.
What did he mean by the two mothers? Some have understood this as Mary, the mother of God, and his biological mother, who was also named Maria.
Others have reflected that the church herself is also mother.
Though how such a vision appeared to him remains hidden.
Whatever the mystery, it seems fitting that a man whose life had been marked by the supernatural should end his earthly pilgrimage with a final vision, a last glance toward the mercy of heaven.
During the months before his death, Padre Peio’s stigmata had slowly begun to disappear, beginning with the wounds on his feet.
The capuchins who cared for him noticed that the wounds bled less and less.
The bandages once heavily marked became less stained.
On September 22, the day before his death, his left palm still bore a raised scab.
During mass that morning, two scales fell from his hand.
After his death, when doctors examined his body, they discovered that the stigmata on his hands, feet, and side had disappeared completely.
The skin was smooth, regenerated, and without scars.
It looked fresh, as if the wounds had never been there.
A doctor noticed the beautiful fragrance of orange blossoms in the room, a fragrance he had perceived many times in Padre Peio’s presence.
As they stood near his lifeless body, a scab detached and fell from his left hand.
It was the last visible sign of the wounds of Christ which he had carried in his flesh for 50 years.
The sign was gone, but the sacrifice remained written in heaven.
Padre Peio appeared beautiful and serene in death.
A rosary was placed in his hands along with a crucifix and the rule of St.
Francis.
Around his shoulders was laid his priestly purple stole.
Outside immense crowds gathered.
Helicopters dropped flowers and prayer cards over the faithful below.
It is estimated that 100,000 people attended his funeral mass.
His body was placed in a granite crypt and buried beneath the main altar of the church.
“I will be able to help you more from heaven than I can on earth,” Padre Peio often said to those who sought his counsel.
And from heaven, many of his spiritual children believe he has continued to help souls from every part of the world.
The saints do not abandon us.
They draw nearer in God.
On September 22, Padre Peio had been extremely weak.
The church was full to overflowing.
Members of his worldwide prayer groups were present at mass that morning, having come to San Giovani Rotando for the International Prayer Group Congress.
Padre Peio offered mass in thanksgiving for these prayer groups and for the official recognition they had received.
It must have consoled him to know that these groups were founded on a firm foundation and flourishing throughout the world.
As he left the altar, he nearly collapsed.
Several capuins assisted him and prevented him from falling.
Looking out upon the sea of people, in a broken and trembling voice, he called, “My children, my children.
” These words came not as a performance but as the cry of a father whose heart remained with his children even as his body failed.
Later he went to a monastery window to greet and bless the prayer group members gathered below in the piaza.
He was so weak that two capuchin brothers had to support him.
That evening around 9:30 he used the intercom to call Padre Pelgrino to his room.
Padre Pelgrino, who was assisting him that night, entered and found him in bed, his eyes red with tears.
Padre Peio had called him only to ask what time it was.
Padre Pelgrino dried his tears with a handkerchief, told him the time, and after checking on him, returned to his room.
In his dying moments, Padre Peio said that if the Lord called him that day, the brothers should forgive him for all the trouble he had caused them, and they and all his spiritual children should pray for his soul.
Even at the end, he did not think of himself as a saint to be praised, but as a poor frier in need of mercy.
This is the mark of true holiness.
The nearer the soul comes to God, the more deeply it knows its dependence on him.
The period of darkness.
Before his passing, Padre Peio is said to have warned those closest to him that a period of darkness was approaching.
He spoke of a time when only those living in a state of grace with firm faith and interior vigilance would be able to endure without falling into fear or deception.
This is not merely a warning about outward events.
It is a warning about the soul.
Darkness outside the house is terrible, but darkness inside the conscience is worse.
The warning says to watch the sun, the moon, and the stars carefully.
When they begin to behave strangely and turbulently, then the day is near.
Divine judgment will fall like lightning.
The wicked and corrupt will not be able to hide behind power, wealth, cleverness, or worldly approval.
Fire and storms will come forth from the clouds and spread across the world, reaching every place.
These signs will be accompanied by natural disasters, violent storms, prolonged bad weather, floods that destroy, deafening thunder, and earthquakes that shake the earth with great force.
Such tragedies, according to the warning, will not be brief.
They will last for two whole days, bringing destruction and chaos unlike anything men have known.
Their magnitude is meant to remind humanity that God alone is Lord of creation.
Man may boast of his strength, his science, his systems, his calculations, and his control.
But he cannot command the heavens.
He cannot command the earth beneath his feet.
He cannot save his own soul without grace.
The warning comes again with urgency.
Everyone must be ready not with panic but with repentance.
It is necessary to be spiritually and emotionally prepared because the times ahead may bring intense trials.
This is the hour to reflect on the warnings already given to examine one’s life to make peace with God to abandon sin to return to prayer and to face the future with wisdom and faith.
Above all, souls must trust in divine protection.
Those who keep faith, remain obedient, and follow the path of grace will not be abandoned.
They will find preservation not in human cleverness, but in trust in God.
The command is simple.
Stay together in prayer and vigilance until the angel of destruction has passed by your dwellings.
Pray that these days may be shortened.
pray, do penance, and be zealous.
People should kneel before the crucifix.
They should acknowledge their sins.
They should ask for the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
A soul that kneels is already beginning to be healed because pride cannot kneel.
Pride stands upright even before the abyss.
Humility falls before the cross and is lifted by mercy.
There are things we cannot avoid even if we wish to flee from them.
Darkness may come, suffering may come, trial may come.
What must we do when it happens? The first thing is repentance, not a shallow regret, not a frightened feeling.
True repentance means forsaking sin and turning away from it.
It means to stop walking toward death while calling it freedom.
It means to return to the father before the night becomes too deep.
The Lord warns us, “Unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.
The soul must awaken.
It must acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
It must put its trust in him and believe in him.
” Eternal life is not one by curiosity about prophecies, but by conversion of heart.
Remain in a state of grace.
Do not delay confession.
Do not treat mortal sin as a small thing.
Do not sleep while the house is burning.
Consecrate yourself to our blessed mother.
She is the woman clothed with the sun with the moon beneath her feet and a crown of 12 stars upon her head.
She is the mother given to us by God, the refuge of sinners, the help of Christians, the woman who crushes the head of the serpent by the power of her son.
The saints, doctors, and mystics of the church have spoken of her as a means of protection and nourishment, especially in times of trial.
Whoever belongs to Mary belongs more safely to Jesus.
Because Mary never keeps a soul for herself.
She leads it to Christ.
Remember your obligation to attend mass on Sundays and holy days.
Make frequent spiritual communions when you cannot receive sacramentally.
Unite yourself to the blessed mother in these acts, asking her to prepare your heart as she prepared her own.
Make frequent acts of contrition.
Say the holy rosary every day, especially the sorrowful mysteries because in them the soul learns how love suffers, how God saves, and how the cross becomes the path to glory.
The warning also speaks of beeswax candles, saying ordinary white candles will be of no use.
It calls the faithful to pray and to offer sufferings for the restoration of the church.
It urges them to spread the message.
Those who spread it with faith and humility are promised protection while scoffers and skeptics, those who dismiss the warning because fear has made them proud or indifferent, are told they will not escape chastisement.
But even here, let the soul be careful.
The purpose of such a warning is not curiosity.
It is not to nourish panic or pride.
It is not to make one soul feel superior to another.
The purpose is conversion.
If a prophecy does not lead us to confession, prayer, charity, humility, and obedience to God, then we have misunderstood it.
Heaven does not speak to entertain us.
Heaven speaks to save us.
The third secret of Fatima.
This too is connected in many hearts with what Padre Peio is said to have warned.
On the 13th of June 1917 in the small town of Fatima in Portugal, three children gathered at the Kova dea, a clearing surrounded by olive trees.
Lucia, Francisco, and Justinta were young, poor, and simple.
Yet heaven often chooses the little ones because the proud are too busy listening to themselves.
On that day, the Virgin Mary, known to the world as our lady of Fatima, appeared to the children.
She revealed messages and secrets that would mark their lives and speak to the conscience of humanity.
These secrets were difficult for the children to understand.
Yet they carried a grave spiritual weight.
They concerned sin, conversion, suffering, chastisement, and the mercy of God.
The Vatican released the third secret in the year 2000.
It described a vision marked by destruction, suffering, and despair.
The Roman Catholic Church has interpreted this secret as reflecting past struggles, especially the sufferings of the 20th century, rather than simply forecasting future events.
Yet, as the years unfold, some souls continue to look at the world’s turmoil and ask whether the warning still speaks to our time.
As the world moves through 2026, many people look back on the anxieties that surrounded 2025 and wonder whether the warnings were not confined to one passing year, but are still unfolding before our eyes.
They look at wars, moral confusion, division, ecological disorders, social unrest, and the weakening of faith, asking whether these are signs connected with Fatima’s third secret.
The prophecy for them becomes not only a warning about future disasters but also a call to examine how we live today.
This is where the soul must become discerning.
Prophecy is not given so that we may stare at the horizon while neglecting the state of our conscience.
The messages of Fatima though rooted in particular visions speak of universal truths.
repentance, conversion, reparation, prayer, and the need to care for one another before God.
These truths remain urgent because the world continues to suffer from conflict, inequality, indifference, and spiritual coldness.
Fatima does not ask us merely to wait for what will happen.
It asks us to change.
It asks us to repair.
It asks us to pray the rosary, to turn from sin, to offer sacrifice, and to live in the light.
It calls people of every background to recognize that peace cannot be built upon pride, impurity, violence, or contempt for God.
Peace must begin in the heart, reconciled to its creator.
This is perhaps one of Fatima’s most important implications today.
It is a call to unity and action in the face of the challenges that surround us.
One thing is clear.
The vision of hell shown at Fatima remains a powerful reminder of the consequences of sin and the importance of living in righteousness.
It is a call to turn from darkness and follow the light.
It reminds us that the end of the world is not only a distant possibility to be debated, but that every soul has its own final hour, and that hour must be taken seriously.
The miracle of the sun was more than a spectacular display of divine power.
It was a sign of the Virgin Mary’s presence and maternal concern for the world.
It was a reminder that even in the darkest times, hope and redemption can still be found.
Heaven does not warn because it hates.
Heaven warns because it loves.
As we look toward the future, the miracle of the sun remains a powerful reminder of faith and its role in shaping human life.
In 2026, many believers continue to reflect on whether the destruction described in relation to Fatima’s third secret is still casting its shadow over the world, just as past generations saw warnings connected with terrible wars and upheavalss.
This belief continues to stir anxiety among those who follow these prophecies closely.
Yet, the proper response must not be panic.
A balance must be kept.
The prophecies of Fatima should lead people to think constructively about their personal and collective lives.
They should help us avoid fear-based reactions and instead move toward conversion, compassion, and peace.
Whether one sees the prophecies as literal future events or as symbolic lessons with continuing relevance, the central call remains the same.
help the world become more faithful, more merciful, more just, and more attentive to God.
More than 100 years after the Fatima apparitions, the messages given by the Virgin Mary continue to bear fruit.
They have shaped devotion, inspired prayer, and offered many souls guidance in times of uncertainty.
The story of Fatima reflects the fears and hopes of humanity.
At its heart, it is about finding light in darkness and receiving help in uncertain moments.
Fatima speaks with such power because its message is simple.
Return to God, pray, repent, seek peace, make reparation, do not offend the Lord anymore.
These are not complicated commands, but they require courage.
It is often easier to speak of world events than to confess one’s own sins.
It is easier to analyze prophecy than to forgive one’s enemy.
It is easier to fear chastisement than to give up the very sin that invites it.
Through the years, Fatima has influenced not only individuals but also church practices and spiritual reflection throughout the world.
Its centennial was not merely a marker of time.
It was an invitation to ask whether the message had truly entered our hearts.
The modern world is full of challenges, but ancient truths remain firm.
They guide choices, purify actions, and teach the soul to walk through confusion without losing the path.
The legacy of Fatima shows that hope remains possible.
Spiritual insight can help humanity face even the most difficult global problems.
These messages possess strength because they urge us to create a better future for ourselves and for the generations that will follow.
The prophesied warning is described by some as a global phenomenon, a clarion call to humanity to awaken from sleep and heed the angel’s warning.
The exact nature of this warning remains unclear.
Some whispers among the faithful suggest that it may come as a sudden, inexplicable, catastrophic event shaking the foundations of the world.
It is said to be a herald of tribulation, a call to repentance, and a last chance for humanity to turn from its destructive path and seek redemption.
But again, the soul must be sober.
It is essential to hold faith and discernment together.
In uncertainty, people often turn to religion for solace and meaning.
Prophecies can strengthen faith when they are received with humility.
But they can also be misinterpreted if approached with a restless or sensational spirit.
Fear can make the soul irrational.
Curiosity can make it proud.
True devotion remains obedient, humble, and anchored in the church.
For many, the messages of Fatima are a call to return to spiritual values and to consider how our actions affect others and the world.
They do not need to be treated only as supernatural predictions in order to be meaningful.
They can also be received as timeless reminders of kindness, integrity, repentance, and fidelity to God.
On the 17th of November 2001, Sister Lucia met with Archbishop Baton to clarify claims about further predictions.
Their meeting was later discussed in a book stating that with reference to the third part of the secret of Fatima, Sister Lucia affirmed that she had attentively read and meditated on the booklet published by the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, the message of Fatima, and confirmed what was written there.
To those who imagined that some part of the secret had been hidden, she replied that everything had been published and no secret remained.
To those who spoke of new revelations, she said there was no truth in this.
If she had received new revelations, she would have told no one except the Holy Father.
Before her death, Sister Luchia also spoke of a final battle between Christ and Satan over marriage and the family.
Cardinal Carlo Kafara reported that the visionary had sent him a letter containing this prediction when he was Archbishop of Bolognia.
On the 16th of February 2008, Cardinal Kafara celebrated mass at the tomb of Padre Peio and later gave an interview.
He was asked about sister Lucia’s prophecy concerning the final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan.
Cardinal Kafara explained that St.
John Paul II had commissioned him to plan and establish the Pontipical Institute for studies on marriage and family.
At the beginning of that work, the cardinal wrote to Sister Lucia through her bishop since he could not contact her directly.
In the letter attributed to her, she wrote that the final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan would be about marriage and the family.
She added that he should not be afraid because whoever works for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be fought and opposed in every way since this is the decisive issue.
Yet she concluded that our lady had already crushed the serpent’s head.
Cardinal Kafara later reflected that in speaking with John Paul II, one could sense that the family was at the core of the matter because it concerns the supporting pillar of creation, the truth of the relationship between man and woman and between the generations.
If this foundational pillar is damaged, the whole building collapses and we are seeing this now.
He added that he was moved when reading the best biographies of Padre Peio, seeing how attentive this saint was to the holiness of marriage and the sanctity of spouses, even with firm rigor when necessary.
This point must not be passed over lightly.
The family is not a human invention to be rearranged according to every passing desire.
It is a sacred place where life is received, faith is taught, sacrifice is learned, and love is purified.
When the family weakens, the young become confused, the old are abandoned, spouses become enemies, and society loses its soul.
To defend the family is not to cling to an idea.
It is to defend the cradle of human dignity, the end times.
The world watches political events with anxiety and expectation.
As Donald Trump returned to the White House, many became curious about the movements of this powerful figure.
In this atmosphere, predictions attributed to Padre Peio about the end times began to be revisited more intensely.
Alongside the support flowing toward Trump, some have suggested that his public image resembles certain popular ideas about an antichrist figure, a charismatic leader, wealthy, influential, and skilled in speech and persuasion.
Once again, people revisit warnings about the end times that they associate with St.
Padre Peio.
In one interpretation, if Trump were a key figure in a biblical drama of calamity, then he would ultimately be overpowered by the might of God.
In another interpretation, if he has no connection to such depictions, then he remains simply a man in need of God’s grace, as every ruler is, and should be judged by his actions, his humility, his justice, and his fidelity to truth.
How should a Catholic soul respond? Not with worship of any political figure, not with hatred, not with feverish speculation.
Every ruler must be prayed for.
Every ruler must be measured by justice, truth, protection of the vulnerable, and service to the common good.
The soul that belongs to Christ must not surrender discernment to party spirit.
The Christian does not kneel before earthly power.
The Christian kneels before the crucified.
After Donald Trump’s return to the United States presidency, Cardinal Petro Parolene, the Vatican Secretary of State, offered a measured and hopeful message.
Speaking at a Rome conference marking the anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, he reflected on the President-elect’s upcoming term and its possible impact within the United States and throughout the world.
He expressed the hope that Trump would act as a unifier in a polarized America and recalled the biblical principle that wisdom is the essential virtue of rulers.
Cardinal Parilin stated that Trump had a critical responsibility to be president of all Americans and to heal divisions that were painfully clear.
He also urged him to bring stability to the international stage, advocating peace in regions afflicted by war and conflict.
Speaking on behalf of the Holy Sea, he expressed the hope that the new president might become an element of easing tensions and promoting pacification amid the conflicts bloody the world.
Some interpret this as the church placing great trust in Trump.
Others speak as though God or the Virgin Mary of Fatima has preserved him for a special plan.
Yet here too we must speak with caution.
God can use any man.
God can humble any man.
God can raise up rulers and he can cast them down.
The duty of the faithful is not to assign secret roles with rash certainty but to pray, watch, discern, and remain faithful to Christ.
If we are facing the last days, then we must be careful.
We must not only watch the world sink deeper into darkness.
We must ask whether darkness has entered us.
There are signs often described in probable order that accompany days of spiritual decline and chastisement.
The first sign is contempt for the laws of the church.
False worship, irreverence, immodesty in sacred places, declining attendance at mass, church closings, and churches being sold.
When the house of God is no longer loved, the heart of man has already begun to grow cold.
A church may stand empty long before its doors are locked because the first abandonment happens in the soul.
The second sign is the lack of charity toward others, heartlessness, indifference, divisions, contentions, godlessness, and rebellion against God.
Men do not repent.
They did not repent.
They do not repent.
They will not repent unless grace pierces their hearts.
The absence of charity is not a small failure.
It is a sign that the love of Christ has been refused.
The third sign is the breakdown of family life, immorality, adultery, corruption of the young, immodest fashions, and a society concerned only with eating, drinking, dancing, pleasure, and distraction.
The chasteed life taught by God is slowly forgotten, then mocked, then treated as impossible.
But chastity is not hatred of the body.
It is reverence for the person.
It is love purified of possession.
It is the soul saying that man was made for more than appetite.
The fourth sign is civil unrest, contempt for authority, collapse of governments, confusion among leaders, corruption, coups, civil war and revolution.
This is the moment when the world becomes chaotic and difficult to govern.
Disunityity opens doors for wicked men to rise.
In such conditions, some warn that the antichrist will reveal his power and rule over a humanity.
plunged into darkness through lack of faith.
The fifth sign is disorder in nature, floods and droughts, crop failures, unusual weather, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, famines, epidemics, and unknown diseases, perhaps appearing as new strains of viruses.
Scripture speaks of such signs.
When nature groans, man must not respond only with fear, but with humility.
Creation is not God, but creation belongs to God.
If the world trembles, the soul should tremble before its creator.
The warning says that Satan will seem to triumph, but after three nights, the earthquake and fire will cease.
On the following day, the sun will shine again.
Angels will descend from heaven and spread a spirit of peace over the earth.
Those who survive the terrible ordeal will be overcome with immeasurable gratitude.
They will understand that mercy was hidden even within chastisement and that God purifies not to destroy the righteous but to awaken the dead.
The impending punishment is described as one with which God has visited the earth since creation.
Such language should make the soul sober.
God is merciful, but he is not mocked.
Mercy does not mean that sin has no consequence.
Mercy means that God calls us back before justice falls.
The big warning in 1959 in a letter said to have been addressed to his superior.
St.
Peio explained a powerful revelation that our Lord had given him concerning the end times.
12 specific warnings are often associated with this message.
The first warning says that the world is walking in ruins.
Men have abandoned the right path and ventured onto roads that end in the desert of violence.
If they do not drink again from the source of humility, charity, and love, catastrophe will come.
This is the beginning of all ruin.
Man refusing humility.
The proud man thinks he can live without God, but he cannot even draw his next breath unless God permits it.
The second warning says that terrible things will come.
The intercession offered for men seems no longer to hold back the punishment as before.
Divine patience is nearing its end.
Man was created to love life.
Yet he has ended by destroying life.
He destroys it in the womb, in war, in the poor, in the elderly, in the soul of the young, and even in himself.
When man despises life, he despises the giver of life.
The third warning says that when the world was entrusted to man, it was a garden.
Man has turned it into an atmosphere full of poisons.
Nothing now serves to purify the house of man.
A deep work is necessary and this can only come from heaven.
This is not only the poison of pollution.
It is the poison of sin, of hatred, of blasphemy, of impurity, of greed, of falsehood.
The air of the soul becomes unbreathable when God is rejected.
The fourth warning says to prepare to live three days in total darkness.
These three days are said to be very close and during them men will remain as though dead without eating or drinking.
Then the light will return but many will no longer see it.
This warning whether received literally or as a grave spiritual image tells us something essential.
Those who live without the light of grace may not recognize the light when it returns.
The fifth warning says that many people will flee in fear.
They will run without direction.
Some will say that salvation is in the east and people will run to the east but they will fall from a cliff.
Others will say that salvation is in the west and people will run to the west but they will fall into a furnace.
This is the tragedy of a soul without God.
It runs everywhere except to the cross.
It seeks rescue in ideologies, leaders, systems, pleasures, and worldly promises, but refuses the one savior who can truly save.
The sixth warning says that the earth will tremble and panic will be great.
The earth is sick, the earthquake will be like a snake crawling everywhere.
Many stones will fall and many men will perish.
When the ground beneath man becomes unstable, he learns how fragile his security has always been.
Only God is firm ground.
The seventh warning says that men will become like ants because a time will come when they will take their eyes off what is divine for a crumb of bread.
Businesses will be looted.
Warehouses will be assaulted and destroyed.
A poor person in those dark days will be one without a candle, without a jug of water, and without what is necessary for three months.
This warning touches not only material preparation, but spiritual poverty.
The soul that has no light, no living water, and no reserve of grace is poorer than any beggar.
The eighth warning says that a land will disappear, a great land.
A country will be erased forever from geographical maps and with it history, wealth and men will be dragged into the mud.
Nations like individuals must remember that they are mortal.
No empire is eternal.
No border is stronger than God’s judgment.
Only the kingdom of Christ has no end.
The ninth warning says that the love of man for man has become an empty word.
How can we expect Jesus to love us if we do not love those who eat at our own table? In the wrath of God, men of science will not be spared by science.
But men of heart will find mercy.
Knowledge without charity becomes cold and dangerous.
Intelligence without humility becomes a weapon.
The world does not need cleverness as much as it needs conversion.
The 10th warning says, “I am desperate.
I do not know what to do for humanity to repent.
If you continue on this path, the tremendous wrath of God will be unleashed like a thunderbolt.
” These words must be received as a cry of urgency.
God does not desire the death of the sinner.
But if the sinner refuses every grace, every warning, every correction, then what remains? The 11th warning says that a meteorite will fall upon the earth and everything will shine.
It will be a disaster worse than war.
Many things will be cancelled, and this will be one of the signs.
Such a sign, if it comes, would humble the pride of men in an instant.
The sky itself would preach what sermons could not.
That man is small, eternity is near, and God alone is sovereign.
The 12th warning says that men will live a tragic experience.
Many will be overwhelmed by the river.
Many will be burned by fire.
Many will be buried by poisons.
But the Lord will remain close to the pure of heart.
This is the great consolation hidden within every warning.
God remains close.
He does not abandon those who belong to him.
Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.
When people abandon humility, charity, and love, they walk toward ruin and catastrophe.
Jesus says in Matthew that because wickedness increases, the love of many will grow cold.
This is not merely a description of the world.
It is a question addressed to each soul.
Has my love grown cold.
Has prayer become tiresome? Have I become indifferent to sin? Have I stopped weeping for those who are lost? Life is sacred, and to destroy it is to rebel against God’s plan.
Proverbs says, “There are things the Lord hates, including horty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood.
” When men disregard the sanctity of life, they distance themselves from grace and invite terrible consequences.
Every innocent life belongs to God.
Every act of violence against the innocent cries out before him.
Jesus also foretold earthquakes in various places as signs of the end times.
Yet he told his disciples not to be alarmed.
See that you are not alarmed, he said, for this must take place.
The Christian must therefore live in a holy tension, awake but not hysterical, vigilant but not desparing, serious but not without hope.
Fear is not the foundation of Christian life.
Christ is.
So the soul must return to what is simple and saving.
Confess your sins.
Go to mass.
Pray the rosary.
Love your family.
Forgive your enemies.
Protect the innocent.
Honor marriage.
Do penance.
Keep watch over your conscience.
Do not mock heaven’s warnings.
Do not chase every rumor.
Do not trust in princes more than in God.
Remain close to Mary.
Remain close to the Eucharist.
Remain close to the cross.
For the world may tremble, nations may rage.
Signs may appear in the heavens and darkness may cover the earth.
But the soul in grace is never abandoned.
The one who clings to Christ has already found the light that no darkness can overcome.
