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THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IS SATAN'S MOST FEARFUL ENEMY

   Genesis 3:15 - "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike at your head while you strike at his heel. The following are excerpts from the book "True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin" by St. Louis Marie de Montfort.  "God has established only one enmity - but it is an irreconcilable one - which will last and even go on increasing to the end of time. That enmity is between Mary, his worthy Mother, and the devil, between the children and the servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and followers of Lucifer.   Thus the most fearful enemy that God has set up against the devil is Mary, his holy Mother.  From the time of the earthly paradise, although she existed then only in his mind, he gave her such a hatred for his accursed enemy, such ingenuity in exposing the wickedness of the ancient serpent and such power to defeat, overthrow and crush this proud rebel, that Satan fears her not only more tha...

THE DIVINE MERCY AND POPE JOHN PAUL II

Today, May 1, 2011 is a very significant day for Catholics around the world for two very important reasons: 1st - Today is the second Sunday of Easter which is the feast of The Divine Mercy. 2nd - Today is the day of Pope John Paul II's beatification. A Short Background In the 1930's, a Polish nun named Sister Faustina Kowalska received revelations from our Lord Jesus Christ - who appeared to her on February 22, 1931 - about God's mercy.  She wrote all of these revelations in a diary.  But in 1959, the spreading of The Divine Mercy message was banned by the church, and Sister Faustina's diary was placed on the  Index of Forbidden Books  which is a list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church . The prohibition of Sister Faustina's writing was due to the faulty and confusing translations of her diary that were submitted to the Holy See. In 1965, Pope John Paul II who was then Cardinal Karol Wojtyla intervened.  A new investigation ...