How great the nations must struggle to maintain life and the security of their citizens. Strains appear everywhere. Violence within and violence from without. All is falling apart. Where are the rays of hope? Who even dreams of a brighter future, indeed if there is to be a future? Pain, panic, violence, fear, destruction, and a great uneasiness prevail. Darkness grows and hope dwindles.

Who appears on the scene as a savior? Who can be raised up? Many people will arise, trying to claim the mantle of savior, attempting to show that they are the one called to restore peace. I have reserved that role to the one who wields the key. I have not given it to another.

No one will rise up in his/her own powers. No one will climb the mountain and claim the fire of life. No one will be able to disperse the coming darkness. I will allow all the world leaders to fail. All will see that even those who have great nations at their command cannot quell the destructive fires. As these events, of every kind, spread their evil, world leaders will become helpless. The whole world will see the futility of their efforts.

Then, and only then, I will raise up my priest son who will wield the key; placed by me in his hands, my special son whom I have prepared for decades. I will bring him on the scene at the darkest moment. In him, the nations will place their hope and he will not disappoint because he is a child of Fatima.

When he assumes the Chair of Peter, the Fatima graces will be released and the great battle will begin. Until then, human responses will be of little avail.