“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” (Abraham Lincoln ― The Lincoln-Douglas debates)
“There are abundant reasons not to trust Maria Divine Mercy’s claims. One of them is that she operates anonymously. This does not fit the pattern of authentic visionaries, who have been willing to undergo criticism and even persecution for the sake of their visions.” (Jimmy Akin — Nine things you need to know about Maria Divine Mercy)
“This guy [Fr. O.] reminds me of the Irish journalist woman who made up the Mary Mother Mercy prophecies and the Book of Truth which is now a cult.” (Recent comment received via email)
To be concise, all references to the Fr. O. articles and the articles themselves have been removed from this blog. I do not care for loss of traffic. The reason is written in the Bible:
If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed. (Deuteronomy 18:22)
The man said Our Lady had promised him a sign for October 13, 2023.
No sign was actually produced.
However he says he received a private sign that now has to be “discerned” and consulted with a bishop and others and yadda, yadda, yadda. That in itself would not be enough to disqualify the visionary. What makes it suspicious is the way the event was announced by date (something unusual).
This would have been the third time in the last 120 years that Our Lady gives a date for an important revelation. Compare the spectacular Miracle of the Sun of 1917, and the explosive and quite truthful revelation given in Garabandal in 1965 with the dud served on October 13th by Fr. O.
I commented the matter early in the day with someone whose honesty and reliability are without question. That person has been providing me with important insights from a long time now. I trust him because of his religious vows and also as a person of integrity. He said:
“As for the prophecy, It is not from God, as that priest is known for many fake prophecies.”
That would explain the need for a pseudonym: hiding a known record of fake prophecies.
I was finding small inconsistencies in those ‘visions’ but I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Then the ‘visions’ and ‘revelations’ started to come one after the other like sausage links. After a while I knew almost for sure the objective had to be click bucks. The timing and the inconsistencies were only the first clue.
Then came the weird announcement that a “city of the sun” in Poland will be blown up this month. A Polish reader quickly let me know that in all Poland there is not one “city of the sun” not even a village. There are however a few towns named after SOL (salt in Polish). Most likely the fakers misunderstood that word and thought it meant “sol” (sun) as it is in Spanish and Portuguese. That was a giveaway that the ‘signs’ were concocted. Imagine Jesus telling a whole country that a deadly attack was coming but giving a bad riddle to point at the place where the crime will be committed. That does not fit. Compare with Matthew 11:20-24 when Jesus truly warns two cities of their impending doom by name!
Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazim! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
Then came the announcement of future persecutions of the Jews that came right after the attacks on innocent civilians in Israel. That was an obvious attempt to ride the wave of public attention. Looking for click bucks? It certainly looks so.
That is sectarian behavior. Stress sells.
We must pray that this is merely a pious wishful act and not the work of those who are willing to misguide the faithful as we were warned:
“There will arise false christs and false prophets. And they will show great signs and wonders in so much to deceive, if possible, even the elect. Behold I have told you beforehand.” (Matthew 24:24)
And so we wave goodbye to Fr. O. and his YouTubers. I have asked around for someone who can divulge his real name or even the diocese where he serves. The pseudonym is there to cover his past failed prophecies, that is almost a given. I was told I “turned” on Fr. O. Reminder: my only loyalty is with the truth. This is not about me, I am not peddling signs and prophecies and this site neither pays for clicks nor charges for ‘premium content’. No one’s getting fat on my side.
I must apologize for presenting so many (eight) communications from that group. It is obvious to me now those are fakes. In my defense I must say that the first one I received was a very well redacted rehash of existing prophecies. Se non è vero, è ben trovato, Italians say.
If a Polish city is attacked by a significant “device” during this month of October (not a water pistol, not a hail of peanuts) I will apologize to Father O and Sister X. So far, the evacuation of Poland is proceeding at a rather sluggish pace. 😸 Let’s pray for Poland. 🙏 Let us pray that I am wrong and I will be apologizing by November 1, 2023.
[For AP daily news from Poland site click HERE.]

The popular YouTube Catholic channel in Spanish, FOROS DE LA VIRGEN has published a pair of videos one of them affirming that the prophecy of Fr O. was fulfilled in October 13, and also that the October 7 invasion of Sderot by Hamas forces confirms the beginning of the Great Tribulation. That is quite a peculiar interpretation considering:
1. Nothing extraordinary or verifiable happened on October 13 as predicted: “I must alert you: these times are part of what I said in my Third Secret, in Portugal. On October 13th, I will give you a sign, as you asked me; that’s why I showed you that date.”
2. The Tribulation was prophesied as having a soft start but the invasion of Israel was CRUEL, BIG, BLOODY, INTENSE you get my drift.
“— Daughter, conflicts will increase… — then there was a brief silence.
— When, Lord?
— I told you through My Mother and My prophet. It will start in October.
— But how will this come to pass?
— In the City of Sun, in Poland … etc.”
It did not start in a city of Poland named or related to the sun. It started in Gaza, 2,549 kilometers (1,584 miles) south of Warsaw, Poland. And it was definitely NOT a soft start.
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I just wanted to say I like the work of “Countdown to the Kingdom” a site I frequently read. I do not believe in trying to build sequences of prophecy fulfillments such as those presented in the famous Protestant series “Left Behind” that many take as some sort of theological guide of these end times. The gentlemen behind the “Countdown to the Kingdom” project are obviously good people, the Gelasio group is also composed by good men and women. Having said that, we can all be misguided by our own desires. I admit that my anxious desire to see the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart has led me to make mistakes. That is why I very carefully avoid forcing interpretations. One more important point is to be ready to admit when one is wrong while sticking to the truth as much as one can discern it.
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Hi DH
I am a bit pressed for time but I’ll try to answer your question.
• Portuguese YOU (singular/plural) Brazilian você / vocês (voh-ceh / voh-cehs) but it is not like English because there is a neutral way to organize the phrase. Long story … believe me. [I can’t write a grammar course here]
• “Artifact burst” gives the idea of a bo^^b. It could be a water heater, a car battery, overinflated tire … ANYTHING. “Something will break” is not a prophecy. It is someone trying to utter something that later will be construed to be prophetic. Ambiguous as the first case of personal/public may be/may be not. Typical of prophetic cults. Prophecies of divine origin many times present one or more contradictory elements that perfectly agree. For instance: Tyre will be “thrown into the sea” before the fall of Sidon. Alexander the Great used the rubble of Tyre to make a causeway and reach Sidon that was located in an island. Is not ambiguous: it is precise although is unpredictable.
• The diocese is secret, the bishop is secret, the priest is secret, the nun is secret. The man who affirmed to know up to EIGHT priests that knew and trusted Oliveira, could not provide information on ONE of those eight priests so I could confidentially converse with that priest on the phone or via email. NOTHING.
There is a psychological syndrome widely studied among Jehovah’s Witnesses mainly. People that put their trust on these things TRY TO MAKE THEM WORK against all evidence that it was a hoax.
That is what is happening to many. The attitude should be that of a friend of mine (from New York) who said “I knew it was too good to be true but I wanted to believe, now I see.” Same thing for “Countdown to the Kingdom” which is eerily similar to the Protestant “Left Behind” … there is no way to build a calendar of prophetic events. God has never done that. Even the arrival of Christ was obscured in the prophecy of the 70 weeks.
I got to go…
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Hi, Carlos!
Went through the text.
Does Portoguese have the same form for “you” in singular and plural
like English does or is it two different ones?
That said, I distinctly recall the thing saying that “an artifact”
will “burst”. No bomb is mentioned. It could be a pipe leak of some
kind. Or whatever artificial that loses its integrity in a brief
amount of time.
That said, I understand you desire to do what is true, but try to
relax regarding that. Maybe you could contact the guy who has one of
the Garabandal sites, I think it says Aviso or something like that.
The site is in blue.
Why not try and contact the diocese in question? Maybe they can let
you know, because they should, if a priest in the diocese is receiving
such, or even these, messages.
DH
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If the priest exists, I will find him. If the priest never materializes, we will know it was a mirage, and invention to be kept always in the horizon. Our Lady of Fatima promised (paraphrasing) “Go to the Cova on the 13th day and I will show everyone a sign.” What followed was the Miracle of the Sun. No small thing if you ask me.
In this case we were told that Our Lady was going to give Fr. O. a sign on a specific date: October 13, 2003.
Read the following very carefully.
The promise sounds ambiguous in Brazilian Portuguese. I think it was expressed ambiguously on purpose, and I have personal proof of that. I received the text from a screen capture by a man who is part of the Gelasio group. As soon as I speculated that this could be the sign promised in Garabandal (the sign beginning with “A”) that man wrote warning me (very nervously) that “the sign may be personal and not available to us”. That was less than 48 hours after the article with the promise was published! Aha! I thought. A “hands in the cookie jar” event.
The poor man knew or suspected that it was all a hoax and no public sign was going to actually happen. There were other communications that refer to a ‘confusion’ (confusão). I felt I was being prepared for a disappointment after they have gone too far with the game. At that point were also profuse assurances that Fr. O. existed, that many respectable priests knew him. I asked for the phones of those respectable priests but —to this day— they are not forthcoming.
On the 13th, of course, there was no sign. From that we can infer that no Polish town is going to blow up before October 31. That failure will be the end of those specific prophetic utterances. They overplayed it.
A real priest would never make such promises. Most likely one of the visible group is a sociopath who is manipulating all the rest. I am sure someone is sweating bullets trying to figure the way out of that mess. The cult will massage the narrative and the core membership will continue believing. Many will leave with plenty of egg on their faces.
In the meanwhile I am clearing as much distance from that cult (that’s what they appear to be) and I’m warning the public of yet one more scam. It is remarkable that “Countdown to the Kingdom” adopted the prophecies of Fr. O. without further confirmation. That shows the depth of their “scholarship” mind you.
I feel very sad and quite disappointed. And I have plenty of egg on my face. We live and learn.
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