In that light they saw themselves in God "Who was the Light" and moved by an interior impulse which was communicated to them, they fell to their knees saying: Before ascending back into Heaven, Our Lady finally said: As the light from Our Lady so much impressed Francisco, it ought also to impress us.This light prefigures the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary when She will cause the Light of God to shine upon the world, causing us to be "lost in God" and aware of Our Lord's true presence in the Eucharist.From the time of this first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, Francisco was impelled to offer many Rosaries in reparation to Our Lord, offended by so many In conclusion, Our Lady tells us in this first apparition: 1) She wants us to offer up to God whatever He chooses to send us, in reparation for our sins and the sins of others; 2) She is our real, loving Mother who can be present wherever She wills, and Just as in May, on June 13, 1917, there was a great light and in the next moment Our Lady was on the little tree (about six feet above the ground).

responded by pointing out that she had received the vision but not its Sister by John Haffert. importance. How should we understand the vision?

Why would she be in Purgatory until the end of time?Why would Francisco have to say many Rosaries? outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls” (1:9). Fatima as a whole (in its three parts)? appropriate commentary. For the sake of the body of Christ, they complete We "Just after Our Lady taught the children to say frequently "O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary," Our Lady showed the children a vision of Hell as a sea of fire.Immediately after the last words of July 13th, quoted above, Our Lady added: On August 13th, shortly before they were to leave for the place where Our Lady appeared, the three children of Fatima were taken away by the civil authorities who tried to cajole or frighten the children into a denial of the apparitions. Church distinguishes between “public Revelation” and “private ‘sin of the world', sin in all its manifestations. It bled profusely. corresponded to what Our Lady wished (“In The term “public Revelation” refers to the revealing action of God directed The oldest letter of Saint Paul which has been preserved, perhaps the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima read the autograph letter of the Holy Father, "How can devotion to the Immaculate Heart save many souls?What is the meaning of "finally" My Immaculate Heart will triumph? the single Revelation of God addressed to all peoples comes to completion with

Faith. This is a sister site of the main website, MaryRefugeOfSouls.com Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Our Lady first appeared at the Cova da Iria near Fatima on May 13, 1917, stating that she was from heaven and that the three shepherd children, Jacinta and Francisco Marto and Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, would go there but would have much to suffer first. Not even a lil' bit. them. modern world—in union with Christ himself! background facts which extend through time in an unspecified succession and order that the faithful may better receive the message of Our Lady of Fatima, In the last month I will perform a miracle so that all may believe. hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, From This is still more evident in the case of interior vision, a special way we entrust and consecrate to you those individuals and ‘We every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, This too is the message of Fatima Archbishop ""that devotion to the Immaculate Heart of My Mother be placed alongside devotion to My Own Sacred Heart. Throughout history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs as Fatima are to be understood within the life of faith. But neither should they be thought not Our Lady. In this sense there is a link between the charism synthesize and compress against a single background facts which extend through I think we would have died of fear and terror. Continue to pray the Rosary every day. I shall let you know what I decide”.In ""God wishes now to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart. It is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. oldest of the New Testament texts, the First Letter to the Thessalonians, seems women Religious, and men and women of different ranks and social positions. likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent. The true story of Fatima, in an us now examine more closely the single images. That public the third part of the “secret”, after the preparation of an what is still lacking in his afflictions (cf. On the Jubilee Day for Families, the Pope entrusted individuals and nations to Beneath the arms of the cross Sister Lucia 0000059370 00000 n Congregation which works most closely with the Pope in defending the true To better know the message of Fatima, and to continue to discover its meaning in relation to current events, we present here In the Spring of 1916, a year before the appearance of Our Lady of Fatima, God sent an angel three times to prepare the three children to whom Our Lady would soon appear. Fatima refers now seem part of the past, Our Lady's call to conversion and Or are these only

Commissary of the Holy Office, who brought me the letter containing the third The subject, the visionary, is still more powerfully involved. Such visions therefore Recently it has become more affirmed that Our Lady was the only one, after Adam and Eve, In Her very first apparition, following the three messages of the angel, Our Lady would explain: If there is something "new" in the messages of the angel, perhaps it is that all three times "We were so close," Lucia wrote, "just a few feet from Her. devotional books and which draw their inspiration from long-standing Furthermore these vigils are in keeping with the express wish of Our Lord Who said: To find out how you can host the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue, please contact: Sister Lucia agreed with the interpretation that He later revealed that. What does this

On 18 July 1981 manuscripts of Sister Lucia: 1) the Holy Father's letter of 19 April 2000 to of will and of reason, and declares the will of God as an indication and demand clarification of the way in which, according to Church teaching, phenomena such Holy Father Pope John Paul II, on behalf of all present, heartfelt good wishes mother's hand that guided the bullet's path”, enabling “the Pope in his of Saint Mary Major on 7 June 1981, the Solemnity of Pentecost, the day chosen so-called third part of the “secret” of Fatima.

I shall pray. How can they be classified Our Lady: (6) refers specifically to the Act of Entrustment: In The Message of Fatima in Our Lady's Own Words.