Posts Tagged ‘Fatima’
The Secret of Our Lady and the Reality of Hell
Anyone who has been interested in the apparitions of Fatima from the beginning has felt a curiosity and burning desire to uncover or see uncovered the mysterious secret which the children claimed to have received from the Lady, and which they kept inviolate in the face of the most alluring promises as well as the…
Read MoreMay 13th and the Consecration of Russia
THE STORY OF FATIMA On a cool spring day in 1916, Lucy dos Santos, age 9, and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, ages 8 and 6 respectively, took their parents’ sheep to pasture in a place not far from their homes in the mountain village of Fatima, Portugal, about 90 miles north of Lisbon.…
Read MoreThe Children of Fatima and Devotion to the Papacy
The Portuguese have always shown special loyalty to the Holy Father. It was the Pope who emancipated them from vassalage to Castile – and it was to him that the new, little country of Portugal was entrusted at its birth. Though in the course of the centuries this traditional devotion was occasionally weakened, the fault…
Read MorePutting the Peace Plan of Our Lady into Action
History has recorded as already having taken place many of the terrible disasters predicted by the Mother of God in 1917. These things cannot be undone. But we still have the future ahead of us. It can be a happy future, filled with peace, if we live our lives according to Our Lady’s requests. These…
Read MoreTo Consecrate Russia—and Oneself and One’s Family
On this Friday, March 25, 2022, the Feast of the Annunciation, Pope Francis will be consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Mother in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica. This is a big deal. It’s a big deal to the world. But consecration is also a big deal to each…
Read MoreThe Simple Spirituality of the Little Apostle Jacinta of Fatima
“Jacinta did not rest until she brought her own family to a daily recitation of the rosary in common.” -Cardinal Humberto Medeiros The fruits of Jacinta’s generous cooperation with the grace of God are being manifested to us only now. In this chapter we shall attempt to summarize her apostolate following the transformation which took…
Read MoreLet Us Give Ourselves Completely to Mary
In October of 2019, I was blessed to make a private pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, where Our Lady appeared to three shepherd children in 1917 with an urgent message for the world. It was a pilgrimage of many and great graces. I was able to offer Holy Mass at the very place of the apparitions,…
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