Nicholas Gruner ( 2015). Those who shall survive shall have to conduct themselves well. She said that she was prepared to answer all questions frankly. In your motherly heart you feel all the struggles between good and evil, between light and darkness, that convulse the world: accept the plea which we make in the Holy Spirit directly to your heart, and embrace with the love of the Mother and Handmaid of the Lord those who most await this embrace, and also those whose act of entrustment you too await in a particular way. It shows us that our prayers can be answered and that God is always listening. In the documentation presented here four other texts have been added to the manuscripts of Sister Lucia: 1) the Holy Father's letter of 19 April 2000 to Sister Lucia; 2) an account of the conversation of 27 April 2000 with Sister Lucia; 3) the statement which the Holy Father appointed Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Secretary of State, to read on 13 May 2000; 4) the theological commentary by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. "The death of the impenitent persecutors of the Church will take place during the three days of darkness. These revelations seek rather an assent of human faith in keeping with the requirements of prudence, which puts them before us as probable and credible to piety. Interior vision does not mean fantasy, which would be no more than an expression of the subjective imagination. Private revelation is a help to this faith, and shows its credibility precisely by leading me back to the definitive public Revelation. This calendar has many unique features which make it a true spiritual resource, guiding our devotions on a daily basis. All is quiet now. The central element of the image is revealed where it coincides with what is the focal point of Christian prophecy itself: the centre is found where the vision becomes a summons and a guide to the will of God. Hence any further discussion or request is without basis. Sister Lucia was lucid and at ease; she was very happy that the Holy Father was going to Fatima for the Beatification of Francisco and Jacinta, something she had looked forward to for a long time. The criterion for the truth and value of a private revelation is therefore its orientation to Christ himself. (3) Radio message during the Ceremony of Veneration, Thanksgiving and Entrustment to the Virgin Mary Theotokos in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major: Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II, IV, 1 (Vatican City, 1981), 1246. She reminds us that man's future is in God, and that we are active and responsible partners in creating that future. This King will be the greatest and last of all monarchs, and after having prosperously governed his kingdom he will come in the end to Jerusalem and he will lay down his scepter and his crown upon the Mount of Olives. Even in exterior vision the subjective element is always present. Sister Lucia is given a rosary sent by the Holy Father, and she in turn offers a number of rosaries made by herself. Just as the places of the earth are synthetically described in the two images of the mountain and the city, and are directed towards the cross, so too time is presented in a compressed way. From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us, deliver us. Is this what the Mother of the Lord wished to communicate to Christianity and to humanity at a time of great difficulty and distress? He had been very close to death, and he himself explained his survival in the following words: it was a mother's hand that guided the bullet's path and in his throes the Pope halted at the threshold of death (13 May 1994). Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (d. 1837) says this: Blessed Elizabeth Canori-Mora (d. 1825) describes a similar event (related in. Sister Lucia responded by pointing out that she had received the vision but not its interpretation. Our Lady is here in white with a gray mantle. That day she gave them a message: I want you to come here on the thirteenth day of each month.. Amen. PODCAST: https://fatima.org/podcast/. If we do not reject the path of sin, hatred, revenge, injustice, violations of the rights of the human person, immorality and violence, etc. The Pope seems to precede the others, trembling and suffering because of all the horrors around him. This does not mean that a private revelation will not offer new emphases or give rise to new devotional forms, or deepen and spread older forms. Confronted with such an outrage, the Mother of God ceased to ask mercy for the world, and instead requested justice from the Eternal Father. In entrusting to you, O Mother, the world, all individuals and peoples, we also entrust to you this very consecration of the world, placing it in your motherly Heart. To understand the signs of the times means to accept the urgency of penance - of conversion - of faith. This will be something so deplorable and atrocious that it will reduce the world to the ultimate depths of desolation.. Before undertaking an interpretation of the message of Fatima, we must still attempt briefly to offer some clarification of their anthropological (psychological) character. LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL IITO SISTER LUCIA(original text), To the Reverend SisterMaria Luciaof the Convent of Coimbra. Popular religiosity is the first and fundamental mode of inculturation of the faith. From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, deliver us. This was also the last time she appeared anywhere else in history outside of Fatima until Our Lady of Garabandal in Spain in 1962 (more than 50 years later). In this field, theological anthropology distinguishes three forms of perception or vision: vision with the senses, and hence exterior bodily perception, interior perception, and spiritual vision (visio sensibilis - imaginativa - intellectualis). The following explanations were taken verbatim from the New Advent website:1. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven. Is it of any help to us at the beginning of the new millennium? Thus we come finally to the third part of the secret of Fatima which for the first time is being published in its entirety. A brief comment may suffice to explain this. St. Methodius (d. 311) - "A day will come when the enemies of Christ will boast of having conquered the whole world. At the same time, the Great Monarch ascends the throne of his ancestors. Mary gave the children this prayer, as well as the Fatima Prayer/Decade Prayer, on June 13th, 1917. Churchgists.com covers prayers, spiritual meaning, bible verses and dreams interpretation. The entire world convulsed and everyone pitilessly slaughtered one another. padraig Powers. He will defeat them, and peace will be given to the world, and the Church will be freed from her anxieties., Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser (b. Thus it is from that day on the hand of the Lady Fatima has been used in the Islamic world as a symbol ofpatience, abundance, and faithfulness. By the Bishop's decision, the bullet was later set in the crown of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima. The city can be the place of communion and progress, but also of danger and the most extreme menace. All is quiet now. It is called Revelation because in it God gradually made himself known to men, to the point of becoming man himself, in order to draw to himself the whole world and unite it with himself through his Incarnate Son, Jesus Christ. This will entail my speaking about the secret, and thus answering the first question. So great will be the fervor and zeal for the glory of God that everything will promote love of God and neighbor. About ten years ago, an email started to circulate, purportedly quoting the Third Secret of Fatima, prophesying 'three days of darkness' and a great eight-hour global earthquake. The Flemish theologian E. Dhanis, an eminent scholar in this field, states succinctly that ecclesiastical approval of a private revelation has three elements: the message contains nothing contrary to faith or morals; it is lawful to make it public; and the faithful are authorized to accept it with prudence (E. Dhanis,Sguardo su Fatima e bilancio di una discussione, in La Civilt Cattolica 104 [1953], II, 392-406, in particular 397). The true Pope would be forced to leave Rome and would be murdered in exile, leaving the Church without a head. Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit to conquer all sin: individual sin and the 'sin of the world', sin in all its manifestations. I would just like to recall briefly the most significant point. Another prominent prophecy recorded in The Reign of Antichrist concerns the French Monarch said to rule the world near the end of time. We must always keep in mind the limits in the vision itself, which here are indicated visually. She repeated her conviction that the vision of Fatima concerns above all the struggle of atheistic Communism against the Church and against Christians, and describes the terrible sufferings of the victims of the faith in the twentieth century. At the same time there will be a Great Pope, who will be most eminent in sanctity and most perfect in every quality. It is clear that in the visions of Lourdes, Fatima and other places it is not a question of normal exterior perception of the senses: the images and forms which are seen are not located spatially, as is the case for example with a tree or a house. Above all creatures, may you be blessed, you, the Handmaid of the Lord, who in the fullest way obeyed the divine call! I would like finally to mention another key expression of the secret which has become justly famous: my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The decision of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to make public the third part of the secret of Fatima brings to an end a period of history marked by tragic human lust for power and evil, yet pervaded by the merciful love of God and the watchful care of the Mother of Jesus and of the Church. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world. He ascends the throne of Peter. In what follows, therefore, we can only attempt to provide a deeper foundation for this interpretation, on the basis of the criteria already considered. In his kindness God warns us and calls us to the right path, while respecting the freedom he has given us; hence people are responsible.(5). It is not a matter therefore of intellectual communication, but of a life-giving process in which God comes to meet man. 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