There are many other specific prophecies concerning the French Monarch and Reforming Pope, the Three Days of Darkness, and the Era of Peace, but the statements already quoted should suffice to . In the Via Crucis of an entire century, the figure of the Pope has a special role. Enlighten the People of God along the paths of faith, hope, and love! The insistent invitation of Mary Most Holy to penance is nothing but the manifestation of her maternal concern for the fate of the human family, in need of conversion and forgiveness (Pope John Paul II, Message for the 1997 World Day of the Sick, No. Help us to conquer the menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today, and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world and seem to block the paths towards the future! It shows us that our prayers can be answered and that God is always listening. On 18 July 1981 Cardinal Franjo eper, Prefect of the Congregation, gave two envelopes to Archbishop Eduardo Martnez Somalo, Substitute of the Secretariat of State: one white envelope, containing Sister Lucia's original text in Portuguese; the other orange, with the Italian translation of the secret. 65; Saint John of the Cross,The Ascent of Mount Carmel, II, 22). These writings were meticulously examined at length as a safeguard against doctrinal errors when Pope Blessed Pius IX authorized Elizabeth Canori Moras cause for canonization to proceed. The meeting concludes with the blessing imparted in the name of the Holy Father. The Church prudently gives ample latitude as to the acceptance or rejection of particular or private prophecies based on evidence for or against them. E.H. Thompson keenly pointed out in his Life of Anna Maria Taigi (chapter 18) that the revelations have the following features: First they all point to some terrible convulsion, to a revolution springing from most deep-rooted impiety, consisting in a formal opposition to God and His truth, and resulting in the most formidable persecution to which the Church has ever been subject. The first and second parts of the secret of Fatima have already been so amply discussed in the relative literature that there is no need to deal with them again here. Sister Lucia responded by pointing out that she had received the vision but not its interpretation. 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. We also learn that a cloak of darkness enveloped the world when Our Lord died on Calvary as was recorded by the Evangelists: Then from the sixth hour,there was darkness over the entire earth, until the ninth hour. 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On the lips of children and of babes you have found praise, replies Jesus with a phrase of Psalm 8 (v. 3) to the criticism of the High Priests and elders, who had judged the children's cries of hosanna inappropriate (cf. Michael E. Rodrguez was born in 1970, in the border city of El, Diocese St. Catharines, Ontario, currently in Chippewa, Ontario. From that time forth, the word that prevails is this: In the world you will have tribulation, but take heart; I have overcome the world (Jn 16:33). As you know, the purpose of his visit to Fatima has been to beatify the two little shepherds. 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. The words of the First Letter of Peter come to mind: As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls (1:9). 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). PODCAST: https://fatima.org/podcast/. The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on 13 July 1917. Intercede pro Papa nostro Ioanne Paulo II. May it put a stop to evil! Each tree was in the shape of a cross and enveloped in magnificent light. For our enlightenment, let us refer to the Catholic Encyclopedia for some guidelines regarding prophecies. (7), THIRD PART OF THE SECRET(original text). Understood in its strict sense, it means the foreknowledge of future events, though it may sometimes apply to past events of which there is no memory, and to present hidden things which cannot be known by the natural light of reason. Thanks to her confessor, her revelations were preserved in hundreds of pages of her own writings. Sister Lucia agreed with the interpretation that the third part of the secret was a prophetic vision, similar to those in sacred history. For the sake of the body of Christ, they complete what is still lacking in his afflictions (cf. It shows us that our prayers can be answered and that God is always listening. The present Year of the Redemption shows this: the special Jubilee of the whole Church. In the early 1800s, shortly after the French Revolution, Our Lord appeared and told her that the crimes in the world and in the Church had reached a peak and that He was going to send a chastisement. #shorts, Is the Pope Exommunicated Latae Sententiae? In this regard, Cardinal Sodano stated: [they] do not describe photographically the details of future events, but synthesize and compress against a single background facts which extend through time in an unspecified succession and duration. The purpose of the vision is not to show a film of an irrevocably fixed future. I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine. But it was almost the sixth hour,and there was darkness in the entire earth, until the ninth hour. These conversions will be amazing. The term public Revelation refers to the revealing action of God directed to humanity as a whole and which finds its literary expression in the two parts of the Bible: the Old and New Testaments. Embracewith the loveof the Mother and Handmaid of the Lord, this human world of ours, which we entrust and consecrate to you, for we are full of concern for the earthly and eternal destiny of individuals and peoples. The concluding part of the secret uses images which Lucia may have seen in devotional books and which draw their inspiration from long-standing intuitions of faith. Therefore we must totally discount fatalistic explanations of the secret, such as, for example, the claim that the would-be assassin of 13 May 1981 was merely an instrument of the divine plan guided by Providence and could not therefore have acted freely, or other similar ideas in circulation. Popular piety is a sign that the faith is spreading its roots into the heart of a people in such a way that it reaches into daily life. She said that she was prepared to answer all questions frankly. In other parts of the world, however, attacks against the Church and against Christians, with the burden of suffering they bring, tragically continue. On this point, it should be kept in mind that prophecy in the biblical sense does not mean to predict the future but to explain the will of God for the present, and therefore show the right path to take for the future. A brief comment may suffice to explain this. 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. Your email address will not be published. (8) In the translation, the original text has been respected, even as regards the imprecise punctuation, which nevertheless does not impede an understanding of what the visionary wished to say. We then looked up at Our Lady, who said to us so kindly and so sadly: You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. Rabanus Maurus (d. 856) said this: , by Edward Conner (Tan Books, 1884), has a chapter entitled The Great Monarch and the Angelic Pastor, which is entirely dedicated to various prophecies about the French Monarch and Reforming Pope. We wish to unite ourselves with our Redeemer in this his consecration for the world and for the human race, which, in his divine Heart, has the power to obtain pardon and to secure reparation. Fr Chad Ripperger - Fatima, All These Predictions Are Starting To Come T 20232033: Fr. Sister Lucia continued: We did not know the name of the Pope; Our Lady did not tell us the name of the Pope; we did not know whether it was Benedict XV or Pius XII or Paul VI or John Paul II; but it was the Pope who was suffering and that made us suffer too. And with regard to this subject, separating the chaff from the wheat is indeed a daunting task. Their life has itself become a Eucharist, part of the mystery of the grain of wheat which in dying yields abundant fruit. O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners [that I do this]. When this bloody fight will arrive, the vengeful hand of God will weigh upon these fated ones and with His omnipotence He will chastise the proud for their rashness and shameless insolence. Despise not our petitions in our necessities. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says in this regard: even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made fully explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries (No. Enlighten especially the peoples whose consecration and entrustment by us you are awaiting. REMINDER - It is FIRST FRIDAY & FIRST SATURDAY this weekend! She reminds us that man's future is in God, and that we are active and responsible partners in creating that future. Our Lady is here in white with a gray mantle. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of Christians, said Tertullian. All will resolve to follow Her, recognizing the Vicar of Christ as the Supreme Pontiff., After the three days of darkness, Saints Peter and Paul, having come down from heaven, will preach throughout the world and designate a new pope. More importantly it is crucial to note that Our Lady of Fatima echoed the same sentiments when she warned us at Fatima in 1917, thus giving support to these two previous prophecies. Woe to those unobservant religious who despise their Holy Rules. The Fatima message emphasizes central truths and devotions of the Catholic faith: The Blessed Trinity, the Eucharist, penance, the Rosary and sacrifices for the conversion of sinners. As he makes his way with great difficulty towards the Cross amid the corpses of those who were martyred (Bishops, priests, men and women Religious and many lay people), he too falls to the ground, apparently dead, under a hail of gunfire. May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of Hope!.(4). Michel Rodriguehttps://youtu.be/Vjkeopzmti0 Follow 'Christian Gospel Message' Subscribe:. The mountain and city symbolize the arena of human history: history as an arduous ascent to the summit, history as the arena of human creativity and social harmony, but at the same time a place of destruction, where man actually destroys the fruits of his own work. Please help us spread the saving Message of Our Lady of Fatima. Father, Father Nicholas Gruner, born in Montreal (May 4, 1942), was ordained to, James Hanisch serves as a staff writer and author for The Fatima Center., James W. Bannister (B.A., LL.B) is a native of Toronto and has degrees, Joanna Swords is a long-time supporter of The Fatima Center, and one of, John Vennari was a writer, researcher, catechist, and editor (for more, Kennedy Hall is a Catholic High School teacher, rugby coach, and part, Matt Gaspers is the Managing Editor of Catholic Family News. The oldest letter of Saint Paul which has been preserved, perhaps the oldest of the New Testament texts, the First Letter to the Thessalonians, seems to me to point the way. The Tenth Secret of Medjugorje and the Great Chastisement of Garabandal involve the Three Days of Darkness, as prophesied by many Saints in the Catholic Church. The Part Of The Fatima Message The Laity Mostly Ignored 13:04; Pray For The Peace Of Christ The King | Pius XII (1940) 14:36; Secondly, they all promise for the Church a victory more splendid than she has ever achieved here below.. And we must continue to heed Her maternal warnings. A striking similarity, however, occurs between Our Ladys message of hope regarding the triumph of Her Immaculate Heart and the two above prophecies. Private revelation is a help to this faith, and shows its credibility precisely by leading me back to the definitive public Revelation. Originally, Fr. 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"Dear children, tonight, I come to you to tell you that the greatest sword that pierces My Heart is the unpreparedness for . . Therefore we are dealing with the middle category, interior perception. Our Lady to Marco Ferrari on February 26, 2023: My dear and beloved little children, when my Son Jesus comes again to earth, He will seek faith and love in your hearts. No one saw his brother, nor moved himself from the place where he was. The Fatima CenterThu, October 20, 2022 1:00pmURL:Embed:#shorts Watch FULL episode here: https://youtu.be/kdsPRSASCSk Please help us spread the saving. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent. It is a Divine light by which God reveals things concerning the unknown future and by which these things are in some way represented to the mind of the prophet, whose duty it is to manifest them to others. There must be some reason then, why Fatima, which appears as undisturbed a place as any in the western world, has been able to draw to itself on certain days more pilgrims than have ever crowded, as excess population, the city of Rome itselfwith Rome's great treasures, glories, and long tradition as the heart and mind of the Church. 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. And if we have not yet seen the complete fulfilment of the final part of this prophecy, we are going towards it little by little with great strides. The triumph, glory and honor of the Catholic Church will be established in an instant. The Church considers the Apocalypse as Divinely inspired and remains to be the last prophetic work She acknowledges as such. It is clear from the above two revelations that God had forewarned mankind of a great and terrible chastisement. The prophet speaks to the blindness of will and of reason, and declares the will of God as an indication and demand for the present time. He has been in the aerospace industry for more than thirty years and has written two books: Andrew Cesanek earned a B.S. In the private revelations approved by the Church - and therefore also in Fatima - this is the point: they help us to understand the signs of the times and to respond to them rightly in faith. The loving arms of God welcomenot only those who suffer like Lazarus, who found great solace there and mysteriously represents Christ, who wished to become for us the poor Lazarus. This represents the threat of judgement which looms over the world. On 25 March 1984 in Saint Peter's Square, while recalling the fiat uttered by Mary at the Annunciation, the Holy Father, in spiritual union with the Bishops of the world, who had been convoked beforehand, entrusted all men and women and all peoples to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in terms which recalled the heartfelt words spoken in 1981: O Mother of all men and women, and of all peoples, you who know all their sufferings and their hopes, you who have a mother's awareness of all the struggles between good and evil, between light and darkness, which afflict the modern world, accept the cry which we, moved by the Holy Spirit, address directly to your Heart. What are we to make of it? On the occasion of a visit to Rome by the then Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, the Pope decided to give him the bullet which had remained in the jeep after the assassination attempt, so that it might be kept in the shrine. The Pope seems to precede the others, trembling and suffering because of all the horrors around him. Though the prophetic spirit continued through the centuries, the Church has never promoted any other prophetic work even as she proclaimed countless saints who were gifted with prophesy. That is His true position: among the worthless and the rejects. This is a consequence of the cesspool of immorality, unfaithfulness, sacrileges, indifferences, outrages, immoral laws, ingratitude of humanity and more both from within the Catholic Church and external. While it must always take its lead and direction from the liturgy, it in turn enriches the faith by involving the heart. FEBRUARY 7, 1950 Take care of the animals during these days. Since the Pope was unable to be present, his recorded Address was broadcast. The meaning of these contents is open to interpretation, but sometimes folks can get a bitcarried away. Even in exterior vision the subjective element is always present. 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