A
comprehensive summary about the Fatima events
From related published documents by The M+G+R Foundation
Edited into a single document
by Lee Penn
Published on March 21st, 2010
Overall Document
Outline
This document, which summarizes what miguel de Portugal has
published
about Fátima, allows the reader to review the details of:
- The epochal spiritual events that
occurred at Fátima in 1917.
- The Vatican's disobedience of
instructions from Heaven, from 1917 onward.
- The Vatican's failure to perform the
Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
- The Temple Masters' manifold and
willful deception of the faithful concerning Fátima.
- The shared religious and political
goals of the enemies of Fátima.
- The provable facts about the Third
Secret of Fátima, and the other warnings given by Our Lady at
Her other apparitions.
- How the faithful can live and pray so
as to heed the message of Fátima.
2.
The
events of Fátima in 1917
With the appearance of Our Lady to the three shepherd children of
Fátima, Heaven gave mankind an opportunity to mitigate the
disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Mankind
- and in particular, the Administration of the Roman Catholic Church -
failed to fully cooperate with this grace. We have lived with the
results of this decision, and will soon experience the consequences in
full.
- On May 13, Our Lady first appeared at the Cova de
Iria,
near the village of Fátima, to the three shepherd children:
Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco. She asked the children to return to the
Cove for six consecutive months, on the 13th day of each
month.
- On June 13, Our Lady visited the children a second
time
at the Cova de Iria, and gave them personal and spiritual secrets.
Lucia's Fourth Memoir, part of Fátima in Lucia's Own
Words, relates what happened. (1)
- On July 13, Our Lady visited the three children a
third
time at the Cova de Iria. She showed them a vision of hell, and then
explained her wishes. Mary told the children not to reveal the details
until a later time. (1) However, part of
what
She said has been public since the 1940s.
The most official version is in the letter composed by Sr. Lucía
to Pope Pius XII on October 24, 1940; her letter was modified by the
Bishop of Leiria before forwarding it with the date of December 2,
1940. (2) This document contains most of the
first two parts of the Secret of Fátima. The entirety of the
first two parts of the Secret of Fátima was revealed by Sr.
Lucia in her Fourth Memoir. This Memoir had been requested by
the Bishop of Leiria on October 7, 1941 and was completed by Sr. Lucia
on December 8, 1941. (2)
A translation, recently confirmed by miguel de Portugal, follows:
"You have seen hell where the souls of
poor sinners go; to save them, God wishes to establish in the world
devotion to my Immaculate Heart, if what I say to you is done, many
souls will be saved and will have peace; the war (referring to WW I) is
going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one
will start (referring to WW II) during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When
you see a night illuminated by an unknown light, know that it is the
great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for
its crimes, by means of war, hunger, and of persecutions of the Church
and of the Holy Father.
To prevent this, I shall come to ask
for
the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of
Reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded Russia
will be converted and will have peace; if not, she (Russia) will spread
her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecutions of the
Church, the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to
suffer, various nations will be annihilated: finally my Immaculate
Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, which
will be converted, and peace will be granted to the world for some
time. In Portugal the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved,
etc." (3)
After this "etc." began the text of the
still undisclosed words of
"Third Secret of Fátima."
[Note: The comments
within parenthesis were added by The
M+G+R Foundation to ensure
that the reader understands what Our Lady meant.]
miguel explained this message from Our Lady as follows: (4)
- God wished to establish devotion to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary. If
this were done, many souls would be saved and would therefore have
spiritual peace.
- Mary promised that World War I would
end, due to the prayers and sacrifices of the three visionaries.
- She warned that if there were not a
change of heart among the people (a change that should have been led by
the Church promoting devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as Our
Lady asked in 1917 and again, specifically, on June 13, 1929), a worse
war would start during the Pontificate of Pius XI.
- Our Lady said that she would return to
ask for "the consecration of Russia
to my Immaculate Heart, and the
Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays." (She did make
this
request - on June 13, 1929.)
- If Russia were consecrated to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Russia would be converted and would have
peace.
- If Russia were not consecrated to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, that country "will spread her errors
throughout the world, promoting wars and persecutions of the Church,
the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer."
All of this has already happened.
- Another dire consequence of the failure
to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart remains in the future, as
of the writing of this document: "various nations will be annihilated,"
due to wars arising from the worldwide spread of Russia's errors.
- After the annihilation of
nations, "my Immaculate Heart will
triumph."
- Only then will "The Holy
Father will
consecrate Russia to me," leading to the conversion of Russia.
- After this, "peace will
be
granted" to the whole "world
for some time."
On October 13,
"supernatural events accompanied the
final apparition of Mary at Fátima. Many of these events
(including the 'dance of the Sun') were observed by 50,000-70,000
people (believers and unbelievers alike), and were widely covered at
the time by secular Portuguese newspapers." (5)
3.
Fátima from 1917 to 1942
The
Church failed to act in
timely fashion, even with its knowledge of the significance of
Fátima
As the world crises of the 1920s and 1930s deepened, Heaven was not
silent. Our Lord and Our Lady told the Church, through Sister Lucia,
what needed to be done to prevent the oncoming disasters.
December 1925
On December 10, 1925, "the Virgin Mary
told Lucia
to make public the request for devotion to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary." (5)
"Our
Lady specified how the faithful
should make reparation to Her
Immaculate Heart: '... all those who, on the first Saturday of five
consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five
decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while
meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention
of making reparation to me.'" (6)
February 1926
On February 15, 1926,
Our Lord "reminded Lucia of
Mary's request made on December 10, 1925 to spread the devotion to Her
Immaculate Heart, and insisted upon obedience." (5)
December 1927
On December 17, 1927, Our Lord told
Lucia, "My
daughter, write what they ask of you. Write also all that the most holy
Virgin revealed to you in the Apparition, in which She spoke of this
devotion [referring to this request from Our Lady: "Jesus wishes to
make use of you to make Me known and loved. He wants to establish in
the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart."] As for the remainder of
the Secret, continue to keep silence." (6)
June 1929
Our Lady visited Sr. Lucia at her
convent in Tuy, Spain June
13, 1929, and asked for the consecration of Russia to her
Immaculate Heart, and for the Communion of Reparation on the First
Saturdays. (3)
The Virgin Mary said:
"The moment has come in which God asks
the Holy Father, in union
with all the Bishops of the world, to make the consecration of Russia
to my Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means. There are
so many souls whom the Justice of God condemns for sins committed
against me, that I have come to ask reparation: sacrifice yourself for
this intention and pray." (5)
The Communion of Reparation was
intended
to prevent the German and
Japanese aggression that led to the outbreak of World War II. This
consecration of Russia was not intended to prevent the establishment
of a Communist government there; that had already occurred in 1917.
Rather, it was intended to prevent Russia from spreading her errors -
godlessness, in particular - throughout the world after World War II.
From 1917 to 1939
From the beginning, local and Diocesan church authorities knew of
the significance of the Fátima requests. Pope Pius XI was
notified
in 1930. Nevertheless - and despite the
appropriate actions taken by the Church authorities in Portugal from
1917 onward - the Vatican did not respond adequately or in timely
fashion to Heaven's requests. (7)
- On November 13, 1917,
one month after
the final apparition, the Archbishop of the Lisbon Patriarchate began
an investigation of the Fátima events, at the request of the
parish priest in the village.
- On January 17, 1918, the
Vatican
established the Diocese of Leiria (which included the region of
Fátima), separating it from the Lisbon Patriarchate.
- On April 28, 1919, the
results of the
Fátima investigation were turned over to the Governor of the
Lisbon Patriarchate.
- In October 1921, the
Bishop of Leiria
authorized open air Masses for the visitors to the apparition site; he
had already bought land at the Cova de Iria for a sanctuary there.
- On May 3, 1922, the
Diocese of Leiria
opened a formal investigation of the Fátima events.
- On October 13, 1922,
with the approval
of local Church authorities, 3,000 copies of the first issue of "Voz de
Fátima" were printed.
- During 1924, the Pious
Union of
Servites of Our Lady was founded to begin providing priests,
physicians, and nurses to assist sick pilgrims to Fátima. This
ministry was officially established by the Church under canon law.
- During 1926, with
Diocesan approval,
10,000 copies of "The Fátima Pilgrim's Manual" were printed.
- On May 13, 1928, "the
Archbishop of
Evora (an Archdiocese in Portugal) blessed and placed the first stone
of the new Fátima Basilica."
- In 1929, the Bishop of
Leiria declared
the Fátima apparitions of 1917 to be "worthy of belief."
- Between 1931 and 1943, there were ten
editions of a booklet about Fátima, published first in Italian,
and then in Portuguese, Polish, English, German, Dutch, Danish,
Croatian, Slovenian, and Spanish. (8) The
message of Fátima was disseminated within Europe years before
the start of World War II (as shown by the multiple printings of early
editions of this book, from 1931 through 1934) - but the Vatican failed
to act.
- In May 1932, the
Vatican's ambassador
to Portugal, the Papal Nuncio, presided over the National Pilgrimage to
Fátima; two days later, he wrote, "Fátima is a true
blessing for Portugal. I am convinced that Mary will always protect
this Nation.... and will save it from the great dangers which threaten
the whole of society." Again: by mid-1932, the Vatican knew
what Fátima meant.
- On September 13, 1939,
the Bishop of
Leiria, Portugal - who had jurisdiction over the Fátima area -
began to promote acts of reparation on the first Saturdays of each
month.
3-a.
The response of The Church authorities in Portugal
The Church authorities in Portugal
knew
what Fátima meant,
and acted accordingly
From 1920 to 1957, Bishop D. José
Alves Correia da Silva governed the Diocese of Leiria, which contains
the village of Fátima. (9) He was known
as the "Bishop of Fátima," and is buried in the Basilica of
Fátima because of his commitment to Fátima and his
recognition of its significance. (8)
3-b.
The response of the laity
The laity (and some rank and
file priests) knew
what Fátima meant, and acted accordingly
In 1946-47, Msgr.
Harold Colgan and John Haffert co-founded the Blue Army of Our Lady of
Fátima. (10) Haffert worked with
Sister
Lucia to develop the "Fátima Pledge" in 1946; this became the
"Blue Army Pledge" in 1948. (11) Haffert also
was the editor of Scapular Magazine, which led one million
Americans to enroll in the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima and
to pray for the Soviet Union. (11) The Blue
Army
and its message of prayer was endorsed by Pius XII, Cardinal Tisserant
(dean of the College of Cardinals under Pius XII), Bishop de Silva of
the Diocese of Leiria, Paul VI, and Padre Pio. (12)
(The Marian Movement of Priests, which promotes itself as the
replacement for the Blue Army, has never gained such ecclesiastical
endorsements.) (12)
The Soviets
themselves
blamed the Blue Army (along with Hitler and the Cold War) for their
failure to communize the whole world after 1917. (12)
The Blue Army prospered, despite Soviet-backed accusations that the
movement was a CIA front, despite accusations that the Blue Army was
financed by the schismatic, far-right Archbishop Lefebvre, and despite
"opposition of many around the Pope." (12)
Again, faithful laymen and humble priests understood what Fátima
meant, and carried Our Lady's message worldwide, despite opposition
from the Soviets and from some churchmen in high places.
3-c.
The response of The Vatican
The Vatican knew what Fátima
meant,
and acted hesitantly and
tardily
By August 1931,
time had run out.
Because of the Vatican's tardiness, the time for the Pope to consecrate
Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (and to avert the chastisement
of the world) ran out. In an August 1931 letter to her
bishop, Sister Lucia said that the Virgin Mary informed her that Her
"requests had not been fulfilled in time, and that the consequences
would be dire: (5)
"They did not wish to heed my request.
Like the King of France, they
will repent and do it, but it will be late. Russia will have already
spread her errors throughout the world, provoking wars, and
persecutions of the Church; the Holy Father will have much to suffer."
(The "King of France" is an
allusion to a
message given by Christ in
June of 1689 to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, calling upon Louis XIV to
consecrate France to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This was not done in
timely fashion - and France began its move toward the Revolution, which
began 100 years later.) (5)
By August 1931, time had already run out. Very soon, events in Asia,
Africa, and Europe set the world on course to totalitarianism and
global war. In September 1931, Japan attacked Manchuria, the first act
of aggression in what became World War II. The world depression
deepened, paving the way for the Nazi seizure of power in Germany. (5)
During the night
of January
25-26, 1938, an
unprecedented aurora lit the sky over most of Europe and North America.
The red glow was so intense that fire crews in some areas were sent out
to look for local fires. Sister Lucia saw the sky turn red from 9 pm
until 2 am, and knew that this was the "unknown light," the "great
sign" from God that it was too late to avert war. (5)
After this "great
sign," a chain
reaction of events led Europe
toward a new world war
In 1938, under Pius XI:
On March 12, Austria was annexed by
the Third Reich. On October 1, Germany began to occupy the Sudeten
region of Czechoslovakia, with the acquiescence of France and Britain.
On the night of November 9-10, Nazi troopers carried out
"Kristallnacht," a national pogrom against the Jews.
In 1939, under Pius XII:
On March 15, Germany occupied the
remainder of Czechoslovakia. On August 23-24, the USSR and Nazi Germany
signed a non-aggression treaty which provided for the division of
Poland between the two dictatorships. On September 1, Germany invaded
Poland; this was the officially recognized beginning of World War II.
In response, France and Britain declared war against Germany on
September 3. The USSR invaded Poland on September 17; Catholic Poland
was divided between the Nazis and the Soviets. Italy invaded Albania on
April 7, and used that country as a base to attack Greece in 1940.
During the reign of Pius XI, as the Church failed to
seek all the aid that it could have obtained for the whole world from
God and from the Virgin Mary, the Nazis and their allies were invoking
all the aid they could get from below. (13) God
allowed
satan a free hand once His Church had ignored His requests. (5)
Contrary to Ratzinger's accusations in his speech at Auschwitz on
May 28, 2006, (14) God had not been "silent."
Instead, the Vatican had been deaf to timely warnings from Heaven. (5)
4.
The Consecration of Russia has not yet
been done as Mary
requested
The Holy See delayed the consecration of Russia to 1942 (October 31 and
December 8), with repeat efforts in 1952, 1964, 1982, and 1984. (5)
The consecration prayers were not done in accordance with the formula
requested by the Virgin Mary. In particular, Our Lady requested the
consecration of Russia - not "the world," as the Vatican
prayers have usually petitioned - to Her Immaculate Heart. (15)
The
1982 and 1984 attempts - carried
out
after Russia has completely
overrun the world with "her errors" - were done in closer conformity
with the instructions that Our Lady had given to Sister Lucia in 1929. "El
Sol de Fátima" asked Sister Lucia in an interview whether
the
1982 Consecration had been done correctly. She replied, "Yes. But
late." Our Lord seems to have granted the temporary collapse of
the
Soviet Union as a show of His immense power. However, Russia has spread
her errors everywhere from 1929 until now. (16)
The most recent Papal consecration was done by John Paul II in 1984.
Many commentators believe (and publicly insist) that this consecration
was done as Mary requested, and was successful. Unfortunately, this is
not the case - if we believe the Marian message revealed in the 1940s
and quoted above. (Pope John Paul II did not seek out the details of
Fátima events until after the assassination attempt against him
on May 13, 1981.) (8)
Mary's July 1917 prophecy set forth a specific sequence of events:
(3)
- If Mary's requests were not heeded,
then first:
"various nations will be annihilated:"
- And then, "finally my Immaculate Heart
will triumph."
- And then, "The Holy Father will
consecrate Russia to me, which will be converted,"
- And then, "peace will be granted to the
world for some time."
None of these events have occurred yet. (3)
On October 8, 2000, John Paul II prayed thus to Our Lady: "Here we
stand before you to entrust to your maternal care ourselves, the
Church, the entire world." (15)
However, the Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ knows the
difference between Russia and the World; She requested
the consecration of Russia, specifically. (15)
The consecration efforts from 1942 onward were too late to avert World
War II, the Holocaust, and the global spread of Russia's deadly errors.
The time for the consecration to have occurred, with the full effect
desired by God, came and went during the Pontificate of Pius XI. By
1938 - indeed, by August 1931 - it was too late
to avert the disasters that Heaven had warned against.
To
add to their enormous crimes and
Heaven-defying negligence, the
Temple Masters of our time were similarly late in responding to the
requests made by Our Lord to Sr. Faustina during
the 1930s to foster devotion to God's greatest attribute, His Mercy. (17)
Because of these additional ecclesiastical
acts of omission and commission, mankind has undergone (and will soon
undergo) devastating and preventable suffering. The controlling
hierarchs of the Church will be held accountable for this suffering
before the Just God - and this accountability will begin before the
Temple Masters die. (17)
When Pope John XXIII read the Third Part of the Secret, he did the
only two things he could reasonably do: (2)
- He did not make the visual part of
the Third Part of the Secret public. The M+G+R Foundation agrees
with Pope John's decision not to release the Secret in 1960. (2)
It was not the fault of John XXXIII that the Church machinery
delayed such information from reaching the Pope for almost eighteen
years (1942-1960)! By then, it was already too late for the Church to
respond to the Secret (leading the faithful into intense prayer and
reparation, to mitigate the tribulations that had already begun.) -
even if it was only the unexplained visual part of the secret. What
Sister Lucia wrote and sent to the Pope was only the imagery without the
explanation of what
it meant as per Mary's verbal explanation at the time of the
revelation.
- He launched Vatican Council II in
an effort to get the Church more in line with Will of God. By these
means, he intended to minimize the enormous suffering that awaited
humanity, and to minimize the level of destruction that awaited the
wayward Church.
Pope John's successors made similar efforts. (2)
- Paul VI declared that the smoke of
satan had entered in the Church, and quickly abrogated the canon
requiring official approval for the publication of documents relating
to Marian Apparitions that had not yet been approved by the Church. By
doing so, he opened the doors for Heaven to speak freely and
undisturbed to the faithful, in spite of the fact that the enemies of
God were already well entrenched within the Hierarchy.
- John Paul II did not stop traveling
the world, personally evangelizing it. He knew how serious the
situation was, how little time was left and that most of the clergy
continued to occupy itself with worldly matters while neglecting the
flock.
- If one studies all Encyclicals
published by John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II (until 1994), and
then visualizes what the Roman Pontiffs were attempting to remedy, one
would then come to know the third part of the Secret of
Fátima that was transmitted by Lucia in writing.
It is 80 years too late to prevent the chastisement of mankind
that Our Lady warned against at Fátima and in more recent
apparitions. Present-day agitation to consecrate Russia
according to the form given to Sr. Lucia is pointless. (3)
Indeed, these requests are opening a spiritual trap for mankind. Many
of the faithful believe that if the Consecration were done correctly
now, it would avert a new and greater World War. What would happen to
these people's Faith if the Consecration were done now in the
prescribed form by the Vatican authorities - and then the nuclear Third
World War came anyway? The question answers itself. (18)
However, with our prayers and acts of
reparation, we can still
reduce the severity of the
impending great chastisement. (19)
5.
Ecclesiastical culpability for the
horrors
of the 20th
and 21st Centuries
With World War II and its associated genocides, and with the worldwide
spread of Russia's errors after 1945, more than 100 million people have
been killed; countless more have endured extreme suffering. (19)
All of this occurred because the Church hierarchy chose to disobey
clear, simple directives from Our Lord and Our Lady. (19)
6.
The falsification of the Third Secret of
Fátima in
2000, and other ecclesiastical crimes
In recent
years, the Church authorities have remained negligent - or
worse
1.- In 1996, during his tenure
as Prefect
of the Congregation of the
Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger attempted to
deflect apocalyptic expectations surrounding the Apparition and
the
messages given by Our Lady. (20)
- On October 13, 1996, Ratzinger
visited Fátima, and answered questions from Radio Renascensa,
the most popular station in Portugal. (21)
According to a report in Echo of Mary, a newsletter that
promotes the Medjugorje phenomena, the Cardinal told "all the curious
people" that "'the Virgin does not create sensationalism, or fear, nor
does She present apocalyptic visions. Instead, She guides men towards
Her Son, and this is the essential.' If after 80 years the secret has
still not been published it is because: 'the Church wishes to oppose
the expectation of unheard-of things so that Marian devotion remains
sincere. Our Lady did not appear to the little shepherd children -
unknown by the world - to create sensation, but to call the world back
to the Sacraments.' The decision to reveal the secret 'depends on the
Pope, but let us not forget that the Pope is guided by the Holy
Spirit...'" (22)
- According to the same Echo of Mary
article, the "Cardinal then visited Sr. Lucia, the 89 year-old
visionary in the Carmelite convent of Coimbra, and confirmed that the
third secret 'does not regard something which we will have to one day
face, but is a help to the faith.'" (22)
It is
odd that Ratzinger felt the need to "confirm" the contents of the third
secret with anyone, because this article, published in 1996 while John
Paul II was Pope, indicated that Ratzinger was "one of the few people
besides the Pope who knows the secret of Fátima." (22)
- On January 30 1997, the Portuguese
periodical Visão
made a similar report on Ratzinger's October 1996 visit to
Fátima. (23) They said (in translation),
"Faced with the recent wave of expectation of apocalyptic events, the
Vatican saw the need to send Cardinal Ratzinger last October to
Fátima to announce that the secret no longer has any importance;
that it does not exist any longer. 'It does not pertain to the future
of the world (...) The Virgin Mary does not want speculations about the
future, nor does she want to scare anyone.'" (24)
With these statements, Cardinal Ratzinger
was - in effect -
dismissing the original Fátima revelations and events as a lie.
miguel de Portugal warned Ratzinger that if this were the case, "The
Vatican has endorsed, and continues to endorse, the biggest financial
fraud in the history of the Church and should be prosecuted in an
International Tribunal." miguel concluded with a warning to Ratzinger
and his allies: "Lying, denying, and ignoring is not the way to serve
the Truth Incarnate - Jesus Christ. Confessing wrongdoing and seeking
forgiveness is. miguel de Portugal, in the Name of God, have pleaded
with and warned those who shamelessly control, for the satisfaction of
their egocentric purposes, the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ.
There is still time to temper the level of suffering God will allow
upon the Church and mankind by abandoning the erroneous path chosen by
the Masters of the Vatican." As might have been expected (given their
previous behavior), the Vatican - and Ratzinger and his confederates -
did not heed this warning.
The documents that
the Vatican
released on June 26, 2000 were
disinformation: the alleged text of the Third Secret, and more
than 30
pages of literary obfuscation "explaining" it. In perpetrating this
fraud, the Vatican was trying to cover its tracks for its abysmal
failure at not having heeded the Message of Fátima at the proper
time. (2)
It is oddly coincidental that this
document was released on June 26, (25) the date
of the death in 1975 of Josemaría Escriva, the "saint" who
founded Opus Dei. (26)
Several
items illustrate the Vatican's
deceit
In the Vatican "secret," Sr. Lucia
described a vision. The only words that were spoken were from
the angel who said: "Penance,
Penance, Penance!" (27)
However, when Sr. Lucia revealed the first two parts of the Secret
decades ago, she noted that Our Lady told her, "In Portugal, the dogma
of the Faith will always be preserved; etc.... Do not tell this to
anybody. Francisco, yes, you may tell him." The "etc." contained the words
of Third Secret, which was a statement by the Virgin Mary, and not a
vision. Francisco could see Our Lady and the visions, but could not
hear her words. That is why Lucia needed the permission of Our Lady to
tell Francisco what she had heard. If the Third Secret had been a
vision (as the Vatican claims), Francisco would have seen it, just as
he saw the vision of Hell on that same day. (27)
In the Vatican version of the "secret," Lucia referred to "...a Bishop
dressed in white, we had the impression that it was the Holy Father
..However, at the time of the July apparition, the children did not
know who the Holy Father was; only later did two priests explain this
to the visionaries. (27)
As Sr. Lucia told her
bishop in her Third Memoir, written in the second half of 1941:
"One day we spent our siesta down by my
parents' well. Jacinta sat on the stone slabs on top of the well.
Francisco and I climbed up a steep bank in search of wild honey among
the brambles in a nearby thicket. After a little while, Jacinta called
out to me: 'Didn't you see the Holy Father?' 'No'. 'I don't know how it
was, but I saw the Holy Father in a very big house, kneeling by a
table, with his head buried in his hands, and he was weeping. Outside
the house, there were many people. Some of them were throwing stones,
others were cursing him and using bad language. Poor Holy Father, we
must pray very much for him.' I have already told you ... how one day
two priests recommended us to pray for the Holy Father, and explained
to us who the Pope was. Afterwards Jacinta asked me: 'Is he the one I
saw weeping, the one Our Lady told us
about in the secret?'
'Yes, he is', I answered. 'The Lady must have shown him also to those
priests. You see, I was not mistaken. We need to pray a lot for him'." (27)
Again, Our Lady told the Third Secret to Lucia; the Secret was
not a vision, as the Vatican claims it to be.
1.-
When John Paul II asked God for
forgiveness for the sinful acts
and omissions of the Church Administration during the Year 2000 Jubilee
celebrations, he did not include public prayer for forgiveness of this
fateful - and lethal - negligence. (19)
Thus, he
squandered a major opportunity to mitigate the tribulations that have
come upon the world since 2001 (and are still to come with full force,
in the near future).
2.- The memoirs of Sister Lucia
were
published in March 1990 (6th
ed.) and again in July 2003 (7th ed.). Both books contain
images of handwritten text from Sister Lucia, including the secrets
that were initially made public in the 1940s. miguel de Portugal has
inspected the images side-by-side, and found that the 2003 "text" was
altered from the real manuscript that had been published in earlier
editions of the memoirs. (28)
This crude
deception is evident from variations in handwriting, punctuation, and
wording between the two editions of the "same" text. (28)
(The M+G+R Foundation has
published "Details of the Modification of the
Fátima Secret," a side-by-side comparison of the 1990 and
2003 versions of Sr. Lucia's manuscript). (29)
This fraud points to a general problem
with literature on
Fátima. As a rule, the older the book or document is, the more
likely it is to be accurate. Specifically, The M+G+R Foundation has
good and sufficient reason to accept the accuracy of the many letters
that were handwritten by Sr. Lucía before 1950 to her Confessor,
her Bishop, the Pope, her Spiritual Director, and her family. (2)
(In those days the ecclesiastical wolves in sheep's clothing had not
identified the events of Fátima as a real enemy to their
ambitious plans.) The more recent the work is, the greater the
likelihood that Church "editors" have subtly altered the history and
the message to suit their personal agenda. In particular, The M+G+R
Foundation has reason to believe that many statements which have
been
credited to Sr. Lucía from 1990-1995 until her death in 2005
were not always necessarily true, complete or un-altered by deceptive
third parties. (2)
All of these ecclesiastical crimes represent a fulfillment of the
prophecy in which the dragon "poured water like a river out of his
mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood (Revelation
12:15). (27)
7.
The Goal of the Enemies of Fátima
The enemies of the authentic message of Fátima come from the
extreme left and the extreme right, but they have a common foe. (30)
Their target is
the traditional (but non-fanatical) Faith that the
Catholic Church has passed on to us for 2,000 years (despite the
often
scandalous, faithless behavior of her leaders).
Both the leftists and
the rightists, who wish to remake the Church and the world to attain
their self-centered political goals, intend to undermine the authentic
teachings of the Church, so that they can foist their own counterfeit
"Christianity" on the disoriented faithful.
An effective way to discredit the Faith would be to make the Popes of
the 20th Century, the most prominent teachers of the
Catholic Faith, appear to be superstitious and gullible. Since the
Popes from 1917 onward publicly supported Fátima and other
legitimate Marian apparitions, the enemies of the Faith seek to
discredit the Popes and their true teachings by discrediting the Marian
apparitions that the Popes have endorsed.
These ecclesiastical Masons (31)
reason to
themselves that if they can discredit Fátima, they can
destroy belief in all other authentic Marian apparitions (the
ones not
manipulated by the same cults within the Church), since Fátima
is the highest profile apparition of the Virgin Mary. (32)
- The extreme leftists propose secular
utopianism with a "liberation
theology" gloss; they intend to discredit and suppress Marian teaching
and devotion entirely.
- The extreme rightists are laying the
groundwork for a False Christ
who will promise to "save" the world from the leftists if mankind will
"fall down and worship me" (Matthew 4:9); these
people mean to
replace the authentic Christ-centered Mary of Fátima with a
false "Mary" who will point people to the False Christ.
Other
opponents of the message of Fátima
The enemies of the true message of Fátima may also be found
outside the walls of the Vatican.
1. An attack in the form of a novel
Javier Sierra is a best-selling
Spanish novelist, and is an
editorial consultant for "Más Allá de la Ciencia"
("Beyond
Science"), a respected New Age style magazine that is popular in
Spain and Latin America. (33) Sierra has
published "The Lady
in Blue" in
Spanish, English, and 21 other
languages; the star of his tale is Sister Maria de Jesus de
Agreda,
author of "The Mystical City of God" (a work popular among
pious,
conservative Catholics). (34) Sierra's novel
presents the idea that "all Marian Apparitions, with one exception,
were the result of nuns bilocating - a project controlled by The
Vatican since time immemorial."
Furthermore, Sierra suggests that the
angels of God are helping to "unmask" these Marian Apparitions -
including those which the Church and the faithful have long accepted as
legitimate and worthy of belief. (34)
Sierra
convincingly combines provable facts with theological and spiritual
error, making his novel a seductive trap for the disoriented faithful.
(34)
miguel warns that with the doubts about Guadalupe and other legitimate
Marian apparitions spread by Sierra, "the eight lane highway-landing
strip has been prepared for the arrival of the False Christ. Sierra has
even provided a subtle hint that could justify bringing aliens into the
picture - were it necessary." (34)
2. Right wing,
"traditionalist" groups
The enemies of Fátima also
include right wing,
"traditionalist" groups that promote their own version of the
Fátima message, for monetary gain or to obtain political power.
In particular, The M+G+R
Foundation is in no way connected to, and
does not endorse, the ministries associated with the Rev. Nicholas
Gruner, the Canadian priest who founded The International Fátima
Rosary Crusade, publishers of The Fatima Crusader. (35)
Gruner's self-appointed mission has been to hound the Vatican to
consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as requested through
the Fátima events. According to Gruner, this action would
prevent the nuclear holocaust that will otherwise take place. However,
the time frame for such consecration
lapsed many decades ago. (3)
Gruner's
efforts have been and remain futile; the Third World War will
come. (36)
When Catholic neo-fascist (37)
groups such as the Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and
Property proclaim that "America Needs Fatima," they are exploiting a
message from Heaven to promote a very misguided, worldly agenda: the
restoration of "Christendom." (38)
That "restoration" will come (39)
- but it will not be for the good of souls. Rather, such an
establishment of the "Social Reign of Christ the King" will be the
prelude to the final satanic deception of mankind, the brief but deadly
reign of the False Christ. (40)
8.
The authentic Third Secret, and related
Marian warnings
Mary's warnings, as given in authentic apparitions since 1830, are
coherent; the messages given are consistent with each other across time
and space. Thus, it is possible to know the key parts of the
long-hidden Third Secret of Fátima.
The (real) Third Secret:
provable facts from the record
A. The May 13, 2000 sermon by Pope
John
Paul II
On May 13, 2000, Pope John Paul II
visited Fátima and
celebrated the Eucharist as part of the ceremonies for the
beatification of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the three
visionaries of 1917. During the Mass, the Pope offered a homily which
revealed much of the authentic contents of the Third Secret. (41)
1.- John Paul II tied the
apparitions of
Fátima to Chapter 12
of the Book of Revelations, one of the Scripture readings that were
part of the Mass.
He said, "According to the divine plan,
'a woman clothed with the sun' (Revelations 12: 1)
came down
from heaven to this earth to visit the privileged children of the
Father. She speaks to them with a mother's voice and heart: she asks
them to offer themselves as victims of reparation, saying that she was
ready to lead them safely to God." (42)
His Holiness identified the "Apocalyptic
woman" of Revelations 12
with Mary as She appeared at Fátima. It logically follows that
the fulfillment of the remaining prophecies from the Book of
Revelations was soon to come.
2.- He reminded us that
Francisco and
Jacinta lived with the knowledge
of the Secret engraved in their hearts, guiding their every action.
As John Paul II said, "In her motherly
concern, the Blessed Virgin came here to Fátima to ask men and
women 'to stop offending God, Our Lord, who is already very offended'.
It is a mother's sorrow that compels her to speak; the destiny of her
children is at stake. For this reason she asks the little shepherds:
'Pray, pray much and make sacrifices for sinners; many souls go to hell
because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them.'"
(42)
When Our Lady warns that "the destiny of
her children are at stake,"
we ought to pay close attention - and not dismiss Her warnings as
pious, pessimistic fables!
3.- The Pope said that the
example of the
life of prayer and penance
that Francisco and Jacinta gave us was to be emulated by the faithful
as we lived through the period of Tribulations. Such prayer and penance
would assist us in living through the Tribulations while shortening
them.
Regarding the visionaries' lives of
penance and reparation, the Pope said, "God told only Francisco 'how
sad' he was, as he said. One night his father heard him sobbing and
asked him why he was crying; his son answered: 'I was thinking of Jesus
who is so sad because of the sins that are committed against him'.
He
was motivated by one desire - so expressive of how children think - 'to
console Jesus and make him happy'. A transformation takes place in his
life, one we could call radical: a transformation certainly uncommon
for children of his age. He devotes himself to an intense spiritual
life, expressed in assiduous and fervent prayer, and attains a true
form of mystical union with the Lord. This spurs him to a progressive
purification of the spirit through the renunciation of his own
pleasures and even of innocent childhood games. Francisco bore without
complaining the great sufferings caused by the illness from which he
died. It all seemed to him so little to console Jesus: he died with a
smile on his lips. Little Francisco had a great desire to atone for the
offences of sinners by striving to be good and by offering his
sacrifices and prayers.
The life of Jacinta, his younger
sister
by almost two years, was motivated by these same sentiments. ... Little
Jacinta felt and personally experienced Our Lady's anguish, offering
herself heroically as a victim for sinners.
One day, when she and
Francisco had already contracted the illness that forced them to bed,
the Virgin Mary came to visit them at home, as the little one recounts:
'Our Lady came to see us and said that soon she would come and take
Francisco to heaven. And she asked me if I still wanted to convert more
sinners. I told her yes'. And when the time came for Francisco to
leave, the little girl tells him: 'Give my greetings to Our Lord and to
Our Lady and tell them that I am enduring everything they want for the
conversion of sinners'. Jacinta had been so deeply moved by the vision
of hell during the apparition of 13 July that no mortification or
penance seemed too great to save sinners." (42)
4.- John Paul II clearly tied
this period
of Tribulations to the present
time, and said that he was the Holy Father whom Jacinta had seen
suffering so much.
The Pope honored the many martyrs of
the
20th Century, and said, "An
innumerable cloud of courageous
witnesses to the faith have left us a precious heritage which must live
on in the third millennium. Here in Fátima, where these times of
tribulation were foretold and Our Lady asked for prayer and penance to
shorten them, I would like today to thank heaven for the powerful
witness shown in all those lives. And once again I would like to
celebrate the Lord's goodness to me when I was saved from death after
being gravely wounded on 13 May 1981. I also express my gratitude to
Bl. Jacinta for the sacrifices and prayers offered for the Holy Father,
whom she saw suffering greatly." (42)
John Paul II added that with the
beatification of the visionaries of Fátima, "the Church wishes
to put on the candelabrum these two candles which God lit to illumine
humanity in its dark and anxious hours. ... May the message of their
lives live on for ever to light humanity's way!" (42)
These "dark and anxious hours" for
humanity were the present time,
from 2000 (the year of the beatification) onward. Thus, the Pope
circumvented those who wished to consign Fátima and its Secrets
to the past.
5.- Finally, the Pope
associated the
dragon
of Revelations 12:3
("Another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon") with
the evil that pervades the world today.
The Pope said, "These words from the
first reading of the Mass make us think of the great struggle between
good and evil, showing how, when man puts God aside, he cannot achieve
happiness, but ends up destroying himself. How many victims there have
been throughout the last century of the second millennium!
We remember
the horrors of the First and Second World Wars and the other wars in so
many parts of the world, the concentration and extermination camps, the
gulags, ethnic cleansings and persecutions, terrorism, kidnappings,
drugs, the attacks on unborn life and the family. The message of
Fátima is a call to conversion, alerting humanity to have
nothing to do with the 'dragon' whose 'tail swept down a third of the
stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth' (Revelations
12: 4).
Man's final goal is heaven, his true home, where the heavenly Father
awaits everyone with his merciful love." (42)
For the Pope, the dragon remained a
present danger, and the evils he
described were not limited to Communism or to the Soviet bloc. When the
Pope said that the message of Fátima is "a call to conversion,
alerting humanity to have nothing to do with the dragon," he signaled
that the alert is ongoing, as the battle against the dragon
continues.
In this way, John Paul II tied the Third
Secret and its warnings to
the present time and to the immediate future, giving the lie to the
propagandists who say that the Third Secret pertains only to the past.
As John Paul II continued to weave the Book of Revelations together
with the world of today, he was subtly reminding us of the reality of
that book and its prophecies, and reminding us that we were - and are
now - living in the End of These Times.
B. The custodians of the Third Secret
from 1942 through Paul VI
Sister Lucia wrote down the Third Secret
in 1942, sealed it in an
envelope, and gave it to Bishop D. Manuel Maria Ferreira de Silva, of
the Diocese of Gurza; he gave it to D. José Alves Correia de
Silva, the Bishop of Leiria - who then sealed the envelope containing
the Secret inside another envelope, and kept it until he died in 1957. (2)
The next Bishop of Leiria, D. João Pereira Venáncio, then
received the envelope and later sent it to John XXIII in Rome. Pope
John read it, re-sealed the envelope, and did not share it with anyone,
according to Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani (who headed the Holy
Office/Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1959 until his
retirement in 1968). Ottaviani believed that the envelope with the
Secret passed to Paul VI.
C. The sad contents of the Secret
It is known that the Third Secret would
sadden those who hear it. On
October 11, 1917, two days before the Miracle of the Sun, during
questioning by Father Formigäo, Jacinta was asked: If people would
know the secret, would they become sad? Jacinta answered: Yes. The same
question was posed to Francisco, without Jacinta being present, and his
answer was identical: Yes. (2)
D. No evidence that the Secret was to
have been released by the
"Pope of 1960"
There is no verifiable, original-source
evidence to support the
rumor that the Pope was supposed to reveal the Third Secret to the
world in 1960. (2)
Assembling and summarizing the above evidence: the (authentic) Third
Secret tells us that we are living through the fulfillment of the
prophecies of the Book of Revelations now (and in the immediate
future), and that we should respond with prayer and penance. The Third
Secret is Apocalyptic, and has not been already
fulfilled.
8-a.
The coherence of the Marian Apparitions
Our Lady's warnings have been
consistent
since Her modern
apparitions started in 1830
La Salette, 1846
Our Lady gave the following secret to Melanie (one of the
visionaries), and allowed her to make it public in 1858. Our Lady
warned of tribulation for the world, and apostasy in high places in the
Church:
"The priests, ministers of my Son, the
priests, by their wicked
lives, by their irreverence and their impiety in the celebration of the
holy mysteries, by their love of money, their love of honors and
pleasures, the priests have become cesspools of impurity. Yes, the
priests are asking for vengeance, and vengeance is hanging over their
heads. Woe to the priests and to those dedicated to God who by their
unfaithfulness and their wicked lives are crucifying my son again! The
sins of those dedicated to God cry out towards Heaven and call for
vengeance, and now vengeance is at their door, for there is no one left
to beg mercy and forgiveness for the people. There are no more generous
souls, there is no one left worthy of offering a stainless sacrifice to
the Eternal God for the sake of the world.
God will strike in an unprecedented
way.
Woe to the inhabitants of
the earth! God will exhaust His wrath upon them, and no one will be
able to escape so many afflictions together. The chiefs, the leaders of
the people of God have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has
bedimmed their intelligence. They have become wandering stars which the
old devil will drag along with his tail to make them perish. God will
allow the old serpent to cause divisions among those who reign in every
society and in every family. Physical and moral agonies will be
suffered. ...
The society of men is on the eve of
the
most terrible scourges and
of gravest events. Mankind must expect to be ruled with an iron rod and
to drink from the chalice of the wrath of God. ...
Extraordinary prodigies will abound
everywhere because the true
faith has been extinguished and the false light illuminates the world.
Woe to the princes of the Church who only concern themselves with the
accumulation of riches upon riches, protect their authority and rule
with pride. ...
The Vicar of my Son will suffer a
great
deal, because for a while
the Church will yield to large persecution, a time of darkness, and the
Church will witness a frightful crisis. The true faith of the Lord
having been forgotten, each individual will want to be on his own and
be superior to people of the same identity. They will abolish civil
rights as well as ecclesiastical, all order and all justice would be
trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and
dissension would be seen without love for country or family.
The Holy Father will suffer a great
deal.
I will be with him until
the end and receive his sacrifice. The mischievous would attempt his
life several times to do harm and shorten his days but neither he nor
his successor will see the triumph of the Church of God. ...
Nature is asking for vengeance
because of
man, and she trembles with
dread at what must happen to the earth stained with crime. Tremble,
earth, and you who proclaim yourselves as serving Jesus Christ and who,
on the inside, only adore yourselves, tremble, for God will hand you
over to His enemy because the holy places are in the state of
corruption. ...
Water and fire will give the earth's
globe convulsions and terrible
earthquakes which will swallow up mountains, cities.... Rome will
lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist." (43)
As Mary warned, so it has happened. Rome has lost the Faith, and is
now the seat of the Antichrist. (44)
Rosa Mystica, 1947-1966
In Her
Apparitions of Montechiari and Fontanelle, Italy, (1947 - 1966), (44)
Our Lady stated: "I wish that the
13th July be
celebrated each year in honour of the
Rosa Mystica (the Mystical Rose)". During this apparition, which
occurred on July 13, 1947, (44)
Pierina asked
whether a miracle would follow.Our Lady replied:
"The
most evident
miracle will be this: Those who
have given their souls to God - the religious who, for a long time now,
have become indifferent thus betraying their vocation and as a result
of their offenses have brought about the punishments and persecutions
which are raging against the Church at the present time - will stop to
offend Our Lord. They will again lead a life according to the original
spirit of their saintly founders."
During the third apparition, on October
22, 1947, Our Lady said,
"I
have placed myself as the mediatrix between my Divine son and mankind,
especially for the soul consecrated to God. Tired of the continuous
offenses, He already wanted to dispense His justice." (44)
During the fourth apparition, on November
22, 1947, (44)
Our Lady appeared in the Basilica of Montichiari in the presence of
some people. Among them were several priests. Pierina heard the words:
"Our
Lord can no longer watch the many
grievous sins against purity.
He wants to send a flood of punishments. I have interceded that He may
be merciful once more! Therefore, I ask for prayer and penance to atone
for these sins." (45)
Now we know that these "grievous sins against purity" include child
abuse by priests and religious worldwide, and the complicity and
connivance of bishops - up to and including Joseph Ratzinger. The
Church was warned more than 60 years ago, and turned a deaf ear. How
much longer can the "flood of punishments" be delayed?
Garabandal, 1961-1965
In Her apparitions of San Sebastián de Garabandal, Spain
(1961 - 1965), Our Lady warned of impending chastisement unless mankind
repented:
In Her first message, given on October 18, 1961, the Virgin Mary
said:
"We must make many sacrifices, perform
much penance and visit the
Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. If we
do not, a chastisement will befall us. The cup is already filling up
and if we do not change, a very great chastisement will come upon us."
(46)
The last message of Garabandal was given on June 18th,
1965, through the intervention of St. Michael the Archangel. (46)
Our Lady said:
"As my message of October 18 has not
been
complied with and has not
been made known to the world, I am advising you that this is the last
one. Before, the cup was filling up. Now it is flowing over.
Many Cardinals, many Bishops and many
priests are on the road to
perdition and are taking many souls with them. Less and less importance
is being given to the Eucharist. You should turn the wrath of God away
from yourselves by your efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with
sincere hearts, He will pardon you. I, your Mother, through the
intercession of Saint Michael the Archangel, ask you to amend your
lives. You are now receiving the last warnings. Pray to us with
sincerity and we will grant your requests. You should make more
sacrifices. Think about the passion of Jesus." (45)
It is ironic that the Vatican has not approved the apparitions of
Rosa Mystica or Garabandal, yet the behavior of the leaders of the
Church has silently confirmed the truth of these apparitions. (45)
Akita, 1973
From July 5 through October 13, 1973, Our Lady appeared to Sister
Agnes, a nun living in Akita, Japan. The Virgin Mary gave three verbal
messages to the Sister - who was "stone deaf" at the time. A statue of
Our Lady shed blood, human perspiration, and tears on various occasions
from July 1973 through September 1981. The Bishop of the Diocese in
which these phenomena occurred gave approval to them in a 1984 pastoral
letter, and this letter received the approval of the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith in 1988. The Akita apparition is fully
approved by the Church, just as Fátima was. (47)
On August 3, 1973, Our Lady told Sister Agnes that:
"In order that the world might know His
anger, the Heavenly Father
is preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind. With My
Son I have intervened so many times to appease the wrath of the Father.
I have prevented the coming of calamities by offering Him the
sufferings of the Son on the Cross, His Precious Blood, and beloved
souls who console Him forming a cohort of victim souls. Prayer, penance
and courageous sacrifices can soften the Father's anger." (48)
On October 13, 1973, Our Lady told Sister Agnes that:
"As I told you, if men do not repent
and
better themselves, the
Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a
punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen
before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of
humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor
faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will
envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the
Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the
Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the
priests.
The work of the devil will infiltrate
even the Church in such a way
that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other
bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by
their confreres.... churches and altars sacked, the Church will be full
of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests
and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord." (8)
"The demon will be especially
implacable
against souls consecrated
to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of My
sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no
longer pardon for them." (48)
Summarizing
From La Salette to Fátima to Rosa Mystica to Garabandal to
Akita, the message is clear to those with eyes to see and ears to her:
the Great Chastisement is imminent. The apostasy, unspeakable
lust, greed for power and wealth, lies, and willful negligence
committed by the Temple Masters of our time have contributed greatly to
our peril, and brought humanity to the precipice.
As the lights go out worldwide, let us nevertheless keep the faith,
abide in charity, and remain hopeful. Such hope is not facile optimism,
but is based on the promises made by God through Scripture and his
prophets. Even amidst trials, we may say with Job:
"I
know that my Redeemer lives, and at
last He will stand upon the
earth, and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I
shall see God, whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold,
and not another." (Job 19:25-27)
The world is not ending, and the trial will be brief. After the Great
Tribulation comes the True Dawn, the return in Glory of our Lord and
God and Savior, Jesus Christ. He will rescue His people, cast Lucifer
and his lieutenants into the Abyss, and renew the face of the earth.
Although evil seems triumphant now, its dark towers (in the Vatican and
elsewhere) will soon crumble to nothing. Soon, we will see the Triumph
of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady.
Pope John XXIII, Paul VI, and John Paul II did all that they
humanly could to make the message of Fátima known to the
faithful and to the world, and to shore up the Faith and Marian
devotion. (28) Rather
than further offending
God by blaming them for all that ails the Roman Catholic Church today,
we should examine whether or not we, ourselves, are fully living out
the directions given by Jesus and Mary.
In particular: (28)
- What is each one of us doing to put in
practice and share the gift Heaven
gave to the world in Fátima (49)?
- How many rosaries (50)
do we offer a day?
- Do we pray the ViaCrucis (51)
frequently?
- Do we frequently partake of The
Sacrament of
Reconciliation (52)? Only Mary was Immaculate (53);
the rest of us are sinners and need frequent Sacramental reconciliation
with God.
- Do we make it a practice to offer
reparation (54)
to the Eucharistic Presence of Our Lord, who is so abandoned in all
Tabernacles of the earth?
- Do we also make reparation to the
Immaculate Heart of
His Mother, including the First Saturday
devotions (55)?
- Do we think that
we are really special and better than this or that individual? (56)
We will only be really special when we do not feel that way!
- Are we praying
enough (57) to spiritually assist the
priests and members of the Hierarchy? If they
fall, (58) do not blame God. It is our
responsibility!
- How about praying for the murderers,
rapists, child abusers, and abortionists (59)?
Are we praying enough for them as Our Lord
Jesus Christ clearly instructed us to do?
As the Blue Army's John Haffert reminded us in his memoirs: "'The
Rosary is not the most important request' ... the essential request ...
was ... 'Will you be willing to accept whatever God will send you
and to offer it up for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for
the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary?' ... she
emphasized that it is the fulfillment of one's daily duty, according to
one's state in life ... which is the primary condition for turning
back of the tide of evil which threatens today's world ... " (12)
The choice is ours. Either we make sure that we have an ample
supply of oil for our lamps or we do not have it. The consequences of
either choice could not be clearer in the Holy Scriptures according to
Matthew
25:1-12. The world should now consider itself amply warned!
NOTES
(0) It
is correct to speak of the "Third Part of the Secret of Fatima" rather
than the "Third Secret of Fatima". This document was already at a very
advanced stage of editing, containing this small error, when it reached
our hands, and we have preferred not to touch it so as not to
complicate the revision. We understand that it does not alter the
understanding of the document.
(1)
"Impressions of the Second
Apparition," http://www.mgr.org/fatima061317.html
(2) "The Third Part of the
Secret of
Fátima," http://www.mgr.org/fatimathirdpart.html
(3) "A New Look at the Part of
the
Secret of Fátima Released Decades Ago," http://www.mgr.org/ANewLookAtFatima.html
(4) "A New Look at the Part of
the
Secret of Fátima Released Decades Ago," http://www.mgr.org/ANewLookAtFatima.html;
this is a paraphrase of miguel's explanation at the bottom of that
document.
(5) "How the Roman Catholic
Church
Administration Missed the "Fátima Opportunity" for Peace Between
1917 and 1931," http://www.mgr.org/MissedOpportunity.html
(6) "Attachment 1 - Detailed
Chronology of Key Events," http://www.mgr.org/attach1.html
(7) The details in this section
are from: "How
the
Roman Catholic Church Administration Missed the
"Fátima Opportunity" for Peace Between 1917 and 1931," http://www.mgr.org/MissedOpportunity.html
(8) "'Damage Control' from
Heaven,"
http://www.mgr.org/FatimaSecretModifiedPart2.html
(9) Catholic-Hierarchy.org,
"Bishop José
Alves
Correia da Silva," http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/balvesc.html
(10) The Blue Army of Our Lady
of Fátima,
"The
Founders of the Blue Army," http://www.wafusa.org/about_blue_army/founders.html#haffert
(11) Wikipedia, "John Haffert,"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Haffert
(12)
"The Blue Army of
Fátima," http://www.mgr.org/BlueArmy.html
(13)
"The Key Role Played by Occult
Practices in Nazi Germany," http://www.mgr.org/NazismAndTheOccult.html
(14)
"The Manifestation of the
AntiChrist," http://www.mgr.org/TheAntiChrist.html
(15)
"In the end, my Immaculate
Heart will triumph," http://www.mgr.org/fatimaentrustment.html
(16)
"Our Lady of Fátima:
Messages - Response - Consequences," http://www.mgr.org/olof.html
(17)
The M+G+R Foundation, letter
of June 14th
and 15th, 1996, http://www.mgr.org/blwn3aa.html
(18)
See the note added on October 9, 2001, at the end
of the following document: "The Fátima
Conspiracy and Other Global Conspiracies," http://www.mgr.org/fatconspiracy.html
(19)
"The Marian Apparitions in
Fátima and the Roman Catholic Church Administration," http://www.mgr.org/fatima.html
(20)
"Former Cardinal Ratzinger and
the Message of Fátima," http://www.mgr.org/RatzOnFatima.html
(21)
"Third Secret of Fátima: nothing
sensational, it regards crisis of faith", Echo of Mary, issue
130 (year 12, no. 6), November-December 1996, http://www.medjugorje.org/echo/e130.pdf,
viewed 02/24/10; The M+G+R Foundation
has the same newsletter and article
on its site at http://www.mgr.org/041697RatzP4.html
(22)
"Former Cardinal Ratzinger and
the Message of Fátima," Page 4 of 5, http://www.mgr.org/041697RatzP4.html
(23)
An image of the original article, in Portuguese,
is available at: "Former Cardinal Ratzinger and
the Message of Fátima," Page 5 of 5, http://www.mgr.org/041697RatzP5.html
(24)
Translation provided by: The M+G+R
Foundation,
"Former Cardinal Ratzinger and the Message of Fátima," Page 3 of
5, http://www.mgr.org/041697RatzP3.html
(25)
"The Third Part of the Secret
of Fátima - In Conclusion," http://www.mgr.org/fatimaconclusion.html
(26)
CatholicCulture.org, "Ordinary Time: June 26th,"
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?id=178
(27)
"The Third Part of the Secret
of Fátima: In Conclusion - Part II," http://www.mgr.org/fatimaconclusion2.html
(28)
"The Text of the Secret of
Fátima Has Been Shamelessly Modified," http://www.mgr.org/FatimaSecretModified.html
(29)
"Details of the Modifications
to the Fátima Secret," http://www.mgr.org/MemoriasIrmaLuciaFinal.html
(30)
This is a summary and extension of: "The
Fátima Conspiracy and Other Global
Conspiracies," http://www.mgr.org/fatconspiracy.html
(31)
"Ecclesiastical Secret
Societies: Who Are They? How to Detect Them?," http://www.mgr.org/ecclmason.html
(32)
"The Third Part of the Secret
of Fátima Disinformation Campaign," http://www.mgr.org/fatimadiscredit.html
(33)
Wikipedia, "Javier Sierra," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Sierra
(34)
"The Lady in Blue: What could
be the final blow to Marian Apparitions," http://www.mgr.org/TheLadyInBlueWarning.html
(35)
"The Roman Catholic Church and Supernatural Occurrences - A reality or
a fraud?", http://www.mgr.org/041697RatzFatscam.html
(36)
"The Day After The Nuclear
Holocaust," http://www.mgrfoundation.org/dayaft.html
(37)
"Tradition Is Not Fascism," http://www.mgr.org/TraditionIsNotFascism.html
(38)
"The Return to 'Christendom' -
the State and Church Alliance," http://www.mgr.org/WhatWentWrongPart4.html
(39)
Lee Penn, False Dawn, Chapter
25, "A
Speculative Postscript: After the 'Anti-Tradition,' the Final
'Counter-tradition,'" http://www.mgr.org/FalseDawn-CH25.html
(40)
"The Staged Second Coming of
Christ," http://www.mgr.org/TheFalseChrist.html
(41)
"The Third Part of the Secret
of Fátima: Its Confirmation by His Holiness John Paul II," http://www.mgr.org/fatimathirdpartconfirmed.html
(42)
"The Third Part of the Secret
of Fátima - It Is Revealed by His Holiness John Paul II in His
Homily at Fátima," http://www.mgr.org/fatimahomily.html
(43)
"The Apparitions of Our Lady of
La Salette in 1846," http://www.mgr.org/ololas.html
(44)
"Apparitions of Our Lady - Rosa
Mystica - at Montichiari-Fontanelle," http://www.mgr.org/RosaMystica.html
(45)
"We Have Been Warned By The
Virgin Mary. Are We Going To Listen?," http://www.mgr.org/bookcover.html
(46)
"The Apparitions of San
Sebastián de Garabandal," http://www.mgr.org/garabandal.html
(47)
The M+G+R Foundation, Bishop
Ito's letter of
approval for Akita, http://www.mgr.org/akitaletter.html
(48)
"Our Lady of Akita, Japan -
Messages and Details," http://www.mgr.org/akita.html
(49)
"Fátima - Index of
Documents," http://www.mgr.org/fatimaPage.html
(50)
"The Holy Rosary With
Scriptural Meditations," http://www.mgr.org/Rosary.html
(51)
"Stations of the Cross," http://www.mgr.org/viacrucisdetailed.html
(52)
"The Sacrament of
Reconciliation," http://www.mgr.org/OnReconciliationAndOtherMatters.html
(53)
"Mary, True Mother of God
Because She Is the True Mother of Jesus," http://www.mgr.org/motherhood.html
(54)
"Suffering: Mankind's
Participation in Its Own Redemption," http://www.mgr.org/redempt.html
(55)
"The First Saturday Devotion
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary," http://www.mgr.org/FirstSaturday.html
(56)
"What Is The Prelature of The
Holy Cross and Opus Dei," http://www.mgr.org/sect01.html
(57)
"Enough of Marches! Enough of
Petitions! Enough Politicking" Pray! Pray! Pray!," http://www.mgr.org/PrayPrayPray.html
(58)
"Wolves In Sheep's Clothing," http://www.mgr.org/wolves.html
(59)
"It Is Imperative That The
Faithful Understands The Catholic Faith ... To Avoid Dangerous Errors,"
http://www.mgr.org/abort-theology.html
En Español: Resumen completo sobre los
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