Our Lady of Fatima

On this day, Oct 13, 1917 Mary worked a public miracle for more than 70,000 to see at Fatima called the miracle of the Sun. Earlier that year, in July Mary took the three children to hell and then she said to them…“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 there will be peace." Mary showed the children a vision of the future, what would happen if humanity did not turn away from sin and turn to God. Mary also prophesied, "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world." Ratzinger explained the vision: "The angel with the flaming sword on the left of the Mother of God recalls similar images in the Book of Revelation. This represents the threat of judgment that looms over the world. Today the prospect that the world might be reduced to ashes by a sea of fire no longer seems pure fantasy: man himself, with his inventions, has forged the flaming sword. The vision then shows the power that stands opposed to the force of destruction – the splendor of the Mother of God and, stemming from this in a certain way, the summons to penance. In this way, the importance of human freedom is underlined: the future is not in fact unchangeably set, and the image that the children saw is in no way a film preview of a future in which nothing can be changed. Indeed, the whole point of the vision is to bring freedom onto the scene and to steer freedom in a positive direction. The purpose of the vision is not to show a film of an irrevocably fixed future. Its meaning is exactly the opposite: it is meant to mobilize the forces of change in the right direction. Therefore we must totally discount fatalistic explanations of the secret…Rather, the vision speaks of dangers and how we might be saved from them.” We can prevent the prophetic vision Mary gave in 1917 and help bring about the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary by two means: The Rosary and our own personal cross  Prayer: “Pray, pray very much!” and “Pray the Rosary every day.” Penance: “Make of everything you can a sacrifice and offer it to God as an act of Reparation for the sins by which God is offended and for the conversion of sinners.”  5 First Saturdays of Reparation Accept and Offer to God what you don’t like, what you cannot change. Offer these for the Love of God, the Conversion of sinners, and in Reparation for sin. There is a cosmic Struggle Between: The Devil, his demons and his servants of darkness and God, Mary, his Angels and His servants of Light. God is asking us to play our part for the good of the world and the good of souls.