To Truly Honor Our Lady Fatima, Why Not Truly Obey Our Lady of Fatima?
By Michael McBride
A papal pilgrimage, the canonizations of the two youngest non-martyrs, national and diocesan consecrations to Our Lady, Rosary rallies, special parish Masses, Marian conferences, new publications printed and circulated, parochial processions, private novenas, calls to prayer, national and diocesan pilgrimages, and numerous other unique events, all organized, planned, advertised, and offered during this year of 2017. To what end? Why, to honor and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Mother of God’s appearance at the once little village of Fatima, of course! All quite understandable, fitting, and proper to highlight and fix in our minds such a momentous event.
And, yet, all this vast publicity also represents a great distraction, a distraction from the truth hidden beneath all the festivities: the very real fact that Our Lady’s requests and commands at Fatima have not been substantially complied with, either by large segments of the Catholic population or by the hierarchy of the Church herself.
"Do you want to offer yourselves to God to endure all the sufferings that He may choose to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended and as a supplication for the conversion of sinners?"
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"… Jesus wants to use you to make Me known and loved. He wants to establish Devotion to My Immaculate Heart in the world. I promise salvation to those who embrace it and their souls will be loved by God as flowers placed by Myself to adorn His throne."
"… say the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace for the world ... for She alone can save it."
"Sacrifice yourselves for sinners; and say often, especially when you make some sacrifice: ‘O my Jesus, it is for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary I offer this sacrifice to Thee.’" "You have seen Hell – where the souls of poor sinners go.
To save them God wants to establish throughout the world the devotion to My Immaculate Heart. If people will do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace....
"But if they do not stop offending God … He is going to punish the world for its crimes by means of war, hunger, persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father.
"To forestall 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 they heed My requests, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If not, she shall 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; in the end, My Immaculate Heart shall triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, which will be converted, and some time of peace will be given to the world.
"In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved, etc.
"Do not tell this to anyone [the words which follow the etc.
above]. To Francisco, yes, you may tell it."
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The True Story of Fatima, 1 Except where noted, all quotes are taken from Fr. John de Marchi, I.M.C., 1947 & 2009, taken directly from Sister Lucia’s Memoires and checked by her in person.
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"Pray! Pray a great deal and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to Hell for not having someone to pray and make sacrifices for them" "People must amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins.
They must not offend Our Lord any more for He is already too much offended."
On December 10, 1925, Our Lady and the Child Jesus appeared to Sister Lucia at her Dorothean convent school at Vilar de Porto. The Child spoke first, followed by His Mother: "Have pity on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother. It is covered with the thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to remove them with an act of reparation."
"My daughter, look at My Heart encircled with the thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude.
Do you at least try to console me and announce in My name that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, go to Confession and receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep Me company for a quarter of an hour while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to me."
On June 13, 1929, Our Lady appeared to Sister Lucia in her convent at Tuy, Spain, indicating just how the fulfillment of Her request for the Consecration of Russia was to be carried out. The Pope was to order all the bishops of the Catholic Church to join with him in consecrating specifically Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. This Consecration was to be carried out by both the Pope and the bishops on the same day, at the same time. (Note that the Consecration was to be of Russia specifically and that it was to include ALL the bishops of the Catholic Church. Exempt, of course, would be the ill and those who were prevented from doing so by hostile governments.
The bishops were to consecrate with the Pope, if present in Rome, or in their own dioceses.) Two years later, in the summer of 1931, Our Lord appeared to Sister Lucia at Rianjo, Spain, announcing to her that He was quite displeased that the Consecration had not been carried out in the intervening two years. He said to her: "Make it known to My ministers, given that they follow the example of the King of France in delaying the execution of My command [to consecrate Russia], they will follow him into misfortune. It will never be too late to have recourse to Jesus and Mary."
(Notice that Our Lord calls the Consecration His command.
Our Lady always acts in concert with Her Son. Note, too, that Our Lord says that recourse to Jesus and Mary will "never be too late". He was displeased after only two years of noncompliance. 86 years later, there has still been no compliance with His command.) (Emphasis added.) In an interview given to a Dutch priest named Fr. Jongon, at Tuy, in 1942, Sister Lucia told him: "The exact request of Our Lady was that the Holy Father consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart, ordering that this be made at the same time and in union with him by all the bishops of the Catholic world."
And, in another interview, given to the noted historian William Thomas Walsh on June 15, 1946, Sister Lucia said the following: "What Our Lady wants is that the Pope and all the bishops in the world shall consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart on one special day. If this is done, She will convert Russia and there will be peace. If this is not done, the errors of Russia will spread through every country in the world."
Three years later, in speaking to a New York Dominican named Fr. Thomas McGlynn, Sister Lucia reiterated that it was not the world that Our Lady wanted consecrated, but "Russia! Russia!" And that She commanded the Holy Father to command the Catholic bishops of the world to carry it out in union with him at the same time.
Our Lady, again, appeared to Sister Lucia in May 1952 and confirmed, once more, that she was to: "Make it known to the Holy Father that I am always awaiting the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart. Without the Consecration, Russia will not be able to convert, nor will the world have peace."
This Consecration of Russia, along with the call to each of us to do penance, is a crucial part of the Fatima message. As Sister Lucia wrote: "The good Lord is allowing Himself to be appeased, but He complains bitterly and sorrowfully about the small number of souls in His grace who are willing to renounce whatever the observance of His law requires of them."
In Lent of 1943, Sister Lucia informed the Bishop of Gurza what Our Lord had related to her on this subject:
"The sacrifice required for every person is the fulfillment of his duties in life and the observance of My law. This is the penance that I now seek and require."
Over the years, since Our Lord voiced to Sister Lucia His displeasure at the delay of the Consecration of Russia, there have been many consecrations and/ or entrustments of the world to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. But, there has been only one Consecration of Russia. That was carried out by Pope Pius XII in 1952.
Inexplicably, however, for some unknown reason, the Catholic bishops of the world were not ordered to join him in this consecration. Therefore, as a result, the promised blessings of Russia’s conversion and a period of peace for the world were not forthcoming.
Since then, many in the world and in the Church have been led to believe that the consecration carried out by Pope John Paul II, on March 25, 1984 satisfied Our Lady’s command and was accepted by Heaven. However, this was denied by Sister Lucia both before and after the
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