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                   “J.M.J. 

The 3rd Part of The Secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on 13 July 1917. 

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. 

After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the Splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: Pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!'.

And we saw, in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White, ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'.

Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark;

before reaching there, the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way;

having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross, he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died, one after another, the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions.

Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God. 

              Tuy-3-1-1944”.   

 

  As Released By Pope John Paul II

                       June, 2000

  Our Lady’s Mantle   

The Message of Fatima

Text Box: From The Rosary Center, Portland, Oregon. DAILY ROSARY FOR PEACE: “Pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace in the world for she alone can save it.” (Our Lady—July 13, 1917) “God has placed peace in her hands, and it is from the Immaculate Heart that men must ask it." (Jacinta—shortly before her death) “When you pray the Rosary, say after each mystery: ‘O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who have most need of your mercy.' " (June 13, 1917) (Every Rosary increases Mary’s power to crush the head of the Serpent and to destroy his evil power in the world.) DEVOTION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY "Jesus wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. I promise salvation to those who embrace it." (June 13, 1917) FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTIONS, which include: reception of Holy Communion, and Confession (within 8 days before or after) pray 5 decades of the Rosary spend 15 minutes in meditation on the mysteries of the Rosary. (All the above to be offered up in reparation for sins and ingratitude against the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady.) OFFERING IN REPARATION: THE SACRIFICES, AND CROSSES OF LIFE especially those sacrifices involved in keeping God’s Commandments, and in fulfilling the duties of one’s state in life — offering them through the Immaculate Heart of Mary in reparation to the Divine Majesty so offended by sin, and for the conversion of sinners. “ Sacrifice yourselves for sinners and say often whenever you make a sacrifice: ‘ O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.' " (Our Lady—July 13, 1917) “Pray much and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to hell - because there is no one to make sacrifices for them." (Our Lady—August 19, 1917) CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY Any formula may be used which expresses a sincere confiding of oneself without reserve. * THE 3 REQUESTS OF “THE LADY OF THE ROSARY” AT FATIMA The following is a brief consideration of Our Lady’s 3 Requests: Penance, Prayer and Devotion to her Immaculate Heart. PENANCE In the Gospels the word penance means a conversion of one’s life, a turning away from sin, and a turning back to God. As Our Lady insisted at Fatima: “Men must amend their lives, and ask pardon for their sins. . . . They must no longer offend Our Lord, Who is already so much offended.” The Fatima message is a call for men to give up sinful practices which grieve God and draw down His chastisements on the world, and to make reparation for them. Commenting on Our Lady’s request for penance, Sr. Lucia wrote: “The part of the last apparition which has remained most deeply imprinted on my heart is the prayer of our heavenly Mother begging us not to offend any more Almighty God, Who is already so much offended.” Jacinta, too, shortly before her death remarked: “If men only knew what eternity is, how they would make all possible efforts to amend their lives . . . mortification and sacrifice give great pleasure to Our Divine Lord." In August of 1917 Our Lady told the children, “pray much and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to hell because there is no one to make sacrifices for them.” As to the kinds of sacrifices Our Lady was asking, she revealed to Sr. Lucia on one occasion: “The good Lord is allowing Himself to be appeased . . . but He Himself complains most bitterly and sorrowfully about the small number of souls in His grace who are willing to renounce whatever the observance of His laws requires of them.“ “Many persons,” Sr. Lucia explained, “feeling that the word penance implies great austerities, and not feeling that they have the strength for great sacrifices, become discouraged and continue a life of lukewarmness and sin.” Then she said Our Lord explained to her: “The sacrifice required of 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.” In this materialistic culture in which we live, almost heroic virtue is required to be faithful to the duties of the Christian life. Yet, over and above those sacrifices “required of every person,” the children of Fatima practiced many little acts of mortification and renunciation on their own initiative. It is hoped that many devotees of Our Lady will not be content with the minimum required and will not pass up opportunities of voluntary mortification, placing in the hands of Our Lady the fruits of the little trials, frustrations and irritations of each day accepted with patience and resignation. It was in this same spirit that the Angel spoke to the children in 1916: “Offer up everything you do as a sacrifice to the Lord in reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners . . . Above all, accept and bear with resignation the sufferings that God may send you.” PRAYER Besides a call to penance Fatima is in a special way a call for the Rosary. So central is the Rosary to the Fatima message that Our Lady chose to identify herself as “The Lady of the Rosary.” In each of the six apparitions she asked for the daily Rosary, and especially as an instrument of world peace. As she revealed in the third apparition: “You must recite the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war for only she can obtain this.” In this Our Lady renewed her request for the prayer she gave to the Church centuries before, a prayer that has proven a powerful weapon against the enemies of Christianity as history testifies. When asked about the importance of the Rosary, Sr. Lucia responded: “My impression is that the Rosary is of greatest value not only according to the words of Our Lady at Fatima, but according to the effects of the Rosary one sees throughout history. My impression is that Our Lady wanted to give ordinary people, who might not know how to pray, this simple method of getting closer to God.” The Rosary is basically a gospel prayer, and for those who pray it properly, it is, as Sr. Lucia said, “a simple method of getting closer to God.” But to pray it properly requires that each decade be a reflection on some aspect of the joyful, sorrowful or glorious mysteries of our redemption. Without that meditation, the Rosary would become monotonous repetition. As Pope Paul VI wrote in MARIALIS CULTUS: “Without this (contemplation) the Rosary is a body without a soul, and its recitation is in danger of becoming a mechanical repetition of formulas.” In praying the Rosary we can well take Our Lady as a model, for as the Scriptures tell us, “Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her Heart.” The Rosary is a simple form of prayer that can be prayed by the young or old, the learned or the uneducated, the saint or the sinner. Each can adapt it to his or her own capacity. It is so pleasing to Our Lady, because it brings us to review again and again the life of Christ, the mysteries of our redemption. As Pope Paul VI pointed out, it not only recalls to mind these mysteries, but stimulates the will to draw from them the norms of living. That is, it not only points out the way, but helps us to obtain the graces needed to follow in that way. After repeatedly asking for the daily Rosary, and identifying herself as "The Lady of the Rosary,” the Blessed Mother terminated the final apparition by showing the children 3 separate tableaux symbolizing the entire message of the Rosary. The first was a vision of the Holy family — representing the joyful mysteries; the second a vision of Our Lady of Sorrows — representing the sorrowful mysteries; and the third a vision of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel — representing the glorious mysteries. The Rosary may seem like an insignificant thing in the light of the magnitude of the evils of today’s world, but it is the weapon given to us by Our Lady. She merely asks our cooperation, and she will do the rest. It is like the slingshot of David that killed the mighty enemy because the power of God was behind it. Thus, as the saying goes, he who prays the Rosary has the power of God in his hand. DEVOTION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY In 1916, a year before the apparitions of Our Lady, the Angel of Peace appeared to the children to prepare them for things to come. “The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have designs of mercy for you,” he said. “Offer unceasingly to the Most High prayer and sacrifices.” In the second apparition the following year (June 13) Our Lady let the children know that “Jesus wishes to establish throughout the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.” Several times in the June and July apparitions Our Lady spoke of this devotion, as we shall see; and soon there began to burn in their hearts (especially Jacinta’s) a deep love for the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Shortly before Jacinta went to the hospital where she was to die, she said to Lucia: “In a short time now I am going to heaven. You are to stay here and say that God wishes to establish in the world the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. . . . Tell everybody that God grants graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and that they must ask them from her. Tell them that the Heart of Jesus wishes that by His side should be venerated the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask peace through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; God has placed it in her hands. Oh, that I could put into the heart of everybody the flame that I feel burning within my breast and which makes me love so much the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary.” June 13, 1917 Lucia asked Our Lady if she would take them to heaven. Our Lady answered: “Yes, I will take Jacinta and Francisco soon. You, however, are to stay here a longer time. Jesus wants to use you to make me known and loved. He wants to establish the 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 me before His throne.” When Lucia asked if she were going to be left alone, Our Lady responded: “No, my daughter. Does this cause you to suffer a great deal? I will never leave you, my Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.” As the Blessed Mother uttered these words she extended her hands and in the rays of light that shone from them, the children saw themselves as if submerged in the Divine presence. Jacinta and Francisco were on the side of the light that was ascending to Heaven, while Lucia was in the light that seemed diffused over all the earth. In the palm of her right hand was a Heart pierced with thorns; and the children understood that it was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so offended by the sins of mankind and pleading for reparation. July 13, 1917 “Sacrifice yourselves for sinners; and say often when you make some sacrifice, ‘My Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.'” After showing the children a vision of hell, Our Lady said to them: “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish throughout the world Devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do as I shall ask, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace. . . . But if people do not cease offending God . . . another and more terrible war will begin. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign that God gives that the chastisement of the world for its many transgressions is at hand through war, famine, persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father." “To prevent this, I shall come to ask the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and Communions of reparation on the Frst Saturdays. If my requests are heard, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, fomenting wars and persecution of the Church. The good will suffer martyrdom; the Holy Father will suffer much; whole nations will be annihilated. But in the end, My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph! The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, which will be converted, and a Period of Peace will be conceded to Mankind." NOTE: From the above, we must not think of the Five First Saturdays merely in terms of personal salvation, of receiving "at the hour of death the graces necessary for salvation;” but also in terms of world peace, of avoiding the terrible social consequences mentioned above by Our Lady. December 10, 1925 The visits of Our Lady to Lucia did not end with those in 1917. In fact it was only through later apparitions that Lucia received permission to make known some of the messages revealed in 1917. While Lucia was in her room at the convent of the Sisters of St. Dorothy, Our Lady and the Child Jesus appeared to her. Resting her right hand on Lucia’s shoulder, the Blessed Mother held in her other hand a Heart surrounded by sharp thorns. The Divine Child was the first to speak to Lucia: “Have pity on the Heart of your most Holy Mother. It is covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to remove them with an act of reparation.” Then Our Lady made known her request for Communions 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 5 consecutive months, go to Confession and receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to me.” Every sin, great and small, is an offense against God for which reparation must be made. Yet, so dear is the Heart of Mary to her Divine Son, and so much is He pained at the offenses and blasphemies against her Immaculate Heart that, as Fr. Thomas McGlynn, O.P. expresses in his book VISION OF FATIMA: "God has told us now, through Fatima, that we can make reparation to Him if we repair the sufferings we have caused Her. The Heart that received the fullness of participation in the divine life, that knew the affections of a mother for Jesus Christ during the years at Nazareth, that went through the agony of seeing Him die, that honors Him in heaven more than all the rest of creation, is now gloriously proclaimed by Him through Fatima." By the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima INTRODUCTION As the second millennium gives way to the third, Pope John Paul II has decided to publish the text of the 3d part of the “secret of Fatima”.  The 20th century was one of the most crucial in human history, with its tragic and cruel events culminating in the assassination attempt on the “sweet Christ on earth”. Now a veil is drawn back on a series of events which make history and interpret it in depth, in a spiritual perspective alien to present-day attitudes, often tainted with rationalism.  Throughout history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs which go to the heart of human events and which, to the surprise of believers and non-believers alike, play their part in the unfolding of history. These manifestations can never contradict the content of faith, and must therefore have their focus in the core of Christ's proclamation: the Father's love which leads men and women to conversion and bestows the grace required to abandon oneself to him with filial devotion. This too is the message of Fatima which, with its urgent call to conversion and penance, draws us to the heart of the Gospel.  Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions. The first and 2nd parts of the “secret”—which are here published in sequence so as to complete the documentation—refer especially to the frightening vision of hell, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Second World War, and finally the prediction of the immense damage that Russia would do to humanity by abandoning the Christian faith and embracing Communist totalitarianism.  In 1917 no one could have imagined all this: the 3 pastorinhos of Fatima see, listen and remember, and Lucia, the surviving witness, commits it all to paper when ordered to do so by the Bishop of Leiria and with Our Lady's permission.  For the account of the first 2 parts of the “secret”, which have already been published and are therefore known, we have chosen the text written by Sister Lucia in the Third Memoir of 31 August 1941; some annotations were added in the Fourth Memoir of 8 December 1941.  The 3rd part of the “Secret” was written “by order of His Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and the Most Holy Mother ...” on 3 January 1944.  There is only one manuscript, which is here reproduced photo-statically. The sealed envelope was initially in the custody of the Bishop of Leiria. To ensure better protection for the “Secret” envelope was placed in the Secret Archives of the Holy Office on 4 April 1957. The Bishop of Leiria informed Sister Lucia of this.  According to the records of the Archives, the Commissary of the Holy Office, Father Pierre Paul Philippe, OP, with the agreement of Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, brought the envelope containing the third part of the “secret of Fatima” to Pope John XXIII on 17 August 1959. “After some hesitation”, His Holiness said: “We shall wait. I shall pray. I shall let you know what I decide”.(1) … In fact, Pope John XXIII decided to return the sealed envelope to the Holy Office and not to reveal the 3rd Part of the “Secret”.  It remained hidden 41 more years!

“Dear Holy Father, there was a 4th Secret that you never asked about… perhaps… no, that might start something…”

       TUY, SPAIN, 1944

Lucia as a Dorothenian Nun

“Please sign the guest book, Holy Father,

right under Jacinta…”

Dear Lucy, that is not funny!

But, did you hear the one about...

Lucia as a Carmelite, 1967

  In Heaven together now, in that Immense Light which is God...

  Goodbye, My Sister!

3rd Secret of Fatima was published and approved by Cardinal Ratzinger

Cardinal Ottaviani