Fatima and the Commandments of God

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I’m continuing to share the final chapters in Sister Lucia’s last book before her death: “Calls” From the Message of Fatima. Most recently, I posted on Chapter 23, in which Sister wrote generally of God’s giving the Commandments to Moses. In Chapters 24 through 33, Sister continues to write on each of the 10 Commandments and how they relate to the Message given to the three children at Fatima by Our Mother Mary. Today I quote from Chapter 24 “You shall adore the true God and Him alone.” Sister wrote:

Already in the second Call of the Message, we spoke of the adoration we give to God. We will now look at the reasons why God commands us to adore Him only. Does God need our adoration? Certainly God is happy in Himself. He does not need anyone or anything; He already has in Himself all that is good and all that exists belongs to Him since He created it…Why, then does He require us to adore Him only?

The reason for giving us such a command is that He is the one living and true God, eternal and worthy of being adored; He is the only God capable of accepting our adoration and rewarding it.

This commandment is an order inspired by love. God has commanded us to adore Him only, so that we many not turn to adoring false gods – gods which in reality are nothing, of no value, and can do nothing for us.

I call it also a precept of love, since our adoration should be the result of our love of God, and of our gratitude, because He loved us first…

How simply Sister Lucia puts the first commandment into the context of Love – exactly where it needs to be! God is Love and all He does is done in Love. As His children, we hear that message given to us in His Revealed Truth: Jesus. In fulfilling the Old Law with His New Commandment Jesus tells us to love one another as He loved us. In Baptism we are given a share in the Divine Life of the Trinity and are enabled by Sancifying Grace to keep His commandments, we are by His Grace enabled to hear His Truth and do His Truth lovingly. We are all called to holiness, to living the Life Christ has won for us.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful. Kindle in us the Fire of Your Love.
Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us.
Jesus we trust in You!