The fruits of Fatima: Penance, conversion, prayer to Jesus for salvation, increased devotion to Jesus through Mary, love of neighbor, and greater obedience in humility to the will of God.
Penance. This is called for in the message. Those who listen and believe have followed the call to do penance.
Conversion. Have you yourself not seen on these forums alone that many have come to be converted to the Faith?
Prayer to Jesus for salvation: Directly in the message which gives us the Fatima prayer. I pray this several times daily as do thousands of others.
Increased devotion to Jesus through Mary: the devotion is something that has been part of Christianity from its beginning, though you refuse to accept anything as “christian” apparently unless it came after approximately AD 1500 and ‘protests’ Catholicism. The increase in devotion is there because any knowledge and any thought about Mary increases one’s thoughts and knowledge of Christ. She leads us to him. . .not to her. It’s as if she were a beautiful crown on His Head. Our eyes might be drawn to the crown, because the splendour of God is too bright for us but the crown, being a creation, is not. But once one sees the crown one is not focused on the crown but on the splendour below. What we would not have dared to look at ourselves becomes our focus. . .through that crown (Mary). What we would not have dared to contemplate–God made man–became our Savior, through being born of Mary. She is worthy of being a crown for Him (as His Mother), He alone is worthy of adoration as King of Kings.
Don’t you see from my posts alone that everything that Mary does is because of what God has willed for her (he is eternal and unchanging) and that every single thing reflects back only to God? Makes us more aware of God? More loving of God, more focused on God, etc.?
Love of neighbor: Well, I’m still here trying, out of love for you, to steer you toward the right direction (God) and away from the false scrupolosity that keeps you from giving God His FULL honor and glory.
Greater obediency in humility to the will of God. Just as Mary always did, I model myself (being only a poor human creature) on the one human creature that God created without sin and made the mother of His Son, yet who herself remains meek and humble, only reflecting “Him” and only doing HIS WILL.
It is ‘humbling’ to be reminded not from God Himself (because that would really make us proud, that we were so important that God Himself deigned to come to speak to us even after sending Christ to us), but from the meek and nearly unknown WOMAN who bore His Son, that we 'like sheep have gone astray" and need to submit our necks to the yoke of obedience to God. Obviously it sticks in some people’s craw to think that ‘some creature’ (and not that person himself or herself) speaks for God and that he or she isn’t important enough to get “God’s” attention.
