ccav:
Maybe you could recommend a source or sources where I could learn the whole story from beginning to end?
JMJ
You are correct about controversy concerning the Consecration of Russia. This post may start an attack against any further reference about Fatima. I ask only that you read the documents and judge for yourself.
On the 13th of May 1917, Our Lady appeared to three children near Fatima. She asked them to return each month through October and promised all three would go to Heaven. On June 13th she said that Francisco, 9-yrs, and Jacinta, 7-yrs would die soon. Lucia was told she would stay longer to promote devotion to the Immaculate Heart. The two youngest died within two years. The children told these things immediately to everybody. Lucia, who was 10-years-old, is still living and is 97-yrs. On July 13. during her third appearance, Our Lady showed hell to the children which was part of the secret that subsequently was divided by Lucia into three parts, two of which were revealed in her progressive memoirs.
The third part horrified Lucia so much that it took another direct contact with the Blessed Mother for her to write it down. Many claim the third part of the secret has been revealed (the assassination attempt on JPII). However, in the references below, a physical description of the writing does not match that which the hierarchy proffered. In addition, a lead-in statement at the end of Lucia’s revelation does not matchl. Another puzzle is a statement by Cardinal Ciappi, personal theologian to JPII, who read the “third” secret and reported that: “In the Third Secret it is foretold, among other things, that the great Apostasy in the Church will begin at the top.” During this apparition, the Blessed Mother promised to “perform a miracle for all to see and believe” at that location on October 13, 1917, at noon
Also during this July apparition as part of the secret, Lucia quotes Our Lady:
“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. The war is going to end, but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. (In 1917 there was no Pius XI and WWI was still in progress.)
“To prevent 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 My requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing 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 will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, and she will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.
“In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved; etc. (sic) Do not tell this to anybody….”
This is only a thumbnail sketch of the beginning of this story.
Refer to:
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www.fatima.org)
“The Whole Secret of Fatima” (in three volumes) by Frere Michel de la Sainte Trinite, translated into English and available in paperback (Check
www.fatima.org )
“Fatima: Intimate Joy, World Event” (in four volumes) by Frere Francois de Marie des Anges, translated into English and available in paperback . (Check
www.fatima.org)
“Fatima In Twighlight” (one volume) by Mark Fellows, available in soft cover from Marmion Publications, M.P.O. Box 743, Niagra Falls, NY 14302. (716) 691-7091
