The Third Secret was originally supposed to be opened and read to the world either when the visionary Sister Lucia died, or in 1960, whichever came first. Sister Lucia ended up living until 2005, so 1960 came first. However, in 1960, the Vatican didn’t reveal the secret as had been planned, and instead announced that the Third Secret would most probably stay forever under absolute seal. This set off a big firestorm of speculation about what the Third Secret actually contained. Many people thought it must contain a prediction of worldwide nuclear war, since the Cold War was going on at the time. In 1981 some guy even hijacked a plane and demanded that the Vatican reveal the Third Secret.Was the third secret like hidden or not revealed?
Yeah that’s scary, I hope God doesn’t tell me to pray a little longer for my problems to go away, I’d still be praying when I’m in my 130’s.I always chuckle a little because Our Lady told her during the Fatima apparitions when she was a child that she would take Francisco and Jacinta to heaven soon (and they both died within a couple years), but that Lucia would stay on earth “a little longer”. “A little longer” being something like almost 90 more years.
It is scary if the Secret really means Antichrist controlling Vatican. I am too ignorant to give opinion on this.Blockquote
The Third Secret of Fatima was recently “revealed” by the Church authorities but their interpretation is suspect. Generally, the essence of the contents is calculated to speak of the victory of Satan within the Church through apostasy and Modernism.
No one has a life with no problems. In this life, we will always have problems. God promised us trials and suffering and rejection, He promised to be with us in those problems so that we can rejoice in the midst of them.Yeah that’s scary, I hope God doesn’t tell me to pray a little longer for my problems to go away, I’d still be praying when I’m in my 130’s.
A much more likely explanation is that in 1960 there was already extreme focus by the media on private revelation, and the Vatican wanted to focus on public revelation. By postponing the release, it was later given some attention, but not undue attention.If Popes going back to John XXIII had postponed its revealing because it would “cause problems” surely the secret has to include some sort of stark details of the Church. Obviously they didn’t wish to alarm the masses.
Mr. Ferrara determined that prior popes did not sufficiently consecrate Russia to his satisfaction, so he directed then Pope Benedict to do so according to his instructions. When the pope failed to do so Mr. Ferrara and a suspended priest appealed to the mostly atheistic EU government to put legal and political pressure on the pope to comply.Chris Ferrara has a book called The Third Secret Still Hidden.
This is conspiracy stuff. It is essentially, like @TheLittleLady has mentioned, calling into question the Pope’s and Sr. Lucy’s truthfulness.The Third Secret Vision which was revealed in June 2000 does not continue the words of Our Lady . Since Our Lady does not end Her sentences in “etc”, therefore there MUST be more of Her words, and that is the Third Secret per se , not the Vision .
This is actually not part of the third secret. It’s only been eluded to, by some people, as being a hint to the meaning of the third secret.The “Third Secret” begins with the words of Our Lady: **"In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved… "
This ^ line of reasoning is inconsistent with the reasoning you gave for the use of “etc”. If you’re going to take the quotation marks and colons as gospel, then you’re going to have to take the order of the words and sentences as gospel also. And that order puts the “etc” before the vision, not after it.It makes sense that She would show them the Third Secret Vision first and then explain it to them.