Will Our Lady Return To Fatima A Seventh Time?

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IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER, PENANCE, SACRIFICES AND MORTIFICATION FOR THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS
** 4. The importance of prayer, penance, sacrifices and mortification for the conversion of sinners.

While it is true that the above is the constant and recurring theme of Our Lady’s Fatima message, it behooves Catholics to understand how and why it is so; especially in modern minds where the notion of mortification and penance is watered down or simply brushed aside as archaic or medieval.

The gravity of the moral crisis pervasive in the world requires continued prayers, penances and sacrifices which prompted the three children especially little Francisco and Jacinta to practice them to an extreme and heroic degree. At the height of their innocence, the two younger children understood their necessity and offered themselves admirably as expiatory victims. But Our Lady’s appeal for prayer and penance made to the children also applies to the rest of mankind.

According to Father Fredrick William Faber, D.D. in his book, Growth in Holiness, much is to be gained by us lesser mortals in the practice of mortification for it tames the body and brings the unruly passions under the control of grace and our superior will. It increases the range of our spiritual vision and makes our conscience more sensitive to the discernment of the subtleties that separate not only those between venial and mortal sins but also those between what is faulty and imperfect.

Suffering easily becomes power in the things of God. For isn’t it true that Our Lord redeemed mankind through His bloody sacrifice and immense suffering on Calvary?**
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PERSECUTIONS SUFFERED BY THE CHILDREN FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS… BECAUSE OF THE APPARITIONS.
**5. The persecutions suffered by the children from family and friends, people and media because of the apparitions.

Lucia, in particular, was most aggrieved by the incredulity of her mother and kin as well as by the withdrawal of their affectionate treatment of her. Her sufferings were much more intensified given her tender age.

Francisco and Jacinta fared better within their family for their parents never held a hostile attitude towards the apparitions. Yet, they weren’t spared from the jokes and wisecracks of neighbors and from the laughter and sneers of by-standers along the road.

The skeptical and secular media of their day were no less forgiving in subjecting them to ridicule and sarcasm. Nationwide, newspapers staged a bitter campaign of hatred and denigration to discredit the apparitions.

Nevertheless, despite all these ill-treatment and vitriolic affronts, the children bore them with admirable patience and charity always mindful of Our Lady’s request to offer their sacrifices for the sake of poor sinners. An edifying example one should emulate in the daily inconveniences one encounters everyday. Here one is reminded of St. Therése of the Child Jesus’ little way.**
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MODIFICATIONS TO THE FIVE FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION.
**6. Modifications to the Five First Saturday Devotion to facilitate its practice.

The original request of Our Lady asks one to confess and receive Communion on five consecutive first Saturdays; to say five decades of the Rosary; to meditate during 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary for the purpose of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in reparation for the sins of men.

In subsequent private visions and apparitions however, Sister Lucia presented to Our Lord the difficulties that devotees encountered in fulfilling some conditions. With loving condescension and solicitude, Our Lord deigned to relax the rules to make this devotion easy to observe:
1.Confession may be done on other days other than the First Saturday so long as one receives Our Lord worthily and has the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
2.Even if one forgets to make the intention, it may be done on the next confession, taking advantage of the first occasion to go to confession.
3.Sister Lucia also clarified that it is not necessary to meditate on ALL mysteries of the Rosary on each First Saturday. One or several suffice.

With much latitude granted by Our Lord Himself, there is no reason for the faithful to hesitate or delay this pious practice in the spirit of reparation which the Immaculate Heart of Mary urgently asks.**
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REASONS FOR THE FIVE FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION
**7. Reasons for the Five First Saturdays Devotion

This may seem academic to some but it would be good to recapitulate here the reasons for they can be forgotten. Devotions have intentions attached to them and knowing them adds merit and weight to the practice.

The five first Saturdays correspond to the five kinds of offenses and blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. They are:

a. Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception

b. Blasphemies against her virginity

c. Blasphemies against her divine maternity, at the same time the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all men

d. Instilling indifference, scorn and even hatred towards this Immaculate Mother in the hearts of children

e. Direct insults against Her sacred images**
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A GREATER MIRACLE DENIED
**8. A greater miracle denied

Sister Lucia revealed later in her life that the miracle of the sun could have been greater had the children not been abducted by Arthur Oliveira Santos, the cruel and conniving administrator of the Administrative Council of Vila Nova de Ourém. She originally expressed this remarkable detail in the interrogation done by Father Manuel Marques Ferreira on August 21, 1917, two days after the apparition but which she left out in her 1941 report.

Here is a fitting example of a transgression committed against the wishes of Our Lady which she left unpunished. Though no fault of the children, it is lamentably sad to note that the multitudes at Fatima on the afternoon of October 13, 1917 were deprived of a far greater miracle if not for the deception, trickery and malice of civil authorities.**
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“Afterwards I shall still return here a seventh time.”
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JACINTA’S LAST WORDS
**10. Jacinta’s last words:

Tempered and molded by extraordinary penance and sacrifice, 10-year-old Jacinta proved to be precocious and prophetic in her vision of things. She had many private apparitions and countless revelations. Such was her supernatural illumination and holy wisdom that Mother Godinho, the directress of the Lisbon orphanage where Jacinta stayed prior to her death in the hospital, could only asked in awe and wonder, “Who taught you all these things?” The following statements uttered by Jacinta showed her depth of soul in face of the moral decay ravishing the world:
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***“Afterwards I shall still return here a seventh time.” ***
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***May 13th, 2013… That Wonderful Anniversary is here once again!!!

Pope Francis’ Papacy is going to be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Our Blessed Mother

And you can view it Live, via live camcorder directly from the Shrine! The Night Vigil begins on the May 121th at 4:00 PM ***Eastern Standard time and the Anniversary celebration on the 13th begins at 4: 00 AM Eastern Standard time!!!
Just click here: Fatima Shrine

Remember to take into consideration the time change! Fatima Portugal is 5 hours ahead
 
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***May 13th, 2013… That Wonderful Anniversary is here once again!!!

Pope Francis’ Papacy is going to be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Our Blessed Mother

And you can view it Live, via live camcorder directly from the Shrine! The Night Vigil begins on the May 12th at 4:00 PM ***Eastern Standard time and the Anniversary celebration on the 13th begins at 4: 00 AM Eastern Standard time!!!
Just click here: Fatima Shrine

Remember to take into consideration the time change! Fatima Portugal is 5 hours ahead! Warning: Prayers will be said in multiple languages, not only in English
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As Pope Francis was elected on the 13 of the month, he must have Our Lady of Fatima’s special protection!
We need the maternal mediation of Our Lady of Fatima now more than ever so that the Triumph comes soon.
Ave Maria
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** It is done! Pope Francis’ papacy has been consecrated and entrusted to Our Lady of Fatima!!

http://www.santuario-fatima.pt/pic/_papa_francisco_peq_51656bafbd575.jpg**

He understands the seriousness and the* power *of a consecration, that is why he requested it. Now we are not only under the guidance of a Holy Pope but under the special protection of the Immaculate Heart of Our Blessed Mother! What a wise Pope we have!! He has placed us under the protection of very powerful hands! 🙂

Heavenly Father,
*Release the Angels *so that under the leadership of Our Lady they may come to our aid! :angel1:
August Queen of the Angels, come with the celestial angelic armies to the aid of the Church and the world.

:amen:
 
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