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<a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/travels/2015/outside/documents/papa-francesco-sri-lanka-filippine-2015.html">APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS<br /> TO SRI LANKA AND THE PHILIPPINES</a><br /> <span style="color: #663300;">(12-19 JANUARY 2015)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #663300;"><b>HOLY MASS </b></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #663300;"><i>Tacloban International Airport<br /> Saturday, 17 January 2015</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #663300;"><i><b>Impromptu homily of the Holy Father</b></i></span></div>
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In the first reading, we heard that we have a great
priest capable of sympathizing with out weakness, who in every respect
has been tempted as we are… (cf. <i>Heb</i> 4:15). Jesus is like us. Jesus lived as we do.</div>
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He is like us in everything. In everything but sin, for
he was not a sinner. But to be even more like us, he took upon himself
our sins. He became sin! This is what Paul tells us, and it was
something that he knew well. Jesus goes before us always; when we
experience any kind of cross, he was already there before us.</div>
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If today all of us are gathered here, fourteen months
after the passage of Typhoon Yolanda, it is because we are certain that
we will not be disappointed in our faith, for Jesus has gone before us.
In his passion he took upon himself all of our sorrows, and… Let me tell
you something personal – when I witnessed his disaster from Rome, I
felt that I had to be here. That is when I decided to come here. I
wanted to come to be with you. Maybe you will tell me that I came a
little late; that is true, but here I am!</div>
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I am here to tell you that Jesus is Lord; that Jesus
does not disappoint. “Father”, one of you may tell me, “he disappointed
me because I lost my house, I lost my family, I lost everything I had, I
am sick”. What you say is true and I respect your feelings, but I see
him there, nailed to the cross, and from there he does not disappoint
us. He was consecrated Lord on that throne, and there he experienced all
the disasters we experience. Jesus is Lord! And he is Lord from the
cross, from there he reigned. That is why, as we heard in the first
reading, he can understand us: he became like us in every way. So we
have a Lord who is able to weep with us, who can be at our side through
life’s most difficult moments.</div>
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So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what
to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have
lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you
silently, with my heart…</div>
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Many of you looked to Christ and asked: Why, Lord? To
each of you the Lord responds from his heart. I have no other words to
say to you. Let us look to Christ: he is the Lord, and he understands
us, for he experienced all the troubles we experience.</div>
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With him, beneath the cross, is his Mother. We are like
that child who stands down there, who, in times of sorrow and pain,
times when we understand nothing, times when we want to rebel, can only
reach out and cling to her skirts and say to her: “Mother!” Like a
little child who is frightened and says: “Mother”. Perhaps that is the
only word which can express all the feelings we have in those dark
moments: Mother!</div>
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Let us be still for a moment and look to the Lord. He
can understand us, for he experienced all these things. And let us look
to our Mother, and like that little child, let us reach out, cling to
her skirts and say to her in our hearts: “Mother”. Let us make this
prayer in silence; let everyone say it whatever way he or she feels…</div>
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We are not alone; we have a Mother; we have Jesus, our
older brother. We are not alone. And we also have many brothers and
sisters who, when the disaster struck, came to our assistance. We too
feel more like brothers and sisters whenever we help one another,
whenever we help each other.</div>
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This is all that I feel I have to say to you. Forgive me
if I have no other words. But be sure that Jesus does not disappoint
us; be sure that the love and tenderness of our Mother does not
disappoint us. Clinging to her as sons and daughters with the strength
which Jesus our brother gives us, let us now move forward. As brothers
and sisters, let us take up our journey. Thank you!</div>
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<b>After Communion:</b></div>
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We have just celebrated the passion, death and resurrection of Christ.</div>
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Jesus has gone before us on this journey and he is with us whenever we gather to pray and celebrate.</div>
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Thank you, Lord, for being with us here today. Thank
you, Lord, for sharing our sorrows. Thank you, Lord, for giving us hope.
Thank you, Lord, for your great mercy. Thank you, Lord, because you
wanted to be like one of us. Thank you, Lord, because you keep ever
close to us, even when we carry our crosses. Thank you, Lord, for giving
us hope. Lord, may no one rob us of hope! Thank you, Lord, because in
the darkest moment of your own life, on the cross, you thought of us and
you left us a mother, your mother. Thank you Lord for not leaving us
orphans!</div>
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What words of consolation we have just heard! Once
again, we have been told that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, our
Savior, our high priest who brings us mercy, grace and help in all our
needs (cf. <i>Heb </i>4:14-16). He heals our wounds, he forgives our sins, and he calls us, as he did Saint Matthew (cf. <i>Mk </i>2:14), to be his disciples. Let us praise him for his love, his mercy and his compassion. Let us praise our great God! </div>
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I thank the Lord Jesus that we can be together this
morning. I have come to be with you, in this city which was ravaged by
Typhoon Yolanda fourteen months ago. I bring to you the love of a
father, the prayers of the entire Church, the promise that you are not
forgotten as you continue to rebuild. Here, the strongest storm ever
recorded on earth was overcome by the strongest force in the universe:
God’s love. We are here this morning to bear witness to that love, to
its power to transform death and destruction into life and community.
Christ’s resurrection, which we celebrate at this Mass, is our hope and a
reality which we experience even now. We know that the resurrection
comes only after the cross, the cross which you have borne with faith,
dignity and God-given strength.</div>
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We come together above all to pray for those who died, those who are still<b> </b>missing
and those who were injured. We lift up to God the souls of the dead,
our mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, family, friends and neighbors.
We can be confident that, in coming into the presence of God, they have
encountered mercy and peace (cf. <i>Heb </i>4:16). There remains much
sadness because of their absence. For you who knew and loved them – and
love them still – the pain of losing them is real. But let us look with
the eyes of faith to the future. Our sadness is a seed which will one
day bear fruit in the joy which our Lord has promised to those who trust
in his words: “Blessed are you who mourn, for you will be comforted”
(cf. <i>Mt </i>5:4). </div>
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We have also come together this morning to give thanks
to God for his help in time of need. God has been your strength in these
very difficult months. There has been great loss of life, suffering,
and destruction. Yet we are still able to gather and to thank him. We
know that he cares for us, that in Jesus his Son, we have a high priest
who is able to sympathize with us (cf. <i>Heb</i> 4:15), who suffers with us. God’s <i>com-passion</i>,
his suffering with us, gives eternal meaning and value to our
struggles. Your desire to thank him for every grace and blessing, even
when you have lost so much, is not only a triumph of the resilience and
strength of the Filipino people; it is also a sign of God’s goodness,
his closeness, his tenderness, his saving power.</div>
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We also give thanks to Almighty God for so much that
has been done to help, to rebuild, to assist in these months of
unprecedented need. I think in the first place of those who welcomed and
housed the great number of displaced families, elderly, and youth. How
hard it is to flee one’s home and livelihood! We thank those who have
taken care of the homeless, the orphaned and the destitute. Priests, and
men and women religious, gave as much as they could. To those of you
who housed and fed people seeking safety, in churches, convents,
rectories, and who continue to assist those still struggling, I thank
you. You are a credit to the Church. You are the pride of your nation. I
personally thank each one of you. For whatever you did for the least of
Christ’s brothers and sisters, you did for him (cf. <i>Mt</i> 25:41).</div>
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At this Mass we wish also to thank God for the good men
and women who served as rescue and relief workers. We thank him for the
many people around the world who generously gave of their time, money
and goods. Countries, organizations and individuals across the globe put
the needy first; it is an example that should be followed. I ask
government leaders, international agencies, benefactors and people of
goodwill not to give up. There is much that remains to be done. Though
the headlines have changed, the needs continue. </div>
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Today’s first reading, from the Letter to the Hebrews,
urges us to hold fast in our confession, to persevere in our faith, to
draw near with confidence to the throne of God’s grace (cf. <i>Heb</i>
4:16). These words have a special resonance in this place. Amid great
suffering you never ceased to confess the victory of the cross, the
triumph of God’s love. You have seen the power of that love revealed in
the generosity of so many people and in so many small miracles of
goodness. But you have also seen, in the profiteering, the looting and
the failed responses to this great human drama, so many tragic signs of
the evil from which Christ came to save us. Let us pray that this, too,
will lead us to greater trust in the power of God’s grace to overcome
sin and selfishness. Let us pray in particular that it will make
everyone more sensitive to the cry of our brothers and sisters in need.
Let us pray that it will lead to a rejection of all forms of injustice
and corruption which, by stealing from the poor, poison the very roots
of society.</div>
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Dear brothers and sisters, throughout this ordeal you
have felt the grace of God in a special way through the presence and
loving care of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Perpetual Help. She
is our Mother. May she help you to persevere in faith and hope, and to
reach out to all in need. And with Saints Lorenzo Ruiz and Pedro
Calungsod and all the saints, may she continue to implore God’s mercy
and loving compassion for this country, and for all the beloved Filipino
people. Amen.</div>
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meneziadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15974147790101155045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-39932623246684506662015-04-10T03:53:00.000-06:002015-04-10T03:53:00.041-06:00HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Manila Friday, 16 January 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="color: #663300;">Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Manila <br /> Friday, 16 January 2015</span></i></div>
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“Do you love me?” [the people: “Yes!”] Thank you, but I
was reading the word of Jesus! Said the Lord: “Do you love me?… Tend my
sheep” (<i>Jn </i> 21:15-17). Jesus’ words to Peter in today’s Gospel
are the first words I speak to you, dear brother bishops and priests,
men and women religious, and young seminarians. These words remind us of
something essential. All pastoral ministry is born of love. All
pastoral ministry is born of love! All consecrated life is a sign of
Christ’s reconciling love. Like Saint Therese, in the variety of our
vocations, each of us is called, in some way, to be love in the heart of
the Church. </div>
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I greet all of you with great affection. And I ask you
to bring my affection to all your elderly and infirm brothers and
sisters, and to all those who cannot join us today. As the Church in the
Philippines looks to the fifth centenary of its evangelization, we feel
gratitude for the legacy left by so many bishops, priests and religious
of past generations. They labored not only to preach the Gospel and
build up the Church in this country, but also to forge a society
inspired by the Gospel message of charity, forgiveness and solidarity in
the service of the common good. Today you carry on that work of love.
Like them, you are called to build bridges, to pasture Christ’s flock,
and to prepare fresh paths for the Gospel in Asia at the dawn of a new
age.</div>
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“The love of Christ impels us” (<i>2 Cor </i>5:14). In
today’s first reading Saint Paul tells us that the love we are called to
proclaim is a reconciling love, flowing from the heart of the crucified
Savior. We are called to be “ambassadors for Christ” (<i>2 Cor </i>5:20).
Ours is a ministry of reconciliation. We proclaim the Good News of
God’s infinite love, mercy and compassion. We proclaim the joy of the
Gospel. For the Gospel is the promise of God’s grace, which alone can
bring wholeness and healing to our broken world. It can inspire the
building of a truly just and redeemed social order.</div>
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To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus (<i><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html">Evangelii Gaudium</a></i>,
3). Our personal encounter with Him. This invitation must be at the
core of your commemoration of the evangelization of the Philippines. But
the Gospel is also a summons to conversion, to an examination of our
consciences, as individuals and as a people. As the<i> </i>Bishops of
the Philippines have rightly taught, the Church in the Philippines is
called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted
inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly
contradicting the teaching of Christ. The Gospel calls individual
Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the
common good. But it also calls Christian communities to create “circles
of integrity”, networks of solidarity which can expand to embrace and
transform society by their prophetic witness.</div>
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The poor. The poor are at the center of the Gospel, are
at heart of the Gospel, if we take away the poor from the Gospel we
can’t understand the whole message of Jesus Christ. As ambassadors for
Christ, we, bishops, priests and religious, ought to be the first to
welcome his reconciling grace into our hearts. Saint Paul makes clear
what this means. It means rejecting worldly perspectives and seeing all
things anew in the light of Christ. It means being the first to examine
our consciences, to acknowledge our failings and sins, and to embrace
the path of constant conversion, every day conversion. How can we
proclaim the newness and liberating power of the Cross to others, if we
ourselves refuse to allow the word of God to shake our complacency, our
fear of change, our petty compromises with the ways of this world, our
“spiritual worldliness” (cf.<i> <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html">Evangelii Gaudium</a></i>, 93)?</div>
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For us priests and consecrated persons, conversion to
the newness of the Gospel entails a daily encounter with the Lord in
prayer. The saints teach us that this is the source of all apostolic
zeal! For religious, living the newness of the Gospel also means finding
ever anew in community life and community apostolates the incentive for
an ever closer union with the Lord in perfect charity. For all of us,
it means living lives that reflect the poverty of Christ, whose entire
life was focused on doing the will of the Father and serving others. The
great danger to this, of course, is a certain materialism which can
creep into our lives and compromise the witness we offer. Only by
becoming poor ourselves, by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away
our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our
brothers and sisters. We will see things in a new light and thus respond
with honesty and integrity to the challenge of proclaiming the
radicalism of the Gospel in a society which has grown comfortable with
social exclusion, polarization and scandalous inequality.</div>
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Here I would like to say a special word to the young
priests, religious and seminarians among us. I ask you to share the joy
and enthusiasm of your love for Christ and the Church with everyone, but
especially with your peers. Be present to young people who may be
confused and despondent, yet continue to see the Church as their friend
on the journey and a source of hope. Be present to those who, living in
the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in
spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.
Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society
which is tempted by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and
the family. As you know, these realities are increasingly under attack
from powerful forces which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation
and betray the very values which have inspired and shaped all that is
best in your culture.</div>
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Filipino culture has, in fact, been shaped by the
imagination of faith. Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of
God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her
rosary; their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion
to Our Lady and her rosary! This great heritage contains a powerful
missionary potential. It is the way in which your people has
inculturated the Gospel and continues to embrace its message (cf. <i><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html">Evangelii Gaudium</a></i>, 122). In your efforts to prepare for the fifth centenary, build on this solid foundation.</div>
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Christ died for all so that, having died in him, we might live no longer for ourselves but for him (cf. <i>2 Cor </i>5:15).
Dear brother bishops, priests and religious: I ask Mary, Mother of the
Church, to obtain for all of you an outpouring of zeal, so that you may
spend yourselves in selfless service to our brothers and sisters. In
this way, may the reconciling love of Christ penetrate ever more fully
into the fabric of Filipino society and, through you, to the farthest
reaches of the world. Amen.</div>
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meneziadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15974147790101155045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-80127980716005656752015-04-03T01:54:00.000-06:002015-04-03T01:54:00.228-06:00HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS Galle Face Green, Colombo Wednesday, 14 January 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>“All the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God” (Is 52:10)</i></div>
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This is the magnificent prophecy which we heard in
today’s first reading. Isaiah foretells the preaching of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ to all the ends of the earth. This prophecy has a special
meaning for us, as we celebrate the canonization of a great missionary
of the Gospel, Saint Joseph Vaz. Like countless other missionaries in
the history of the Church, he responded to the Risen Lord’s command to
make disciples of every nation (cf. <i> Mt </i>28:19). By his words, but
more importantly, by the example of his life, he led the people of this
country to the faith which gives us “an inheritance among all God’s
holy ones” (cf. <i>Acts </i>20:32). </div>
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In Saint Joseph we see a powerful sign of God’s
goodness and love for the people of Sri Lanka. But we also see in him a
challenge to persevere in the paths of the Gospel, to grow in holiness
ourselves, and to testify to the Gospel message of reconciliation to
which he dedicated his life. </div>
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A priest of the Oratory in his native Goa, Saint Joseph Vaz came to this country inspired by missionary zeal and a great<b> </b>love
of its people. Because of religious persecution, he dressed as a
beggar, performing his priestly duties in secret meetings of the
faithful, often at night. His efforts provided spiritual and moral
strength to the beleaguered Catholic population. He had a particular
desire to serve the ill and suffering. His ministry to the sick was so
appreciated by the king during a smallpox epidemic in Kandy that he was
allowed greater freedom to minister. From Kandy, he could reach out to
other parts of the island. He spent himself in missionary work and died,
exhausted, at the age of fifty-nine, revered for his holiness.</div>
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Saint Joseph Vaz continues to be an example and a
teacher for many reasons, but I would like to focus on three. First, he
was an exemplary priest. Here today with us are many priests and
religious, both men and women, who, like Joseph Vaz, are consecrated to
the service of God and neighbour. I encourage each of you to look to
Saint Joseph as a sure guide. He teaches us how to go out to the
peripheries, to make Jesus Christ everywhere known and loved. He is also
an example of patient suffering in the cause of the Gospel, of
obedience to our superiors, of loving care for the Church of God (cf. <i>Acts </i>20:28).
Like ourselves, Saint Joseph Vaz lived in a period of rapid and
profound transformation; Catholics were a minority, and often divided
within; there was occasional hostility, even persecution, from without.
And yet, because he was constantly united with the crucified Lord in
prayer, he could become for all people a living icon of God’s mercy and
reconciling love.</div>
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Second, Saint Joseph shows us the importance of
transcending religious divisions in the service of peace. His undivided
love for God opened him to love for his neighbour; he ministered to
those in need, whoever and wherever they were. His example continues to
inspire the Church in Sri Lanka today. She gladly and generously serves
all members of society. She makes no distinction of race, creed, tribe,
status or religion in the service she provides through her schools,
hospitals, clinics, and many other charitable works. All she asks in
return is the freedom to carry out this mission. Religious freedom is a
fundamental human right. Each individual must be free, alone or in
association with others, to seek the truth, and to openly express his or
her religious convictions, free from intimidation and external
compulsion. As the life of Saint Joseph Vaz teaches us, genuine worship
of God bears fruit not in discrimination, hatred and violence, but in
respect for the sacredness of life, respect for the dignity and freedom
of others, and loving commitment to the welfare of all. </div>
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Finally, Saint Joseph gives us an example of missionary
zeal. Though he came to Ceylon to minister to the Catholic community,
in his evangelical charity he reached out to everyone. Leaving behind
his home, his family, the comfort of his familiar surroundings, he
responded to the call to go forth, to speak of Christ wherever he was
led. Saint Joseph knew how to offer the truth and the beauty of the
Gospel in a multi-religious context, with respect, dedication,
perseverance and humility. This is also the way for the followers of
Jesus today. We are called to go forth with the same zeal, the same
courage, of Saint Joseph, but also with his sensitivity, his reverence
for others, his desire to share with them that word of grace (cf. <i>Acts</i> 20:32) which has the power to build them up. We are called to be missionary disciples.</div>
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Dear brothers and sisters, I pray that, following the
example of Saint Joseph Vaz, the Christians of this country may be
confirmed in faith and make an ever greater contribution to peace,
justice and reconciliation in Sri Lankan society. This is what Christ
asks of you. This is what Saint Joseph teaches you. This is what the
Church needs of you. I commend all of you to the prayers of our new
saint, so that, in union with the Church throughout the world, you may
sing a new song to the Lord and declare his glory to all the ends of the
earth. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised (cf. <i>Ps</i> 96: 1-4)! Amen.</div>
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meneziadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15974147790101155045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-66130862226319167522015-04-02T03:42:00.000-06:002015-04-02T03:42:00.273-06:00HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS Vatican Basilica Tuesday, 6 January 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;">HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS</span></i></b></div>
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That child, born in Bethlehem of the Virgin Mary, came not only for
the people of Israel, represented by the shepherds of Bethlehem, but
also for all humanity, represented today by the wise men from the East.
It is on the Magi and their journey in search of the Messiah that the
Church today invites us to meditate and pray.<br />
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These wise men from the East were the first in that
great procession of which the prophet Isaiah spoke in today’s first
reading (cf. 60:1-6): a procession which from that time on has continued
uninterrupted; in every age it hears the message of the star and finds
the Child who reveals the tenderness of God. New persons are always
being enlightened by that star; they find the way and come into his
presence.</div>
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According to tradition, the wise men were sages,
watchers of the constellations, observers of the heavens, in a cultural
and religious context which saw the stars as having significance and
power over human affairs. The wise men represent men and woman <i>who seek God in the world’s religions and philosophies</i>: an unending quest. Men and women who seek God.</div>
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The wise men point out to us the path of our journey
through life. They sought the true Light. As a liturgical hymn of
Epiphany which speaks of their experience puts it:<i> “Lumen requirunt lumine”</i>; by following <i>a </i> light, they sought <i>the </i>light, “<i>Lumen requirunt lumine</i>”. They set out in search of God. Having seen the sign of the star, they grasped its message and set off on a long journey.</div>
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It is <i>the Holy Spirit</i> who called them and prompted them to set out; during their journey they were also to have a <i>personal encounter</i> with the true God.</div>
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Along the way, the wise men encountered <i>many difficulties</i>.
Once they reached Jerusalem, they went to the palace of the king, for
they thought it obvious that the new king would be born in the royal
palace. There they lost sight of the star. How often sight of the star
is lost! And, having lost sight of the star, they met with <i>a temptation</i>,
placed there by the devil: it was the deception of Herod. King Herod
was interested in the child, not to worship him but to eliminate him.
Herod is the powerful man who sees others only as rivals. Deep down, he
also considers God a rival, indeed the most dangerous rival of all. In
the palace the wise men experience a moment of obscurity, of desolation,
which they manage to overcome thanks to the prompting of the Holy
Spirit, who speaks through the prophecies of sacred Scripture. These
indicate that the Messiah is to be born in Bethlehem, the city of David.
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At that point they resume their journey, and once more they see the star; the evangelist says that they “rejoiced exceedingly” (<i>Mt </i>2:10). Coming to Bethlehem, they found “the child with Mary his mother” (<i>Mt </i> 2:11). After that of Jerusalem, this was their <i>second great temptation</i>:
to reject this smallness. But instead, “they fell down and worshiped
him”, offering him their precious symbolic gifts. Again, it is <i>the grace of the Holy Spirit</i> which assists them. That grace, which through the star had called them and led them along the way, now <i>lets them enter into the mystery</i>.
The star which led them on the journey allows them to enter into the
mystery. Led by the Spirit, they come to realize that God’s criteria are
quite different from those of men, that God does not manifest himself
in the power of this world, but speaks to us in the humbleness of his
love. God’s love is great. God’s love is powerful. But the love of God
is humble, yes, very humble. The wise men are thus models of conversion
to the true faith, since they believed more in the goodness of God than
in the apparent splendour of power.</div>
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And so we can ask ourselves: what is <i>the mystery in which God is hidden?</i>
Where can I find him? All around us we see wars, the exploitation of
children, torture, trafficking in arms, trafficking in persons… In all
these realities, in these, the least of our brothers and sisters who are
enduring these difficult situations, there is Jesus (cf. <i>Mt </i>25:40,45). The crib points us to a different path from the one cherished by the thinking of this world: it is the path of <i>God’s self-abasement</i>,
that humility of God’s love by which he abases himself, he completely
lowers himself, his glory concealed in the manger of Bethlehem, on the
cross upon Calvary, in each of our suffering brothers and sisters.</div>
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The wise men <i>entered into the mystery</i>. They
passed from human calculations to the mystery: this was their
conversion. And our own? Let us ask the Lord to let us undergo that same
journey of conversion experienced by the wise men. Let us ask him to
protect us and to set us free from the temptations which hide the star.
To let us always feel the troubling question: “Where is the star?”,
whenever – amid the deceptions of this world – we lose sight of it. To
let us know ever anew God’s mystery, and not to be scandalized by the
“sign”, that sign spoken of by the angels, which points to “a babe
wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger” (<i>Lk </i>2:12), and to
have the humility to ask the Mother, our Mother, to show him to us. To
find the courage to be liberated from our illusions, our presumptions,
our “lights”, and to seek this courage in the humility of faith and in
this way to encounter the Light, <i>Lumen</i>, like the holy wise men. May we enter into the mystery. So may it be. Amen.</div>
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meneziadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15974147790101155045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-21363641510041990852015-03-31T01:33:00.000-06:002015-03-31T01:33:51.568-06:00HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS Sistine Chapel Sunday, 11 January 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;">HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #663300;"><i>Sistine Chapel<br /> Sunday, 11 January 2015</i></span></div>
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In the First Reading we heard that the Lord takes care of his children like a parent: He takes care to provide his children with<i> nourishing food</i>.
God says through the Prophet: “Why do you spend your money for that
which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy?”
(Is 55:2). God, like a good father and a good mother, wants to give good
things to his children. And what is this nourishing food that God gives
us? It is<i> his Word</i>: his Word makes us grow, it enables us to
bear good fruit in life, just as the rain and snow imbue the earth,
making it fruitful (cf. Is 55:10-11). Likewise you, parents, and you
too, godmothers and godfathers, grandparents, aunts and uncles, will
help these children grow if you give them the Word of God, the Gospel of
Jesus. And give it also by your example! Every day, make it a habit to
read a passage of the Gospel, a small one, and always carry a little
Gospel with you in your pocket, in your purse, so you can read it. And
this will set the example for your children, seeing dad, mom, their
godparents, grandpa, grandma, aunts and uncles, reading the Word of God.</div>
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You, mothers, give<i> milk </i>to your children — even
now, if they are crying with hunger, feed them, don’t worry. Let us
thank the Lord for the gift of milk, and let us pray for those mothers —
there are so many, unfortunately — who are unable to breast-feed their
children. Let us pray and let us try to help these mothers. Thus, what
milk does for the body, the Word of God does for the spirit:<i> the Word of God makes faith grow</i>. And thanks to faith we have been begotten by God. This is what happens at<i> Baptism</i>.
We have heard the Apostle John: “Every one who believes that Jesus is
the Christ is a child of God” (1 Jn 5:1). Your children are baptized in
this faith. Today it is<i> your </i>faith, dear parents, godfathers and
godmothers. It is the faith of the Church, in which these little ones
receive Baptism. But tomorrow, by the grace of God, it will be<i>their</i>faith, their personal “yes” to Jesus Christ, which gives us the Father’s love.</div>
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I said: it is the faith<i> of the Church</i>. This is
very important. Baptism integrates us into the body of the Church, into
the holy People of God. And in this body, in this people journeying on,
faith is passed down from generation to generation: it is the faith of
the Church. It is the faith of Mary, our Mother, the faith of St Joseph,
of St Peter, of St Andrew, of St John, the faith of the Apostles and of
the Martyrs, which has come down to us, through Baptism: the chain of
transmission of the faith. This is really beautiful! It is a passing of
the flame of faith from hand to hand: we too will soon express it with
the act of lighting candles from the great Paschal candle. The large wax
candle represents the Risen Christ, living in our midst. You, families,
take the light of faith from Him in order to pass it on to your
children. You receive this light in the Church, in the Body of Christ,
in the People of God who are journeying through every time and in every
place. Teach your children that one cannot be a Christian outside of the
Church, one cannot follow Jesus Christ without the Church, for the
Church is Mother, who makes us grow in the love of Jesus Christ.</div>
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One last feature emerges powerfully from today’s Bible Readings: in Baptism we are<i> consecrated by the Holy Spirit</i>. This is what the word “Christian” means, it means consecrated like Jesus, in the same Spirit in which Jesus was<i> immersed </i>
throughout his earthly existence. He is the “Christ”, the Anointed One,
the Consecrated One; we, the baptized, are “Christian”, meaning
consecrated, anointed. Therefore, dear parents, dear godfathers and
godmothers, if you want your children to become true Christians, help
them to grow up “immersed” in the Holy Spirit, that is to say, in the
warmth of the love of God, in the light of his Word. For this reason, do
not forget to invoke the Holy Spirit often, every day. “Do you pray,
Ma’am?” — “Yes” — “Whom do you pray to?”. — “I pray to God”. But “God”
does not exist like this: God is one person, and as a Person the Father,
Son and Holy Spirit exist. “Whom do you pray to?”. — “The Father, the
Son, the Holy Spirit”. We usually pray to Jesus. When we pray the “Our
Father”, we pray to the Father. But we do not often pray to the Holy
Spirit. It is very important to pray to the Holy Spirit, because He
teaches us how to bring up the family, the children, so that these
children may grow up in the atmosphere of the Holy Trinity. It is
precisely the Spirit who leads them forward. For this reason, do not
forget to invoke the Holy Spirit often, every day. You can do so, for
example, with this simple prayer: “Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of
your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love”. You can say
this prayer for your children, as well as, naturally, for yourselves!</div>
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When you recite this prayer, you feel the maternal
presence of the Virgin Mary. She teaches us to pray to the Holy Spirit,
and to live in accordance with the Spirit, like Jesus. May Our Lady, our
Mother, always accompany the journey of your children and of your
families. So be it.</div>
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meneziadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15974147790101155045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-83350509771893646242015-03-30T03:11:00.000-06:002015-03-30T03:22:23.436-06:00Aquinas, St Thomas - Summa Theologica<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">FIRST PART (FP: QQ 1-119)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">TREATISE ON SACRED DOCTRINE (Q[1])</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF SACRED DOCTRINE (TEN ARTICLES)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To place our purpose within proper limits, we first endeavor to investigate the nature and extent</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of this sacred doctrine. Concerning this there are ten points of inquiry:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(1) Whether it is necessary?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(2) Whether it is a science?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(3) Whether it is one or many?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(4) Whether it is speculative or practical?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(5) How it is compared with other sciences?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(6) Whether it is the same as wisdom?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(7) Whether God is its subject-matter?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(8) Whether it is a matter of argument?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(9) Whether it rightly employs metaphors and similes?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(10) Whether the Sacred Scripture of this doctrine may be expounded in different senses?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Whether, besides philosophy, any further doctrine is required?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Objection 1: It seems that, besides philosophical science, we have no need of any further</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">knowledge. For man should not seek to know what is above reason: "Seek not the things that are</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">too high for thee" (Ecclus. 3:22). But whatever is not above reason is fully treated of in philosophical</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">science. Therefore any other knowledge besides philosophical science is superfluous.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Objection 2: Further, knowledge can be concerned only with being, for nothing can be known,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">save what is true; and all that is, is true. But everything that is, is treated of in philosophical</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">science---even God Himself; so that there is a part of philosophy called theology, or the divine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">science, as Aristotle has proved (Metaph. vi). Therefore, besides philosophical science, there is no</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">need of any further knowledge.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On the contrary, It is written (2 Tim. 3:16): "All Scripture, inspired of God is profitable to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice." Now Scripture, inspired of God, is no part of</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">philosophical science, which has been built up by human reason. Therefore it is useful that besides</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">philosophical science, there should be other knowledge, i.e. inspired of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I answer that, It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason. Firstly, indeed, because man is</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">directed to God, as to an end that surpasses the grasp of his reason: "The eye hath not seen, O God,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">besides Thee, what things Thou hast prepared for them that wait for Thee" (Is. 66:4). But the end</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">must first be known by men who are to direct their thoughts and actions to the end. Hence it was</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">necessary for the salvation of man that certain truths which exceed human reason should be made</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">known to him by divine revelation. Even as regards those truths about God which human reason</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">could have discovered, it was necessary that man should be taught by a divine revelation; because</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Summa Theologica Saint Thomas Aquinas</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the truth about God such as reason could discover, would only be known by a few, and that after</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a long time, and with the admixture of many errors. Whereas man's whole salvation, which is in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">God, depends upon the knowledge of this truth. Therefore, in order that the salvation of men might</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">be brought about more fitly and more surely, it was necessary that they should be taught divine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">truths by divine revelation. It was therefore necessary that besides philosophical science built up</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by reason, there should be a sacred science learned through revelation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Reply to Objection 1: Although those things which are beyond man's knowledge may not be</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sought for by man through his reason, nevertheless, once they are revealed by God, they must be</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">accepted by faith. Hence the sacred text continues, "For many things are shown to thee above the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">understanding of man" (Ecclus. 3:25). And in this, the sacred science consists.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Reply to Objection 2: Sciences are differentiated according to the various means through</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">which knowledge is obtained. For the astronomer and the physicist both may prove the same</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">conclusion: that the earth, for instance, is round: the astronomer by means of mathematics (i.e.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">abstracting from matter), but the physicist by means of matter itself. Hence there is no reason why</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">those things which may be learned from philosophical science, so far as they can be known by</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">natural reason, may not also be taught us by another science so far as they fall within revelation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Hence theology included in sacred doctrine differs in kind from that theology which is part of</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">philosophy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Whether sacred doctrine is a science?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Objection 1: It seems that sacred doctrine is not a science. For every science proceeds from</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">self-evident principles. But sacred doctrine proceeds from articles of faith which are not self-evident,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">since their truth is not admitted by all: "For all men have not faith" (2 Thess. 3:2). Therefore sacred</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">doctrine is not a science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Objection 2: Further, no science deals with individual facts. But this sacred science treats of</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">individual facts, such as the deeds of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and such like. Therefore sacred</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">doctrine is not a science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On the contrary, Augustine says (De Trin. xiv, 1) "to this science alone belongs that whereby</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">saving faith is begotten, nourished, protected and strengthened." But this can be said of no science</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">except sacred doctrine. Therefore sacred doctrine is a science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I answer that, Sacred doctrine is a science. We must bear in mind that there are two kinds of</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sciences. There are some which proceed from a principle known by the natural light of intelligence,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">such as arithmetic and geometry and the like. There are some which proceed from principles known</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by the light of a higher science: thus the science of perspective proceeds from principles established</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by geometry, and music from principles established by arithmetic. So it is that sacred doctrine is a</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">science because it proceeds from principles established by the light of a higher science, namely,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the science of God and the blessed. Hence, just as the musician accepts on authority the principles</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">taught him by the mathematician, so sacred science is established on principles revealed by God.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Reply to Objection 1: The principles of any science are either in themselves self-evident, or</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">reducible to the conclusions of a higher science; and such, as we have said, are the principles of</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sacred doctrine.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Reply to Objection 2: Individual facts are treated of in sacred doctrine, not because it is</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">concerned with them principally, but they are introduced rather both as examples to be followed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in our lives (as in moral sciences) and in order to establish the authority of those men through whom</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the divine revelation, on which this sacred scripture or doctrine is based, has come down to us.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Whether sacred doctrine is one science?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Objection 1: It seems that sacred doctrine is not one science; for according to the Philosopher</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(Poster. i) "that science is one which treats only of one class of subjects." But the creator and the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">creature, both of whom are treated of in sacred doctrine, cannot be grouped together under one</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">class of subjects. Therefore sacred doctrine is not one science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Objection 2: Further, in sacred doctrine we treat of angels, corporeal creatures and human</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">morality. But these belong to separate philosophical sciences. Therefore sacred doctrine cannot be</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">one science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On the contrary, Holy Scripture speaks of it as one science: "Wisdom gave him the knowledge</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">[scientiam] of holy things" (Wis. 10:10).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I answer that, Sacred doctrine is one science. The unity of a faculty or habit is to be gauged</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by its object, not indeed, in its material aspect, but as regards the precise formality under which it</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">is an object. For example, man, ass, stone agree in the one precise formality of being colored; and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">color is the formal object of sight. Therefore, because Sacred Scripture considers things precisely</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">under the formality of being divinely revealed, whatever has been divinely revealed possesses the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">one precise formality of the object of this science; and therefore is included under sacred doctrine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as under one science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Reply to Objection 1: Sacred doctrine does not treat of God and creatures equally, but of God</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">primarily, and of creatures only so far as they are referable to God as their beginning or end. Hence</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the unity of this science is not impaired.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Reply to Objection 2: Nothing prevents inferior faculties or habits from being differentiated</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by something which falls under a higher faculty or habit as well; because the higher faculty or habit</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">regards the object in its more universal formality, as the object of the "common sense" is whatever</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">affects the senses, including, therefore, whatever is visible or audible. Hence the "common sense,"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">although one faculty, extends to all the objects of the five senses. Similarly, objects which are the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">subject-matter of different philosophical sciences can yet be treated of by this one single sacred</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">science under one aspect precisely so far as they can be included in revelation. So that in this way,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sacred doctrine bears, as it were, the stamp of the divine science which is one and simple, yet</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">extends to everything.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Whether sacred doctrine is a practical science?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Objection 1: It seems that sacred doctrine is a practical science; for a practical science is that</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">which ends in action according to the Philosopher (Metaph. ii). But sacred doctrine is ordained to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">action: "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only" (James 1:22). Therefore sacred doctrine is</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a practical science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Objection 2: Further, sacred doctrine is divided into the Old and the New Law. But law implies</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a moral science which is a practical science. Therefore sacred doctrine is a practical science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On the contrary, Every practical science is concerned with human operations; as moral science</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">is concerned with human acts, and architecture with buildings. But sacred doctrine is chiefly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">concerned with God, whose handiwork is especially man. Therefore it is not a practical but a</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">speculative science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I answer that, Sacred doctrine, being one, extends to things which belong to different</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">philosophical sciences because it considers in each the same formal aspect, namely, so far as they</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">can be known through divine revelation. Hence, although among the philosophical sciences one is</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">speculative and another practical, nevertheless sacred doctrine includes both; as God, by one and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the same science, knows both Himself and His works. Still, it is speculative rather than practical</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">because it is more concerned with divine things than with human acts; though it does treat even of</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">these latter, inasmuch as man is ordained by them to the perfect knowledge of God in which consists</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">eternal bliss. This is a sufficient answer to the Objections.</span><br />
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telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-56926267890376857622015-03-30T03:10:00.001-06:002015-03-31T01:34:26.974-06:00HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS Vatican Basilica Thursday, 1st January 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/libretti/2015/20150101-libretto-maria-madre-di-dio.pdf"> <span style="color: #663300;">HOLY MASS ON THE SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD<br /> XLVIII WORLD DAY OF PEACE</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;"><b><i>HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #663300;"><i>Vatican Basilica<br /> </i><i>Thursday, 1st January 2015</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today we are reminded of the words of <i>blessing</i> which Elizabeth spoke <i> to the Virgin Mary</i>:
“Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to
me?” (<i>Lk </i>1:42-43).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This blessing is <i>in continuity with the priestly blessing</i>
which God had given to Moses to be passed on to Aaron and to all the
people: “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to
shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance
upon you, and give you peace” (<i>Num </i>6:24-26). In celebrating the
Solemnity of Mary Most Holy, the Holy Mother of God, the Church reminds
us that Mary, more than anyone else, received this blessing. In her the
blessing finds fulfilment, for no other creature has ever seen God’s
face shine upon it as did Mary. She gave a human face to the eternal
Word, so that all of us can contemplate him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In addition to contemplating God’s face, we can also
praise him and glorify him, like the shepherds who came away from
Bethlehem with a song of thanksgiving after seeing the Child and his
young mother (cf. <i>Lk </i>2:16). The two were together, just as they were together at Calvary, because <i>Christ and his mother are inseparable</i>: there is a very close relationship between them, as there is between every child and his or her mother. The flesh (<i>caro</i>) of Christ – which, as Tertullian says, is the hinge (<i>cardo</i>) of our salvation – was knit together in the womb of Mary (cf. <i>Ps </i>139:13).
This inseparability is also clear from the fact that Mary, chosen
beforehand to be the Mother of the Redeemer, shared intimately in his
entire mission, remaining at her Son’s side to the end on Calvary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mary is so closely united to Jesus because she received
from him the knowledge of the heart, the knowledge of faith, nourished
by her experience as a mother and by her close relationship with her
Son. The Blessed Virgin is the woman of faith who made room for God in
her heart and in her plans; she is the believer capable of perceiving in
the gift of her Son the coming of that “fullness of time”(<i>Gal </i>4:4)
in which God, by choosing the humble path of human existence, entered
personally into the history of salvation. That is why Jesus cannot be
understood without his Mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Likewise inseparable are Christ and the Church – because
the Church and Mary are always together and this is precisely the
mystery of womanhood in the ecclesial community – and the salvation
accomplished by Jesus cannot be understood without appreciating the
motherhood of the Church. To separate Jesus from the Church would
introduce an “absurd dichotomy”, as Blessed <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/index.htm">Paul VI</a> wrote (<i><a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19751208_evangelii-nuntiandi_en.html">Evangelii Nuntiandi</a></i>,
16). It is not possible “to love Christ but without the Church, to
listen to Christ but not the Church, to belong to Christ but outside the
Church” (<i>ibid</i>.). For the Church is herself God’s great family,
which brings Christ to us. Our faith is not an abstract doctrine or
philosophy, but a vital and full relationship with a person: Jesus
Christ, the only-begotten Son of God who became man, was put to death,
rose from the dead to save us, and is now living in our midst. Where can
we encounter him? We encounter him in the Church, in our hierarchical,
Holy Mother Church. It is the Church which says today: “Behold the Lamb
of God”; it is the Church, which proclaims him; it is in the Church that
Jesus continues to accomplish his acts of grace which are the
sacraments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This, the Church’s activity and mission, is an
expression of her motherhood. For she is like a mother who tenderly
holds Jesus and gives him to everyone with joy and generosity. No
manifestation of Christ, even the most mystical, can ever be detached
from the flesh and blood of the Church, from the historical concreteness
of the Body of Christ. Without the Church, Jesus Christ ends up as an
idea, a moral teaching, a feeling. Without the Church, our relationship
with Christ would be at the mercy of our imagination, our
interpretations, our moods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear brothers and sisters! <i>Jesus Christ is the blessing</i>
for every man and woman, and for all of humanity. The Church, in giving
us Jesus, offers us the fullness of the Lord’s blessing. This is
precisely the mission of the people of God: to spread to all peoples
God’s blessing made flesh in Jesus Christ. And Mary, the first and most
perfect disciple of Jesus, the first and most perfect believer, the
model of the pilgrim Church, is the one who opens the way to the
Church’s motherhood and constantly sustains her maternal mission to all
mankind. Mary’s tactful maternal witness has accompanied the Church from
the beginning. She, the Mother of God, is also the Mother of the
Church, and through the Church, the mother of all men and women, and of
every people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">May this gentle and loving Mother obtain for us the
Lord’s blessing upon the entire human family. On this, the World Day of
Peace, we especially implore her intercession that the Lord may <i>grant peace in our day</i>; peace in hearts, peace in families, peace among the nations. The <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/peace/documents/papa-francesco_20141208_messaggio-xlviii-giornata-mondiale-pace-2015.html">message for the Day of Peace this year</a> is <i>“No Longer Slaves, but Brothers and Sisters”</i>.
All of us are called to be free, all are called to be sons and
daughters, and each, according to his or her own responsibilities, is
called to combat modern forms of enslavement. From every people, culture
and religion, let us join our forces. May he guide and sustain us, who,
in order to make us all brothers and sisters, became our servant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let us look to Mary, let us contemplate the Holy Mother
of God. I suggest that you all greet her together, just like those
courageous people of Ephesus, who cried out before their pastors when
they entered Church: “Holy Mother of God!” What a beautiful greeting for
our Mother. There is a story – I do not know if it is true – that some
among those people had clubs in their hands, perhaps to make the Bishops
understand what would happen if they did not have the courage to
proclaim Mary “Mother of God”! I invite all of you, without clubs, to
stand up and to greet her three times with this greeting of the early
Church: “Holy Mother of God!” </span></div>
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meneziadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15974147790101155045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-88657764153443511042013-03-14T05:20:00.000-06:002013-03-14T05:21:41.353-06:00THE TRUTH<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hps">Question:</span> <span class="hps">But the truth</span> <span class="hps">is written by the</span> <span class="hps">winners or</span> <span class="hps">losers?</span><br /><span class="hps"> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hps">Answer:</span> <span class="hps">The</span> <span class="hps">losers</span> <span class="hps">do not write</span>!<br /><br /><span class="hps"> Joseph</span> <span class="hps">Desire</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hps">I cried</span>, <span class="hps">you've</span> <span class="hps">heard</span>,<br /> <span class="hps">I called</span>, <span class="hps">you answered</span>,<br /> <span class="hps">I called,</span><br /> <span class="hps">and I</span> <span class="hps">heard</span> <span class="hps">you're there</span>.<br /> <span class="hps">But</span> <span class="hps">where are you</span>?<br /> <span class="hps">It</span> <span class="hps atn">'</span><span class="">hard to believe</span><br /> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">place</span> <span class="hps">indefinitely</span><br /> <span class="hps">where</span> <span class="hps">it</span> <span class="hps">wants you to be</span>.<br /> <span class="hps">Yet</span>, there <span class="hps">is life</span>,<br /> <span class="hps">life without</span> <span class="hps">hope</span>,<br /> <span class="hps">no sense</span><br /> <span class="hps">death without</span> <span class="hps">a reason</span>.<br /> <span class="hps">I still have</span> <span class="hps">the principles</span>,<br /> <span class="hps">ideas</span><span class="">, words</span> <span class="hps">of love</span>,<br /> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">your example</span><br /> <span class="hps">of life</span> <span class="hps">and death</span>,<br /> <span class="hps">infinitely great</span>.</span>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-9604283814196934322011-02-25T11:19:00.000-07:002011-02-25T11:19:00.217-07:00Fatima Secrets 10<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>14</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>IT</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/20250CA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/20250CA.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. The Magnificat </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(cf. Luke 1:46-55)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Saturday Meditation</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Because He has regarded the lowliness of His handmaid; for behold, henceforth all generations shall</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">call me blessed;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Because He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His Name;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">And His mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear Him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">He has shown might with His arm, He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their hearts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">He has given help to Israel, His servant, mindful of His mercy, even as He spoke to our fathers, to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Abraham and to his posterity for ever. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2b. Hail Holy Queen</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Daily prayer of the Archconfraternity of</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine & the AFC</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Hail Holy Queen, Mother of mercy; our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor ban-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">40</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">ished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning, and weeping in this valley of tears.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us; and after this our exile, show unto</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2c. The Angelus </span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(3 times daily)</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">V. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">R. And she conceived by the Holy Spirit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Hail Mary…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">V. Behold the Handmaid of the Lord,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">R. Be it done unto me according to thy word.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Hail Mary…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">V. And the Word was made flesh,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">R. And dwelt among us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Hail Mary…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Incarnation of Christ Thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">be brought to the glory of His Resurrection. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/DODICESIMA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/DODICESIMA.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">6a-9. The Holy Rosary</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Five decades of the Rosary should be prayed daily</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">For the Church’s teachings on the Rosary, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 971, 2678, and 2708.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">How to pray the Rosary:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pray the Apostles’ Creed (#6a) on the Crucifix. Then offer one Our Father (#6b) on the large bead, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">three Hail Marys (#6c) on each of the three small beads for the Holy Father, the Pope. After the three Hail</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Marys, pray the Glory Be (#7a), the Fatima Rosary Prayer (#7b), and the Consecration Prayer (#7c).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Announce the Mystery for the decade (see #7d) and meditate on it while praying. Pray one Our Father</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">on the large bead. Pray the Hail Mary on each of the ten small beads. On the next large bead, pray the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Glory Be, the Rosary Prayer, and the Consecration Prayer. Then, on the same large bead, announce the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">next Mystery and begin again with the Our Father. Continue until you have prayed all five decades.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">After the Rosary, pray #8, 8a, 9, 10 & 11a. (Note: Pope Leo XIII asked for a prayer to St. Joseph to be recited at the end of the Rosary.)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Please see pages 582, 616, and 649 for Rosary meditation resources.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">6a. Apostles’ Creed</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">was crucified, died and was buried; He descended into hell, the third day He rose again from the dead, He</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">ascended into Heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">From thence He shall</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">For an explanation of the term “descended into hell,” see paragraphs 631-637 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">For a complete explanation of</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Apostles’ Creed, see paragraphs 198-1065.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/24800W.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/24800W.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">6b. Our Father</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Our Father, Who art in Heaven; hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">For a detailed explanation of the Our Father, see paragraphs 2759–2865 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">41</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">6c. Hail Mary</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">To learn about the Church’s teachings on Mary, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 411, 487–511, 721–726, 773, 829, 963–975,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2617–2619, and 2622.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">7a. Glory Be</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">ever shall be, world without end. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">For more on the Holy Trinity, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s index, under “Trinity.” Some key paragraphs are: 232-234, 238-246, 253-255,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">683 and 687.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">7b. Fatima Rosary Prayer</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The prayer Our Lady of Fatima requested to</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">be said after each decade of the Rosary.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">O My Jesus, forgive us our sins; save us from the fires of hell; lead all souls to Heaven, especially those</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who are in most need of Your mercy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">7c. The Apostolate’s Motto and Short Form Consecration Prayer</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Said after every decade of the Rosary following 7b</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">All for the Sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, all through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mary, all in union with St. Joseph.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">After the Rosary, pray #8, 8a, 9, 10 & 11a</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">8. St. Joseph Prayer after the Rosary</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Glorious St. Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me and all the members of my family</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and loved ones, a confident, sinless, generous, and patient heart, and perfect resignation to the Divine Will.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Be our guide, father, and model throughout life, that we may merit a death like yours, in the arms of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Jesus and Mary.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Help us, St. Joseph, in our earthly strife, to fulfill our responsibilities and ever to lead a pure and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">blameless life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Heavenly Father, please ask the Holy Spirit, Who resides in the innermost recesses of my soul, to help</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">me to call to mind all of my sins and faults. Help me to detach myself from these faults and sins so that I</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">can be a useful instrument in the hands of the Most Holy Family, to achieve Your distinctive plan for my</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Let me now pause for a few moments to think of my sins, faults, and omissions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">8a. Examination of</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Conscience Prayer</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Reflectively read your “key card” and part of the Examination of Conscience in section 53a–53m.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother Mary, please obtain for me, my family, and the members and families of The Apostolate the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the grace to live the virtues which will help us overcome our primary faults.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Let us be caught up in the Holy Spirit’s love for the Father and the Holy Family.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/TRENTUNESIMA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/TRENTUNESIMA.jpg" width="180" /></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">9. Act of Contrition</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Recited daily</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">O my God! I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all of my sins, because I dread</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell, but most of all because they have offended Thee, my God, Who art</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">penance, and to amend my life. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Let us pray: </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Heavenly Father, in the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, we ask You to release a Poor Soul</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">42</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of one of our loved ones from Purgatory for each of us who have received Your Son in Holy Communion this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">day, and we ask these souls being released to pray continually that our families and the members and families</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of The Apostolate do Your will.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">47. Ave Maris Stella</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Hail, bright star of ocean,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God’s own Mother blest,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Ever sinless Virgin,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Gate of heavenly rest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Taking that sweet Ave</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Which from Gabriel came,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Peace confirm within us,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Changing Eva’s name.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Break the captives’ fetters,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Light on blindness pour,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">All our ills expelling,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Every bliss emplore.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Show thyself a mother,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">May the Word Divine,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Born for us thy Infant,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Hear our prayers through thine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Virgin all excelling,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mildest of the mild,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Freed from guilt, preserve us,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pure and undefiled.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Keep our life all spotless,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Make our way secure,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Till we find in Jesus</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Joy forever more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Through the highest Heaven</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">To the Almighty Three,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Father, Son and Spirit,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">One same glory be. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Holy Father essentially said that the next synod of bishops would be on the Fatima message,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">reconciliation and penance. Upon his return from his pilgrimage to Fatima in 1982 he stated:</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The message that came from Fatima in 1917, considered in the light of the teaching of faith,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">contains the eternal truth of the Gospel, as applied particularly to the needs of our era.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The call to conversion and penance is the first and fundamental word of the Gospel. It never</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">loses its force, and in our century it takes on a particular dimension in the face of the increasing</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">awareness of the greater than ever struggle between the forces of good and evil in our human</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">world. This is also the central point of the Church’s concern, as attested by the voices of the pastors</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who have indicated “reconciliation and penance” as the most relevant theme, dedicating the</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">treatment of it to the next session of the Synod of Bishops for this reason.</span></i></div>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-31882957442413725042011-02-23T11:14:00.002-07:002011-02-23T11:14:00.632-07:00Fatima Secrets 9<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/consolatrice23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/consolatrice23.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">IX. Act of Entrustment to Mary</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">On October 8, 2000, during the Jubilee of Bishops, Pope John Paul II knelt before a statue of Our Lady of</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fatima in St. Peter’s Square and led the following prayer in union with over 1500 of the bishops of the world</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and 80 cardinals, to entrust the entire world and the Church to Mary.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Woman, behold your Son!” (Jn 19:26).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">As we near the end of this Jubilee Year,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">when you, O Mother, have offered us Jesus anew,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the blessed fruit of your womb most pure,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Word made flesh, the world’s Redeemer,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">we hear more clearly the sweet echo of his words</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">entrusting us to you, making you our Mother:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Woman, behold your Son!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">When he entrusted to you the Apostle John,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and with him the children of the Church and all people,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Christ did not diminish but affirmed anew</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the role which is his alone as the Savior of the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">You are the splendor which in no way dims the light of Christ,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for you exist in him and through him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Everything in you is fiat: you are the Immaculate One,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">through you there shines the fullness of grace.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Here, then, are your children, gathered before you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">at the dawn of the new millennium.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Church today, through the voice of the Successor of Peter,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in union with so many Pastors assembled here</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">from every corner of the world,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">seeks refuge in your motherly protection</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and trustingly begs your intercession</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as she faces the challenges which lie hidden in the future.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In this year of grace, countless people have known</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the overflowing joy of the mercy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which the Father has given us in Christ.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In the particular Churches throughout the world,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and still more in this center of Christianity,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the widest array of people have accepted this gift.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Here the enthusiasm of the young rang out,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">here the sick have lifted up their prayer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Here have gathered priests and religious,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">artists and journalists,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">workers and people of learning,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">children and adults,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and all have acknowledged in your beloved Son</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Word of God made flesh in your womb.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">O Mother, intercede for us,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that the fruits of this Year will not be lost</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and that the seeds of grace will grow</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to the full measure of the holiness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to which we are all called.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Today we wish to entrust to you the future that awaits us, and we ask you to be with us on our way.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">We are the men and women of an extraordinary time,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">exhilarating yet full of contradictions.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">35</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Humanity now has instruments of unprecedented power:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">we can turn this world into a garden,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">or reduce it to a pile of rubble.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">We have devised the astounding capacity</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to intervene in the very well-springs of life:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">man can use this power for good, within the bounds of the moral law,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">or he can succumb to the short-sighted pride</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of a science which accepts no limits,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">but tramples on the respect due to every human being.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Today as never before in the past,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">humanity stands at a crossroads.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">And once again, O Virgin Most Holy,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">salvation lies fully and uniquely in Jesus, your Son.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/consolatrice24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/consolatrice24.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Therefore, O Mother, like the Apostle John,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">we wish to take you into our home (cf. Jn 19:27),</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that we may learn from you to become like your Son.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Woman, behold your son!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Here we stand before you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to entrust to your maternal care</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">ourselves, the Church, the entire world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Plead for us with your beloved Son</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that he may give us in abundance the Holy Spirit,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Spirit of truth which is the fountain of life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Receive the Spirit for us and with us,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as happened in the first community gathered round you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost (cf. Acts 1:14).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">May the Spirit open our hearts to justice and love,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and guide people and nations to mutual understanding</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and a firm desire for peace.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">We entrust to you all people, beginning with the weakest:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the babies yet unborn,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and those born into poverty and suffering,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the young in search of meaning,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the unemployed,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and those suffering hunger and disease.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">We entrust to you all troubled families,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the elderly with no one to help them,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and all who are alone and without hope.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">O Mother, you know the sufferings</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and hopes of the Church and the world:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">come to the aid of your children in the daily trials</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which life brings to each one,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and grant that, thanks to the efforts of all,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the darkness will not prevail over the light.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">To you, Dawn of Salvation, we commit</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">our journey through the new Millennium,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">so that with you as guide</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">all people may know Christ,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the light of the world and its only Savior,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for ever and ever. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">36</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">X. Marian Prayers and Devotions</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Marian Prayers by</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pope John Paul II</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. O Mary,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother of Mercy,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">watch over all people,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that the Cross of Christ</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">may not be emptied of its power,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that man may not stray</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">from the path of the good</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">or become blind to sin,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">but may put his hope ever more fully in God</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who is “rich in mercy” (Eph 2:4).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">May he carry out the good works</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">prepared by God beforehand (cf. Eph 2:10)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and so live completely</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“for the praise of his glory” (Eph 1:12).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">From the encyclical letter </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Splendor of Truth </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Veritatis Splendor)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">August 6, 1993</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. Mary, image of the Church, the Bride without spot or wrinkle, which by imitating you “preserves with virginal</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/beata_vergine_maria_della_mercede.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/beata_vergine_maria_della_mercede.jpg" width="169" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">purity an integral faith, a firm hope and sincere charity,” sustain consecrated persons on their journey toward the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">sole and eternal blessedness.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">To you, Virgin of the Visitation, do we entrust them, that they may go forth to meet human needs, to bring help, but</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">above all to bring Jesus. Teach them to proclaim the mighty things which the Lord accomplishes in the world, that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">all peoples may extol the greatness of his name. Support them in their work for the poor, the hungry, those without</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">hope, the little ones and all who seek your Son with a sincere heart.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">To you, our Mother, who desire the spiritual and apostolic renewal of your sons and daughters in a response of love</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and complete dedication to Christ, we address our confident prayer. You who did the will of the Father, ever ready</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in obedience, courageous in poverty and receptive in fruitful virginity, obtain from your divine Son that all who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">have received the gift of following him in the consecrated life may be enabled to bear witness to that gift by their</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">transfigured lives, as they joyfully make their way with all their brothers and sisters toward our heavenly homeland</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and the light which will never grow dim.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">We ask you this, that in everyone and in everything glory, adoration and love may be given to the Most High Lord</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of all things, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">From the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Consecrated Life </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Vita Consecrata)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">March 25, 1996</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">=</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3. O Most Blessed Virgin Mary,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother of Christ and Mother of the Church,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">With joy and wonder we seek to make our</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">own your </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Magnificat</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, joining you in your hymn of thankfulness and love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">With you we give thanks to God,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“whose mercy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is from generation to generation,”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for the exalted vocation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and the many forms of mission</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">entrusted to the lay faithful.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God has called each of them by name</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to live his own communion of love</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">37</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and holiness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and to be one</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in the great family of God’s children.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">He has sent them forth</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to shine with the light of Christ</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and to communicate the fire of the Spirit</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in every part of society</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">through their life</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">inspired by the Gospel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">O Virgin of the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Magnificat</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">fill their hearts</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">with a gratitude and enthusiasm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for this vocation and mission.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">With humility and magnanimity</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">you were the “handmaid of the Lord”;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">give us your unreserved willingness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for service to God</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and the salvation of the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Open our hearts</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to the great anticipation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the Kingdom of God</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and of the proclamation of the Gospel</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to the whole of creation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Your mother’s heart</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is ever mindful of the many dangers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and evils which threaten</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to overpower men and women</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in our time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">At the same time your heart also takes notice</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the many initiatives</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">undertaken for good,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the great yearning for values,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and the progress achieved</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in bringing forth</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the abundant fruits of salvation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">O Virgin full of courage,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">may your spiritual strength</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and trust in God inspire us,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">so that we might know</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">how to overcome all the obstacles</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that we encounter</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in accomplishing our mission.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Teach us to treat the affairs</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the world</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">with a real sense of Christian responsibility</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and a joyful hope</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the coming of God’s Kingdom, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of a “new heavens and a new earth.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">You who were gathered in prayer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">with the Apostles in the Cenacle,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">awaiting the coming</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the Spirit at Pentecost,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">implore his renewed outpouring</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">on all the faithful, men and women alike,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">so that they might more fully respond</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to their vocation and mission,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as branches engrafted to the true vine,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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font-size: 16pt;">O Virgin Mother,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">guide and sustain us</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">so that we might always live</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as true sons and daughters</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the Church of your Son.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Enable us to do our part</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in helping to establish on earth</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the civilization of truth and love,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as God wills it,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for his glory. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">From the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Lay Members of Christ’s Faithful People </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Christifideles Laici)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">December 30, 1988</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">=</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">4. O Mary,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">bright dawn of the new world,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother of the living,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to you do we entrust the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">cause of life</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Look down, O Mother,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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O Mary,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother of Jesus Christ and Mother of priests,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">accept this title which we bestow on you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to celebrate your motherhood</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and to contemplate with you the priesthood</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://immareli.altervista.org/foto/mad_fatima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://immareli.altervista.org/foto/mad_fatima.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">VIII. Pastoral Letter of Apparations at Akita</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Note: section numbers added.)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Bishop John Shojiro Ito, Ordinary of the Diocese of Niigata, describes the events which take place in his diocese</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">over a period of several years:</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pastoral letter of approval of the Bishop of Niigata on the Subject of the Statue of the Virgin of Akita</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. To all members of the diocese, my blessing and my best wishes on this Feast of Easter. It is now twenty-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">two years that I have been bishop of the diocese of Niigata, named by His Holiness John XXIII in 1962.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In conformity with the legislation of the Church I have reached the age of retreat and must give up my</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">function. My thanksgiving goes to each one of you for prayer and cooperation which have permitted me,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">despite many difficulties, to fill my task up to the present day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. Before leaving you I must confide to you a preoccupation. It has to do with the series of mysterious</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">events concerning a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in the Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(The request for ecclesial recognition of this secular institute has been introduced in Rome.) This institute</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is found in Yuzawadai, Soegawa, Akita, in this diocese of Niigata (Japan). You are without doubt aware of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">these events through magazines, books, television, and so on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">When the first commission of inquiry was named in 1976, I publicly announced that it was necessary</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to abstain from all official pilgrimage and all particular veneration of this statue while the inquiry was</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">underway. From that day I have made no declaration on this subject. Indeed, being a question of important</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">events concerning the Church, one cannot treat them lightly. However, to keep silence at the time of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">leaving my function as bishop, since I have been at the heart of the events, would be a negligence with</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">regard to my episcopal duties. For that reason I have decided to make a new declaration in the form of this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">pastoral letter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3. Since 1973, when the events began, eleven years have passed. As that was the first time I was a witness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the rather extraordinary events, I went to Rome to the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Faith in 1975 where I consulted Monsignor Hamer, secretary for the Congregation and whom I already</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">knew. He explained to me that such a matter belonged above all to the authority of the bishop of the place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In 1976, I asked the archbishop of Tokyo for the creation of a commission of inquiry. This commission</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">declared that it was not in a position to prove the supernatural events of Akita. In 1979, I presented to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Congregation a request for the formation of a second commission of inquiry which permitted us to examine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the facts still more in detail.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In 1979, a letter of the Congregation,unfavorable to the events, came to the nunciature in Tokyo. But</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">this letter contained some misunderstandings. Esteeming it my duty to restore the exactitude of the facts,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I re-examined it all in 1982 at the time that the events came to an end. Through the intermediary of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Apostolic Nuncio in Tokyo, I sent the complete dossier, augmented with the new facts, to Rome.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">At the time of my trip to Rome in the month of October last year (1983) I was able to meet with three</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">personalities charged with the matter in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. At the end of this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">meeting we had decided that the dossier should again be submitted to prolonged examination.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">II</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">4. The series of events relative to the statue of the Virgin Mary include the flowing of blood from the right</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">hand of the statue, also a perspiration spreading a sweet perfume, perspiration so abundant that it was</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">necessary to dry the statue. However, the most remarkable fact, in our opinion, and the most evident, is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the overflowing of an aqueous liquid, similar to human tears, from the eyes of the statue of Our Holy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">This began on the 4th of January, 1975 (Holy Year) and some tears flowed 101 times, until the 15th of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">September, 1981, Feast of Our Lady of the Seven Dolors. I was able myself to witness four lachrymations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">About 500 persons have also been eyewitnesses. I twice tasted this liquid. It was salty and seemed to me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">truly human tears. The scientific examination of Professor Sagisaka, specialist in legal medicine in the faculty</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of medicine at the University of Akita, has proved that this liquid is indeed identical to human tears.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">5. It is beyond human powers to produce water where there is none, and I believe that to do this the inter-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">31</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">vention of a nonhuman force is necessary. Moreover, it is not the question of pure water, but of a liquid</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">secreted by a human body. It flowed only from the eyes of the statue, as tears flow, and that more than 100</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">times over a period of several years and before many numerous witnesses. It has been established that it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">could not have been by trickery or human maneuvers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">If these events are not natural one can envisage three causes. They would be due to:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. Paranormal faculties of the human being;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. Machinations of the devil;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3. A supernatural intervention.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I do not know well what could be paranormal faculties. However, certain individuals say that Agnes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Katsuko Sasagawa, member of the Handmaids of the Servants of the Eucharist, and who was the one lined</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">most especially to the events of Akita, might possess paranormal powers permitting her to transfer her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">own tears to the statue. For that however, it would be necessary, according to Professor Itaya of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Technical University of Tokyo (specialist in this field) that the interested person be aware of the fact in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">order to cause such paranormal powers to intervene. Now the tears flowed from the statue when Agnes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sasagawa was sleeping and even when she was not aware of the event, being home with her family 400</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">kilometers from Akita. I think therefore that the hypothesis of such faculties can be put aside.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">6. There are also persons who suppose that it is a question of a machination of the devil. If that is the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">case it ought to lead to evil effects for the faith. Not only have there not been such effects, but quite to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">contrary there have been favorable effects. For example, a husband whose Catholic wife had for a long time</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">recommended conversion decided to receive Baptism after seeing the tears.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In another case, a former believer, separated from the Church for several decades, returned to the regular</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">practice of our religion. And again, following a visit to the place, a believer resolved to work in evangelization.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Alone she created two bases of evangelization and continues this work to the present day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.radionewjerusalem.com/Catholic/Images/Fatima.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.radionewjerusalem.com/Catholic/Images/Fatima.jpeg" width="258" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">7. Furthermore, there are numerous reports of miraculous cures of sicknesses such as cancer, thanks to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the mediation of the Virgin of Akita. I am going to mention two, the most proving.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">One is the sudden cure of a Korean woman. Following cancer of the brain, she was reduced to a vegetable</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">state from July 1981. The Virgin of Akita appeared to her and told her to get up. Almost at once she</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">was able to get up, having entirely recovered her health. This healing took place while priests and Korean</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">women prayed to the Virgin of Akita for her cure and asked for a miracle in view of the canonization of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Korean martyrs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">There are X-rays of this person taken during the sickness and after the complete cure. Even nonprofessionals</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">can verify the cure. The authenticity of the X-rays is attested to by Dr. M.D. Tong-Woo-Kim, of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Hospital of Saint Paul in Seoul who took these X-rays, and also by Fr. Theisen, S.T.D., president of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">ecclesiastical tribunal of the archdiocese of Seoul. All of the records have been sent to Rome. I went myself</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to Seoul (Korea) last year and was able to interview the person involved; I could thus assure myself of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">truth of the facts of her miraculous cure. For her part in the person came to Akita to than Our Holy Mother.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The second case is the complete cure of the total deafness from which Agnes Sasagawa suffered. I will</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">speak in detail of this later.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">By such facts propitious to the faith and to physical health, it would seem to exclude that the events of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Akita could be of diabolical origin. There remains therefore only the possibility of a supernatural intervention.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">It is in any event difficult to hold that it might be not a question of supernatural phenomena.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">III</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">8. But why have such phenomena taken place? I ask if they are not with regard to the messages coming</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">from the statue of the Virgin and perceived by the deaf ears of Agnes Sasagawa.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The first message was given to her on the morning of June 6th, 1973, First Friday of the month. A voice</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">coming from the statue of Mary, always splendid saying:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“My daughter, my novice, you have obeyed me well in abandoning all to follow me. Is the infirmity of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">your ears painful? The wound will be healed, be sure. Be patient. It is the last trial. Does the wound cause</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">you to suffer? Pray in reparation for the sins of men. Each person in this community is my irreplaceable</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">daughter. Do you say well the prayer of the Handmaids of the Eucharist? Then let us pray it together:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Oh, Jesus, really present in the most Blesses Sacrament, I offer you my body and soul to become one</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in Your Sacred Heart Which is transubstantiated and sacrificed on all the altars of the world, remaining</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">with us to praise the Father and to pray for the coming of His Kingdom.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">32</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“I implore You to accept my humble consecration and to use me, as will please You, for the glory of God</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and the salvation of souls.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Dearest Mother, do not permit that I may ever be separated from your Divine Son. Guard me always</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as belonging entirely to you. Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pray very much for the Pope, the Bishops and the priests.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Agnes Sasagawa lost her hearing when she was working as a catechist in the church of Myokokogen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Because of this deafness she was for a time in the hospital of Rosai in the city of Joetsu. Dr. Sawada diagnosed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">her total deafness as incurable and issued the documents permitting, for this reason, state subsidy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">No longer being able to work as a catechist, she came to the Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">at Akita, where she began to live a life of prayer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">9. The second message, like the first time, was given by the voice coming from the statue of the Holy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Virgin:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“My daughter, my novice do you love the Lord? If you love the Lord, listen to what I have to say to you.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“It is very important. You will convey it to your superior.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Many men in this world afflict the Lord. I desire souls to console. Him to soften the anger of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Heavenly Father. I wish, with my Son, for souls who will repair by their suffering and their poverty for the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">sinners and ingrates.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“In order that the world might know His anger, the Heavenly Father is preparing to inflict a great chastisement</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">on all mankind. With my Son, I have intervened so many times to appease the wrath of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Father. I have prevented the coming of calamities by offering Him the sufferings of the Son on the Cross,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">His Precious Blood, and beloved souls who console Him and form a cohort of victim souls. Prayer, penance,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and courageous sacrifices can soften the Father’s anger. I desire this also from your community, that it love</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">poverty, that it sanctify itself and pray in reparation for the ingratitude and outrages of so many men.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Recite the prayer of the Handmaids of the Eucharist with awareness of its meaning; put it into practice,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">offer (whatever God may send) in reparation for sins. Let each one endeavor, according to capacity and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">position, to offer herself entirely to the Lord.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Even in secular order prayer is necessary. Already souls who wish to pray are on the way to being gathered.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Without attaching too much attention to the form, be faithful and fervent in prayer to console the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Master.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlp5nwmyJZvZSp6E4U9s_qCEx51Zbj1Dy4WsSw5Fe_zESV2AGL&t=1" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlp5nwmyJZvZSp6E4U9s_qCEx51Zbj1Dy4WsSw5Fe_zESV2AGL&t=1" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">10. The third and last message was given also by the voice coming from the statue of the Holy Virgin on</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the 13th of October in the same year:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“My dear daughter, listen well to what I have to say to you. You will inform your superior.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The only arms which will remain for you will be the rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day recite</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the prayers of the Rosary.With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the Bishops and the priests.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church…The priests who venerate Me will be</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">scorned and opposed by their confreres, churches and altars sacked, the Church will be full of those who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Lord.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The demon will be especially implacable (unrelenting) against souls consecrated to God. The thought</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">be no longer pardon for them.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">11. This message is based on the condition if men do not repent and better themselves…I think that it is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">a serious warning, although one feels here the maternal love of Our Heavenly Mother in the words “The</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">sight of the loss of numerous souls makes me sad”. If the promise contained in the first message of 1973</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">was not realized (“Is your deafness painful to bear? You will soon be healed.”) one would be able to doubt</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the veracity of these messages. But this promise was kept nine years after the beginning of the sickness.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Before this happened, a person similar to an angel announced to Agnes Sasagawa (the 25th of March, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the 1st of May, 1982) “Your deafness causes you to suffer, doesn’t it? The moment of the promised cure</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">approaches. By the intercession of the Holy and Immaculate Virgin, exactly as the last time, before Him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Who is truly present in the Eucharist, your ears will be definitely cured in order that the work of the Most</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">High may be accomplished. There will be many sufferings and obstacles coming from outside. You have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">33</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">nothing to fear.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Effectively on the last Sunday of the month of Mary, the 30th of May 1982, Feast of Pentecost, at the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">moment of Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament her ears were cured completely and instantly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">That same evening she telephoned me and we conversed normally. On the following 14th of June, I visited</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Doctor Arai of the Eye and Ear Division of the Hospital of the Red Cross of Akita who had verified the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">complete deafness of Agnes Sasagawa at the moment she arrived in Akita nine years before. I asked his</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">impression. He was amazed at this complete cure. Doctor Sawada of the Rosai de Joetsu who had been the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">first to examine her when she became deaf, has now issued a medical certificate dated June 3rd, 1982,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">attesting that following minute examinations of the auditive capacities, he certifies that there is no further</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">anomaly in the two ears of Agnes Sasagawa.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I have known Agnes Sasagawa for ten years. She is a woman sound in spirit, frank and without problems;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">she has always impressed me as a balanced person. Consequently the messages she says that she</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">has received did not appear to me to be in any way the result of imagination or hallucination.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">As for the content of the messages received, there is nothing contrary to Catholic doctrine or good</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">morals, and when one thinks of the actual state of the world the warning seems to correspond to it in many</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">points.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">12. Having set down here my experiences and my reflections with regard to the events relative to the statue</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the Holy Virgin of Akita, I esteem it my duty as Ordinary of the place, to respond to the requests of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the faithful to give pastoral directives on this subject. It is only the bishop of the diocese in question who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">has the power of recognizing a fact of this kind. The Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith has given</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">me directives in this regard.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I have been in constant relation with the Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist since its creation,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and thus I know exactly the situation of this Institute and of its members. In studying the history of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">apparitions of the Virgin Mary up to this day, I am aware that it is always the bishops of the place who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">have authorized the veneration of the Virgin Mary when she was manifested herself in their dioceses.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">After long prayer and mature reflection, I draw the following conclusions in my position as Bishop of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Niigata:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. After the inquiries conducted up to the present day, one cannot deny the supernatural character of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">a series of inexplicable events relative to the statue of the Virgin which is found in the convent of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist of Yuzawadai, Soegawa, Akita (Diocese of Niigata).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Nor does one find in it elements contrary to Catholic faith and good morals.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. Consequently, I authorize throughout the entire diocese, with which I am charged, the veneration of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Holy Mother of Akita, while awaiting that the Holy See publishes definitive judgement on this matter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">13. And I ask that it be remembered that even if the Holy See later publishes a favorable judgement with</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">regard to the events of Akita, it is a question only of private revelation which is not a point of doctrine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Christians are bound to believe only content of Divine Revelation (closed after the death of the last Apostle)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which contains all that is necessary for salvation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Nevertheless, the Church, until now, has equally taken into consideration private revelations insofar as</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">they fortify the faith. For reference, I cite the following texts of the document on Catholic doctrine:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The saints and angels having been conformed to the Will of God, receive from Him grace and glory in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">abundance and it is just to venerate them because this results in offering praise and thanksgiving to God</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Himself. Among the saints the Virgin Mary receives a special veneration. Indeed, she is not only the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother of Our Savior Who is God, but also the Mother of us all, and it is as Mother that she intercedes for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">us, full of Divine grace more than all the saints and angels.” (Article 72)</span></div>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-39145294223761831912011-02-19T11:06:00.000-07:002011-02-19T11:06:00.903-07:00Fatima Secrets 7<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>14</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>IT</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhduO46oDixW6oMMBj25TunUGRajFlKWKQRXd45C3fGvSLjjwToTaUPY2hvKJlL-ZXgPgH7g_0cVy6pNWawM9LAFBxNVswt_WfgDjK_LlnZ1yO6H3n9_UgXFpLUT-7azqXQGeJGNgX_S8r_/s1600/Fatima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhduO46oDixW6oMMBj25TunUGRajFlKWKQRXd45C3fGvSLjjwToTaUPY2hvKJlL-ZXgPgH7g_0cVy6pNWawM9LAFBxNVswt_WfgDjK_LlnZ1yO6H3n9_UgXFpLUT-7azqXQGeJGNgX_S8r_/s320/Fatima.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Cardinal Ratzinger: Penance is the Key to the “Secret”</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. Vatican City, Jun 26, 2000 (VIS) - Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Faith, writes that the “key word’’ of the third secret of Fatima “is the triple cry, ‘Penance, Penance</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">27</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Penance!’” These words appear in his “theological commentary’’ published at the end of the document made</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">public today by the Holy See. Cardinal Ratzinger goes on to state that other key words are “my Immaculate</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">heart will triumph,’’ and “the Heart open to God, purified by contemplation of God, is stronger than guns</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and weapons of every kind. The ‘fiat’ of Mary, the word of her heart, has changed the history of the world.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The theological commentary of the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is divided</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">into three parts: Public Revelation and private revelations—their theological status”; “The anthropological</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">structure of private revelations” and “An attempt to interpret the ‘secret’ of Fatima.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. “The term ‘public Revelation’ refers to the revealing action of God directed to humanity as a whole and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which finds its literary expression in the two parts of the Bible: the Old and New Testaments. It is called</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">‘Revelation’ because in it God gradually made himself known to men, to the point of becoming man himself,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in order to draw to himself the whole world and unite it with himself through his Incarnate Son, Jesus</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Christ.…In Christ, God has said everything, that is, he has revealed himself completely, and therefore</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Revelation came to an end with the fulfillment of the mystery of Christ as enunciated in the New</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Testament.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3. ‘Private revelation’, on the other hand, “refers to all the visions and revelations which have taken place</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">since the completion of the New Testament. This is the category to which we must assign the message of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fatima. …The authority of private revelations is essentially different from that of the definitive public</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Revelation. The latter demands faith.” Private revelation, on the other hand, “is a help to this faith, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">shows its credibility precisely by leading (one) back to the definitive public Revelation.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Quoting the Flemish theologian E. Dhanis, Cardinal Ratzinger affirms that “ecclesiastical approval of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">a private revelation has three elements: the message contains nothing contrary to faith or morals; it is lawful</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to make it public; and the faithful are authorized to accept it with prudence. Such a message can be a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">genuine help in understanding the Gospel and living it better at a particular moment in time; therefore it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">should not be disregarded. It is a help which is offered, but which one is not obliged to use.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Cardinal Ratzinger also highlights that “prophecy in the biblical sense does not mean to predict the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">future but to explain the will of God for the present, and therefore show the right path to take for the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">future.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">4. The most important part of the theological commentary is dedicated to: “An attempt to interpret the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">‘secret’ of Fatima.” In the same way as the key word of the first and second part of the ‘secret’ is to ‘save</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">souls,’ “the key word of this third part is the threefold cry: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’ The beginning of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Gospel comes to mind: ‘Repent and believe the Good News.’ To understand the signs of the times means</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to accept “the urgency of penance—of conversion—of faith. This is the correct response to this moment of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">history, characterized by the grave perils outlined in the images that follow. Allow me to add here a personal</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">recollection: in a conversation with me Sister Lucia said that it appeared ever more clearly to her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that the purpose of all the apparitions was to help people to grow more and more in faith, hope and love—</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">everything else was intended to lead to this.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">5. The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith then considers the “images’’ of the secret:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The angel with the flaming sword on the left of the Mother of God recalls similar images in the Book of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Revelation. This represents the threat of judgement which looms over the world. Today the prospect that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the world might be reduced to ashes by a sea of fire no longer seems pure fantasy: man himself, with his</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">inventions, has forged the flaming sword.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The vision then shows the power which stands opposed to the force of destruction the splendor of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother of God and, stemming from this in a certain way, the summons to penance. In this way, the importance</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of human freedom is underlined: the future is not in fact unchangeably set, and the image which the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">children saw is in no way a film preview of a future in which nothing can be changed. Indeed, the whole</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">point of the vision is to bring freedom onto the scene and to steer freedom in a positive direction.…Its</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">meaning is to mobilize the forces of change in the right direction. Therefore we must totally discount fatalistic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">explanations of the ‘secret’, such as, for example, the claim that the would-be assassin of May 13, 1981</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">was merely an instrument of the divine plan guided by Providence.…Rather, the vision speaks of dangers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and how we might be saved from them.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Cardinal Ratzinger explains that “the place of the action is described in three symbols: a steep mountain,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">a great city reduced to ruins and finally a large rough-hewn cross. The mountain and city symbolize</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the arena of human history: history as an arduous ascent to the summit, history as the arena of human</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">28</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">creativity and social harmony, but at the same time a place of destruction, where man actually destroys</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the fruits of his own work.…On the mountain stands the cross—the goal and guide of history. The cross</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">transforms destruction into salvation; it stands as a sign of history’s misery but also as a promise for history.“</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">At this point human persons appear: the Bishop dressed in white: (‘we had the impression that it was</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Holy Father’), other Bishops, priests, men and women Religious, and men and women of different ranks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and social positions. The Pope seems to precede the others, trembling and suffering because of all the horrors</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">around him. Not only do the houses of the city lie half in ruins, but he makes his way among the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">corpses of the dead. The Church’s path is thus described as a ‘Via Crucis’, as a journey through a time of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">violence, destruction and persecution. The history of an entire century can be seen represented in this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">image. Just as the places of the earth are synthetically described in the two images of the mountain and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the city, and are directed towards the cross, so to time is presented in a compressed way.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.adorazionematera.it/Fatima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.adorazionematera.it/Fatima.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">6. “In the vision we can recognize the last century as a century of martyrs, a century of suffering and persecution</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for the Church, a century of World Wars and the many local wars which filled the last fifty years</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and have inflicted unprecedented forms of cruelty. In the ‘mirror’ of this vision we see passing before us the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">witnesses of the faith decade by decade.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The cardinal also states that “in the Via Crucis of an entire century, the figure of the Pope has a special</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">role. In his arduous ascent of the mountain we can undoubtedly see a convergence of different Popes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Beginning from Pius X up to the present Pope, they all shared the sufferings of the century and strove to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">go forward through all the anguish along the path which leads to the Cross. In the vision, the pope too is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">killed along with the martyrs. When, after the attempted assassination on 13 May 1981, the Holy Father</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">had the text of the third part of the ‘secret’ brought to him, was it not inevitable that he should see in it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">his own fate? He had been very close to death, and he himself explained his survival in the following words:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">‘... it was a mother’s hand that guided the bullet’s path and in his throes the Pope halted at the threshold</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of death’ (May 13, 1994). That here ‘a mother’s hand’ had deflected the fateful bullet only shows once more</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that there is no immutable destiny, that faith and prayer are forces which can influence history and that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in the end prayer is more powerful than bullets and faith more powerful than armies.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The conclusion of the secret, continues the cardinal, “uses images which Lucia may have seen in devotional</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">books and which draw their inspiration from long-standing intuitions of faith. It is a consoling</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">vision, which seeks to open a history of blood and tears to the healing power of God. Beneath the arms of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the cross angels gather up the blood of the martyrs, and with it they give life to the souls making their way</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to God. Here, the blood of Christ and the blood of the martyrs are considered as one: the blood of the martyrs</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">runs down from the arms of the cross. The martyrs die in communion with the Passion of Christ, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">their death becomes one with his.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The vision of the third part of the ‘secret’, so distressing at first, concludes with an image of hope: no</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">suffering is in vain, and it is a suffering Church, a Church of martyrs, which becomes a sign-post for man</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in his search for God.…From the suffering of the witnesses there comes a purifying and renewing power,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">because their suffering is the actualization of the suffering of Christ himself and a communication in the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">here and now of its saving effect.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">7. “What is the meaning of the ‘secret’ of Fatima as a whole (in its three parts)?’’ asks the Cardinal: “First</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of all we must affirm with Cardinal Sodano: ‘...the events to which the third part of the ‘secret’ of Fatima</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">refers now seem part of the past.’ Insofar as individual events are described, they belong to the past. Those</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who expected exciting apocalyptic revelations about the end of the world or the future course of history are</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">bound to be disappointed. Fatima does not satisfy our curiosity in this way, just as Christian faith in general</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">cannot be reduced to an object of mere curiosity. What remains was already evident when we began</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">our reflections on the text of the ‘secret’: the exhortation to prayer as the path of ‘salvation for souls’ and,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">likewise, the summons to penance and conversion.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">8. “I would like finally to mention another key expression of the ‘secret’ which has become justly famous:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">‘my Immaculate Heart will triumph.’ What does this mean? The Heart open to God, purified by contemplation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of God, is stronger than guns and weapons of every kind. The ‘fiat’ of Mary, the word of her heart,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">has changed the history of the world, because it brought the Savior into the world—because, thanks to her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">‘Yes’, God could become man in our world and remains so for all time. The Evil One has power in this world,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as we see and experience continually; he has power because our freedom continually lets itself be led away</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">29</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">from God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“But since God himself took a human heart and has thus steered human freedom towards what is good,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the freedom to choose evil no longer has the last word. From that time forth, the word that prevails is this:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">‘In the world you will have tribulation, but take heart; I have overcome the world.’ The message of Fatima</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">invites us to trust in this promise.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Presentation of the Message of Fatima</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. VATICAN CITY, JUN 26, 2000 (VIS) - At midday today in the Holy See Press Office, Cardinal Joseph</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Ratzinger and Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., respectively prefect and secretary of the Congregation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for the Doctrine of the Faith, presented the document “The Message of Fatima.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. During the conference, the cardinal explained the themes presented in the text concerning the “third</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">secret,’’ particularly highlighting the role of the Mother of Christ in the history of salvation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“There exists a synergy between Mother and Son that spans all history,’’ said the cardinal, and he mentioned</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Gospel account of the wedding of Cana when Mary “induced (her Son) to the first sign that manifested</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">His glory. The poverty of the guests is what inspired Mary to intervene then. Poverty at any time</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is a motive for the Mother of the Lord to intervene.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith continued saying, “Mary stands next to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the cross of her Son, sharing in the suffering and in the power of salvation.…The publication of this third</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">part of the secret of Fatima at the beginning of the new millennium proposing once more the center of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Gospel message, also reminds the Church and the world of the meaning and importance of the Mother of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Lord in the history of salvation, and thus of the meaning and value of women, all women, in human</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">history.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3. Archbishop Bertone then spoke. He explained the reasons for which his congregation had been charged</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">with making the third part of the secret public.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“These reasons,’’ he said, “may be easily deduced: connections of the literary genre ‘apparitions’ and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">‘supernatural manifestations’…with the doctrine of the faith and the great public revelation.…The specific</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">area of expertise of the dicastery that through a special office traces and examines, in collaboration with</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">diocesan bishops, all real or imagined supernatural phenomena that are indicated to the local Churches."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">4. Following the presentation, Cardinal Ratzinger and Archbishop Bertone answered journalist’s questions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Archbishop Bertone made it clear that John Paul II did not read the message until after May 13, 1981—</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in other words, after the attempt on his life—and emphatically rejected the hypothesis that he may have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">read it before.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">For his part, Cardinal Ratzinger highlighted that the decision not to publish the “third secret’’ over the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">years was not inspired by reasons of dogma but of prudence. He recognized that the price paid for this was</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the possibility of speculation as to the content. Even so, having waited to divulge it until after the beatification</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the shepherd children Jacinta and Francisco and at the end of a century that had seen the greatest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">number of martyrs in history and an almost infinite series of wars and disasters, was a signal of hope</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and allowed, in the light of history, to places Lucia’s vision in a global context.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The prefect also made it clear that in order to understand the message’s reference to Russia, it was necessary</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to bear in mind what he had said about the recipient of the vision’s limited capacity of comprehension.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“In fact, Sr. Lucia said that we (the shepherds) knew nothing of Russia, we did not even know the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">word Russia. They understood that something dangerous was meant and, naturally, to the limited capacities</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">represented by the mind and soul of three shepherd children the Virgin did not refer to Russia as a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">country with many Christians, rather (she referred to) an anti-Christian system. This is not a condemnation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of Russia, we know the great faith of the Russian people, it is a condemnation of a classical atheist</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">system that threatened humanity. In reality, other systems, especially Nazism, were radically anti-theist</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and threatened both the Church and humanity, there is no exclusive right over that word. 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKTF3E5XUO1fmCg6tE5Af3c_26Z4F_MuiEZGDmLNIp7y5pj2bV46wtFaZdV_FQLmw_XkyrApz-PCu5uk4gh2DTKZTb3AVgS9USFmNJuhLzdAN2oR_oiAkcB-nXDCUz7JOAokfNgWPtwVf/s1600/splash3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKTF3E5XUO1fmCg6tE5Af3c_26Z4F_MuiEZGDmLNIp7y5pj2bV46wtFaZdV_FQLmw_XkyrApz-PCu5uk4gh2DTKZTb3AVgS9USFmNJuhLzdAN2oR_oiAkcB-nXDCUz7JOAokfNgWPtwVf/s320/splash3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Marian Multiplier</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Luigi Cardinal Ciappi’s letter of August 24,1989, reveals the immense spiritual effects of consecration to</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mary and the importance of the daily living of consecration.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">00120 Citta del Vaticano</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Vatican City</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">August 24,1989</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Dear Jerry and Gwen Coniker and all the families of The Apostolate,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I wish to encourage your continued stress on total consecration to Jesus through Mary.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Paragraph 4 of Pope Paul VI’s Apostolic Constitution on the Revision of Indulgences states:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“By the hidden and kindly mystery of God’s will, a supernatural solidarity reigns among men. A consequence</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of this is that the sin of one person harms other people, just as one person’s holiness helps others.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">If this is true, how true it is that when we give all our merits to Mary, she multiplies them by her own</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">incalculable merits. This puts into motion positive spiritual forces to repair the damage due to sin and significantly</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">change the course of history, if enough make this commitment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mary’s merits can multiply the effects of one person’s holiness and help countless souls. Only Heaven</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">knows the depth of holiness a soul must achieve to tip the scales for world peace.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I agree that this apostolate of family consecration is the best way to defeat the scourge of abortion and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">renew family life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The spiritual offensive must always be in the vanguard, presupposing all other activities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The “Marian Era of Evangelization Campaign” can put into motion a chain of events to bring about that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">era of peace promised at Fatima.With His Holiness Pope John Paul II, we look expectantly and prayerfully</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for this era to begin with the dawn of the third millennium, the year 2001.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Praying for the success of your most needed apostolate, I remain,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">23</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Yours in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mario Luigi Cardinal Ciappi, O.P.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pro-Theologian of the Pontifical Household</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Greatest Miracle in the History of the World</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Luigi Cardinal Ciappi’s letter of October 9, 1994, talks about the greatest miracle in the history of the world</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as he addressed the Apostolate for Family Consecration’s annual Totus Tuus Family Conference.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">00120 Citta del Vaticano</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Vatican City</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">October 9, 1994</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Dear Jerry and Gwen:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Once again, your Totus Tuus “Consecrate Them in Truth” Conference will be serving the Church in a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">very timely way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I want to thank everyone who will be attending the Conference this November in Philadelphia, which</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is focused on the priorities and spirituality of Pope John Paul II. It will truly give families a strong motivation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to deepen their knowledge of the Faith and to share it with others in their neighborhoods.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Your use of the social communications and the way in which you are using audio and video</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">tape is a “fail-safe method” of teaching and will allow families of today’s media culture, which</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Holy Father frequently mentions, to become powerful instruments of the Immaculata to</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">bring about the era of peace she promised at Fatima.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Yes, a miracle was promised at Fatima, the greatest miracle in the history of the world, second</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">only to the Resurrection. And that miracle will be an era of peace which has never really</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">been granted before to the world.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I believe that this peace will begin in the domestic church, the family, and go out to the parishes and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">into the diocese, the country, and the world. This lasting peace will be the fruit of a life of service and of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">evangelizing one’s family and neighbors with the truth that will set them free!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Our Blessed Mother promised us this era of peace if we say the daily Rosary, practice the First</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Saturday Communion of Reparation, and live lives consecrated in the truth. This consecration includes giving</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">all of our possessions, both interior and exterior, to Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as you know, in the Apostolate for Family Consecration, we like to add, “in union with St. Joseph.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">As the primary theological advisor to The Apostolate for Family Consecration since 1979, I</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">have reminded its members frequently that consecration is not just a prayer or a devotion but</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">a commitment to a way of life which must be nourished through continuous formation in the</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">eternal truths of our faith.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Yours in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mario Luigi Cardinal Ciappi, O.P.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Papal Theologian Emeritus for Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Paul I, and John Paul II</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">24</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">V. Reparation for Sin</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Excerpts from the Apostolic Constitution on the Revision of Indulgences, Pope Paul VI, January 1, 1967</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">[The numbers found at the end of the paragraphs refer to section numbers in Pope Paul VI’s document.]</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sins Must be Expiated</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The truth has been divinely revealed that sins are followed by punishments. God’s holiness and justice</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">inflict them. Sins must be expiated…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In fact, every sin upsets the universal order God, in his indescribable wisdom and limitless love, has</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">established. Further, every sin does immense harm to the sinner himself and to the community of men. (2)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">What Expiation Involves</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The full taking away and, as it is called, reparation for sin requires two things. Firstly, friendship with</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God must be restored. Amends must be made for offending his wisdom and goodness. This is done by a sincere</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">conversion of mind. Secondly, all the personal and social values, as well as those that are universal,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which sin has lessened or destroyed must be fully made good....</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The very fact that punishment for sin exists and that it is so severe make it possible for us to understand</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">how foolish and malicious sin is and how harmful its consequences are.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The doctrine of Purgatory clearly demonstrates that even when the guilt of sin has been taken away,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">punishment for it or the consequences of it may remain to be expiated or cleansed. (3)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Communion of Saints</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">By the hidden and kindly mystery of God’s will a supernatural solidarity reigns among men. A consequence</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of this is that the sin of one person harms other people just as one person’s holiness helps others. (4)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Following in Christ’s steps, those who believe in him have always tried to help one another along the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">path which leads to the heavenly Father, through prayer, the exchange of spiritual goods and penitential</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">expiation. The more they have been immersed in the fervor of love, the more they have imitated Christ in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">His sufferings. They have carried their crosses to make expiation for their own sins and the sins of others.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">They were convinced that they could help their brothers to obtain salvation from God, Who is the Father</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of mercies. This is the very ancient dogma called the Communion of Saints. It means that the life of each</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">individual son of God is joined in Christ and through Christ by a wonderful link to the life of all his other</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Christian brethren.Together they form the supernatural unity of Christ’s Mystical Body so that, as it were,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">a single mystical person is formed. (5)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.immaginieuropa.com/foto/fatima/foto/Fatima-i-pastorelli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.immaginieuropa.com/foto/fatima/foto/Fatima-i-pastorelli.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">What Indulgences Are: The Church’s Authoritative Intervention</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The taking away of the temporal punishment due to sins when their guilt has already been forgiven</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">has been called specifically “indulgences…”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In fact, in granting an indulgence, the Church uses its powers as minister of Christ’s Redemption…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The authorities of the Church have two aims in granting indulgences. The first is to help the faithful</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to expiate their sins. The second is to encourage them to do works of piety, penitence and charity, particularly</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">those which lead to growth in faith and which help the common good.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Further, if the faithful offer indulgences by way of intercession for the dead they cultivate charity in an</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">excellent way. (8)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">VI. Take Up Your Cross Daily</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">As Holy Week approaches, Christ’s invitation to deny oneself and take up one’s cross is more pressing</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">than ever, the Holy Father said on Sunday, 1 April, before leading the recitation of the Angelus with the</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">faithful in St. Peter’s Square. The Pope said that this invitation particularly applies to young people, to</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">whom the Church presents the Lord’s message “without shortcuts”. Here is a translation of his reflection,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which was given in Italian.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Dear Brothers and Sisters!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. Today we begin the last stage of our Lenten journey, which next Sunday will bring us into Holy Week.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">As we approach the great event of Easter, we hear Jesus’ invitation more pressing than ever: “If anyone</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">25</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Lk 9:23).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">This demanding condition, which Jesus sets for anyone who wishes to follow him, must form the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Christian lifestyle, which Lent urges us to examine, renew and deepen. Jesus does not propose mortification</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as an end in itself. In fact, “denying oneself” and “taking up one’s cross” mean thoroughly accepting</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">one’s responsibility before God and our neighbour. The Son of God was faithful to the mission entrusted to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">him by the Father, to the point of shedding his blood for our salvation. He asks his followers to do the same</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">by giving themselves without reserve to God and to their brethren.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">By treasuring these words of his, we discover how Lent is the time for a fruitful deepening of our faith.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">It has a lofty educational value, particularly for young people, who are called to give clear direction to their</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">lives. To each of them Christ says again: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">his cross daily and follow me”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. Dear young people, this is precisely the theme of my Message for the 16th World Youth Day, which will</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">be celebrated next Sunday, Palm Sunday, in every Diocese.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Christ is demanding with his disciples, and the Church does not hesitate to repropose his Gospel to you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“without shortcuts”. Those who are taught by the Divine Master lovingly embrace his Cross, which leads</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to the fullness of life and happiness. Is it not the Cross which for 15 years now has led the pilgrimage of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">young people on the occasion of the World Youth Days?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Next Sunday at the end of the Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Square, this Cross, which has traveled around</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the world, will be handed over by Rome’s young people to those of Toronto, the Canadian city that will host</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the World Youth Meeting in July 2002.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3. To prepare ourselves for this inspiring ceremony, I invite you, dear young people of Rome, to come here,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to St. Peter’s Square, next Thursday afternoon. We will spend a time of prayer, reflection and celebration</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">together. I am expecting you in large numbers and, while waiting to meet you, I entrust you and your peers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">from every nation and continent to the Blessed Virgin, that she may lead you to meet her Son, Jesus.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Printed with permission of L’Osservatore Romono.)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">VII. Summary Articles on the Fatima Message from the</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Vatican Information Service</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Note: section numbers added.)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Presentation of Text of Third Secret of Fatima</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. VATICAN CITY, JUN 26, 2000 (VIS) - This morning in the Holy See Press Office, the document “The</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Message of Fatima’’ was presented. It has been prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and carries the signatures of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., respectively</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">prefect and secretary of the congregation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The document, which is over 40 pages long, has been published in English, French, Italian, Spanish,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">German, Portuguese and Polish. It is made up of an introduction by Archbishop Bertone; the first and second</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">parts of the “secret’’ of Fatima in Sr. Lucia’s original text dated August 31, 1941 and addressed to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">bishop of Leiria-Fatima, and a translation; the photostatic reproduction of the original manuscript of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">third part of the “secret’’ and a translation; John Paul II’s letter to Sr. Lucia dated April 19, 2000, and a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">translation; a summary of Sr. Lucia’s conversation with Archbishop Bertone and Bishop Serafim de Sousa</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Ferreira e Silva of Leiria-Fatima which took place on April 27, 2000, in the Carmel Monastery of St. Teresa</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of Coimbra, Portugal; the words of Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano at the end of the beatification</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of Jacinta and Francisco on May 13, 2000; a theological commentary by Cardinal Ratzinger.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. In his introduction, Archbishop Bertone affirms that “Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">apparitions...in 1917 no one could have imagined all this: the three ‘pastorinhos’ of Fatima see, listen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and remember, and Lucia, the surviving witness, commits it all to paper when ordered to do so by the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Bishop of Leiria and with Our Lady's permission.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">He continues: “The third part of the ‘secret’ was written…on January 3, 1944. There is only one manuscript,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which is here reproduced photostatically. The sealed envelope was initially in the custody of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Bishop of Leiria. To ensure better protection for the ‘secret’ the envelope was placed in the secret archives</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the Holy Office on April 4, 1957. The Bishop of Leiria informed Sr. Lucia of this.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">26</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3. The secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith indicates that “according to the records</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the Archives, the Commissary of the Holy Office, Fr. Pierre Paul Philippe O.P., with the agreement of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, brought the envelope containing the third part of the ‘secret of Fatima’ to Pope</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">John XXIII on August 17, 1959. ‘After some hesitation,’ His Holiness said: ‘We shall wait. I shall pray. I</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">shall let you know what I decide.’ In fact Pope John XXIII decided to return the sealed envelope to the Holy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Office and not to reveal the third part of the ‘secret.’ Paul VI read the contents with the Substitute,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Archbishop Angelo Dell’Acqua, on March 27, 1965 and returned the envelope to the Archives of the Holy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Office, deciding not to publish the text. John Paul II, for his part, asked for the envelope containing the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">third part of the ‘secret’ following the assassination attempt on May 13, 1981,’’ and this was given to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Archbishop Eduardo Martinez Somalo, Substitute of the Secretariat of State, on July 18 of the same year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">On August 11 it was returned to the Archives of the Holy Office.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">4. “As is well known,’’ added Archbishop Bertone, “Pope John Paul II immediately thought of consecrating</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and he himself composed a prayer for what he called an</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">‘Act of Entrustment’ which was to be celebrated in the Basilica of St. Mary Major on June 7, 1981.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“In order to respond more fully to the requests of ‘Our Lady,’ the Holy Father desired to make more</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">explicit during the Holy Year of the Redemption the Act of Entrustment of June 7, 1981, which had been</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">repeated in Fatima on May 13, 1982.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Sr. Lucia,’’ continued the archbishop, “personally confirmed that this solemn and universal act of consecration</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">corresponded to what Our Lady wished. Hence any further discussion or request is without</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">basis.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">5. Sr. Lucia had already hinted at the interpretation of the third part of the ‘secret’ in a letter to the Holy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Father dated May 12, 1982. That letter is also published in the document.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Finally, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone indicates that “the decision of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">make public the third part of the ‘secret’ of Fatima brings to an end a period of history marked by tragic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">human lust for power and evil, yet pervaded by the merciful love of God and the watchful care of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother of Jesus and of the Church.’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Complete Translation of the Original Text</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. VATICAN CITY, JUN 26, 2000 (VIS) - Given below is the complete translation of the original</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Portuguese text of the third part of the secret of Fatima, revealed to the three shepherd children at Cova</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">da Iria-Fatima on July 13, 1917, and committed to paper by Sr. Lucia on January 3, 1944:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. “After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">it was the Holy Father’. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.’’</span></div>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-33485763948152589612011-02-13T10:59:00.001-07:002011-02-13T10:59:00.438-07:00Fatima Secrets 5<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Joseph Card. Ratzinger</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Prefect of the Congregation</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for the Doctrine of the Faith.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.religious.marksanislo.com/gallery/pg3/oils/fatima_forever_big.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.religious.marksanislo.com/gallery/pg3/oils/fatima_forever_big.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Endnotes</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(1) From the diary of John XXIII, 17 August 1959: “Audiences: Father Philippe, Commissary of the Holy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Office, who brought me the letter containing the third part of the secrets of Fatima. I intend to read it with my</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Confessor.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">18</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(2) The Holy Father’s comment at the General Audience of 14 October 1981 on “What happened in May: A</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Great Divine Trial” should be recalled: </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, IV, 2 (Vatican City, 1981), 409-412.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(3) Radio message during the Ceremony of Veneration, Thanksgiving and Entrustment to the Virgin Mary</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Theotokos in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major: </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, IV, 1 (Vatican City, 1981),</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1246.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(4) On the Jubilee Day for Families, the Pope entrusted individuals and nations to Our Lady: </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Insegnamenti</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">di Giovanni Paolo II, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">VII, 1 (Vatican City, 1984), 775-777.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(5)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(6) In the “Fourth Memoir” of 8 December 1941 Sister Lucia writes: “I shall begin then my new task, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">thus fulfill the commands received from Your Excellency as well as the desires of Dr. Galamba.With the exception</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of that part of the Secret which I am not permitted to reveal at present, I shall say everything. I shall not</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">knowingly omit anything, though I suppose I may forget just a few small details of minor importance.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(7) In the “Fourth Memoir” Sister Lucia adds: “In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">etc. ....”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(8) In the translation, the original text has been respected, even as regards the imprecise punctuation,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which nevertheless does not impede an understanding of what the visionary wished to say.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Printed with permission L’Osservatore Romano)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">19</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">III. Other Letters by Sr. Lucia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Apparitions of the Angel</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Excerpt from the letter of December 8, 1941, to the Bishop.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">…The dates I cannot set down with certainty, because, at that time, I did not know how to reckon the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">years, the months, or even the days of the week. But I think it must have been in the spring of 1916 that the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Angel appeared to us for the first time in our Loca do Cabeço.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">As I have already written in my account of Jacinta, we climbed the hillside in search of shelter. After</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">having taken our lunch and said our prayers, we began to see, some distance off, above the trees that stretched</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">away towards the east, a light, whiter than snow, in the form of a young man, transparent, and brighter than</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">crystal pierced by the rays of the sun. As he drew nearer, we could distinguish his features more and more</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">clearly.We were surprised, absorbed, and struck dumb with amazement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">On reaching us, he said:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Do not be afraid. I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Kneeling on the ground, he bowed down until his forehead touched the earth. Led by a supernatural</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">impulse, we did the same, and repeated the words which we heard him say:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">adore, do not hope and do not love You!”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Having repeated these words three times, he rose and said:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications.” Then he disappeared.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The supernatural atmosphere which enveloped us was so intense, that we were for a long time scarcely</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">aware of our own existence, remaining in the same posture in which he had left us, and continually repeating</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the same prayer. The presence of God made itself felt so intimately and so intensely that we did not even venture</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to speak to one another. Next day, we were still immersed in this spiritual atmosphere, which only</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">gradually began to disappear.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">It did not occur to us to speak about this Apparition, nor did we think of recommending that it be kept secret.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The very Apparition itself imposed secrecy. It was so intimate, that it was not easy to speak of it at all. The impression</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">it made upon us was all the greater perhaps, in that it was the first such manifestation that we had</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">experienced.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The second Apparition must have been at the height of summer, when the heat of the day was so intense</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that we had to take the sheep home before noon and only let them out again in the early evening.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">We went to spend the siesta hours in the shade of the trees which surrounded the well that I have already</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">mentioned several times. Suddenly, we saw the same Angel right beside us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“What are you doing?” he asked. “Pray! Pray very much! The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have designs of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">mercy on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices constantly to the Most High.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“How are we to make sacrifices?” I asked.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Make of everything you can a sacrifice, and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins by which He</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is offended, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners. You will thus draw down peace upon your</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">country. I am its Angel Guardian, the Angel of Portugal. Above all, accept and bear with submission, the suffering</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which the Lord will send you.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">These words were indelibly impressed upon our minds. They were like a light which made us understand</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who God is, how He loves us and desires to be loved, the value of sacrifice, how pleasing it is to Him and how,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">on account of it, He grants the grace of conversion to sinners. It was for this reason that we began, from then</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">on, to offer to the Lord all that mortified us, without, however, seeking out other forms of mortification and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">penance, except that we remained for hours on end with our foreheads touching the ground, repeating the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">prayer the Angel had taught us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">It seems to me that the third Apparition must have been in October, or towards the end of September, as</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">we were no longer returning home for siesta.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">As I have already written in my account of Jacinta, we went one day from Pregueira (a small olive grove</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">belonging to my parents) to the Lapa, making our way along the slope of the hill on the side facing Aljustrel</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and Casa Velha.We said our Rosary there and the prayer the Angel had taught us at the first Apparition.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/Madonna%20di%20Fatima%2002133.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://digilander.libero.it/immaginisacre/Madonna%20di%20Fatima%2002133.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">While we were there, the Angel appeared to us for the third time, holding a chalice in his hands, with a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">host above it from which some drops of blood were falling into the sacred vessel. Leaving the chalice and the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">host suspended in the air, the Angel prostrated on the ground and repeated this prayer three times:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. And, through the infinite merits of His most Sacred</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Heart, and through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Then, rising, he once more took the chalice and the host in his hands. He gave the host to me, and to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Jacinta. and Francisco he gave the contents of the chalice to drink, saying as he did so: “Take and drink the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Repair their crimes and console your</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God.” Once again, he prostrated on the ground and repeated with us three times more, the same prayer “Most</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Holy Trinity...”, and then disappeared.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Impelled by the power of the supernatural that enveloped us, we imitated all that the Angel had done,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">prostrating ourselves on the ground as he did and repeating the prayers that he said. The force of the presence</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of God was so intense that it absorbed us and almost completely annihilated us. It seemed to deprive us even</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the use of our bodily senses for a considerable length of time. During those days, we performed all our exterior</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">actions as though guided by that same supernatural being who was impelling us thereto. The peace and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">happiness which we felt were great, but wholly interior, for our souls were completely immersed in God. The</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">physical exhaustion that came over us was also great.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I do not know why, but the Apparitions of Our Lady produced in us very different effects.We felt the same</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">intimate joy, the same peace and happiness, but instead of physical prostration, an expansive ease of movement;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">instead of this annihilation in the Divine Presence, a joyful exultation; instead of the difficulty in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">speaking, we felt a certain communicative enthusiasm.…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Fatima: In Lucia’s Own Words</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, edited by Fr. Louis Kondor, S.V.D., November 1998.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Apparitions of October 13, 1917</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">While 70,000 people were witnessing the Miracle of the Sun on October 13, 1917, the three children had the</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">following vision. This text is an excerpt from Sr. Lucia’s letter of December 8, 1941, to the Bishop.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">…Here you have, your Excellency, the reason why I shouted that they should look at the sun. My purpose</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">was not to bring the attention of the crowd to the sun, because I didn’t notice them. I wasn’t even</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">aware of their presence. I did so, moved by an inner force which impelled me to act thus. When our Lady</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">disappeared in the immense distance of the sky, next to the sun we saw Saint Joseph holding the Child</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Jesus and our lady dressed in white with a blue mantle. Saint Joseph and the Child seemed to be blessing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the world making the sign of the cross. Shortly after this vision had vanished, I saw our Lord and our Lady</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who reminded me of our Lady of Sorrows. Our Lord was blessing the world just the same way as Saint</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Joseph. This vision vanished too, and it seemed to me I again saw our Lady dressed as our Lady of Mount</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Carmel.…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">True Penance</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Excerpt from Sr. Lucia’s letter of May 4, 1943.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Reverend Father Superior,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Thank goodness, I finally received a letter from you. My God, it took so long!…I can’t even think that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">you are so far away; but I think a lot about it so that my sacrifice may be more complete for the conversion</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of those souls. May the good Lord accept it. As for me, I am doing well. The Bishop of Gurza tries to help</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">me, and I always thank his good counsel and prayers. He also shows me what I must make known, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that is always the most difficult thing for me to do, but obedience gives strength and I keep going. I had to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">make known to the Archbishop of Valladolid, by order of His Excellency, a little request of our Lord to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Bishops of Spain and another to the Bishops of Portugal. God make all of them hear His voice. He wishes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that the Bishops of Spain unite themselves in a retreat and determine a reform in the people, clergy and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">religious orders, some convents and many members of others!…do you understand? </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">He wishes that it be</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">made clear to the souls that the true penance He now wants and requires consists of first of all</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the sacrifice that each one must make to fulfill his own religious and worldly duties. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">He promises</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the end of the war shortly in answer to the act of consecration made by His Holiness. But since it was</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">21</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">incomplete, the conversion of Russia will take place later. If the Bishops of Spain do not attend to His wishes,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">it will be once more the scourge with which God punishes them…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">First Saturday Communion of Reparation Devotion</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Excerpt from Sr. Lucia’s letter to the</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Holy Father on December 2, 1940.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Most Holy Father,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Humbly prostrated at your feet, I come as the last sheep of the fold entrusted to you to open my heart,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">by order of my spiritual director.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I am the only survivor of the children to whom our Lady appeared in Fatima (Portugal) from the 13th</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of May to the 13th of October 1917. The Blessed Virgin has granted me many graces, the greatest of all</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">being my admission to the Institute of Saint Dorothy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I come, Most Holy Father, to renew a request that has already been brought to you several times. The</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">request, Most Holy Father, is from our Lord and our good Mother in Heaven.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In 1917, in the portion of the apparitions that we have designated “the secret”, the Blessed Virgin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">revealed the end of the war that was then afflicting Europe, and predicted another forthcoming, saying</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that to prevent it she would come and ask the consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart as well as</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Communion of reparation on the first Saturday [Pope John Paul II made this consecration on March</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">25, 1984, in union with the bishops]. She promised peace and the conversion of that nation if Her request</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">was attended to. She announced that otherwise this nation would spread her errors throughout the world,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and there would be wars, persecutions of the Holy Church, martyrdom of many Christians, several persecutions</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and sufferings reserved for Your Holiness, and the annihilation of several nations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Most Holy Father, this remained a secret until 1926 according to the express will of our Lady. Then, in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">a revelation she asked that the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">be propagated throughout the world, with its conditions of doing the following with the same purpose:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">going to confession, meditating for a quarter of an hour on the mysteries of the Rosary and saying the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Rosary with the aim of making reparation for the insults, sacrileges and indifferences committed against</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Her Immaculate Heart. Our good Heavenly Mother promises to assist the persons who will practice this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">devotion, in the hour of their death, with all the necessary graces for their salvation.…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Five Offenses Committed Against the Immaculate Heart</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Five First Saturdays devotion makes reparation for the offenses that offend the Immaculate Heart of</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mary. Below is an excerpt from Sr. Lucia’s letter of June 12, 1930, to her confessor.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">…There are five ways in which people offend and blaspheme against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1st — The blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2nd — Against her Virginity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3rd — Against the Divine Maternity, refusing at the same time to accept her as the Mother of all</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">mankind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">4th — Those who try publicly to implant in the children’s hearts, indifference, contempt and even hate</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">against his Immaculate Mother.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">5th — Those who insult her directly in her sacred statues.…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">IV. 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I have felt a personal bond with him since my studies, and I am</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">pleased to honor his memory at this moment, so full of emotion, by my testimony of sincere esteem and deep</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">gratitude.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“His brilliant and keen capacity for theological investigation grew and was quickly noticed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“With a profound knowledge of the theological thought, he was himself a capable theologian who was able</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to serve the Church generously, first by teaching dogmatic theology and Thomistic aesthetics. The results he</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">achieved in this task brought him to the attention of Pope Pius XII, who in 1955 wanted him at his side as</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Master of the Sacred Palace. He was confirmed in this office by Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI, who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">spelled out his duties in the Motu Proprio Pontificalis Domus, and appointed him Theologian of the Papal</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Household.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“His clear thinking, the soundness of his teaching and his undisputed fidelity to the Apostolic See, as</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">well as his ability to interpret the signs of the times according to God, were qualities that made him a valued</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">collaborator during the intense period of the Second Vatican Council to which he made a significant</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and balanced contribution.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“His careful scholarly work was always accompanied by an intense spiritual life and prayer, the first</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and fundamental nourishment of his whole life.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Printed with permission L’Osservatore Romano)</span></i></div>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-68897160976723364512011-02-11T10:56:00.000-07:002011-02-11T10:56:01.014-07:00Fatima Secrets 4<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>14</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>IT</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://apparizionimariane.net/images/fatima-messaggi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://apparizionimariane.net/images/fatima-messaggi.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The anthropological structure of private revelations</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">27. In these reflections we have sought so far to identify the theological status of private revelations. Before</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">undertaking an interpretation of the message of Fatima, we must still attempt briefly to offer some clarification</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of their anthropological (psychological) character. In this field, theological anthropology distinguishes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">three forms of perception or “vision”: vision with the senses, and hence exterior bodily perception, interior perception,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and spiritual vision (</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">visio sensibilis—imaginativa— intellectualis</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">). It is clear that in the visions of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Lourdes, Fatima and other places it is not a question of normal exterior perception of the senses: the images</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and forms which are seen are not located spatially, as is the case for example with a tree or a house. This is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">perfectly obvious, for instance, as regards the vision of hell (described in the first part of the Fatima “secret”) or</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">even the vision described in the third part of the “secret.” But the same can be very easily shown with regard</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to other visions, especially since not everybody present saw them, but only the “visionaries.” It is also clear that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">it is not a matter of a “vision” in the mind, without images, as occurs at the higher levels of mysticism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Therefore we are dealing with the middle category, interior perception. For the visionary, this perception certainly</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">has the force of a presence, equivalent for that person to an external manifestation to the senses.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Interior vision does not mean fantasy, which would be no more than an expression of the subjective imagination.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">It means rather that the soul is touched by something real, even if beyond the senses. It is rendered</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">capable of seeing that which is beyond the senses, that which cannot be seen—seeing by means of the “interior</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">senses.” It involves true “objects”, which touch the soul, even if these “objects” do not belong to our habitual</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">15</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">sensory world. This is why there is a need for an interior vigilance of the heart, which is usually precluded by</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the intense pressure of external reality and of the images and thoughts which fill the soul. The person is led</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">beyond pure exteriority and is touched by deeper dimensions of reality, which become visible to him. Perhaps</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">this explains why children tend to be the ones to receive these apparitions: their souls are as yet little disturbed,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">their interior powers of perception are still not impaired. “On the lips of children and of babes you have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">found praise”, replies Jesus with a phrase of Psalm 8 (v. 3) to the criticism of the High Priests and elders, who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">had judged the children’s cries of “Hosanna” inappropriate (cf. Mt 21:16).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Interior vision” is not fantasy but, as we have said, a true and valid means of verification. But it also has</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">its limitations. Even in exterior vision the subjective element is always present.We do not see the pure object,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">but it comes to us through the filter of our senses, which carry out a work of translation. This is still more evident</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in the case of interior vision, especially when it involves realities which in themselves transcend our</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">horizon. The subject, the visionary, is still more powerfully involved. He sees insofar as he is able, in the modes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of representation and consciousness available to him. In the case of interior vision, the process of translation is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">even more extensive than in exterior vision, for the subject shares in an essential way in the formation of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">image of what appears. He can arrive at the image only within the bounds of his capacities and possibilities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Such visions therefore are never simple “photographs” of the other world, but are influenced by the potentialities</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and limitations of the perceiving subject.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">This can be demonstrated in all the great visions of the saints; and naturally it is also true of the visions of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the children at Fatima. The images described by them are by no means a simple expression of their fantasy,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">but the result of a real perception of a higher and interior origin. But neither should they be thought of as if for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">a moment the veil of the other world were drawn back, with heaven appearing in its pure essence, as one day</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">we hope to see it in our definitive union with God. Rather the images are, in a manner of speaking, a synthesis</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the impulse coming from on high and the capacity to receive this impulse in the visionaries, that is, the children.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">For this reason, the figurative language of the visions is symbolic. In this regard, Cardinal Sodano</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">stated: “[they] do not describe photographically the details of future events, but synthesize and compress</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">against a single background facts which extend through time in an unspecified succession and duration.” This</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">compression of time and place in a single image is typical of such visions, which for the most part can be deciphered</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">only in retrospect. Not every element of the vision has to have a specific historical sense. It is the vision</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as a whole that matters, and the details must be understood on the basis of the images taken in their entirety.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The central element of the image is revealed where it coincides with what is the focal point of Christian</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“prophecy” itself: the center is found where the vision becomes a summons and a guide to the will of God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">An attempt to interpret the “secret” of Fatima</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">28. The first and second parts of the “secret” of Fatima have already been so amply discussed in the relative</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">literature that there is no need to deal with them again here. I would just like to recall briefly the most significant</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">point. For one terrible moment, the children were given a vision of hell. They saw the fall of “the souls of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">poor sinners.” And now they are told why they have been exposed to this moment: “in order to save souls”—to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">show the way to salvation. The words of the First Letter of Peter come to mind: “As the outcome of your faith</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">you obtain the salvation of your souls” (1:9).To reach this goal, the way indicated—surprisingly for people from</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Anglo-Saxon and German cultural world—is devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. A brief comment</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">may suffice to explain this. In biblical language, the “heart” indicates the centre of human life, the point where</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">reason, will, temperament and sensitivity converge, where the person finds his unity and his interior orientation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">According to Matthew 5:8, the “immaculate heart” is a heart which, with God’s grace, has come to perfect</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">interior unity and therefore “sees God.” To be “devoted” to the Immaculate Heart of Mary means therefore to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">embrace this attitude of heart, which makes the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">fiat</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">—“your will be done”—the defining centre of one’s whole</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">life. It might be objected that we should not place a human being between ourselves and Christ. But then we</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">remember that Paul did not hesitate to say to his communities: “imitate me” (1 Cor 4:16; Phil 3:17; 1 Th 1:6; 2</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Th 3:7, 9). In the Apostle they could see concretely what it meant to follow Christ. But from whom might we</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">better learn in every age than from the Mother of the Lord?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Thus we come finally to the third part of the “secret” of Fatima which for the first time is being published</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in its entirety. As is clear from the documentation presented here, the interpretation offered by Cardinal</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sodano in his statement of 13 May was first put personally to Sister Lucia. Sister Lucia responded by pointing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">out that she had received the vision but not its interpretation. The interpretation, she said, belonged not to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">visionary but to the Church. After reading the text, however, she said that this interpretation corresponded to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">what she had experienced and that on her part she thought the interpretation correct. In what follows, therefore,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">we can only attempt to provide a deeper foundation for this interpretation, on the basis of the criteria</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">already considered.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://copertinedvd.org/copertine-files/Fatima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="http://copertinedvd.org/copertine-files/Fatima.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“To save souls” has emerged as the key word of the first and second parts of the “secret”, and the key word</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of this third part is the threefold cry: “Penance, Penance, Penance!” The beginning of the Gospel comes to mind:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Repent and believe the Good News” (Mk 1:15). To understand the signs of the times means to accept the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">urgency of penance—of conversion—of faith. This is the correct response to this moment of history, characterized</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">by the grave perils outlined in the images that follow. Allow me to add here a personal recollection: in a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">conversation with me Sister Lucia said that it appeared ever more clearly to her that the purpose of all the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">apparitions was to help people to grow more and more in faith, hope and love—everything else was intended to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">lead to this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">29. Let us now examine more closely the single images. The angel with the flaming sword on the left of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother of God recalls similar images in the Book of Revelation. This represents the threat of judgement which</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">looms over the world. Today the prospect that the world might be reduced to ashes by a sea of fire no longer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">seems pure fantasy: man himself, with his inventions, has forged the flaming sword.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The vision then shows the power which stands opposed to the force of destruction—the splendor of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mother of God and, stemming from this in a certain way, the summons to penance. In this way, the importance</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of human freedom is underlined: the future is not in fact unchangeably set, and the image which the children</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">saw is in no way a film preview of a future in which nothing can be changed. Indeed, the whole point of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">vision is to bring freedom onto the scene and to steer freedom in a positive direction. The purpose of the vision</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is not to show a film of an irrevocably fixed future. Its meaning is exactly the opposite: it is meant to mobilize</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the forces of change in the right direction. Therefore we must totally discount fatalistic explanations of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“secret”, such as, for example, the claim that the would-be assassin of 13 May 1981 was merely an instrument</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the divine plan guided by Providence and could not therefore have acted freely, or other similar ideas in circulation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Rather, the vision speaks of dangers and how we might be saved from them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The next phrases of the text show very clearly once again the symbolic character of the vision: God</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">remains immeasurable, and is the light which surpasses every vision of ours. Human persons appear as in a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">mirror.We must always keep in mind the limits in the vision itself, which here are indicated visually. The</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">future appears only “in a mirror dimly” (1 Cor 13:12). Let us now consider the individual images which follow</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in the text of the “secret.” The place of the action is described in three symbols: a steep mountain, a great city</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">reduced to ruins and finally a large rough-hewn cross. The mountain and city symbolize the arena of human</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">history: history as an arduous ascent to the summit, history as the arena of human creativity and social harmony,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">but at the same time a place of destruction, where man actually destroys the fruits of his own work. The</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">city can be the place of communion and progress, but also of danger and the most extreme menace. On the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">mountain stands the cross—the goal and guide of history. The cross transforms destruction into salvation; it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">stands as a sign of history’s misery but also as a promise for history.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">At this point human persons appear: the Bishop dressed in white (“we had the impression that it was the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Holy Father”), other Bishops, priests, men and women Religious, and men and women of different ranks and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">social positions. The Pope seems to precede the others, trembling and suffering because of all the horrors</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">around him. Not only do the houses of the city lie half in ruins, but he makes his way among the corpses of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">dead. The Church’s path is thus described as a </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Via Crucis</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, as a journey through a time of violence, destruction</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and persecution. The history of an entire century can be seen represented in this image. Just as the places of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the earth are synthetically described in the two images of the mountain and the city, and are directed towards</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the cross, so too time is presented in a compressed way. In the vision we can recognize the last century as a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">century of martyrs, a century of suffering and persecution for the Church, a century of World Wars and the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">many local wars which filled the last fifty years and have inflicted unprecedented forms of cruelty. In the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“mirror” of this vision we see passing before us the witnesses of the faith decade by decade. Here it would be</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">appropriate to mention a phrase from the letter which Sister Lucia wrote to the Holy Father on 12 May 1982:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The third part of the ‘secret’ refers to Our Lady’s words: ‘If not, [Russia] will spread her errors throughout the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Via Crucis </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of an entire century, the figure of the Pope has a special role. In his arduous ascent of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">mountain we can undoubtedly see a convergence of different Popes. Beginning from Pius X up to the present</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">17</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pope, they all shared the sufferings of the century and strove to go forward through all the anguish along the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">path which leads to the Cross. In the vision, the Pope too is killed along with the martyrs. When, after the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">attempted assassination on 13 May 1981, the Holy Father had the text of the third part of the “secret” brought</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to him, was it not inevitable that he should see in it his own fate? He had been very close to death, and he himself</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">explained his survival in the following words: “... it was a mother’s hand that guided the bullet’s path and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in his throes the Pope halted at the threshold of death” (13 May 1994). That here “a mother’s hand” had</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deflected the fateful bullet only shows once more that there is no immutable destiny, that faith and prayer are</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">forces which can influence history and that in the end prayer is more powerful than bullets and faith more</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">powerful than armies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The concluding part of the “secret” uses images which Lucia may have seen in devotional books and which</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">draw their inspiration from long-standing intuitions of faith. It is a consoling vision, which seeks to open a history</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of blood and tears to the healing power of God. Beneath the arms of the cross angels gather up the blood of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the martyrs, and with it they give life to the souls making their way to God. Here, the blood of Christ and the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">blood of the martyrs are considered as one: the blood of the martyrs runs down from the arms of the cross. The</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">martyrs die in communion with the Passion of Christ, and their death becomes one with his. For the sake of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the body of Christ, they complete what is still lacking in his afflictions (cf. Col 1:24). Their life has itself become</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">a Eucharist, part of the mystery of the grain of wheat which in dying yields abundant fruit. The blood of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">martyrs is the seed of Christians, said Tertullian. As from Christ’s death, from his wounded side, the Church</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">was born, so the death of the witnesses is fruitful for the future life of the Church. Therefore, the vision of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">third part of the “secret”, so distressing at first, concludes with an image of hope: no suffering is in vain, and it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is a suffering Church, a Church of martyrs, which becomes a sign-post for man in his search for God. The</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">loving arms of God welcome not only those who suffer like Lazarus, who found great solace there and mysteriously</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">represents Christ, who wished to become for us the poor Lazarus. There is something more: from the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">suffering of the witnesses there comes a purifying and renewing power, because their suffering is the actualization</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the suffering of Christ himself and a communication in the here and now of its saving effect.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">30. And so we come to the final question: What is the meaning of the “secret” of Fatima as a whole (in its three</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">parts)? What does it say to us? First of all we must affirm with Cardinal Sodano: …the events to which the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">third part of the ‘secret’ of Fatima refers now seem part of the past.” Insofar as individual events are described,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">they belong to the past. Those who expected exciting apocalyptic revelations about the end of the world or the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">future course of history are bound to be disappointed. Fatima does not satisfy our</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">curiosity in this way, just as Christian faith in general cannot be reduced to an object of mere curiosity. What</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">remains was already evident when we began our reflections on the text of the “secret”: the exhortation to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">prayer as the path of “salvation for souls” and, likewise, the summons to penance and conversion.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">31. I would like finally to mention another key expression of the “secret” which has become justly famous: “my</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Immaculate Heart will triumph.” What does this mean? The Heart open to God, purified by contemplation of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God, is stronger than guns and weapons of every kind. The </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">fiat </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of Mary, the word of her heart, has changed the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">history of the world, because it brought the Savior into the world—because, thanks to her </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Yes, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God could</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">become man in our world and remains so for all time. The Evil One has power in this world, as we see and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">experience continually; he has power because our freedom continually lets itself be led away from God. But</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">since God himself took a human heart and has thus steered human freedom towards what is good, the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">freedom to choose evil no longer has the last word. From that time forth, the word that prevails is this: “In the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">world you will have tribulation, but take heart; I have overcome the world” (Jn 16:33). The message of Fatima</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">invites us to trust in this promise.</span></div>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-77549951528012018342011-02-09T10:51:00.002-07:002011-02-09T10:51:00.286-07:00Fatima Secrets 3<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The “Secret” of Fatima:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">First and Second Part</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the “Secret”</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://cemcatania.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/madonna_fatima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://cemcatania.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/madonna_fatima.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">According to the version presented by Sister Lucia in the “Third Memoir” of 31 August 1941</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">original text:</span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">)</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(translation:) </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(6)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">11. …This will entail my speaking about the secret, and thus answering the first question.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">What is the secret? It seems to me that I can reveal it, since I already have permission from Heaven to do</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">so. God’s representatives on earth have authorized me to do this several times and in various letters, one of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which, I believe, is in your keeping. This letter is from Father José Bernardo Gonçalves, and in it he advises me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to write to the Holy Father, suggesting, among other things, that I should reveal the secret. I did say something</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">about it. But in order not to make my letter too long, since I was told to keep it short, I confined myself to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">essentials, leaving it to God to provide another more favorable opportunity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In my second account I have already described in detail the doubt which tormented me from 13 June until</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">13 July, and how it disappeared completely during the Apparition on that day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">12. Well, the secret is made up of three distinct parts, two of which I am now going to reveal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The first part is the vision of hell. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Apparition, to take us to heaven. Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">13. We then looked up at Our Lady, who said to us so kindly and so sadly:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">peace. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays [see page 90]. If my requests are</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">world.” (7)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Third Part of the “Secret”</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(original text:)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">9</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(translation:) </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(8)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“J.M.J.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">14. The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on 13 July 1917.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Penance!’ And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that were making their way to God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Tuy-3-1-1944.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Interpretation of the “Secret”</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Sister Lucia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(original text:)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">10</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(translation:)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">15. To the Reverend Sister</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Maria Lucia</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the Convent of Coimbra</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In the great joy of Easter, I greet you with the words the Risen Jesus spoke to the disciples: “Peace be with</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">you”!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I will be happy to be able to meet you on the long-awaited day of the Beatification of Francisco and Jacinta,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which, please God, I will celebrate on 13 May of this year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Since on that day there will be time only for a brief greeting and not a conversation, I am sending His</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Excellency Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to speak</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">with you. This is the Congregation which works most closely with the Pope in defending the true Catholic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">faith, and which since 1957, as you know, has kept your hand-written letter containing the third part of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“secret” revealed on 13 July 1917 at Cova da Iria, Fatima.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Archbishop Bertone, accompanied by the Bishop of Leiria, His Excellency Bishop Serafim de Sousa</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Ferreira e Silva, will come in my name to ask certain questions about the interpretation of “the third part of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the secret.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sister Maria Lucia, you may speak openly and candidly to Archbishop Bertone, who will report your</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">answers directly to me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I pray fervently to the Mother of the Risen Lord for you, Reverend Sister, for the Community of Coimbra</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and for the whole Church. May Mary, Mother of pilgrim humanity, keep us always united to Jesus, her beloved</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Son and our brother, the Lord of life and glory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">With my special Apostolic Blessing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Ioannes Paulus PP.II</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">From the Vatican, 19 April 2000.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Conversation with Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">16. The meeting between Sister Lucia, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of the Congregation for the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Doctrine of the Faith, sent by the Holy Father, and Bishop Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva, Bishop of Leiria-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fatima, took place on Thursday, 27 April 2000, in the Carmel of Saint Teresa in Coimbra.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sister Lucia was lucid and at ease; she was very happy that the Holy Father was going to Fatima for the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Beatification of Francisco and Jacinta, something she had looked forward to for a long time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Bishop of Leiria-Fatima read the autograph letter of the Holy Father, which explained the reasons for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the visit. Sister Lucia felt honored by this and reread the letter herself, contemplating it in own her hands. She</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">said that she was prepared to answer all questions frankly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">At this point, Archbishop Bertone presented two envelopes to her: the first containing the second, which</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">held the third part of the “secret” of Fatima. Immediately, touching it with her fingers, she said: “This is my</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">letter”, and then while reading it: “This is my writing.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">17. The original text, in Portuguese, was read and interpreted with the help of the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sister Lucia agreed with the interpretation that the third part of the “secret” was a prophetic vision, similar to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">those in sacred history. She repeated her conviction that the vision of Fatima concerns above all the struggle of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">atheistic Communism against the Church and against Christians, and describes the terrible sufferings of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">victims of the faith in the twentieth century.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">11</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">When asked: “Is the principal figure in the vision the Pope?”, Sister Lucia replied at once that it was. She</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">recalled that the three children were very sad about the suffering of the Pope, and that Jacinta kept saying:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“</span><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Coitadinho do Santo Padre, tenho muita pena dos pecadores!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">” </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(“Poor Holy Father, I am very sad for sinners!” ).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sister Lucia continued:“We did not know the name of the Pope; Our Lady did not tell us the name of the Pope;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">we did not know whether it was Benedict XV or Pius XII or Paul VI or John Paul II; but it was the Pope who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">was suffering and that made us suffer too.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">As regards the passage about the Bishop dressed in white, that is, the Holy Father—as the children immediately</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">realized during the “vision”—who is struck dead and falls to the ground, Sister Lucia was in full</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">agreement with the Pope’s claim that “it was a mother’s hand that guided the bullet’s path and in his throes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Pope halted at the threshold of death” (Pope John Paul II, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Meditation from the Policlinico Gemelli to the</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Italian Bishops</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, 13 May 1994).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">18. Before giving the sealed envelope containing the third part of the “secret” to the then Bishop of Leiria-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fatima, Sister Lucia wrote on the outside envelope that it could be opened only after 1960, either by the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Patriarch of Lisbon or the Bishop of Leiria. Archbishop Bertone therefore asked: “Why only after 1960? Was it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Our Lady who fixed that date”? Sister Lucia replied: “It was not Our Lady. I fixed the date because I had the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">intuition that before 1960 it would not be understood, but that only later would it be understood. Now it can be</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">better understood. I wrote down what I saw; however it was not for me to interpret it, but for the Pope.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Finally, mention was made of the unpublished manuscript which Sister Lucia has prepared as a reply to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the many letters that come from Marian devotees and from pilgrims. The work is called </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Os apelos da</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Mensagem de Fatima, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and it gathers together in the style of catechesis and exhortation thoughts and reflections</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which express Sister Lucia’s feelings and her clear and unaffected spirituality. She was asked if she</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">would be happy to have it published, and she replied: “If the Holy Father agrees, then I am happy, otherwise I</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">obey whatever the Holy Father decides. Sister Lucia wants to present the text for ecclesiastical approval, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">she hopes that what she has written will help to guide men and women of good will along the path that leads</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to God, the final goal of every human longing. The conversation ends with an exchange of rosaries. Sister Lucia</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is given a rosary sent by the Holy Father, and she in turn offers a number of rosaries made by herself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The meeting concludes with the blessing imparted in the name of the Holy Father.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.michaeljournal.org/images/fatima3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.michaeljournal.org/images/fatima3.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Announcement Made by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Secretary of State</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">19. At the end of the Mass presided over by the Holy Father at Fatima, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Secretary of</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">State, made this announcement in Portuguese, which is given here in English translation:</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Brothers and Sisters in the Lord!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">At the conclusion of this solemn celebration, I feel bound to offer our beloved Holy Father Pope John Paul</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">II, on behalf of all present, heartfelt good wishes for his approaching 80th Birthday and to thank him for his</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">vital pastoral ministry for the good of all God’s Holy Church; we present the heartfelt wishes of the whole</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Church.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">20. On this solemn occasion of his visit to Fatima, His Holiness has directed me to make an announcement to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">you. As you know, the purpose of his visit to Fatima has been to beatify the two “little shepherds.” Nevertheless</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">he also wishes his pilgrimage to be a renewed gesture of gratitude to Our Lady for her protection during these</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">years of his papacy. This protection seems also to be linked to the so-called third part of the “secret” of Fatima.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">That text contains a prophetic vision similar to those found in Sacred Scripture, which do not describe photographically</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the details of future events, but synthesize and compress against a single background facts</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which extend through time in an unspecified succession and duration. As a result, the text must be interpreted</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in a symbolic key.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The vision of Fatima concerns above all the war waged by atheistic systems against the Church and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Christians, and it describes the immense suffering endured by the witnesses of the faith in the last century of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the second millennium. It is an interminable </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Way of the Cross </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">led by the Popes of the twentieth century.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">21. According to the interpretation of the “little shepherds”, which was also confirmed recently by Sister Lucia,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“the Bishop clothed in white” who prays for all the faithful is the Pope. As he makes his way with great diffi-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">12</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">culty towards the Cross amid the corpses of those who were martyred (Bishops, priests, men and women</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Religious and many lay people), he too falls to the ground, apparently dead, under a hail of gunfire.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">After the assassination attempt of 13 May 1981, it appeared evident that it was “a mother’s hand that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">guided the bullet’s path”, enabling “the Pope in his throes” to halt “at the threshold of death” (Pope John Paul</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">II, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Meditation from the Policlinico Gemelli to the Italian Bishops, Insegnamenti</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, XVII, 1 [1994], 1061). On the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">occasion of a visit to Rome by the then Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, the Pope decided to give him the bullet which</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">had remained in the jeep after the assassination attempt, so that it might be kept in the shrine. By the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Bishop’s decision, the bullet was later set in the crown of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">22. The successive events of 1989 led, both in the Soviet Union and in a number of countries of Eastern</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Europe, to the fall of the Communist regimes which promoted atheism. For this too His Holiness offers heartfelt</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">thanks to the Most Holy Virgin. In other parts of the world, however, attacks against the Church and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">against Christians, with the burden of suffering they bring, tragically continue. Even if the events to which the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">third part of the “secret” of Fatima refers now seem part of the past, Our Lady’s call to conversion and penance,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">issued at the start of the twentieth century, remains timely and urgent today. “The Lady of the message seems</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to read the signs of the times—the signs of our time—with special insight… The insistent invitation of Mary</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Most Holy to penance is nothing but the manifestation of her maternal concern for the fate of the human</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">family, in need of conversion and forgiveness” (Pope John Paul II, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Message for the 1997 World Day of the Sick,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">No. 1, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Insegnamenti</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, XIX, 2 [1996], 561).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In order that the faithful may better receive the message of Our Lady of Fatima, the Pope has charged the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with making public the third part of the “secret”, after the preparation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of an appropriate commentary.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Brothers and sisters, let us thank Our Lady of Fatima for her protection. To her maternal intercession let</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">us entrust the Church of the Third Millennium.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genetrix! Intercede pro Ecclesia. Intercede pro Papa nostro</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Ioanne Paulo II.Amen</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">. Fatima, 13 May 2000</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Theological Commentary</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">23. A careful reading of the text of the so-called third “secret” of Fatima, published here in its entirety long</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">after the fact and by decision of the Holy Father, will probably prove disappointing or surprising after all the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">speculation it has stirred. No great mystery is revealed; nor is the future unveiled.We see the Church of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">martyrs of the century which has just passed represented in a scene described in a language which is symbolic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and not easy to decipher. Is this what the Mother of the Lord wished to communicate to Christianity and to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">humanity at a time of great difficulty and distress? Is it of any help to us at the beginning of the new millennium?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Or are these only projections of the inner world of children, brought up in a climate of profound piety</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">but shaken at the same time by the tempests which threatened their own time? How should we understand</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the vision? What are we to make of it?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Public Revelation and private revelations—their theological status</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">24. Before attempting an interpretation, the main lines of which can be found in the statement read by</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Cardinal Sodano on 13 May of this year at the end of the Mass celebrated by the Holy Father in Fatima, there</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is a need for some basic clarification of the way in which, according to Church teaching, phenomena such as</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fatima are to be understood within the life of faith. The teaching of the Church distinguishes between “public</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Revelation” and “private revelations.” The two realities differ not only in degree but also in essence. The term</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“public Revelation” refers to the revealing action of God directed to humanity as a whole and which finds its</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">literary expression in the two parts of the Bible: the Old and New Testaments. It is called “Revelation” because</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in it God gradually made himself known to men, to the point of becoming man himself, in order to draw to himself</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the whole world and unite it with himself through his Incarnate Son, Jesus Christ. It is not a matter</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">therefore of intellectual communication, but of a life-giving process in which God comes to meet man. At the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">same time this process naturally produces data pertaining to the mind and to the understanding of the mystery</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of God. It is a process which involves man in his entirety and therefore reason as well, but not reason</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">alone. Because God is one, history, which he shares with humanity, is also one. It is valid for all time, and it has</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">13</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">reached its fulfillment in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Christ, God has said everything,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that is, he has revealed himself completely, and therefore Revelation came to an end with the fulfillment of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">mystery of Christ as enunciated in the New Testament.To explain the finality and completeness of Revelation,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Catechism of the Catholic Church </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">quotes a text of Saint John of the Cross: “In giving us his Son, his only</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Word (for he possesses no other), he spoke everything to us at once in this sole Word—and he has no more to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">say…because what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Who is His Son. Any person questioning God or desiring some vision or revelation would be guilty not only of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">foolish behavior but also of offending him, by not fixing his eyes entirely upon Christ and by living with the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">desire for some other novelty” (No. 65; Saint John of the Cross, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Ascent of Mount Carmel, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">II, 22).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Because the single Revelation of God addressed to all peoples comes to completion with Christ and the witness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">borne to him in the books of the New Testament, the Church is tied to this unique event of sacred history</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and to the word of the Bible, which guarantees and interprets it. But this does not mean that the Church can</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">now look only to the past and that she is condemned to sterile repetition. The </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Catechism of the Catholic</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Church </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">says in this regard: “…even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made fully explicit; it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries” (No. 66).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The way in which the Church is bound to both the uniqueness of the event and progress in understanding it is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">very well illustrated in the farewell discourse of the Lord when, taking leave of his disciples, he says: “I have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority.…He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and declare it to you” (Jn 16:12-14). On the one hand, the Spirit acts as a guide who discloses a knowledge previously</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">unreachable because the premise was missing—this is the boundless breadth and depth of Christian</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">faith. On the other hand, to be guided by the Spirit is also “to draw from” the riches of Jesus Christ himself, the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">inexhaustible depths of which appear in the way the Spirit leads. In this regard, the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Catechism </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">cites profound</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">words of Pope Gregory the Great: “The sacred Scriptures grow with the one who reads them” (No. 94; Gregory</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Great, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Homilia in Ezechielem </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I, 7, 8). The Second Vatican Council notes three essential ways in which the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Spirit guides in the Church, and therefore three ways in which “the word grows”: through the meditation and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">study of the faithful, through the deep understanding which comes from spiritual experience, and through the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">preaching of “those who, in the succession of the episcopate, have received the sure charism of truth” (</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Dei</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Verbum, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">8).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">25. In this context, it now becomes possible to understand rightly the concept of “private revelation”, which</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">refers to all the visions and revelations which have taken place since the completions of the New Testament.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">This is the category to which we must assign the message of Fatima. In this respect, let us listen once again to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Catechism of the Catholic Church: </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Throughout the ages, there have been so-called ‘private’ revelations,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church.…It is not their role to complete Christ’s</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history” (No. 67). This clarifies two</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">things:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(1) The authority of private revelations is essentially different from that of the definitive public Revelation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The latter demands faith; in it in fact God himself speaks to us through human words and the mediation of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">living community of the Church. Faith in God and in his word is different from any other human faith, trust or</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">opinion. The certainty that it is God who is speaking gives me the assurance that I am in touch with truth</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">itself. It gives me a certitude which is beyond verification by any human way of knowing. It is the certitude</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">upon which I build my life and to which I entrust myself in dying.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(2) Private revelation is a help to this faith, and shows its credibility precisely by leading me back to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">definitive public Revelation. In this regard, Cardinal Prospero Lambertini, the future Pope Benedict XIV, says</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in his classic treatise, which later became normative for beatifications and canonizations: “An assent of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Catholic faith is not due to revelations approved in this way; it is not even possible. These revelations seek</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">rather an assent of human faith in keeping with the requirements of prudence, which puts them before us as</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">probable and credible to piety.” The Flemish theologian E. Dhanis, an eminent scholar in this field, states succinctly</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that ecclesiastical approval of a private revelation has three elements: the message contains nothing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">contrary to faith or morals; it is lawful to make it public; and the faithful are authorized to accept it with prudence</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(E. Dhanis</span><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, Sguardo su Fatima e bilancio di una discussione, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in </span><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">La Civilà Cattolicà </span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">104 [1953], II,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">392-406, in particular 397). Such a message can be a genuine help in understanding the Gospel and living it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">better at a particular moment in time; therefore it should not be disregarded. It is a help which is offered, but</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which one is not obliged to use.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">14</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">26. The criterion for the truth and value of a private revelation is therefore its orientation to Christ himself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">When it leads us away from him, when it becomes independent of him or even presents itself as another and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">better plan of salvation, more important than the Gospel, then it certainly does not come from the Holy Spirit,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who guides us more deeply into the Gospel and not away from it. This does not mean that a private revelation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">will not offer new emphases or give rise to new devotional forms, or deepen and spread older forms. But in all</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of this there must be a nurturing of faith, hope and love, which are the unchanging path to salvation for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">everyone.We might add that private revelations often spring from popular piety and leave their stamp on it,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">giving it a new impulse and opening the way for new forms of it. Nor does this exclude that they will have an</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">effect even on the liturgy, as we see for instance in the feasts of </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Corpus Christi </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and of the Sacred Heart of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Jesus. From one point of view, the relationship between Revelation and private revelations appears in the relationship</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">between the liturgy and popular piety: the liturgy is the criterion, it is the living form of the Church</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">as a whole, fed directly by the Gospel. Popular piety is a sign that the faith is spreading its roots into the heart</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of a people in such a way that it reaches into daily life. Popular religiosity is the first and fundamental mode of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“inculturation” of the faith. While it must always take its lead and direction from the liturgy, it in turn enriches</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the faith by involving the heart.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">We have thus moved from the somewhat negative clarifications, initially needed, to a positive definition of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">private revelations. How can they be classified correctly in relation to Scripture? To which theological category</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">do they belong? The oldest letter of Saint Paul which has been preserved, perhaps the oldest of the New</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Testament texts, the First Letter to the Thessalonians, seems to me to point the way. The Apostle says: “Do not</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">quench the Spirit, do not despise prophesying, but test everything, holding fast to what is good” (5:19-21). In</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">every age the Church has received the charism of prophecy, which must be scrutinized but not scorned. On this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">point, it should be kept in mind that prophecy in the biblical sense does not mean to predict the future but to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">explain the will of God for the present, and therefore show the right path to take for the future. A person who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">foretells what is going to happen responds to the curiosity of the mind, which wants to draw back the veil on</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the future. The prophet speaks to the blindness of will and of reason, and declares the will of God as an indication</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and demand for the present time. In this case, prediction of the future is of secondary importance. What is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">essential is the actualization of the definitive Revelation, which concerns me at the deepest level. The</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">prophetic word is a warning or a consolation, or both together. In this sense there is a link between the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">charism of prophecy and the category of “the signs of the times”, which Vatican II brought to light anew: “You</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; why then do you not know how to interpret the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">present time?” (Lk 12:56). In this saying of Jesus, the “signs of the times” must be understood as the path he</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">was taking, indeed it must be understood as Jesus himself. To interpret the signs of the times in the light of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">faith means to recognize the presence of Christ in every age. In the private revelations approved by the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Church—and therefore also in Fatima—this is the point: they help us to understand the signs of the times and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to respond to them rightly in faith.</span></div>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-88576667325577064032011-02-07T10:47:00.002-07:002011-02-07T10:47:00.647-07:00Fatima Secrets 2<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">II. The Message of Fatima</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Note: section numbers added.)</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://kyriacos.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/fatima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://kyriacos.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/fatima.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Introduction</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. As the second millennium gives way to the third, Pope John Paul II has decided to publish the text of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">third part of the “secret of Fatima.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The twentieth century was one of the most crucial in human history, with its tragic and cruel events culminating</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in the assassination attempt on the “sweet Christ on earth.” Now a veil is drawn back on a series of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">events which make history and interpret it in depth, in a spiritual perspective alien to present-day attitudes,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">often tainted with rationalism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Throughout history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs which go to the heart of human</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">events and which, to the surprise of believers and non-believers alike, play their part in the unfolding of history.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">These manifestations can never contradict the content of faith, and must therefore have their focus in the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">core of Christ’s proclamation: the Father’s love which leads men and women to conversion and bestows the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">grace required to abandon oneself to him with filial devotion. This too is the message of Fatima which, with its</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">urgent call to conversion and penance, draws us to the heart of the Gospel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions. The first and second parts of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“secret”— which are here published in sequence so as to complete the documentation—refer especially to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">frightening vision of Hell, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Second World War, and finally the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">prediction of the immense damage that Russia would do to humanity by abandoning the Christian faith and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">embracing Communist totalitarianism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In 1917 no one could have imagined all this: the three </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">pastorinhos </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of Fatima see, listen and remember, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Lucia, the surviving witness, commits it all to paper when ordered to do so by the Bishop of Leiria and with</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Our Lady’s permission.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">For the account of the first two parts of the “secret”, which have already been published and are therefore</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">known, we have chosen the text written by Sister Lucia in the Third Memoir of 31 August 1941; some annotations</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">were added in the Fourth Memoir of 8 December 1941.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">4</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3. The third part of the “secret” was written “by order of His Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and the Most</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Holy Mother…” on 3 January 1944.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">There is only one manuscript, which is here reproduced photostatically. The sealed envelope was initially</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in the custody of the Bishop of Leiria. To ensure better protection for the “secret”, the envelope was placed in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Secret Archives of the Holy Office on 4 April 1957. The Bishop of Leiria informed Sister Lucia of this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">According to the records of the Archives, the Commissary of the Holy Office, Father Pierre Paul Philippe,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">O.P., with the agreement of Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, brought the envelope containing the third part of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“secret of Fatima” to Pope John XXIII on 17 August 1959. “After some hesitation,” His Holiness said: “We shall</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">wait. I shall pray. I shall let you know what I decide.”(1)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In fact Pope John XXIII decided to return the sealed envelope to the Holy Office and not to reveal the third</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">part of the “secret.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Paul VI read the contents with the Substitute, Archbishop Angelo Dell’Acqua, on 27 March 1965, and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">returned the envelope to the Archives of the Holy Office, deciding not to publish the text.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">4. John Paul II, for his part, asked for the envelope containing the third part of the “secret” following the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">assassination attempt on 13 May 1981. On 18 July 1981, Cardinal Franjo Seper, Prefect of the Congregation,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">gave two envelopes to Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Substitute of the Secretariat of State: one white</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">envelope, containing Sister Lucia’s original text in Portuguese; the other orange, with the Italian translation of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the “secret.” On the following 11 August, Archbishop Martinez returned the two envelopes to the Archives of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Holy Office.(2)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">As is well known, Pope John Paul II immediately thought of consecrating the world to the Immaculate</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Heart of Mary and he himself composed a prayer for what he called an “Act of Entrustment”, which was to be</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">celebrated in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major on 7 June 1981, the Solemnity of Pentecost, the day chosen to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">commemorate the 1600th anniversary of the First Council of Constantinople and the 1550th anniversary of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Council of Ephesus. Since the Pope was unable to be present, his recorded Address was broadcast. The following</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">is the part which refers specifically to the Act of Entrustment:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Mother of all individuals and peoples, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">you know all their sufferings and hopes. In your motherly heart you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">feel all the struggles between good and evil, between light and darkness, that convulse the world: accept the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">plea which we make in the Holy Spirit directly to your heart, and </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">embrace with the love of the Mother and</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Handmaid of the Lord those who most await this embrace, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">also those whose act of entrustment you</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">too await in a particular way. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Take under your motherly protection the whole human family, which with</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">affectionate love we entrust to you, O Mother.May there dawn for everyone the time of peace and freedom, the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">time of truth, of justice and of hope.”(3)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">5. In order to respond more fully to the requests of “Our Lady”, the Holy Father desired to make more explicit</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">during the Holy Year of the Redemption the Act of Entrustment of 7 May 1981, which had been repeated in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fatima on 13 May 1982. On 25 March 1984 in Saint Peter’s Square, while recalling the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">fiat </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">uttered by Mary at</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Annunciation, the Holy Father, in spiritual union with the Bishops of the world, who had been “convoked”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">beforehand, entrusted all men and women and all peoples to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in terms which</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">recalled the heartfelt words spoken in 1981:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“O Mother of all men and women, and of all peoples, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">you who know all their sufferings and their hopes, you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who have a mother’s awareness of all the struggles between good and evil, between light and darkness, which</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">afflict the modern world, accept the cry which we, moved by the Holy Spirit, address directly to your Heart.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Embrace </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">with the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">love </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the Mother and Handmaid of the Lord, this human world of ours, which we entrust</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and consecrate to you, for we are full of concern for the earthly and eternal destiny of individuals and peoples.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“In a special way we entrust and consecrate to you those individuals and </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">nations </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">which particularly need</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to be thus entrusted and consecrated.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“‘We have recourse to your protection, holy Mother of God!’ </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Despise not our petitions in our necessities.”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">6. The Pope then continued more forcefully and with more specific references, as though commenting on the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Message of Fatima in its sorrowful fulfillment:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">5</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1sgDjSfw0S8-frtBExEM-pT6aJ1grxZFP513ypi-0b1mNzfQmSmpDbiO-MeOgdgmS_C3UWO5mCADW4d4KycPGfJdETo8erAPiIGRik2iVM7CJASksyoLQoRG9GsVMgLYchU-593Fo6Gs/s1600/fatima-basilica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1sgDjSfw0S8-frtBExEM-pT6aJ1grxZFP513ypi-0b1mNzfQmSmpDbiO-MeOgdgmS_C3UWO5mCADW4d4KycPGfJdETo8erAPiIGRik2iVM7CJASksyoLQoRG9GsVMgLYchU-593Fo6Gs/s320/fatima-basilica.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Behold, as we stand before you, Mother of Christ, before your Immaculate Heart, we desire, together with</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the whole Church, to unite ourselves with the consecration which, for love of us, your Son made of himself to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Father: ‘For their sake’, he said ‘I consecrate myself that they also may be consecrated in the truth’ (Jn</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">17:19).We wish to unite ourselves with our Redeemer in this his consecration for the world and for the human</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">race, which, in his divine Heart, has the power to obtain pardon and to secure reparation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The power of this consecration </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">lasts for all time and embraces all individuals, peoples and nations. It overcomes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">every evil that the spirit of darkness is able to awaken, and has in fact awakened in our times, in the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">heart of man and in his history.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“How deeply we feel the need for the consecration of humanity and the world—our modern world—in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">union with Christ himself! For the redeeming work of Christ must be </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">shared in by the world through the</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Church.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The present Year of the Redemption shows this: the special Jubilee of the whole Church.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Above all creatures</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">,may you be blessed, you, the Handmaid of the Lord, who in the fullest way obeyed the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">divine call!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Hail to you, who are </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">wholly united </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to the redeeming consecration of your Son!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Mother of the Church! Enlighten the People of God along the paths of faith, hope, and love! Enlighten</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">especially the peoples whose consecration and entrustment by us you are awaiting. Help us to live in the truth</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the consecration of Christ for the entire human family of the modern world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“In entrusting to you, O Mother, the world, all individuals and peoples, we also </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">entrust </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to you </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">this very consecration</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of the world, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">placing it in your motherly Heart.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Immaculate Heart! Help us to conquer the menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">people of today, and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world and seem to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">block the paths towards the future!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“From famine and war, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver us.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver us.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“From sins against the life of man from its very beginning, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver us.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver us.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver us.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver us.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver us.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“From the loss of awareness of good and evil, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver us</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“From sins against the Holy Spirit, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver us, deliver us.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Accept, O Mother of Christ, this cry </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">laden with the sufferings </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of all individual human beings, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">laden with</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the sufferings </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of whole societies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit to conquer all sin: individual sin and the ‘sin of the world’, sin in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">all its manifestations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Let there be revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite saving power of the Redemption:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the power of </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">merciful Love! </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">May it put a stop to evil! May it transform consciences! May your Immaculate</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Heart reveal for all the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">light of Hope!”(4)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">7. Sister Lucia personally confirmed that this solemn and universal act of consecration corresponded to what</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Our Lady wished (“</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sim, està feita, tal como Nossa Senhora a pediu, desde o dia 25 de Março de 1984</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">”: “Yes it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">has been done just as Our Lady asked, on 25 March 1984”: Letter of 8 November 1989). Hence any further discussion</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">or request is without basis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">8. In the documentation presented here four other texts have been added to the manuscripts of Sister Lucia:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1) the Holy Father’s letter of 19 April 2000 to Sister Lucia; 2) an account of the conversation of 27 April 2000</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">with Sister Lucia; 3) the statement which the Holy Father appointed Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Secretary of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">State, to read on 13 May 2000; 4) the theological commentary by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">6</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">9. Sister Lucia had already given an indication for interpreting the third part of the “secret” in a letter to the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Holy Father, dated 12 May 1982:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The third part of the secret refers to Our Lady’s words: ‘If not [Russia] will spread her errors throughout the</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated’ </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(13-VII-1917).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“The third part of the secret is a symbolic revelation, referring to this part of the Message, conditioned by</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">whether we accept or not what the Message itself asks of us: ‘If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, etc.’.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“Since we did not heed this appeal of the Message, we see that it has been fulfilled, Russia has invaded the</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">world with her errors. And if we have not yet seen the complete fulfillment of the final part of this prophecy, we</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">are going towards it little by little with great strides. If we do not reject the path of sin, hatred, revenge, injustice,</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">violations of the rights of the human person, immorality and violence, etc.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">“And let us not say that it is God who is punishing us in this way; on the contrary it is people themselves</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who are preparing their own punishment. In his kindness God warns us and calls us to the right path, while</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">respecting the freedom he has given us; hence people are responsible.” (5)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">10. The decision of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to make public the third part of the “secret” of Fatima</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">brings to an end a period of history marked by tragic human lust for power and evil, yet pervaded by the merciful</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">love of God and the watchful care of the Mother of Jesus and of the Church.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The action of God, the Lord of history, and the co-responsibility of man in the drama of his creative</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">freedom, are the two pillars upon which human history is built.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Our Lady, who appeared at Fatima, recalls these forgotten values. She reminds us that man’s future is in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God, and that we are active and responsible partners in creating that future.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Tarcisio Bertone, SDB</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Secretary of the Congregation</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for the Doctrine of the Faith</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">7</span></div>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-84384977909745788722011-02-05T10:45:00.000-07:002011-02-05T10:45:05.522-07:00Fatima Secrets 1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>14</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>IT</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Includes official Vatican documents and</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Marian prayers by Pope John Paul II</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Compiled by Jerome F. Coniker</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">©MMI Apostolate for Family Consecration®</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">All Rights Reserved in All Media.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Table of Contents</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.parrocchiabuguggiate.it/home_dx2/images/fatima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.parrocchiabuguggiate.it/home_dx2/images/fatima.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I. Beatification of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Shepherds of Fatima—Homily of His</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Holiness Pope John Paul II</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">II. The Message of Fatima </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Introduction, by Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• The “Secret” of Fatima: First and Second Part of the “Secret”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Third Part of the “Secret”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Interpretation of the “Secret”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">— Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Sr. Lucia</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">— Conversation with Sr. Maria Lucia of Jesus of theImmaculate Heart</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">— Announcement Made by Cardinal Angelo Sodano,Secretary of State</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Theological Commentary by Cardinal Ratzinger</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">III. Other Letters by Sr. Lucia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Apparitions of the Angel</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Apparitions of October 13, 1917</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• True Penance for today</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• First Saturday Communion of Reparation Devotion</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• The Five Offenses Committed Against the Immaculate Heart</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">IV. Insights on Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Message of Fatima</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Cardinal Mario Luigi Ciappi, O.P., Papal Theologian</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">V. Reparation for Sin</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">by Pope Paul VI</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">VI. Take Up Your Cross Daily</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">by Pope John Paul II</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">VI. Summary Articles on the Fatima Message from the Vatican Information Service</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Presentation of Text of Third Secret of Fatima (Summary)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Complete Translation of Original Text</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger: Penance is the Key to the “Secret”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">• Presentation of the Message of Fatima</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">VII.Pastoral Letter of Apparitions of Akita</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">by Bishop John Shojiro Ito</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">VIII.Act of Entrustment to Mary</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pope John Paul II</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">IX. Prayers and Devotions</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I. Beatification of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Shepherds of Fatima</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Homily of His Holiness</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pope John Paul II</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Saturday, 13 May 2000</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fatima</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1. “Father,…to you I offer praise; for what you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">revealed to the merest children” (Mt 11:25).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">With these words, dear brothers and sisters, Jesus praises the heavenly Father for his designs; he knows</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">that no one can come to him unless he is drawn by the Father (cf. Jn 6:44); therefore he praises him for his</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">plan and embraces it as a son: “Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will” (Mt 11:26). You were pleased to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">reveal the kingdom to the merest children.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">According to the divine plan, “a woman clothed with the sun” (Rv 12:1) came down from heaven to this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">earth to visit the privileged children of the Father. She speaks to them with a mother’s voice and heart: she</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">asks them to offer themselves as victims of reparation, saying that she was ready to lead them safely to God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">And behold, they see a light shining from her maternal hands which penetrates them inwardly, so that they</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">feel immersed in God just as—they explain—a person sees himself in a mirror.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Later Francisco, one of the three privileged children, exclaimed: “We were burning in that light which is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God and we were not consumed. What is God like? It is impossible to say. In fact we will never be able to tell</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">people.” God: a light that burns without consuming. Moses had the same experience when he saw God in the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">burning bush; he heard God say that he was concerned about the slavery of his people and had decided to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">deliver them through him: “I will be with you” (cf. Ex 3:2-12). Those who welcome this presence become the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">dwelling-place and, consequently, a “burning bush” of the Most High.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2. What most impressed and entirely absorbed Bl. Francisco was God in that immense light which penetrated</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the inmost depths of the three children. But God told only Francisco “how sad” he was, as he said. One</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">night his father heard him sobbing and asked him why he was crying; his son answered: “I was thinking of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Jesus who is so sad because of the sins that are committed against him.” He was motivated by one desire—so</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">expressive of how children think—“to console Jesus and make him happy.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">A transformation takes place in his life, one we could call radical: a transformation certainly uncommon for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">children of his age. He devotes himself to an intense spiritual life, expressed in assiduous and fervent prayer,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and attains a true form of mystical union with the Lord. This spurs him to a progressive purification of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">spirit through the renunciation of his own pleasures and even of innocent childhood games.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Francisco bore without complaining the great sufferings caused by the illness from which he died. It all</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">seemed to him so little to console Jesus: he died with a smile on his lips. Little Francisco had a great desire to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">atone for the offenses of sinners by striving to be good and by offering his sacrifices and prayers. The life of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Jacinta, his younger sister by almost two years, was motivated by these same sentiments.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3. “Another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon” (Rv 12:3).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">These words from the first reading of the Mass make us think of the great struggle between good and evil,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">showing how, when man puts God aside, he cannot achieve happiness, but ends up destroying himself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">How many victims there have been throughout the last century of the second millennium! We remember</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the horrors of the First and Second World Wars and the other wars in so many parts of the world, the concentration</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and extermination camps, the gulags, ethnic cleansings and persecutions, terrorism, kidnappings,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">drugs, the attacks on unborn life and the family.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The message of Fatima is a call to conversion, alerting humanity to have nothing to do with the “dragon”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">whose “tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth” (Rv 12:4). Man’s final goal is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">heaven, his true home, where the heavenly Father awaits everyone with his merciful love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God does not want anyone to be lost; that is why 2,000 years ago he sent his Son to earth, “to seek and to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">save the lost” (Lk 19:10). And he saved us by his death on the cross. Let no one empty that Cross of its power!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Jesus died and rose from the dead to be “the first-born among many brethren” (Rom 8:29).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In her motherly concern, the Blessed Virgin came here to Fatima to ask men and women “to stop offending</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">God, Our Lord, who is already very offended.” It is a mother’s sorrow that compels her to speak; the destiny of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">her children is at stake. For this reason she asks the little shepherds: “Pray, pray much and make sacrifices for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">sinners; many souls go to hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">4. Little Jacinta felt and personally experienced Our Lady’s anguish, offering herself heroically as a victim</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">for sinners. One day, when she and Francisco had already contracted the illness that forced them to bed, the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Virgin Mary came to visit them at home, as the little one recounts: “Our Lady came to see us and said that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">soon she would come and take Francisco to heaven. And she asked me if I still wanted to convert more sinners.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I told her yes.” And when the time came for Francisco to leave, the little girl tells him: “Give my greetings to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Our Lord and to Our Lady and tell them that I am enduring everything they want for the conversion of sinners.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Jacinta had been so deeply moved by the vision of hell during the apparition of 13 July that no</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">mortification or penance seemed too great to save sinners.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">She could well exclaim with St Paul: “I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church” (Col 1:24). Last Sunday at</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Colosseum in Rome, we commemorated the many witnesses to the faith in the 20th century, recalling the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">tribulations they suffered through the significant testimonies they left us. An innumerable cloud of courageous</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">witnesses to the faith have left us a precious heritage which must live on in the third millennium. Here in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fatima, where these times of tribulation were foretold and Our Lady asked for prayer and penance to shorten</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">them, I would like today to thank heaven for the powerful witness shown in all those lives. And once again I</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">would like to celebrate the Lord’s goodness to me when I was saved from death after being gravely wounded on</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">13 May 1981. I also express my gratitude to Bl. Jacinta for the sacrifices and prayers offered for the Holy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Father, whom she saw suffering greatly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">5. “Father, to you I offer praise, for you have revealed these things to the merest children.”Today Jesus’ praise</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">takes the solemn form of the beatification of the little shepherds, Francisco and Jacinta.With this rite the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Church wishes to put on the candelabrum these two candles which God lit to illumine humanity in its dark</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and anxious hours. May they shine on the path of this immense multitude of pilgrims and of all who have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">accompanied us by radio and television. May Francisco and Jacinta be a friendly light that illumines all</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Portugal and, in special way, this Diocese of Leiria-Fatima.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I thank Bishop Serafim, of this illustrious particular Church, for his words of welcome, and with great joy I</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">greet the entire Portuguese Episcopate and their Dioceses, which I deeply love and which I urge to imitate</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">their saints. A fraternal greeting goes to the Cardinals and Bishops present, with a special word for the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pastors from the community of Portuguese-speaking countries: may the Virgin Mary obtain reconciliation for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the Angolan people; may she bring comfort to the flood victims of Mozambique; may she watch over the steps</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">of Timor Lorosae, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe; may she preserve her Brazilian sons</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">and daughters in the unity of faith.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I extend a respectful greeting to the President of the Republic and to the authorities who have wished to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">take part in this celebration. I take this occasion to express, through them, my gratitude to everyone who</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">helped make my pilgrimage possible. A cordial embrace and a particular blessing to the parish and city of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Fatima, which today rejoices in her children who are raised to the honors of the altar.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">6. My last words are for the children: dear boys and girls, I see so many of you dressed like Francisco and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Jacinta. You look very nice! But in a little while or tomorrow you will take these clothes off and…the little</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">shepherds will disappear. They should not disappear, should they?! Our Lady needs you all to console Jesus,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">who is sad because of the bad things done to him; he needs your prayers and your sacrifices for sinners.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Ask your parents and teachers to enroll you in the “school” of Our Lady, so that she can teach you to be like</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">the little shepherds, who tried to do whatever she asked them. I tell you that “one makes more progress in a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">short time of submission and dependence on Mary than during entire years of personal initiatives, relying on</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">oneself alone” (St Louis de Montfort, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">, n. 155). This was how the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">little shepherds became saints so quickly. A woman who gave hospitality to Jacinta in Lisbon, on hearing the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">very beautiful and wise advice that the little girl gave, asked who taught it to her. “It was Our Lady”, she</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">replied. Devoting themselves with total generosity to the direction of such a good Teacher, Jacinta and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Francisco soon reached the heights of perfection.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">7. “Father, to you I offer praise, for what you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">to the merest children.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Father, to you I offer praise for all your children, from the Virgin Mary, your humble Servant, to the little</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">shepherds, Francisco and Jacinta.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">May the message of their lives live on for ever to light humanity’s way!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(Printed with permission L’Osservatore Romano)</span></i></div>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-14472961023932334352010-12-26T15:12:00.000-07:002010-12-26T15:12:41.854-07:00The man at the center of the universe<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">by Enzo Donnarumma (sorry for the bad translation)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span>"The man at the center of the universe."</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>This is the slogan with which we are used to summarize the complex and revolutionary ideology with which the Renaissance to pour out his spirit in innovative cultural intellectuals and artists of the fifteenth century.</span><br />
<span>Renaissance.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>What a curious coincidence!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Reborn ... The irony of the language sometimes betrays great truth accidentally, when one considers that the psyche of a man born just really considers himself the center of the universe, displaying that belief until the trauma of others to introduce the concept of</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>company: your brother or your fellow asylum claim to have your own importance, and often manage to be even more important figures in being right when you fight, to receive more consideration and more affection than you.</span><span>You can be very lucky if you can intelligere these traumas behind the concept of justice, but if it is not the first feelings of depression begin to make their way into your emotional world, as the world puts you aside, you do not like, do you consider the</span><span>second, in fact you are no longer the center of the universe.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>End of the Renaissance!</span><span>You're growing, you're missing in the maze of an anthill of people like you who try to support each other in some way to have the remains of the central position, in which cotton, years before, should understand that mom and dad cry was run to satisfy the</span><span>your weaknesses and your desires.</span><span>What was your ego in your early years?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Through which that Ego wanted at all costs to have a toy, without giving anyone, then let down after having run out of curiosity or fun that you sent.</span><span>That Ego you jealous when something was delivered into the hands of your brother or sister, automatically becoming a factor of claim on your part.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>That Ego which aroused resentment in your heart when young, for some reason, it gave you a parent does not care.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>That Ego innate thing that made you really most important of all, more than others, the only thing that really existed.</span><span>The experience regularly punishes the ego.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>More or less is always the case.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>It begins to feel the bitter taste of punishment in your criticism of a physical defect, not in a peer of the opposite sex attracted to you in a negative feedback from one of your public display of quality, the charge of</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>be good at anything, an insult unpunished is inflicted on you by your own similar or higher, not to earn the position of pack leader of a group.</span><span>Trauma on trauma experience hidden behind common and less common.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Evidently, for instance, who in a community is considered the worst media will have more opportunities to experience the bitterness of a punch in the stomach in a brazen ego "You're ugly!" Trauma of a life can be more problematic than the average</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>more humble the ego to put in a position to suggest you're different, unique in some way better (misunderstood genius) or worse ("I'm a nobody!").</span><span>To speak in this way is somewhat risky: you can sin of superficiality too uniting the many facets of the traumatic experience of man.</span><span>However, not wanting to simulate a treatise on psychology, it is undeniable experience of all the suffering deep wounds to the ego and emotions that will shape choices throughout their lives, when they come, the battlefield of life, a warrior with armor</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>strong, armed with a sharp sword and the skill Counterattack: self-centeredness.</span><span>Let's be honest a good time to ask ourselves until our vocations cultural, professional, emotional and our whole being is really coherent and justified only by the sincere passion, or rather also conditioned by a sense of revenge in wanting to reaffirm social</span><span>themselves in a world that has put us in second place.</span><span>Until, behind your dreams, no hidden regaining the glory that you deserve and that competition in a world of enemies you ripped?</span><span>Since when, after you express an opinion in a discussion, not a hidden desire an end in itself to astonish the others that goes beyond the objective of confronting the sincere search for truth, a desire to show off regardless of the truth, to the point of trample</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>.</span><span>Until, behind your complaints of a life sacrificed, behind your impeccable honesty or no education lies the need to get respect from others?</span><span>Until all the circles behind the ego regains lost?</span><span>What are the consequences of living a self-centered?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Allow me, there are many, often disastrous, including anxiety still do not feel satisfied after reaching your destination, if you succeed there, or the distortion of reality, which only seems to rotate around you, or seems to take</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>playing you like a mischievous tyrant, or not being able to enter into life experiencing it as it is, with impartiality, but they suffer pathetically like a dream opaque veiled troubles continue, bitterness and hardship expenses trying to buy at a price that, in</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Actually, maybe you do not ever give thee!</span><span>Not to mention yet of the damage done to the other, at the bottom, we're talking about consistent view of selfishness and I think only of your talk of discontent!</span><span>Yes, because everything in the meantime, you become selfish.</span><span>What is selfishness?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Certainly it is a mindset that distorts the reality it is not possible that every time that you persecutes someone complaining of impropriety or economic wrongs to human, you've always right, others are always wrong.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Never debate with someone on his behalf and your disadvantage ... ever!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>You can be the only one in the world to be right?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Of course, if you are selfish, because morphine selfishness distorts perceptions of life and you just can not see it as it really is.</span><span>"Blind", "You do not see", "you have a beam in the eye" ... the words of Jesus of Nazareth want to report this way of life.</span></span></span>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-50469274716473541922010-12-26T15:04:00.002-07:002010-12-26T15:04:53.717-07:00Culture, rationality, ideology<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">by Enzo Donnarumma (sorry for the bad translation)<br />
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<a href="http://l16.sphotos.l3.fbcdn.net/hphotos-l3-ash1/hs322.ash1/28241_1348380363810_1660367154_827382_5197511_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://l16.sphotos.l3.fbcdn.net/hphotos-l3-ash1/hs322.ash1/28241_1348380363810_1660367154_827382_5197511_n.jpg" /></a><span>Culture, rationality, ideology, consistency ... noblilizzazione terms that echo some of the animal-man, and giving it a distinct superiority over other animals certainly do not have these attributes.</span><span>The culture allows the retention of intellectual and technical achievements attained by humanity throughout history and provides a large number of ways to reach others.</span><span>Culture is the land on which the rationality lays the foundation for building ideology, a true home that preserves man, full of corridors that lead you through various rooms in his choices.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>The rent to be paid to live in this house is certainly consistent, because consistency is the opposite of contradiction, that the cancellation of ideology.</span><span>Here the size noble man, a beautiful house where we barricade to escape from the elements of the unknown: what's out of this house?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Something we do not know, maybe something beyond our control.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Better to create us a nice high cultural ideology that gives us confidence and makes us feel relaxed, because the chaos that's out there we fear.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>And in this magnificent building you go to the barricades, hoping to have found the balance and the foundations of your life, unaware of having you build yet another idol to which you kneel in exchange protection and happiness.</span><span>Yeah!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>You are unaware of this obstruction that you actually imposed on life and maybe you even ask the question can be cut to something higher and satisfactory, convinced that rocked the replacement protection of your parents, a true guide to</span><span>maybe life was better than the one you came from them and from school, which will suggest what is yours and what others, by whom and how to be loved, love and those who reject human contact from your address book ... be assured that</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>discards many, because each one builds his palace ideological qualities vary depending on the degree of intelligence, culture, talent, sensitivity, and so on and so forth in this mess that you usually use to selectively evaluate who is</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>or less worthy of your Darwinian selection of the human species!</span><span>Many, many discards from your agenda, maybe not just those friends from whom you expect to disappoint your ideology, even close relatives ... or maybe your husband or wife or life partner.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Only those who will stay with you is the etiquette of this ideology whose cosmic center is you, who are suited to your thinking, those looking at all costs suited to it, then collapse and cleared.</span><span>Similarly you'll find people around you to discard the same principle: your ideology is not appropriate to them.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>And 'well-known fact that it hurts to be rejected, since there are essentially refers to the void.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>This is a case in which your ideological building can not do anything, do not kid yourself that if you discard those you do not know how to appreciate for what they are. "</span><span>Here is the result of your ideology, foreclosing any possibility of power in social life and human relations, in the name of that notorious "renaissance" that you want the center of the universe.</span><span>And now: who aspires to love you must pass the exams that your consistency puts him only to be suitable for you.</span><span>How can a world run like that?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>You wonder why so much in front of a human system in which each ideological barricades himself in his palace?</span><span>It is doubtful, I will say that a large group of people can not recognize themselves in their ideologies to the point where he could join and be united in friendship and choices.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Thus was born the common ideology, born as the great intellectual currents that the school requires us to study and appreciate the importance of culture.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>This is how the great historical movements as passengers involving human creativity in its great arts: literature, art, music, etc..</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>This is how the major political parties as a result of which regularly plunge the world revolution, war, abuse, harassment, killings and corruption (one has to wonder if it really is so consistent in their thinking!).</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>All this happens when a collective mentality manages to get lucky, otherwise, it vanishes into thin air or remain in the imagination of a utopian niche maldistribution.</span><span>Returning in each single individual, that is you, drop fundamental human ocean, you will certainly find, as we said, he had many fights, held in the name of your building and discarded ideological, or even Essert ran into unforeseen dramatic that it does not</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>had expected, remaining deeply burned.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Often these moments coincide with your bitter curses leveled at Providence: "God, where were you while all this was happening to me?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>If you're really avoid much evil in the world "and this is especially true when it comes to identifying their ideology with the will of God, showing that God does not know all the statistics confirm that in addition to accusations of inconsistency leveled at priests and</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>the church, about eighty percent of atheists reaches its position as a result of that bitterness fully observed.</span><span>Are your two possible reactions:</span><span>1) "The world is not for me, justice and love are utopia, living means not being understood by anyone."</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>In so doing, continue to live in that idol sinking ideological asking you and gives you very little.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>Be assured that your life will always be unresolved, and your poor heart will get used to a terrible depression unconscious, or worse still, conscious.</span><span>2) "Maybe I'm doing something wrong ...."</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>This is my favorite reaction, one that, fortunately, I have experienced: reaction of humble mind.</span><span>This reaction could open yourself up a gap that could lead you to the full understanding that, yes, you're all wrong!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>The human ideology is wrong and in its extreme narrowness leads right to the solitude which should protect, individual and also collective loneliness.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>The school, as mentioned above, requires the study of the major events of human thought and appreciate the cultural importance, but not despising the total ineffectiveness and punctual failure that arises in all its glory on total disaster.</span><span>Leafing through a few pages of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, it is easy to find in the word "punish" God punishes the sins of mankind, even God punishes the sins of the fathers upon the children.</span><span>Before closing forever the Bible would be helpful to know what's behind that ancient term translated from one language used in an ancient culture not exactly similar to ours.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>"Punishing" an important term.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>"God punishes" God reveals the fruit of the human disaster in its entirety, without justifying or covering it, so that you can say, "Maybe I'm doing something wrong ...."</span><span>That your disaster, the point of leaving dangerous consequences in the lives of our children, this manifests itself in a moment of your life, perhaps favorable for your reflection.</span><span>Divine punishment is equivalent to the crisis, the crisis that swept through the famous famous followers of God before changing.</span></span></span>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-40748400445539524032010-12-25T13:38:00.000-07:002010-12-25T13:38:00.748-07:00Joseph Ratzinger BEAUTY CHURCH 8Sorry for the bad translation<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICQx5PQ22nRdoXmhcAXPUikAwJ-lCKXKiLR3f1ICdRkYKw1MvKteNw_deUdNF6v7MDmyI-X2VrHh-cCqrsoEusOmfJz6bHPT7ZjpboWsU0X5Bqqdc_M8gydfQ5vvD5q9pTr55zHqS2Uo/s1600/MotherMary--Jesus-Christ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICQx5PQ22nRdoXmhcAXPUikAwJ-lCKXKiLR3f1ICdRkYKw1MvKteNw_deUdNF6v7MDmyI-X2VrHh-cCqrsoEusOmfJz6bHPT7ZjpboWsU0X5Bqqdc_M8gydfQ5vvD5q9pTr55zHqS2Uo/s320/MotherMary--Jesus-Christ.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">On this there is now much to say. </span><span title="">I'll try, but only very briefly to mention as a conclusion, what more in our</span></span><span lang="EN"><br />
<span class="longtext"></span><span title="">context appears to me as the most important thing.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">Forgiveness and its realization in me, by way of repentance and discipleship, is primarily the center of all staff at every renewal. </span><span title="">But precisely because the lost person is concerned in its most intimate, it is able to gather together, and is also the center of the renewal of the community. </span><span title="">If it is taken away from me the dust and dirt, making it unrecognizable to me the image of God, then I become so very similar to the other also, who is himself the image of God, and above all I become </span><span title="">like Christ, who is the image of God, without limitation, the form in which we were all created. </span><span title="">Paul expresses this process in very dramatic terms: "The old image is gone, here it is a new sort, no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me" (Gal 2:20). </span><span title="">It is a process of death and birth. </span><span title="">I am torn from my isolation and are welcomed into a new community-subject, my "I" is inserted in the 'I' of Christ and so is joined to all my brothers.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">Only from this deep renewal of the Church is born of the individual, the community comes together and supports life and death.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">Only when we take into account everything, we see the Church in its proper order of magnitude.</span></span><span lang="EN"><br />
<span class="longtext"></span><span title="">The Church: it is not just the small group of activists who come together in a certain place in order to start a community life. </span><span title="">The Church is not simply the great multitude of those who gather together on Sunday to celebrate the Eucharist. </span><span title="">And finally, the Church is even more than the Pope, bishops and priests, those who are invested with the sacramental ministry. </span><span title="">All these we have named belong to the Church, but the radius of the company in which we enter by faith, goes beyond, goes even beyond death. </span><span title="">It includes all the saints from Abel and Abraham and all the witnesses of hope, which tells the Old Testament, through Mary, the Mother of the Lord and his apostles, through Thomas Becket and Thomas More, </span><span title="">and finally to Maximilian Kolbe, Edith Stein, a Piergiorgio Frassati. </span><span title="">It includes all the unknown and not elsewhere, whose faith no one knew except God, are part of it the men of all places and all times, whose heart reaches out in hope and love to Christ, "the author and </span><span title="">perfecter of our faith, "as he calls the Epistle to the Hebrews (12.2). </span><span title="">It is not the occasional majorities formed here and there in the Church to decide his and our journey. </span><span title="">They, the Saints are the true, decisive majority, according to which we orient. </span><span title="">We stick to it! </span><span title="">They translate the divine in the human, the eternal in time.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">They are our teachers of humanity, which does not abandon us even in the pain and loneliness, even in times of death rather walk beside us.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">Here we touch upon something very important.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">A worldview that can not make sense even to pain and make it a valuable not do any good. </span><span title="">It fails just where does the appeared the decisive question of existence.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">Pain on those who have nothing to say except that you must fight, deceive us.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">Certainly we must do everything possible to alleviate the suffering of innocent people and to limit suffering.</span></span><span lang="EN"><br />
<span class="longtext"></span><span title="">But a human life without pain is not there, and who is unable to accept the pain, you subtract those purifications that only make us become mature. </span><span title="">In communion with Christ the pain becomes so significant, not only for myself, as a process of ablative, when God takes away from me slag that obscure its image, but also beyond myself it is useful for all, so we can all say with Saint Paul: "I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill in my flesh what is lacking </span><span title="">the sufferings of Christ for His Body, the Church "(Col 1:24). </span><span title="">Thomas Becket, who along with the admiration and Einstein has guided us in the reflections of these days, still encourages us to be a final step. </span><span title="">Life goes beyond the our biological existence. </span><span title="">Where there is no reason worth dying for, do not go beyond the life more worthwhile. </span><span title="">Where faith has opened his eyes and made us the biggest heart, behold, here buys all its power to illuminate this other phrase of St. Paul: "None of us lives to himself, and no one dies to </span><span title="">same, because if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. </span><span title="">Whether you live or whether we die, we are the Lord "(Rom 14.7-8). </span><span title="">The more we are rooted in the company of Jesus Christ and all who belong to Him, the more our lives will be supported by the radiant confidence that once again St. Paul gave expression: "Of this I am certain: neither death nor </span><span title="">life, nor angels, nor</span><br />
<span class="longtext"></span><span title="">powers, nor things present, nor future, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord "(Rom 8.38-39).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">Dear friends, let us fill like we have faith! </span><span title="">Then the Church grows as the path to communion and in real life,</span></span><span lang="EN"><br />
<span class="longtext"></span><span title="">and then it is renewed day by day. </span><span title="">Then it becomes a big house with many mansions, then the multiplicity of the gifts of the Spirit can work in it. </span><span title="">Then we will see "how good and beautiful it is when brothers live together. </span><span title="">It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on Mount Zion, and there the Lord brings blessing and life forever "{Sai 133,1.3).</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-51098130823388820282010-12-22T13:35:00.000-07:002010-12-22T13:35:00.515-07:00Joseph Ratzinger BEAUTY CHURCH 7<span class="long_text short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="">Sorry for the bad translation</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt;">Morality, forgiveness and atonement, the center staff reform</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOQhSPf6RzMxTHciaZTvToL-UraGjQoeIu6P-CDYId6_SKdHYtWEXP9jzZjA2zFpCy7-H3kkvXP4QHL5yAXBSo2KHRtL20UigK4DyfImmAP6_h5kJ-SWNBcsyykaE2ItDACrBPr5sr0sw/s1600/statue-jesus-christ-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOQhSPf6RzMxTHciaZTvToL-UraGjQoeIu6P-CDYId6_SKdHYtWEXP9jzZjA2zFpCy7-H3kkvXP4QHL5yAXBSo2KHRtL20UigK4DyfImmAP6_h5kJ-SWNBcsyykaE2ItDACrBPr5sr0sw/s320/statue-jesus-christ-3.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt;"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let's take a moment, before going forward, as so far we have highlighted. We talked about a double "removing" an act of liberation, which is a dual action: purification and renewal. At first the conversation touched on faith, breaking the walls of the finite and free gaze to the size of the LORD, and not only the look but also the road. Faith is, in fact, not only recognize, but to operate, not only a breach in the wall, but a hand that saves, pulling out of the cave. From this we have drawn the conclusion, for the institutions, that ordering the essential thrust of the Church has always need of new developments so concrete and specific configurations - so his life can develop in a certain time - but which, however, these configurations can not become the essential thing. Indeed, the Church does not exist in order to keep us busy as any combination of worldly and the preservation of life itself, but does exist to become in all of us access to eternal life.<br />
Now we must go one step further, and this does not apply to more general and objective which had so far, but the scope staff. In fact, even here, in the personal sphere, you need a "remove" to free us. On a personal level and certainly not always the "precious form", ie the image of God inscribed in us, to leap to the eye. The first thing we see instead only the image of Adam, the image of man not entirely destroyed, but still fallen. Let's see the encrusted dirt and dust, which are laid over the image.<br />
We all need a true sculptor, who takes away that which disfigures the image, we need forgiveness, which is at the heart of any true reform. It is certainly not a coincidence that the three decisive stages of the formation of the Church, told in the Gospels, the forgiveness of sins play a crucial role. There is first hand over the keys to Peter. The power given to him to bind and loose, open and close, of which we speak, is, at its core, a post to let go, to welcome home, to forgive (Matt. 16:19). The same thing is again at the Last Supper, which inaugurates the new<br />
communities from the body of Christ and the body of Christ. It becomes possible for the fact that the Lord will pour out his blood "for many for the forgiveness of sins" (Matt. 26:28). Finally, the Risen One, in his first appearance to the eleven, founded the fellowship of His peace that he gives them the power to forgive {Jn 20:19-23). The Church is a community of people who "do not need a doctor," but rather a community of converted sinners, who live the grace of forgiveness, in turn transmitted it to others.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If we carefully read the New Testament, we discover that forgiveness has nothing magical in itself, it, however, is not even a pretending to forget, is not a "do not like", but instead a very real process of change, which the sculptor accomplishes. The take away the guilt really remove anything, the advent of forgiveness in us is shown in the onset of penance. Forgiveness is a process to do so passive and active: the powerful creative word of God on us by the pain of change and becomes an active transformation. Forgiveness and repentance, grace, and his own personal conversion are not contradictory but are two sides of one and the same event. This merger of assets and liabilities expressed the essential form of human existence. In fact our whole set starts with being created, with our participation in the creative activity of God Here we reached a very central point: I believe that the core of the spiritual crisis of our time has its roots in the darkness of the grace of forgiveness. But first we note the positive aspect of this: the moral dimension begins again gradually to be held in honor. It is recognized, rather it has become evident, that all technical progress is questionable and ultimately destructive, if it is not a moral growth. It is recognized<br />
that there is no reform of the human and humanity without a moral renewal. But the invocation at the end of morality is without power, because the parameters are hidden in a dense fog of discussion. In fact, the man can not bear the pure and simple morality, can not live by it: for him it becomes a "law", which provokes the desire to contradict and forth sin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So where forgiveness, true forgiveness to full effectiveness, is not recognized or not you believe it, morality must be broken in order such that the conditions for the single man of sin can never really happen. Broadly speaking we can say that today's moral discussion tends to set people free from guilt, causing ever arrives to take over the conditions of its possibility. It also recalls the mordant phrase of Pascal: "Ecce patres, here tollunt peccata mundi." Here are the fathers, who take away the sins of the world. According to these "moralists," there is simply no longer any guilt. Naturally, however, this way of ridding the world of guilt is too cheap. Within them, people know very well that it freed all of this is not true, that sin exists, that they themselves are sinners and that there must be an effective way to overcome sin. Even Jesus himself did not call because those who have already liberated themselves and therefore - as they believe - they did not need him, but instead called those who know they are sinners and therefore in need of Him<br />
The moral retains its seriousness only if there is forgiveness, a forgiveness real, effective, otherwise it falls into the pure and empty conditional. But true forgiveness is only if there is the "purchase price", 1 '"equivalent exchange", if the guilt has been expiated, if there is atonement. The circularity that exists between "moral - forgiveness - Atonement" can not be broken, if anything is missing everything else falls. Dall'indivisa existence of this club depends on whether or not the man's redemption. In the Torah, the five books of Moses, these three elements are inseparably tied to one another and therefore it is not possible by this compact city center belonging to the spin off of the Old Testament canon, in the manner of the Enlightenment, a moral law is always valid, leaving all the rest to history. This mode of actualization of the Old Testament moralistic necessarily ends in failure, at this point was already clear the error of Pelagius, who now has many more followers than it seems at first sight. Instead, Jesus fulfilled the whole law, not only a part of it, and it has renewed the base. He himself, who suffered expiate guilt, atonement and forgiveness is at the same time, so it is also the only sure and always a good basis of our morality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You can not separate the moral from the Christological, because you can not separate the atonement and forgiveness. In Christ the whole law is fulfilled and thus morality has become a real, fulfilling requirements given to us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Starting from the core of the faith, you open it again and again the path of renewal for the individual, for the Church as a whole and for humanity.</span></div></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-64998459619401475442010-12-20T13:28:00.000-07:002010-12-20T13:28:00.755-07:00Joseph Ratzinger BEAUTY CHURCH 6<span class="long_text short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="">Sorry for the bad translation</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;">The essence of true reform</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqM6158FzqCrN8esuxDEWpMn3mjMFRlRKEf7rck3FEZ6ARR1XTebXsfpueQPoMHbpGxAm0eeFYLbfeIRaX2VB6KmNkj0R9tNaAJY-8GJsqNnGKoDK98KWVVlikjzO6LAL03uXsC3_t_sA/s1600/jesus-christ-holding_%257Eu19060731.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqM6158FzqCrN8esuxDEWpMn3mjMFRlRKEf7rck3FEZ6ARR1XTebXsfpueQPoMHbpGxAm0eeFYLbfeIRaX2VB6KmNkj0R9tNaAJY-8GJsqNnGKoDK98KWVVlikjzO6LAL03uXsC3_t_sA/s1600/jesus-christ-holding_%257Eu19060731.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The activist, who wants to build everything by itself, is the opposite of the one who admires (the 'admirer'). He narrows the scope of their reason and thus loses sight of the mystery. The more the Church extends the scope of things decided by itself and self-made, the more narrow it is for us all. In it the full size, liberating, is not constituted by what we do ourselves, but from what is given to us all.<br />
What does not come from our will and invent, but is before them, a coming to us of what is unthinkable, what is more greater than our hearts. "The reformatio, that which is necessary in every age, is not the fact that we can reshape always New "our" Church as we like, we can invent it, but in the fact that we always blown away again support our own development, in favor of pure light from above that which is at the same time ' burst of pure freedom.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let me tell you what I mean with an image, an image that I found in Michael Angelo, who takes his part in this ancient concepts of mysticism and Christian philosophy. With the eyes of the artist, Michelangelo saw already in the stone before him the image-guide who secretly waiting to be freed and brought to light. The task of the artist - in his view - was only to take away what still covered the image. Michelangelo conceived as a genuine artistic action to bring to light a set at liberty, not as a do. The same idea applies but the scope of anthropology, was already in St. Bonaventure, which explains the way through which man becomes truly himself, taking his cue from the comparison with the carver of images, ie with the sculptor. The sculptor does not do something, says the great Franciscan theologian. His work is rather a ablatio: This consists in taking away what is inauthentic. In this way, through the ablative, it appears nobilis form, that is the figure precious. So the man, that shine in him the image of God, must above all and first of all accept the purification, through which the sculptor, God, frees him from all the waste that obscure<br />
the authentic look of his being, making it look just like a block of rough stone, but instead he dwells in the divine form.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If we understand correctly, we can find in this picture also the role model for the reform of the Church. Certainly, the Church will always need new structures to support human, to speak and operate at all times in history. These church institutions with their legal form, far from being something bad, on the contrary, in some degree, simply necessary and indispensable.<br />
But they get older, are likely to arise as the most important thing, and so distract the eye from what is truly essential. For this they must always be taken away again, as scaffolding become superfluous. Reform is always a ablatio again: a take away, to make it visible form nobilis, the face of bride and together with it also the face of the bridegroom himself, the living Lord. Such ablative, such a "negative theology", is a path toward a goal of completely positive. Only then penetrates the Divine, and only thus stands a congregatio, an assembly, a gathering, a purification, pure that community might wish: a community where "I" is no longer against another "I", a " self against another self. Rather that give themselves, quell'affidarsi with confidence, which is part of love, becomes the mutual receive all good and all that is pure. And so each is the word of the generous Father, who to his eldest son is jealous is reminiscent of what the content of every freedom and every utopia realized: "All that is mine is yours ..." (The 15.31 ; dr.Gv 17.1).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">True reform is therefore an ablative, as such becomes congregatio. Let us grasp in a somewhat 'more concrete idea of the fund. At first we had opposing activist approach to the admirer, and we were cast in favor of the latter. But what does this contrast? The activist, who always wants to do, places his business above all. This limits the scope of its horizon feasible, of what may become the subject of his work. Properly speaking, he sees only the objects. It is not able to perceive what is greater than he, as this would limit its activities. He shrinks the world to what is empirical. The man is amputee. The activist built himself a prison, against which he then protest loudly.<br />
But the real surprise is a "No" to the limitation in what is empirical, in what is only the aldiqua. It prepares the man at the time of faith, which opens the horizon before the Eternal, the Infinite. And only that which has no limits is large enough for our nature, only the unlimited is appropriate to the vocation of our being. Where this horizon disappears, every trace of freedom becomes too small and all the releases, which in turn can be proposed, is a tasteless substitute, which is never enough. The first, basic ablative, which is necessary for the Church, is always again an act of faith itself. That act of faith that tears down barriers and opens the finite space to come up with the endless sea. Faith takes us "far away in boundless lands", as they say in the Psalms. The modern scientific thought has ever imprisoned in positivism, condemning it to pragmatism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks to him we can achieve many things you can travel from the moon and even further nell'illimitatezza of the cosmos. However, despite this, one is always at the same point, because the actual border, the border of the quantity and feasible, is not exceeded.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Albert Camus described the absurdity of this form of freedom in the emperor Caligula, everything is at its disposal, but all things are too tight. In his mad desire to have more and more, and greater things, he cries, I want the moon, give me the moon!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now, meanwhile, has become possible for us to have in some way, even the moon. But until you open the actual border, the border between earth and heaven, between God and the world, the moon is just another piece of land, and do not reach us even one step closer to freedom and the fullness we desire.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The fundamental liberation that the Church can give us is it to be in the horizon of the Lord is come out from the limits of our knowledge and our power. The faith itself, in all its grandeur and magnitude, it is therefore essential to reform over and over again that we need and, since then we have it again and again to test those institutions that we ourselves have done in the Church. This means that the Church must be the bridge of faith, and that it - especially in his worldly associational life - can not become an end in itself. It's released today here and there, even in high ecclesiastical circles, the idea that a person is much more Christian than what is involved in church activities. It leads to a kind of therapy ecclesiastical activity, get busy, everyone is trying to assign a committee or, in any case, at least some commitment within the Church. In some way, so you think, there must always be an ecclesial activity, we must speak of the Church or you must do something to it or in it. But a mirror that reflects only your self is no longer a mirror, a window instead of allowing a free look to the distant horizon, is interposed as a screen between the observer and the world, has lost its meaning. It can happen that someone engaged continuously and church group activities, however, is by no means a Christian. Can happen to someone else instead of just simply living the Word and Sacrament and practice the love that comes from faith, without being ever appeared in church committees that have never dealt with the news of ecclesiastical politics, without having been part of synods and without Cast in them, and yet he is a true Christian.<br />
It is a Church that we need more human, but more of a Church of God, only then it will be truly human. And so all that is man-made, within the Church, must be recognized in its pure nature of service and retire before the most important thing and that's the main thing. The freedom that we rightly expect from the Church and the Church, is not realized due to the fact that we introduce in it the principle of majority. It does not depend by the fact that the majority of the widest possible prevail over the minority more small as possible, it depends instead on the fact that no one can impose its own will on others, but all recognize related word and the will of the One who is our Lord and our freedom.</span></div><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the Church, the atmosphere becomes cramped and stifling the bearers of the ministry if they forget that the Sacrament is not a sharing of power, but instead of expropriation in favor of him myself, in the person to whom I must speak and act. Where the liability is consistent with increasing the growing autoespropriazione, there is no slave of; dominates the Lord and because there is the principle that: "The Lord is the Spirit. But where the Spirit of the Lord there is liberty "{2 Cor 3:17).<br />
The more equipment we build, are also the most modern, the less there is room for the Spirit, the less there is room for the Lord, and there is even less freedom. I think we should, from this point of view, up in the Church at all levels of an examination of conscience unconditionally. At all levels, this examination of conscience should have a very concrete, and bear with 'him a ablatio leaving again reveal the true face of the Church. It could give us all a sense of freedom and of being at home in a whole new way.</span>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1686712804999470306.post-80628952055507274782010-12-18T13:25:00.000-07:002010-12-18T13:25:00.464-07:00Joseph Ratzinger BEAUTY CHURCH 5<i><span class="long_text short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="">Sorry for the bad translation</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;">Reform useless</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><br />
<span class="longtext"></span><span title="">But how should this be? </span><span title="">How can such a reform to succeed? </span><span title="">However, we have to begin, they say. </span><span title="">It is often said with the naive assumption of the enlightened, who is convinced that the generations up until now have not understood the question, or that they were too timid and poorly lit, and we, however, we now finally at the same time </span><span title="">is the courage that intelligence. </span><span title="">No matter how much resistance they can oppose the reactionary and "fundamentalists" in this noble undertaking, it must be put into work. </span><span title="">At least there is a recipe for the very enlightening first step. </span><span title="">The Church is not a democracy. </span><span title="">From what appears, it has not yet integrated in its internal constitution that heritage of freedom and rights that the Enlightenment has produced and which has since been recognized as a fundamental rule of social and political formations. </span><span title="">So it seems the most natural thing in the world once and recover what had been neglected and begin coll'erigere this key asset structures of freedom. </span><span title="">The road leads - as they say - from a paternalistic church and distribution of goods to a church-community. </span><span title="">It is said that no one should remain passive receiver of gifts that are to be a Christian. </span><span title="">Everyone must become active players instead of the Christian life. </span><span title="">The Church must no longer be dropped from the top down. </span><span title="">No! </span><span title="">It is we who "have" the Church, and we always new. </span><span title="">So finally it will become "our" church, and we its active responsible parties. </span><span title="">The passive aspect gives to those assets. </span><span title="">The Church rises through discussions, agreements and decisions. </span><span title="">In the debate today shows what can be required, what today can still be recognized by all as belonging to the faith or moral line directive.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">Are issued new "formulas of faith and stripped. </span><span title="">In Germany, a relatively high level, it was said that the liturgy should no longer correspond to a previous scheme, already given, but instead must arise on the spot, in a given situation by the community for which is celebrated. </span><span title="">Also it should not be anything more already pre-established, but instead something self-made, something that is an expression of themselves. </span><span title="">On this way turns out to be a bit 'of an obstacle, for the most part, the word of Scripture, which, however, can not be waived altogether. </span><span title="">It must then deal with them as much freedom of choice.</span></span><span lang="EN"><br />
<span class="longtext"></span><span title="">Not many, however, the texts used are left in such a way as to fit without interference in that self-realization, which now appears to be intended for the liturgy. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">In this reform, which now finally also in the Church 1 '"self" must be guided by replacing the other, but soon questions arise. </span><span title="">Who here was the right to make decisions? </span><span title="">On what basis does this happen? </span><span title="">In the political democracy, this demand is being met by the system of representation: election each choose their representatives, who make the decisions for them. </span><span title="">This position is limited in time and is also limited in content, in outline, by the party system, and includes only those policy fields that are assigned by the Constitution to separate state representative.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">Here, too, the questions remain: the minority must bow to the majority and the minority can be very large.</span></span><span lang="EN"><br />
<span class="longtext"></span><span title="">Moreover, it is not always guaranteed that the representative that I have chosen to act and speak in the way I really want, so that even the most victorious, looking at things more closely, once again can not be considered fully at all as an active political event </span><span title="">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">On the contrary, it must also accept "decisions taken by others", so at least not impair the system in its entirety.</span></span><span lang="EN"><br />
<span class="longtext"></span><span title="">More important for our discussion, however, is a general problem. </span><span title="">Everything that men do, may also be withdrawn from others. </span><span title="">Everything that comes from a human taste may not appeal to others. </span><span title="">All that a majority decision can be repealed by another majority.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN">A Church that rests on a majority decision or a church becomes purely human. </span><span title="">It is reduced to a level that is </span></span></div><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">plausible, what is the result of their action and their own insights and opinions. </span><span title="">The review replaces faith. </span><span title="">And indeed, in the formulas of faith coined by saying that I know the meaning of "belief" does not go beyond the meaning "we think". </span><span title="">The Church has made itself at the end of the taste of the "self" that other "self" is never acceptable and soon reveals his own smallness. </span><span title="">It was withdrawn in the context of the empirical, and so it was dissolved as an ideal dream.</span></span>telamoniohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235520683278774894noreply@blogger.com0