Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror. It would appear that a comet is mentioned in an as-yet-unrevealed part of the Message of Fatima, because a 2014 biography of Sister Lucia of Fatima, . At this point, Archbishop Bertone presented two envelopes to her: the first containing the second, which held the third part of the secret of Fatima. It stated there is nothing against faith and good customs, and no doctrinal innovation or deviation was found.. She was asked if she would be happy to have it published, and she replied: If the Holy Father agrees, then I am happy, otherwise I obey whatever the Holy Father decides. We see the Church of the martyrs of the century which has just passed represented in a scene described in a language which is symbolic and not easy to decipher. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven. The first two "secrets" called for conversion and prayer. 67). Mary gave the children this prayer, as well as the Fatima Prayer/Decade Prayer, on June 13th, 1917. Here it would be appropriate to mention a phrase from the letter which Sister Lucia wrote to the Holy Father on 12 May 1982: The third part of the 'secret' refers to Our Lady's words: 'If not, [Russia] will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. This protection seems also to be linked to the so-called third part of the secret of Fatima. They will say: Christians cannot escape now! But a Great king will arise to fight the enemies of God. Was it Our Lady who fixed that date? Sister Lucia replied: It was not Our Lady. It shows us that our prayers can be answered and that God is always listening. But it also has its limitations. The Fatima prophecies fit exactly into this category when Our Lady spoke of a terrible chastisement if men do not repent and amend their lives but she also gave hope by promising that in the end Her Immaculate Heart will triumph. The prophetic word is a warning or a consolation, or both together. According to Matthew 5:8, the immaculate heart is a heart which, with God's grace, has come to perfect interior unity and therefore sees God. In the vision, the Pope too is killed along with the martyrs. After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. Traditionally, what is understood to be holding him back is the Roman Empire. Fatima's Secret Prophecy Revealed "When the world is asking for peace, security, and repentant of all the evil it has done, the sudden destruction of a new Armageddon will come and they will suffer." The Prophecies of Fatima At the same time there will be a Great Pope, who will be most eminent in sanctity and most perfect in every quality. FEBRUARY 7, 1950 Take care of the animals during these days. 1613) The fifth period of the Church, which began circa 1520, will end with the arrival of the Holy Pope and of the powerful Monarch who is called Help From God because he will restore everything., Nursing Nun of Belay (19th century) A saint raises his arms to Heaven; he allays the wrath of God. . It is our hope that The Fatima Center's 2023 calendar will find its way into the hands of many Catholics, to serve as a devotional tool, by which those who love God may advance in holiness through fervent prayer and penance, and by faithfully living Our Blessed Mothers Fatima Message. This does not mean that a private revelation will not offer new emphases or give rise to new devotional forms, or deepen and spread older forms. While the visionaries at Medjugorje have mentioned that the Three Days of Darkness are not part of the Tenth Secret, this is an honest, mistaken belief on their part. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Online Christian Articles and Information Hub. Connected with this topic, we recommend the article Catholic Prophecy and Hope for the Future by David Rodrguez, in the most recent edition of The Fatima Crusader (Issue 126 Winter 2020). Its meaning is exactly the opposite: it is meant to mobilize the forces of change in the right direction. Archbishop Bertone, accompanied by the Bishop of Leiria, His Excellency Bishop Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva, will come in my name to ask certain questions about the interpretation of the third part of the secret. A person who foretells what is going to happen responds to the curiosity of the mind, which wants to draw back the veil on the future. As the second millennium gives way to the third, Pope John Paul II has decided to publish the text of the third part of the secret of Fatima. In Scriptures, we find many references to days of darkness, the most familiar perhaps being the ninth plague that fell upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians during the time of Moses: Extend your hand toward heaven. (7) In the Fourth Memoir Sister Lucia adds: In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved, etc. The mountain and city symbolize the arena of human history: history as an arduous ascent to the summit, history as the arena of human creativity and social harmony, but at the same time a place of destruction, where man actually destroys the fruits of his own work. However, He also said that Freemasonry would rise again and that it would be so successful that He would have to then send the chastisement so that all would not be lost. 3 days of darkness kits!! That is His true position: among the worthless and the rejects. Eric Bermingham is an aerospace engineer by day and a creationist author by night. The message of Fatima is a testament to the power of faith and the importance of prayer. Private revelation is a help to this faith, and shows its credibility precisely by leading me back to the definitive public Revelation. The martyrs die in communion with the Passion of Christ, and their death becomes one with his. She reminds us that man's future is in God, and that we are active and responsible partners in creating that future. Eighteen years after her death, her body remained supple and incorrupt. For our enlightenment, let us refer to the Catholic Encyclopedia for some guidelines regarding prophecies. I fixed the date because I had the intuition that before 1960 it would not be understood, but that only laterwould it be understood. May there dawn for everyone the time of peace and freedom, the time of truth, of justice and of hope.(3). There shall come over the whole earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. THE SECOND WORD TO THE CROSS. The Flemish theologian E. Dhanis, an eminent scholar in this field, states succinctly that ecclesiastical approval of a private revelation has three elements: the message contains nothing contrary to faith or morals; it is lawful to make it public; and the faithful are authorized to accept it with prudence (E. Dhanis,Sguardo su Fatima e bilancio di una discussione, in La Civilt Cattolica 104 [1953], II, 392-406, in particular 397). For the visionary, this perception certainly has the force of a presence, equivalent for that person to an external manifestation to the senses. Blessed Elizabeth Canori-Mora (d. 1825) describes a similar event (related in The Reign of Antichrist): God will make use of the power of darkness in order to root out the followers of Sects and godless who want to shake and destroy the foundation of the Church They will be punished by the cruelty of demons and die a tragic and barbarous death. They may sometimes be realized in part and in part may even run contrary to events. The book Trial, Tribulation & Triumph, by Desmond A. Birch (Queenship Publishing, 1996), also contains various prophecies about the French Monarch, the Three Days of Darkness, and the Era of Peace, including: St. Methodius (d. 311) A day will come when the enemies of Christ will boast of having conquered the whole world. In every age the Church has received the charism of prophecy, which must be scrutinized but not scorned. The air shall be infected by demons who will appear under all sorts of hideous forms., Religion shall be persecuted, and priests massacred Churches shall be closed, but only for a short time. She said that she was prepared to answer all questions frankly. The Message of Fatima is the ONLY solution to the grave crises facing the Church and the world today. From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us. Our Lord relented, saying that He would send several holy Popes who would be firm in the teaching given to the Apostles. The latter demands faith; in it in fact God himself speaks to us through human words and the mediation of the living community of the Church. One faith only and one emperor shall reign over the whole earth.. At that moment all nature went into convulsions, the world lost its normal order and was filled with the most terrible calamity imaginable. He ascends the throne of Peter. God's representatives on earth have authorized me to do this several times and in various letters, one of which, I believe, is in your keeping. The fiat of Mary, the word of her heart, has changed the history of the world, because it brought the Saviour into the world - because, thanks to her Yes, God could become man in our world and remains so for all time. The sky took on a morbid blue color which terrified everyone who looked at it. Nevertheless he also wishes his pilgrimage to be a renewed gesture of gratitude to Our Lady for her protection during these years of his papacy. As is well known, Pope John Paul II immediately thought of consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and he himself composed a prayer for what he called an Act of Entrustment, which was to be celebrated in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major on 7 June 1981, the Solemnity of Pentecost, the day chosen to commemorate the 1600th anniversary of the First Council of Constantinople and the 1550th anniversary of the Council of Ephesus. Intercede pro Papa nostro Ioanne Paulo II. The purpose of the vision is not to show a film of an irrevocably fixed future. To save souls has emerged as the key word of the first and second parts of the secret, and the key word of this third part is the threefold cry: Penance, Penance, Penance! The beginning of the Gospel comes to mind: Repent and believe the Good News (Mk 1:15). In the Apostle they could see concretely what it meant to follow Christ. For ten long years, the email, which started evolving, as people started adding to it, went into a cycle of disappearing and reappearing. Father, Father Nicholas Gruner, born in Montreal (May 4, 1942), was ordained to, James Hanisch serves as a staff writer and author for The Fatima Center., James W. Bannister (B.A., LL.B) is a native of Toronto and has degrees, Joanna Swords is a long-time supporter of The Fatima Center, and one of, John Vennari was a writer, researcher, catechist, and editor (for more, Kennedy Hall is a Catholic High School teacher, rugby coach, and part, Matt Gaspers is the Managing Editor of Catholic Family News. Paul VI read the contents with the Substitute, Archbishop Angelo Dell'Acqua, on 27 March 1965, and returned the envelope to the Archives of the Holy Office, deciding not to publish the text. This group is aware of the Three Days of Darkness prophecy and is preparing for it. Our Lady of Fatima is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in connection with her apparitions to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. It's a message of faith, forgiveness and salvation. The words of the First Letter of Peter come to mind: As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls (1:9). Our Lady gave us the remedy at Fatima by asking for the daily recitation of the Rosary; the establishment of the First Five Saturday devotions; devotion to Her Immaculate Heart; a prayerful life; penance and amendment of life. Therefore we are dealing with the middle category, interior perception. The Church prudently gives ample latitude as to the acceptance or rejection of particular or private prophecies based on evidence for or against them. Connected with this topic, we recommend the article Catholic Prophecy and Hope for the Future by David Rodrguez, in the most recent edition of, Other prophecies about the Three Days of Darkness are mentioned in. A small number of lay persons and clergy would defend it against a larger number trying to destroy it by introducing devastating changes. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners [that I do this]. As, however, the manifestation of hidden present mysteries or past events comes under revelation, we have here to understand by prophecy what is in its strict and proper sense, namely the revelation of future events. is a traditional Dominican priest. But since God himself took a human heart and has thus steered human freedom towards what is good, the freedom to choose evil no longer has the last word. The oldest letter of Saint Paul which has been preserved, perhaps the oldest of the New Testament texts, the First Letter to the Thessalonians, seems to me to point the way. Sister Maria Lucia, you may speak openly and candidly to Archbishop Bertone, who will report your answers directly to me. Each tree was in the shape of a cross and enveloped in magnificent light. Blessed Elizabeth Canori Mora3was born in 1774 and lived in Italy until her saintly death in 1825. That text contains a prophetic vision similar to those found in Sacred Scripture, which do not describe photographically the details of future events, but synthesize and compress against a single background facts which extend through time in an unspecified succession and duration. JosephCard. The present Year of the Redemption shows this: the special Jubilee of the whole Church. Elizabeth Canori Mora was beatified in 1994. The Apostle says: Do not quench the Spirit, do not despise prophesying, but test everything, holding fast to what is good (5:19-21). On the one hand, the Spirit acts as a guide who discloses a knowledge previously unreachable because the premise was missing - this is the boundless breadth and depth of Christian faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says in this regard: even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made fully explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries (No. I will be happy to be able to meet you on the long-awaited day of the Beatification of Francisco and Jacinta, which, please God, I will celebrate on 13 May of this year. Q: Does the Third Secret of Fatima reveal apocalyptic events? Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions. The action of God, the Lord of history, and the co-responsibility of man in the drama of his creative freedom, are the two pillars upon which human history is built. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. I would like finally to mention another key expression of the secret which has become justly famous: my Immaculate Heart will triumph. Upon inquiring why, Our Lady answered, Behold, my daughter, such great ungodliness. Blessed Elizabeth then saw apostates brazenly trying to rip her most holy Son from her arms. "The death of the impenitent persecutors of the Church will take place during the three days of darkness. The central element of the image is revealed where it coincides with what is the focal point of Christian prophecy itself: the centre is found where the vision becomes a summons and a guide to the will of God. (Isaiah 13: 9-11). In these reflections we have sought so far to identify the theological status of private revelations. . She will be acclaimed, venerated and esteemed by all. EMAIL: info@fatima.org, Follow Us: As the term is used in mystical theology, it applies both to the prophecies of canonical Scripture and to private prophecies. 94; Gregory the Great,Homilia in Ezechielem I, 7, 8). From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, deliver us. From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us. Required fields are marked *. It is a consoling vision, which seeks to open a history of blood and tears to the healing power of God. Because God is one, history, which he shares with humanity, is also one. He who outlives the darkness and the fear of these three days will think that he is alone on earth because the whole world will be covered with carcasses." Blessed Elena Aiello Mystic, Victim Soul, Stigmatic & Foundress (3) Radio message during the Ceremony of Veneration, Thanksgiving and Entrustment to the Virgin Mary Theotokos in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major: Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II, IV, 1 (Vatican City, 1981), 1246. Her Heart is exposed and has one sword in it. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. He sees insofar as he is able, in the modes of representation and consciousness available to him. These conversions will be amazing. We also learn that a cloak of darkness enveloped the world when Our Lord died on Calvary as was recorded by the Evangelists: Then from the sixth hour,there was darkness over the entire earth, until the ninth hour. A help to this faith, and that God is one, history, which seeks to open history. 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