On Saturday, May 13, 2017, we are celebrating the 100th Year Anniversary of the Holy Apparition of The Blessed Virgin Mary to three children in Cova da Iria, Fatima Portugal.
The children reported seeing a woman "brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun." The woman wore a white mantle edged with gold and held a rosary in her hand. She asked them to devote themselves to the Holy Trinity and to pray "the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world and an end to the war".
While the children had never told anyone about seeing the angel, Jacinta told her family about seeing the brightly lit woman. Lúcia had earlier said that the three should keep this experience private. Jacinta's disbelieving mother told neighbors about it as a joke, and within a day the whole village knew of the children's vision.
The three children were: Lucia dos Santos, Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto.
A year before the Blessed Virgin appeared to the three children, Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta had three visions of an Angel in 1916. These visions remained unknown until 1937, when Lúcia revealed them for the first time.
The apparitions of Our Lady were advanced one year before by three apparitions of an angel who prepared the little seers to become messengers of the Mother of God.
According to Lúcia’s description, the first apparition of the Angel took place in the Spring of 1916, when the three peasant children were tending their herds and took shelter in a place called “Loca do Cabeço”. The second apparition happened in the Summer of 1916 at the well of Lúcia’s parents’ home, where the children used to play. The third apparition happened in the end of the Summer or beginning of the Fall of 1916, again at “Loca do Cabeço”.
First Apparition of the Angel
In spring in 1916 Lucia Dos Santos age 9, and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, ages 8 and 6 respectively, were at a meadow with their sheep in (hamlet of Fatima). It started raining, and they hid in a small cave to escape the rain. After the rain stopped and the sun came out, they stayed in the cave to eat their lunch, say the rosary and play a game of jacks. They had played but for a short while when, on the serene day, a strong wind blew that swayed the trees and a sudden white light enveloped them.
In the middle of that light appeared a cloud in the form of a young man who said to them:
"Fear not! I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me!"
The angel knelt on the ground and bowed very low. The children imitated the angel and repeated his words three times:
"My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love You. I beg pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love You."
Then he rose and said:
"Pray this way. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications."
Second Apparition of the Angel
It happened in summer, when the seers were playing near the well of Lucia's house.
The Angel said to them:
"What are you doing? Pray! Pray a great deal. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices continually to the Most High."
The children asked: "How must we sacrifice ourselves?" The angel said:
"Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners. By this you will bring peace to your country. I'm its Guardian Angel, the Angel of Portugal. Above all accept and bear with submission all the suffering the Lord will send you."
From that moment, they began to offer to the Lord everything that offended Him, without trying to find any other ways of mortification or penance other than passing hour after hour, bowed to the ground, repeating the prayer that the angel had taught them.
Third apparition of the Angel
It happened in autumn at Cabeco. The children started prayers when they saw the angel, which had in his hand a chalice over which hung a Host, from which fell in the chalice some drops of Blood. He knelt and repeated three times with the children:
"Most Holy Trinity-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - I adore thee profoundly. I offer thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles in the world, in reparation for all the outrages, sacrileges and indifference whereby he is offended. And through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners."
Then he rose, took the Host, and gave it to Lucia, while the contents of the chalice he gave to Jacinta and Francisco, and said:
"Take the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ horribly outraged by thankless men. Recover their sins and comfort your God."
And from May to October 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary would appear to the three children every thirteenth of the month.
The Message of Fatima by the Vatican and several online sources: The Story of Fatima, Our Lady of Fatima by Catholic News Agency, MGR Foundation Fatima Index, Roman Catholic Man, Catholic Essentials and EWTN's The True Story of Fatima.
Sharing these links and info on my blog is my small gift and contribution to the celebration of the 100 years of the Apparition of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Fatima. I pray that everyone is given a chance to marvel the beauty and meaning of this historical and Earth-shattering event.
Before I say goodbye, I'd like to share two more important works that deals with Our Lady of Fatima apparition, one video, One four-volume book in PDF form and the Fatima Prayers.
Watch and read them. Enrich your life with the knowledge of God.
The Mystical City of God is a book written in the 17th century by the Franciscan nun Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda.
According to María de Ágreda, the book was to a considerable extent dictated to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary and regarded the life of the Virgin Mary and the divine plan for creation and the salvation of souls. The work alternates between descriptions of the Trinity, the Virgin Mary's life, and the spiritual guidance she provides to the author, by whom her words were reproduced for the spiritual benefit and growth of the reader.
The book describes at length the various virtues, and how the reader should live in order to see them reflected in their own life, with the Virgin Mary as their model for sanctity. The work has the Imprimatur of several Popes and Bishops and appeals primarily to those who believe in "private revelation" and the sanctity of Mary. Non-Catholic Christians generally do not accept the teaching of the Catholic Church and are consequently skeptical of works of this nature.
Various misinterpretations of her writings led to the extent that Mystical City of God was temporarily placed on the Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum in August 1681. By the order of Blessed Innocent XI, however, the decree of condemnation was removed three months later, after it was shown that a faulty French translation was at the basis for the censure. The book was subsequently criticized by Jansenists and Gallicans in the 18th century, while the Church continued to defend its orthodoxy
In 1673, María de Ágreda was declared venerable soon after her death, but the process of her beatification has yet to be completed. Beatification and canonization do not authenticate revelations, however.
Visit the page ====> Mystical City of God.
Here are the books in Four volumes:
And to finally end, allow me to share these Fatima Prayers:
"O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen."
"My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee."
"O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary I beg the conversion of poor sinners."
"Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament."
"O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in reparation for the offence committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners"
"By thy pure and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, obtain the conversion of Russia, Spain, Portugal, Europe and the whole world!"
"Sweet Heart of Mary, be the salvation of Russia, Spain, Portugal, Europe and the whole world."
Amen.
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