The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

We celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, for on this day in 1917, The Blessed Mother made her first appearance to three shepherd children in the mountains of Portugal.  They were Jacinta, (age 7,) Francisco, (age 9,) and Lucia, (age 10.)  She appeared to them once a month from May to October.  The lives of the three children of Fatima were entirely transformed by the heavenly apparitions.

While fulfilling their duties of their state of life with the greatest fidelity, those children seemed now to live only for prayer and sacrifice, which they offered in a spirit of reparation to obtain peace in the world and the conversion of sinners.  They deprived themselves of water during the periods of great heat; they gave their lunches to poor children; they wore around their waists thick cords that even drew blood; they abstained from innocent pleasures and urged one another to the practice of prayer and penance with an ardor comparable to that of the great saints.

Our Lady communicated with Lucia in all of her appearances.  She asked the Blessed Mother to take them to heaven.  “Yes,” Our Lady answered, “I will take Jacinta and Francisco soon.  You, however, are to stay here a longer time.  Jesus wants to use you to make me known and loved.  HE WANTS TO ESTABLISH DEVOTION TO MY IMMACULATE HEART IN THE WORLD.  I PROMISE SALVATION TO THOSE WHO EMBRACE IT AND THEIR SOULS WILL BE LOVED BY GOD AS FLOWERS PLACED MYSELF TO ADORN HIS THRONE.”

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

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