{"id":681,"date":"2014-05-13T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T01:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2014-06-16T15:33:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T22:33:39","slug":"the-feast-of-our-lady-of-fatima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/the-feast-of-our-lady-of-fatima\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0They were Jacinta, (age 7,) Francisco, (age 9,) and Lucia, (age 10.) \u00a0She appeared to them once a month from May to October. \u00a0The lives of the three children of Fatima were entirely transformed by the heavenly apparitions.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0They 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.<\/p>\n<p>Our Lady communicated with Lucia in all of her appearances. \u00a0She asked the Blessed Mother to take them to heaven. \u00a0&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Our Lady answered, &#8220;I will take Jacinta and Francisco soon. \u00a0You, however, are to stay here a longer time. \u00a0Jesus wants to use you to make me known and loved. \u00a0HE WANTS TO ESTABLISH DEVOTION TO MY IMMACULATE HEART IN THE WORLD. \u00a0I PROMISE SALVATION TO THOSE WHO EMBRACE IT AND THEIR SOULS WILL BE LOVED BY GOD AS FLOWERS PLACED MYSELF TO ADORN HIS THRONE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our Lady of Fatima, <em>pray for us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/th-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-682\" src=\"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/th-11.jpeg\" alt=\"th-1\" width=\"336\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/th-11.jpeg 336w, https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/th-11-210x300.jpeg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/th4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-683\" src=\"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/th4.jpeg\" alt=\"th\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0They were Jacinta, (age 7,) Francisco, (age 9,) and Lucia, (age 10.) \u00a0She appeared to them once a month from May to October. \u00a0The lives of the three children&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/the-feast-of-our-lady-of-fatima\/\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[450],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}