The three children of Fatima: Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia who saw and interacted with the Angel of Peace, and the Blessed Mother Mary.
While the apparitions of Mother Mary of Fatima are considered to be a private revelation, there is more than meets the eye here in the historical accounts of what took place, defying natural order. As the three children, Francisco, Jacinta, and Lucia take the family’s sheep out to pasture in the neighboring hills, the trio gradually developed a close friendship, and witness several supernatural, unexplainable events which they could not deny. The following quotes are taken from the book, FATIMA THE GREAT SIGN by Francis Johnston.
“One morning as they were grazing the sheep at a favorite spot known as Cabeco, a rocky knoll not far from the summit of a large prominence near their home, a strong wind suddenly sprang up which made them stop playing abruptly. Looking out across the distant valley, they were astonished to see a dazzling globe of light like a miniature sun, gliding slowly and majestically towards them.
“As it approached, the children could see the ball of light gradually resolve itself into the shape of a transparent young man of about fourteen, ‘more brilliant than crystal pierced by the rays of the sun,’ as Lucia later described him.
“Standing before them in supernatural radiance he said in a voice of grave beauty, ‘Do not be afraid. I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.’
“Then kneeling down and bowing so low that his forehead touched the ground, he recited the following prayer three times in a voice that quivered with fervor: ‘My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, I love Thee. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, nor hope, nor love Thee.’
Then rising he said, ‘Pray like that. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications.” Having said this, he gradually faded in the sunlit air.”
This begins the first of many apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary throughout the world. Her message is to pray the rosary for peace in families, world peace, and for the conversion of sinners, as well as for the conversion of Russia.
The children learned little by little how to focus on prayer, how to pray, and the value of offering up the sacrifices of each day working in communion with divine order for the good of humanity.
The angel returned one day as they were resting from the heat of the day under the shade of some fig trees by a well in Lucia’s garden. The angel asked, “What are you doing? You must pray. You must pray a great deal. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have designs of mercy on you. Offer up prayers and sacrifices constantly to the Most High.”
“Lucia asked him how they were to make sacrifices and the angel answered: Make everything you do a sacrifice and offer it to God in reparation for the countless sins by which He is offended and in supplication for the conversion of sinners. In this way, you will bring peace to your country. I Am its Guardian Angel, the Angel of Portugal. Above all, accept and bear with submission all the sufferings which the Lord may send you.”
“The words of the angel illuminated the souls of the three children ‘like a light which made us understand who and what God really is, how much He loves us and wishes to be loved,’ as Lucinda wrote many years later.
“The value of sacrifice now, for the first time, became clear to us. Suddenly we knew the appeal to God and its power to convert sinners. From that day on we began to offer to offer to God all that mortified us, all that was difficult or unpleasant. And we also spent hour after hour prostrate upon the ground, repeating the angel’s prayer over and over again.
“Some three months later, while the children were grazing their sheep at the Cabeco again, the angel suddenly appeared to them a third time. Through the white radiance of his presence the children could see that he held a chalice with a Host above it, from which drops of Blood feel into the cup. Leaving these suspended in mid-air, he prostrated himself on the ground before them and repeated the following sublime prayer of reparation three times in the same tone of trembling fervor.
“Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, really and truly present in every tabernacle of the world in reparation for the countless outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. And through the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg Thee to convert poor sinners.”
Today, the need for prayer, the rosary, and offering up the trials and tribulations of life are still beneficial in affecting and turning the hearts of nations and individuals toward Peace, Love, and Harmony, and putting an end to unbridled selfishness, ego, and aggression.
While the world deals with the dysfunctions within the borders of many lands, those of us at home and at work in our everyday lives can take a moment to transform those energies through meditation and prayer. Even if you are alone in your home, your prayers matter. You matter. Your neighbor matters. Every person in every country in the world matters.
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