Mr. Marto, father of Jacinta and
Francisco, noticed that when the third apparition began, a small grayish
cloud hovered over the holm oak, the sunlight diminished, and a cool
breeze blew over the mountain range, despite it being the height of
summer. He also heard something like flies inside an empty jug. The
seers saw the customary glare, and then Our Lady over the holm oak.
Lucia: What does Your Grace wish of me?
Our Lady: I want you to come here on the thirteenth
of next month and to continue to pray the Rosary every day in honor of
Our Lady of the Rosary, in order to obtain peace for the world and the
end of the war, for she alone can be of any avail.
Lucia: I would like to ask you to tell us who you are and to perform a miracle so everyone will believe that Your Grace appears to us.
Our Lady: Continue to come here every month. In
October, I will tell you who I am and what I wish, and I will perform a
miracle that everyone shall see so as to believe.
Lucia then made a number of requests for conversions, cures, and
other graces. Our Lady recommended the constant recitation of the
rosary; thus they would obtain those graces during the year.
Then she went on: "Sacrifice yourselves for sinners and say many
times, especially when you make a sacrifice, 'O Jesus, this is for love
of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins
committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.'"
The first part—The vision of hell
Lucia
writes, “Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be
under the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human
form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished
bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by
the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds
of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire,
without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and
despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. The demons
could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to
frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent. This vision
lasted but an instant. 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. Otherwise, I think we would have died
of fear and terror.”
The second part—The warning of the chastisement and how to avoid it
The children then looked up at Our Lady, who said to them so kindly and so sadly:
“You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them,
God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.
If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be
peace. 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. 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. 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. If my requests are heeded, Russia
will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her
errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the
Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to
suffer; various nations will be annihilated. Finally, my Immaculate
Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and
she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the
world. In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved,
etc. ...”
Communism—"The Errors of Russia"
Communism is an atheistic ideology that ultimately denies God’s
natural order and natural law, which God inscribed on the hearts of men.
Denying God, Communism attaches divinity status to the Party and to the
State. As such, Communism transfers all personal responsibility to the
Party and totalitarian state. Denying natural law, Communism rejects the
basic rights to private property, and monogamous, indissoluble marriage
two indispensable pillars of a free society. Dictatorship is not a
chance fact in Communism, but the logical and necessary consequence of
its ideology. For strategic reasons, Communism may take on different
political forms, including apparently democratic ones, and hide behind
varied labels. Already in the 1930’s, the Communist Party launched the
so-called policy of the extended hand, in which it showed to the outside
world a smiling, friendly face while, Stalin’s iron hand imposed a
ferocious, despotic dictatorship in Russia.
This deception has been used time and again throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
On
July 13, 1917 Our Lady of Fatima revealed to the young seers, Lucia,
Francisco and Jacinta three secrets or a secret in three parts, only
later to be revealed at the appointed time. The first secret is the
vision of Hell which Our Lady showed to the children, and which, though
lasting only a moment, was graphic and terrifying.
The second part of the secret is Our lady’s warning of a chastisement to come if her requests were not heeded.
Both secrets were revealed by Sister Lucia in 1941.
The third secret the seer omitted in her memoirs.
She only wrote about this third secret in January, 1944, at a request
of the Bishop of Leiria, Dom José Alves Correia da Silva. On June 26,
2000, in accordance with specific instructions from His Holiness, Pope
John Paul II, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released
the text of the third secret.
This is the Vatican’s official English translation of the text
of the third secret as published on the Vatican Website:
J.M.J.
The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria, Fatima, on July 13, 1917:
“I write in obedience to you, my God, who commands me to do so
through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy
Mother and mine.
“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 splendor 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!’
“And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to
how people appear in a mirror when they pass before it’ a bishop dressed
in white ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father’. [We saw]
other bishops, priests, men and women religious climbing a steep
mountain, at the top of which was a large Cross…Before reaching this
point, the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins. He
trembled with a halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, praying
for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top
of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the large Cross he was
killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and
in the same way there died one after another the other bishops, priests,
men and women religious, and various lay people of different ranks and
positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each
with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the
blood of the martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making
their way to God. Tuy, Spain, 3-1-1944”.
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Our Lady:
Have two portable stands made. You and Jacinta with two other girls
dressed in white carry one of them, and let Francisco carry the other
one with three other boys. The portable stands are for the feast of Our
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