Our Lady of Fatima
Today is Our Lady’s feast of course, and the 91st anniversary of her first apparition to the three children of Fatima.
At every apparition Our Lady said, “Pray the rosary every day…”
The Blessed Virgin asked for devotion to her Immaculate Heart, along with prayer and sacrifices for the conversion of sinners.
Our Lady permitted the children, even the littlest of the three, Jacinta, to see a vision of hell and explained that many are damned because they have no one to make sacrifices and pray for them.
Later, Our Lady of the Rosary showed the children a vision of the vast destruction resulting from disaster, war, famine and the persecution of the Church; all because people fail to amend their lives and ignore Our Lady’s requests for prayer, sacrifice, and the consecration of our lives, including the minutia of our daily duties. The world often ignores heaven’s requests.
Please pray for the victims of the earthquake in China, the cyclone in Myanmar, the ongoing suffering of the people of Darfur and elsewhere on the African continent, and for the victims of war and violence in Iraq and the Mideast, as well as the victims of devastating storms and tornadoes in the US… and so on, and so on, and so on.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I was surprised that one of the readings at Mass today was on Noah’s Ark and the destruction of the world by water. The Ark representing Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart of course. ..Now that I’m thinking about it now, I’m even more surprised than when I was listening to it.