On this point, it should be kept in mind that prophecy in the biblical sense does not mean to predict the future but to explain the will of God for the present, and therefore show the right path to take for the future. It shows us that our prayers can be answered and that God is always listening. Since on that day there will be time only for a brief greeting and not a conversation, I am sending His Excellency Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to speak with you. All the Church will be reordered according to the true dictates of the holy Gospel. In the great joy of Easter, I greet you with the words the Risen Jesus spoke to the disciples: Peace be with you! Before attempting an interpretation, the main lines of which can be found in the statement read by Cardinal Sodano on 13 May of this year at the end of the Mass celebrated by the Holy Father in Fatima, there is a need for some basic clarification of the way in which, according to Church teaching, phenomena such as Fatima are to be understood within the life of faith. The Holy Father shall be obliged to leave Rome.. He sees insofar as he is able, in the modes of representation and consciousness available to him. 94; Gregory the Great,Homilia in Ezechielem I, 7, 8). The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated'. This too is the message of Fatima which, with its urgent call to conversion and penance, draws us to the heart of the Gospel. And so we come to the final question: What is the meaning of the secret of Fatima as a whole (in its three parts)? The character of these prophecies covers a wide gamut ranging from pious anticipations of Providence; to events in the lives of saints; to the fate of nations; to the popes and the papacy; and to apocalyptic catastrophes leading to the end of the world. Let us now examine more closely the single images. In other parts of the world, however, attacks against the Church and against Christians, with the burden of suffering they bring, tragically continue. Required fields are marked *. Editors Note: The Fourth Part discussed the Message of La Salette and Marie-Julie Jahennys prophecy concerning Three Days of Darkness. In this sense there is a link between the charism of prophecy and the category of the signs of the times, which Vatican II brought to light anew: You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; why then do you not know how to interpret the present time? (Lk 12:56). In the case of interior vision, the process of translation is even more extensive than in exterior vision, for the subject shares in an essential way in the formation of the image of what appears. In biblical language, the heart indicates the centre of human life, the point where reason, will, temperament and sensitivity converge, where the person finds his unity and his interior orientation. (+the Great Tribulation & How I Received the GIFT OF TONGUES - Fr. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/the_fatimacenter/ Fr Chad Ripperger - Fatima, All These Predictions Are Starting To Come T 20232033: Fr. Finally, mention was made of the unpublished manuscript which Sister Lucia has prepared as a reply to the many letters that come from Marian devotees and from pilgrims. In his arduous ascent of the mountain we can undoubtedly see a convergence of different Popes. All is quiet now. The third part of the secret is a symbolic revelation, referring to this part of the Message, conditioned by whether we accept or not what the Message itself asks of us: 'If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, etc.'. This group is aware of the Three Days of Darkness prophecy and is preparing for it. Nicholas Gruner ( 2015).The Message of Fatima is the ONLY solution to the grave crises facing the Church and the world today. In fact Pope John XXIII decided to return the sealed envelope to the Holy Office and not to reveal the third part of the secret. Rabanus Maurus (d. 856) said this: , by Edward Conner (Tan Books, 1884), has a chapter entitled The Great Monarch and the Angelic Pastor, which is entirely dedicated to various prophecies about the French Monarch and Reforming Pope. Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit to conquer all sin: individual sin and the 'sin of the world', sin in all its manifestations. She foretold the first two world wars that wreaked havoc in the twentieth century. The book Prophecy for Today, by Edward Conner (Tan Books, 1884), has a chapter entitled The Great Monarch and the Angelic Pastor, which is entirely dedicated to various prophecies about the French Monarch and Reforming Pope. According to the interpretation of the little shepherds, which was also confirmed recently by Sister Lucia, the Bishop clothed in white who prays for all the faithful is the Pope. https://fatima.org/donate/Stay up-to-date with The Fa. In his kindness God warns us and calls us to the right path, while respecting the freedom he has given us; hence people are responsible.(5). In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The present Year of the Redemption shows this: the special Jubilee of the whole Church. Read Part I introducing the error to guard against. It seems to me that I can reveal it, since I already have permission from Heaven to do so. The insistent invitation of Mary Most Holy to penance is nothing but the manifestation of her maternal concern for the fate of the human family, in need of conversion and forgiveness (Pope John Paul II, Message for the 1997 World Day of the Sick, No. With his crosier he drew great cross over the face of the earth, separating it into four quadrants. April 7, 1995. The next phrases of the text show very clearly once again the symbolic character of the vision: God remains immeasurable, and is the light which surpasses every vision of ours. Before undertaking an interpretation of the message of Fatima, we must still attempt briefly to offer some clarification of their anthropological (psychological) character. Though an ordinary housewife and mother, Blessed Anna-Maria Taigi led an exemplary spiritual and Christian life that gained her the reputation as one of the greatest saints of all time. There is a rumour going round the Catholic Web that the three Days of Darkness is coming this June 22nd and folks are rushing out to buy Blessed candles. That text contains a prophetic vision similar to those found in Sacred Scripture, which do not describe photographically the details of future events, but synthesize and compress against a single background facts which extend through time in an unspecified succession and duration. FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/TheFatimaCenter/ Help us to conquer the menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today, and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world and seem to block the paths towards the future! Clothed in His inexorable Justice and full of indignation, he turned to the world. The meeting between Sister Lucia, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, sent by the Holy Father, and Bishop Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva, Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, took place on Thursday, 27 April 2000, in the Carmel of Saint Teresa in Coimbra. This letter is from Father Jos Bernardo Gonalves, and in it he advises me to write to the Holy Father, suggesting, among other things, that I should reveal the secret. The term public Revelation refers to the revealing action of God directed to humanity as a whole and which finds its literary expression in the two parts of the Bible: the Old and New Testaments. In entrusting to you, O Mother, the world, all individuals and peoples, we also entrust to you this very consecration of the world, placing it in your motherly Heart. By the Bishop's decision, the bullet was later set in the crown of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima. It is a process which involves man in his entirety and therefore reason as well, but not reason alone. Popular piety is a sign that the faith is spreading its roots into the heart of a people in such a way that it reaches into daily life. As a result, the text must be interpreted in a symbolic key. The Blessed Virgin appeared to three children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, this is a proven fact, one of these children is still alive, her name is Lucia, she is a cloister nun and lives in a European monastery. Though the prophetic spirit continued through the centuries, the Church has never promoted any other prophetic work even as she proclaimed countless saints who were gifted with prophesy. To reach this goal, the way indicated - surprisingly for people from the Anglo-Saxon and German cultural world - is devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is the correct response to this moment of history, characterized by the grave perils outlined in the images that follow. Read Part VI addressing Catholic Prophecy that is linked to the Message of Fatima. In the vision, the Pope too is killed along with the martyrs. | Ask Father with Fr. I don't think so for a variety of reasons including that the Warning is to come First and the Three Days comes right at the End of the Chastisement rather than the start, where . Popular religiosity is the first and fundamental mode of inculturation of the faith. Included in the messages was a warning about a pending new war and the conversion of Russia. (1) From the diary of John XXIII, 17 August 1959: Audiences: Father Philippe, Commissary of the Holy Office, who brought me the letter containing the third part of the secrets of Fatima. May there dawn for everyone the time of peace and freedom, the time of truth, of justice and of hope.(3). Blessed Elizabeth Canori-Mora (d. 1825) describes a similar event (related in The Reign of Antichrist): God will make use of the power of darkness in order to root out the followers of Sects and godless who want to shake and destroy the foundation of the Church They will be punished by the cruelty of demons and die a tragic and barbarous death. Have courage! new rosary radio station! He will defeat them, and peace will be given to the world, and the Church will be freed from her anxieties." And with regard to this subject, separating the chaff from the wheat is indeed a daunting task. The martyrs die in communion with the Passion of Christ, and their death becomes one with his. It is the vision as a whole that matters, and the details must be understood on the basis of the images taken in their entirety. Michel Rodriguehttps://youtu.be/Vjkeopzmti0 Follow 'Christian Gospel Message' Subscribe:. From that time forth, the word that prevails is this: In the world you will have tribulation, but take heart; I have overcome the world (Jn 16:33). He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you (Jn 16:12-14). Sister Lucia wants to present the text for ecclesiastical approval, and she hopes that what she has written will help to guide men and women of good will along the path that leads to God, the final goal of every human longing.The conversation ends with an exchange of rosaries. It is a help which is offered, but which one is not obliged to use. The Evil One has power in this world, as we see and experience continually; he has power because our freedom continually lets itself be led away from God. It would appear that a comet is mentioned in an as-yet-unrevealed part of the Message of Fatima, because a 2014 biography of Sister Lucia of Fatima, . According to Matthew 5:8, the immaculate heart is a heart which, with God's grace, has come to perfect interior unity and therefore sees God. First of all we must affirm with Cardinal Sodano: the events to which the third part of the 'secret' of Fatima refers now seem part of the past. May it put a stop to evil! The ecclesiastical censor commissioned by the Holy See released his official judgment on November 5, 1900. This will entail my speaking about the secret, and thus answering the first question. This is still more evident in the case of interior vision, especially when it involves realities which in themselves transcend our horizon. "Dear children, tonight, I come to you to tell you that the greatest sword that pierces My Heart is the unpreparedness for . Nicholas Gruner ( 2015). The Second Vatican Council notes three essential ways in which the Spirit guides in the Church, and therefore three ways in which the word grows: through the meditation and study of the faithful, through the deep understanding which comes from spiritual experience, and through the preaching of those who, in the succession of the episcopate, have received the sure charism of truth (Dei Verbum, 8). There shall come over the whole earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. Understood in its strict sense, it means the foreknowledge of future events, though it may sometimes apply to past events of which there is no memory, and to present hidden things which cannot be known by the natural light of reason. In my second account I have already described in detail the doubt which tormented me from 13 June until 13 July, and how it disappeared completely during the Apparition on that day. And a horrible darkness occurred in all the land of Egypt for three days. In the private revelations approved by the Church - and therefore also in Fatima - this is the point: they help us to understand the signs of the times and to respond to them rightly in faith. It is our hope that The Fatima Center's 2023 calendar will find its way into the hands of many Catholics, to serve as a devotional tool, by which those who love God may advance in holiness through fervent prayer and penance, and by faithfully living Our Blessed Mothers Fatima Message. #shorts, Is the Pope Exommunicated Latae Sententiae? There are many other specific prophecies concerning the French Monarch and Reforming Pope, the Three Days of Darkness, and the Era of Peace, but the statements already quoted should suffice to . While the visionaries at Medjugorje have mentioned that the Three Days of Darkness are not part of the Tenth Secret, this is an honest, mistaken belief on their part. Human persons appear as in a mirror. R. Gerald Culleton (Tan Books, 1974). Paul VI read the contents with the Substitute, Archbishop Angelo Dell'Acqua, on 27 March 1965, and returned the envelope to the Archives of the Holy Office, deciding not to publish the text. Eighteen years after her death, her body remained supple and incorrupt. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of Christians, said Tertullian. Now it can be better understood. The way in which the Church is bound to both the uniqueness of the event and progress in understanding it is very well illustrated in the farewell discourse of the Lord when, taking leave of his disciples, he says: I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. Catholic in its base, members must be Catholic and respect the teachings of the church. This time she told them that Russia would be punished if they did not stop persecuting the Catholic Church there. In the mirror of this vision we see passing before us the witnesses of the faith decade by decade. 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