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Chapter 2 Please Note: To save time and to avoid (possibly major) misunderstandings it is very important to read these chapters 1 through 9 in sequence. Thankyou. I would like to introduce you to the most secret, fascinating and important apparitions of Mary at Fatima in 1917.
CONTENTS The book The Thunder of Justice says: "Fatima is the key Marian apparition of the twentieth century."1 This is true. Now I will tell you why it is true. I have come to the conclusion that the Marian apparitions at Fatima are the foundation of all other Marian apparitions which have taken place from 1917 until today. What were the apparitions of Mary at Fatima? As you read this material, consider the following questions: FIRST - What is the purpose, goal and aim of the Marian apparitions at Fatima? SECOND - What would Satan like to achieve through his personation of Mary at Fatima? THIRD - What is Satan’s main deception at the Fatima apparitions according to the word of God? The key question is:
What does history tell us about the Fatima apparitions and its message?
In presenting this historical document about Fatima, I will use the language and terminology of the Catholic Church Historian. ON MAY 13, 1917...Just after noon, the three children had finished lunch and were going to play when they saw a flash of lightning, then another. A lovely Lady "more brilliant than the sun" appeared over a small holm oak tree. She said, "Do not be afraid. I will do you no harm. I am from heaven." Lucia asked, "What do you want of us?" The Lady replied, "I want you to come here on the thirteenth day for six months at this time, then I will tell you who I am and what I want...She departed with the words, "Say the rosary every day to earn peace for the world and the end of the war." (The first world war). ON JUNE 13, 1917 -The Lady appeared the second time at the oak tree to the three children. Lucia asked the Lady what she wanted of her. The Lady replied, "I want you to come here on the thirteenth of the next month. Say the rosary." The Lady advised that she would take Francesco and Jacinta to heaven soon (an epidemic of flu claimed Francesco and Jacinta in 1919 and 1920 respectively)., but the Lady said to Lucia, "You, however are to stay here a longer time. Jesus wants to use you to make me known and loved. He wants to establish the devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. I promise salvation to those who embrace it and their souls be loved by God, flowers placed by myself to adorn his throne." She promised Lucia she would never leave her, she said, "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God." ON JULY 13, 1917 - Our Lady again appeared over the oak tree. Lucia asked, "What do you want of me." The Lady replied, "I want you to come here on the thirteenth of next month and to continue to pray the rosary in order to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war, for she alone can help . Continue to come here every month. In October, I will tell you what I want and I will perform a miracle so that everyone may see and believe." Then the children were shown a vision of hell.. The Lady said to Lucia. "You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them God wants to establish throughout the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people will do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace. The war is going to end (the first world war). But if they do not stop offending God, another and worse war (the second world war) will break out in the reign of Pius XI. "When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that is the great sign that God gives you, that He is going to punish the world for its crimes by means of war, hunger, persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father. To forestall this, I shall come to ask the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If they heed my request, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she shall spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecution of the Church; the good will be martyred, the Holy Father (Pope) will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated; in the end, my Immaculate Heart shall triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me which will be converted, and some time of peace will be given to the world." ON AUGUST 19, 1917...The Lady appeared again to the children. The local officials had kidnapped the children and held them for several days to prevent them from going on the thirteenth. Lucia again asked, "What do you want?" The Lady said, I want you to continue to come on the thirteenth, and to continue to say the rosary every day." She promised Lucia that, "Yes, in the last month, in October, I shall perform a miracle, so that all may believe in my apparitions." ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1917 - The Lady appeared. Lucia, as was her custom, asked, "What do you want of me?" The Lady replied. "Let the people continue to say the rosary every day to obtain the end of the war." Lucia begged her to perform a miracle. The Lady replied "Yes, in October, I will perform a miracle so that all may believe." ON OCTOBER 13, 1917 - A severe storm had raged through Europe. The ground was soaked and muddy. A crowd of people estimated at between 50,000 and 70,000 made its way, drenched - to the apparition site. The Lady appeared, and in reply to Lucia’s usual question, "What do you want?" The reply was, "I want to tell you that they must build a chapel here in my honour, that I am the Lady of the Rosary, that they continue to say the rosary every day. The war will end and the soldiers will return to their home soon." As the Blessed Mother was leaving, she opened her hands and from them rays of light extended in the direction of the sun. Gradually the sun grew pale, appeared as a silver disk at which all could gaze directly without shielding their eyes. Rays of multi-coloured light shot out from the sun in every direction; red, blue, yellow, green and every colour of the spectrum, then the sun began to spin madly on its axis and appeared like a giant wheel of fire. The sun began to dance wildly. Suddenly the sun seemed to be torn loose from its orbit. It hurtled closer and closer to earth, and looked like it was going to plummet to the earth. The people were terrified and there arose cries of repentance and appeals for mercy. Many thought it was the end of the world. Then, just as suddenly, the sun stopped plummeting downwards, and in the same swirling motion it began to climb upward until it resumed its place in the sky. The rain soaked clothes of the 50,000 to 70,000 people were immediately dry. This was an event reported by several newspapers of the day."2 "Sister Lucia, as of this writing, (1997) is still alive. She has continued to receive messages from Our Blessed Mother. Lucia has been told that she will see the fulfillment of all of the messages of Fatima. Lucia today (1997) is ninety years old."3
EIGHTY YEARS OF EVENTS AT FATIMA A series of important events over the past eighty years associated with Fatima are listed below. JUNE 13, 1929 "....Sister Lucia had a vision of the Blessed Trinity and Mary as the Virgin of Fatima. Mary was holding the Immaculate Heart in her hand and told Sister Lucia; "The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father (Pope) in union with all the bishops of the world to make the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means." Lucia conveyed this message to her spiritual director, Father Jose Bernardo Gonsales, and the priest turned it over to the bishop of Leira. There is no evidence that Pope Pius XI ever got the message. Eventually the message reached Rome, but in the meantime Russia was not consecrated and events continued on a disastrous course in the Soviet Union. OCTOBER 13, 1930: The Bishop of Fatima declared the Fatima apparitions worthy of acceptance as of supernatural origin. NOVEMBER, 1937: The Bishop of Liera, in whose diocese exists the parish of Fatima, ordered Sister Lucia to write the history of her life and the apparitions just as they happened. JANUARY 25-26, 1938: The lights predicted at Fatima on July 13, 1917, were seen in the United States and Europe. The people were startled by the display of lights, which scientists termed an Aurora Borealis of "exceptional magnitude." Lucia, at the convent in Tuy, Spain, marveled at the spectacle. She sent a letter to the bishop stating that "God made use of it to make me understand His justice was about to strike the guilty nations"...Within several months Hitler had marched into Austria, annexing it to Germany. Hitler’s aggression had commenced, and soon World War II began with the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. OCTOBER 31, 1942: Pope Pius XII in Portuguese broadcast a communication consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. MAY 13, 1946: Pope Pius XII crowned the image of our Lady of Fatima and proclaimed her "Queen of the world." JULY 7, 1952: Pope Pius XII consecrated the Russian people to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. NOVEMBER 12, 1954: Pope Pius XII raised the sanctuary shrine in Fatima to the rank of a basilica. DECEMBER 13, 1962: Pope John XXIII instituted the feast of Our Lady of Rosary in honour of Our Lady of Fatima. NOVEMBER 21, 1964: Pope Paul VI renewed Pope Pius XII’s consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart, speaking to the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council. He did it alone, though in the presence of the Council Fathers. MAY 13, 1967: Pope Paul VI went to Fatima, where he called for renewed consecration to the Immaculate Heart. MAY 13, 1981: Pope John Paul II was seriously wounded by an assassin’s bullets. The Pope was saved from death when he turned to look at a young girl in the crowd wearing a picture of the Virgin of Fatima. "Just as he bent from the slow moving Popemobile in a spontaneous gesture toward the child,"4 a shot aimed at his head missed. The assassin then shot twice more, striking the Pope in the abdomen. The Pope spoke with Lucia from his hospital room while he was recuperating from his wounds. He read everything he could about Fatima, corresponded with Lucia, and re-read the famous unreleased third secret. MAY 13, 1982: Pope John Paul II in a visit to Fatima to thank Mary for saving his life, stated that the "Message of Fatima is still more relevant than it was sixty-five years ago. It is still more urgent." Having sent letters to all the Catholic bishops of the world, the Pope attempted to "collegially" consecrate with them the world and therefore Russia to the Immaculate Heart. Many bishops did not respond and Sister Lucia said afterwards the attempt did not fulfill all the conditions required by God. ON MARCH 25, 1984: While secretly in Russia, Bishop Hnilica made the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the altar at St. Michael’s Church in the Kremlin. In conjunction with this on the same date on March 25, 1984, Pope John Paul II was joined by a moral totality of all Catholic bishops throughout the world in consecrating the world and therefore Russia, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The consecration renewed the previous acts of consecration by Pius XII of the world in 1942 and Russia in 1952. For the 1984 Consecration, the Pope invited the Orthodox bishops of the world and some major Protestant leaders to join in the act. Many responded. IN JULY 1989, before the breakup of the communist empire, Lucia stated that Collegial Consecration of Russia requested by Our Lady "has been accomplished" and "God will keep His word." A few months later the world began to witness the empire’s collapse. ON MAY 13, 1990...Bishop Amral of Leira, Portugal, announced that all indications are that the Collegial Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Pope, in union with the bishops of the world, had been accomplished as requested by Our Lady.
RESULT TO DATE OF THE REPORTED CONSECRATION OF MARCH 25, 1984.
The Series of events. DECEMBER 1, 1989: At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The Pope said the meeting was prepared by Providence. DECEMBER 1, 1990: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev met Pope John Paul II for the second time. MAY 12-13, 1991: Pope John Paul II went to Fatima where he thanked Our Lady of Fatima for sparing his life in the 1981 assassination attempt. He thanked Our Lady of Fatima also for the fruits of the Collegial Consecration of "that memorable day, March 25, 1984." AUGUST 19, 1991: On the seventy-fourth anniversary of our Lady’s appearance at Fatima, the hard-liners in Soviet Russia attempted a coup to return to the time before the liberation of peoples began in the Soviet republic. AUGUST 22, 1991: On the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, the coup attempt of the communist hard-liners failed. SEPTEMBER 12, 1991: Father Gobbi communicated the following message...in the Name of Mary, "Marxist communism, which for decades had been exercising its rule and holding so many of my poor children in oppressive and bloody slavery, has been defeated in these countries. Not because of political movements or persons, but through my personal intervention, has your liberation finally come about." DECEMBER 25, 1991: The Soviet red flag with the hammer and sickle was lowered for the last time, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation and the end of the Soviet Union. The former fifteen republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were free to become independent states or countries. Let’s go deeper into the Fatima secret, namely: ON AUGUST 31, 1941: Sister Lucia for the first time mentioned that the Secret of Fatima was in three distinct parts. She wrote, "The Secret is composed of three distinct matters and I shall disclose two of them." THE FIRST is the vision of hell and the designation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as the supreme remedy offered by God to humanity, for the salvation of souls. Our Lady said, "In order to save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart." THE SECOND is the great prophecy concerning a miraculous peace which God wishes to grant to the world through the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the practice of communions of reparations on the first Saturday of the month. "If people attend to my requests, Russia will be converted and the world will have peace." And there is also the announcement of terrible punishments if people persist in not obeying her requests. Sister Lucia stated that at that time she was not permitted to reveal the third part of the secret...She also said: "The third secret is not intended to be revealed. It was only intended for the Pope." In 1957 the Holy Office demanded the text of the third secret. ON APRIL 16, 1957, the sealed envelope arrived in Rome. It was placed in the office of Pope Pius XII, in a little chest bearing the note, "Secret of the Holy Office." The third secret of Fatima has not officially been released by the church (Roman Catholic), but through the intervention of the Blessed mother at apparition sites we have a good idea of the contents, namely: FIRST, May 13, 1990, message of Father Gobbi, that the secret seems to deal with the apostasy and chastisement. SECOND: Sister Lucia wrote: "Let people say the rosary every day." Our Lady stated that repeatedly in all her apparitions, as if to fortify us against these times of diabolical disorientation, so that we would not allow ourselves to be deceived by false doctrines. THIRD, the message foretells a terrible crisis within the church (Roman Catholic) it is the loss of the faith, which the Immaculate Virgin predicted. ON JUNE 13, 1989, Father Gobbi received the following: "The errors are spread in every part of the Catholic Church itself. Because of the spread of these errors, many are moving away from the true faith, bringing to fulfillment the prophecy which was given to you by me (Mary) at Fatima: the times will come when many will lose the true faith. The loss of the faith is apostasy." FOURTH, the remaining issue is Russia’s conversion, which has not been accomplished. These two issues of consecration and conversion seem to be creating confusion in the Catholic world...However, the Key to world peace is the conversion of Russia...Russia will only be converted in the near future by direct intervention from heaven. It will take a miracle along the line of the warning and the miracle to turn the present situation around. FIFTH, Cardinal Ratzinger has written in the ‘Ratzinger Report’ that The Third Secret of Fatima has to do with what he called "de novissimis." The Cardinal had good reason to know, having previously read the still unrevealed "secret". The Latin expression "de novissimis" means "dealing with the end times," pertaining to the latter days or about the final events. These "end times" to which Cardinal Ratzinger and the Third Secret of Fatima refer.... We are now living through the Third (last) Secret."5 The secret of the Fatima apparitions and the historical view and its message have now been revealed to you. When I began I asked you to keep in your mind the following questions. FIRST, What is the purpose, goal and aim of the Marian apparitions at Fatima? SECOND, what would Satan like to achieve through his personation of Mary at Fatima? THIRD, what is Satan’s main deception at the Fatima apparitions according to the Word of God? What is your answer on the above very important questions after you read the story of Fatima? My answer is: FIRST, Satan through his personation of Mary at Fatima demands from people Worship for Mary (creature) rather than God the Creator. Mary told Lucia, she wanted from her - Quote - "To make me known and loved and to establish the devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world."6 Satan would like to remove worship of God and Jesus Christ from the people of this world. SECOND Mary’s requirement was to consecrate Russia and the whole world to her instead of God and Jesus Christ as our Creator and Redeemer. THIRD - Did you notice that in every Marian apparition she always said: "Pray the rosary." She asked for prayer but gave the wrong weapon in their hands - the rosary - instead of directly praying to God the Father in the name of Jesus Christ and the study of the Bible. Pope Pius XII noted that the message of Fatima is one of the greatest interventions of God through Mary in world history since the death of the Apostles."7 Yes, he is right, but the opposite is true, namely: the message of Fatima is one of the greatest interventions of Satan through Mary in world history since the death of the apostles. In the Marian apparitions we have spiritism, the masterpiece of Satan’s deception. Footnotes for
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