“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”
Our Lady of Fatima offered hope in the Second Secret she revealed in 1917 that despite the horrific onslaught hitting the world, including “war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father,” her heart would still conquer all. While Russia would spread her errors throughout the world, she called on Catholics to counter its socialist ideology with intensified prayer and sacrifice.
Now firmly in the 21st century, we unfortunately cannot affirm that humanity is in any better place, as we face ever increasing attacks on human life and the continued influence of godless ideologies, including a stubborn Marxist socialism, which has not disappeared following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Fatima message retains its relevance and Our Lady’s plan of action still needs our response. Although Pope Francis repeated the Church’s consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we still need to do our part. The second secret laid the basics of the plan: “I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays.” Looking at the Fatima apparitions as a whole, however, we can lay out a more complete plan of action.
- Five First Saturdays. Mary herself linked the consecration of Russia with the First Saturday devotion. She later explained to Sr. Lucia in 1925: “I promise to assist at the hour of death with the grace necessary for salvation all those who, with the intention of making reparation to me, will, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, go to confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the beads, and keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries of the Rosary.” This part of the plan entails only giving Mary an hour for five months.
- Recite the rosary every day. Mary has emphatically asked us to say the rosary and we need to get more serious about saying it every day. She told the three children at Fatima to pray “the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world and an end to the war.” We can continue the intention of peace and add to it the end of abortion and other threats against human life. Mary promised us on many occasions that praying the rosary will overcome evil and sin. The next step of the plan moves us from a monthly to a daily action, although the rosary should not take more than 20 minutes—not too much to do our part in the spiritual battle!
- Do daily penance and make sacrifices. Penance was at the heart of the Fatima message, calling us to break our attachment to material things. In the third secret, an angel says over the earth, “Penance, Penance, Penance!’” In the very first apparition to the children, from the guardian angel of Portugal, they were told, “Make of everything you can a sacrifice, and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners. You will thus draw down peace upon your country.” A sacrifice makes something holy by offering it to God, turning our minds and hearts to him. This next step is more encompassing, drawing moments throughout the day close to Mary’s heart. Every little thing, especially our suffering, can become a means of becoming closer to God and making reparation for sin. Our Lady of Fatima said, “When you make some sacrifice, say ‘O Jesus, it is for your love, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.’”
- Make a Marian consecration. Mary asked for a consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart, but, as the culmination of this spiritual plan, we can also offer whole lives and earthly possessions to her care. A consecration recognizes Mary as our Mother and Lady, who will care for our true spiritual needs, protect us, and guide us toward holiness. Essentially, we are expressing our need for Mary’s help and that we trust her to guide us into the heart of her Son. St. Louis de Montfort has provided the classic formula for making the total consecration to Jesus through Mary. Father Chad Ripperger has also written a formula for consecrating exterior goods to Mary to protect against demonic oppression.
Mary clearly has a mission to guide us out of the crisis of the modern world. The plan she laid out of Fatima can help us in the battle against the ongoing challenge of Communism, the threat of war, and the regular sacrilege against the hearts of Jesus and Mary within our secular culture. Fatima offers us a message of hope that Mary’s Immaculate will triumph. We can do our part in the spiritual battle, taking up Our Lady’s simple spiritual plan for prayer and reparation.
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Surprised to have come across the Flame of Love devotion only just the other day ,
a devotion given for our times to blind Satan , with focus on the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart ,
origin in Hungary as revelations to a mother of six , approved by The Church ;
? a simpler format of the Divine Will revelations –
https://www.theflameoflove.org/survey.html
The Hail Mary prayers have a small addition –
‘ Holy Mary, Mother of God , pray for us sinners , spread the effects of the grace of thy flame of love upon all humanity , now and at the hour of our death ‘ –
The unity prayer taught by Jesus –
https://www.theflameoflove.org/jesus_prayer.html
you tube has the above Rosary prayers that can be prayed along with .
Blessings !
In the Third Secret of Fatima, Jesus takes over as King and Ruler of the world. Jesus will Rule on earth, with and through, His Church, The Catholic Church. Under Messianic Reign, world dominant secular power is displaced by our new King and Ruler of the world, Jesus. There will be peace on earth. Jesus’ as King and Ruler of the world will wipe away every tear from His Bride’s face. When Jesus Comes in All His Power and Glory, pouring out massive miracles, signs and wonders, upon His Church, the Catholic Church, there aren’t going to be any Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim, or pagan religions anymore. There will only be Catholic Converts where non-Catholic religious people once stood.
The Second Secret of Fatima, is really God telling the inhabitants of the world, “Don’t make Me Come down there!” In 1982, Str. Lucia, a Fatima seer, told us that the Second Secret of Fatima was conditional. Str. Lucia said we failed to act on the Second Secret of Fatima, and in doing so, tripped the onset of the Third Secret of Fatima. The Third Secret of Fatima is Archangel Michael coming to light the world on fire, in preparation for the Second Coming of Jesus as King and Ruler of the world. It is the Blessed Mother who is sends Archangel Michael.
The mountain Clergy are climbing, in the Third Secret of Fatima, is, God’s Holy Mountain, aka The New Jerusalem, aka God’s Holy City, aka new born Mt. Zion, aka The Bride of the Lamb. The ‘city half in flames’, is the Battle of Armageddon. At Armageddon Michael and his angels read Revelation 10’s, ‘small scroll’, which is a list of Catholic auto-anathemas; which are the ‘Woes of Revelation’, while blowing seven trumpets. Catholic anathema is Jesus’ lips binding sinners to their sins. Jesus is not King and Ruler of the world, until His subjects, Catholic Apostolic Successors/Combat Angels of the Apocalypse, put His Laws into enforcement on earth. Jesus will Rule on earth, with and through His Church, the Catholic Church.
It is St. Catherine Laboure, in 1830, who first received an apparition of the great Battle of Armageddon and the coming of Messianic Reign. In St. Catherine’s first vision, she sees the Blessed Mother, standing on a cloud (heaven), offering the world a Globecross. The Globecross represents Messianic Reign.
Then the vision switches to The Blessed Mother, standing on the crushed head of Satan, standing on earth. The Blessed Mother is no longer holding the Globecross, because the gift of Messianic Reign has been received on earth. In the second vision we now see twelve stars (‘morning stars’ are world rulers (2 Samuel 3-4)) above The Blessed Mother’s head, which represents Christ’s Power and authority on earth, flowing through His Apostolic Successors on earth. In the second vision, The Blessed Mother now has her arms pointing down to earth with rays flowing from her hands to earth. One time the seer children of Fatima got hit from a ray shot from the hand of the Blessed Mother. All three dropped to the ground and started praying and praising Jesus. The Fatima seers said the rays from The Blessed Mother’s hand caused them to do this, and they could not resist to do so. The Immaculate Heart of Mary had Triumphed!
Please visit the visions of St. Catherine Laboure
http://www.marys-touch.com/Saints/medal/medal.htm
Ok Apostolic Successors/Combat Angels of the Apocalypse, let us not disappoint our Blessed Mother on her battle with Satan.
Scripture indicates the Battle of Armageddon, which is Apostolic Successors reading the ‘small scroll’ of Catholic Auto-Anathemas, only takes about an hour. Then we go through the ‘Three Days of Darkness’. On the third day, we walk out of our darkened homes, and into Jesus’ Kingdom Come, of Messianic Reign on free willed earth. We, the Church, will be married to Jesus, and He will have wiped away our every tear.
Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet. There were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of the world now belongs to our Lord and to his Anointed, and he will reign forever and ever’.
Revelation 12:7
Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels battled against the dragon. The dragon and its angels fought back, but they did not prevail and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed.
Obadiah 21
And saviours shall ascend Mount Zion to rule the mount of Esau, and the kingship shall be the Lord’s.
A Portion of the ‘Third Secret of Fatima’.
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 splendour 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!’…
…the Holy Father’. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way;
Str. Lucia in 1982
“Sister Lucia had already given an indication for interpreting the third part of the “secret” in a letter to the Holy Father, dated 12 May 1982:
“The third part of the secret refers to Our Lady’s words: ‘If not [Russia] 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’ (13-VII-1917).
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.’.
Since we did not heed this appeal of the Message, we see that it has been fulfilled, Russia has invaded the world with her errors. And if we have not yet seen the complete fulfilment of the final part of this prophecy, we are going towards it little by little with great strides. If we do not reject the path of sin, hatred, revenge, injustice, violations of the rights of the human person, immorality and violence, etc.
And let us not say that it is God who is punishing us in this way; on the contrary it is people themselves who are preparing their own punishment. 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.”
Quoted from the Vatican: The Message of Fatima
Please visit:
http://apocalypseangel.com/married.html
Sorry, I wanted to fix the above typo on ‘morning stars’, in regard to the Blessed Mother’s twelve stars (Apostolic Successors) above her head. Isaiah’s fall of ‘morning star’ king Nebuchadnezzar, represents the fall of all secular power, from the time God relinquished His Kingship over Israel at their fall in 587 B.C., till Jesus is Enthroned as King and Ruler of the world upon Jesus and the Blessed Mother’s victory at our future Battle of Armageddon. Psalms 47 is describing Jesus future Enthronement, when Catholic Apostolic Successors finish reading the Revelation 10 ‘small scroll’ and blow the seventh trumpet.
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel spoke; of me the Rock of Israel said, He that rules over men in justice, that rules in the fear of God, Is like the morning light at sunrise on a cloudless morning,…
Isaiah 14:12 The King of Babylon.
How have you fallen from the heavens, O morning star, son of the dawn! How are you cut down to the ground, you who mowed down the nations!
Psalms 47:6
God mounts the throne amid shouts of joy; the LORD, amid trumpet blasts. Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our king, sing praise. God is king over all the earth; sing hymns of praise. God rules over the nations; God sits upon his holy throne. The princes of the peoples assemble with the people of the God of Abraham. For the rulers of the earth belong to God, who is enthroned on high.
Revelation 22:16
“It is I, Jesus, who have sent my angel to give you this testimony about the churches. I am the Root and Offspring of David, the Morning Star shining bright.”