WHAT IS THE URGENT MESSAGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY AT FATIMA - 13th May to 13th October 1917?

On 13th October 1930 the Bishop of Fatima declared the Fatima apparitions worthy of belief.

The key words of Our Lady’s message are:
1.    A DEEPLY OFFENDED GOD

MARY: Do not offend the Lord our God any more, because He is already so much offended (13th October 1917; Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words, Sister Lucia’s Memoirs, Ed.Fr. L. Kondor SVD., Postulation Centre, Fatima: 1976, page173).

2.    THE CONSECRATION TO JESUS’ SACRED HEART THROUGH MARY’S IMMACULATE HEART.

MARY: My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God (13th June 1917; Memoirs pp167-8).

3.    EUCHARISTIC REPARATION

LUCIA: (regarding the Angel’s third apparition which was in Cabeco in 1916). In his left hand he held a chalice. Over it, in his right hand he was holding a host from which was falling some drops of blood into the chalice. When he came to a small rock which was at the entrance to the hollow, he left the chalice and the Host suspended in the air in the same position he had been bringing them in, and kneeling down on the ground, beside us, he bent down to the ground and said, three times, the prayer:

“Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore you most deeply and I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the insults, sacrileges and coldness with which He Himself is offended. And through the infinite merits of His Most Holy Heart and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I implore You the conversion of poor sinners”.

Then he got up; took the chalice and the Host once more into his hands, gave the Host to me, and what was in the chalice, he distributed between Jacinta and Francisco, saying at the same time, to each one: “Take and drink, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, shockingly insulted by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their sins and console your God”. He prostrated himself once more on the ground, repeated the prayer “Most Holy Trinity” three more times and disappeared. I believe the Communion was real, for I felt the contact of the Host, as in ordinary Communions (Documents on Fatima & The Memoirs of Sister Lucia, Fr A.M. Martins, S.J. and Fr Robert J. Fox, Fatima Family Apostolate, USA:1992, page424).

4.    LIFE SACRIFICE FOR THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS

MARY: Sacrifice yourselves for sinners and say many times, especially when you make some sacrifice: “O Jesus it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary” (13th July 1917; Memoirs p168). Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to hell, because there are none to sacrifice themselves and to pray for them (19th August 1917; Memoirs  p171).

5.    REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING WITH MARY AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS

MARY: Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and of supplication for the conversion of sinners? (Lucia: Yes, we are willing.) Then you are going to have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort (13th May 1917; Memoirs p166).

6.    THE VISION OF HELL AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WORLD WIDE DEVOTION TO MARY’S IMMACULATE HEART

MARY: 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 they do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during in the reign of the Pius XI pontificate.

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 (Memoirs  p169).

7.    COMMUNION OF REPARATION ON FIVE FIRST SATURDAYS

MARY: 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 (Our Lady came to Lucia in 1929 with this request). 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, and various nations will be annihilated (Memoirs p169).

8.    THE TRIUMPH OF MARY’S IMMACULATE HEART

In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me (25th March 1984), and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world. In Portugal, the dogma of Faith will always be preserved (13th July 1917; Memoirs p169).

9.    THE ROSARY AND THE BROWN SCAPULAR OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL – Sign of the Calvary Entrustment (John 19:26-27)

(Lucia says that the Rosary and the Scapular are inseparable.)

MARY: Pray the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world and end of the war (13th May, 1917). Pray the Rosary every day (13th June 1917). Continue to pray the Rosary every day in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary in order to obtain the peace of the world and the end of the war, because only she can help you (13th July 1917). When you say the Rosary, say after each mystery, “O my Jesus, forgive us and save us from the fire of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are most in need” (13th July 1917). Continue praying the Rosary every day (19th August 1917; Memoirs, pp166-170).

Continue to pray the Rosary in order to obtain the end of the war. In October Our Lord will come, as well as, Our Lady of Dolours (Sorrows), and Our Lady of Carmel. Saint Joseph will appear with the Child Jesus to bless the world (13th September 1917). I want to tell you that a chapel is to be built here in my honour; I am the Lady of the Rosary. Continue always to pray the Rosary every day. The war is going to end and the soldiers will soon return to their homes (13th October 1917; Memoirs  pp172-173).

10.           THE GREAT MIRACLE, 13th October 1917
MARY: In the last month I will perform a miracle so that all may believe (19th August 1917; Memoirs  p170).

LUCIA: (While the great crowd of people witnessed the dancing of the sun, the three little children saw Jesus, Mary and Joseph in different visions of the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary.) After Our Lady had disappeared into the immense distance of the firmament, we beheld St. Joseph with the Child Jesus and Our Lady robed in white with a blue mantle, beside the sun. St. Joseph and the Child appeared to bless the world, for they traced the Sign of the Cross with their hands. When a little later, this apparition disappeared, I saw Our Lord and Our Lady; it seemed to me that it was Our Lady of Dolours. Our Lord appeared to bless the world in the same manner as St. Joseph had done. This apparition also vanished, and I saw Our Lady once more, this time resembling Our Lady of Carmel (13th October 1917; Memoirs  p173).

JACINTA’S WORDS ABOUT THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

BLESSED JACINTA: (To Lucia)
It will not be long now before I go to Heaven. You will remain here to make known that God wishes to establish in the world devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. When you are to say this, don’t go and hide. Tell everybody that God grants us graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; that people are to ask her for them; and that the Heart of Jesus wants the Immaculate Heart of Mary to be venerated at His side. Tell them also to pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for peace, since God has entrusted it to her. If I could only put into the hearts of all, the fire that is burning within my own heart, and that makes me love the Hearts of Jesus and Mary so very much (Memoirs  p116).

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