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“And a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun . . . ” rEvELATION 12:1
“At that time Jesus said in reply, ‘I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.’” GOsPEL OF MATTHEw 11:25
the 13 th day ABOUT THE FILM ased on the memoirs o Sister Maria Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, and thousands o independent eyewitness accounts, The 13th Day is a dramatic retelling o the experiences o three shepherd children between May and October 1917. The 13th Day, the rst major motion picture by directors Ian and DominicHiggins, opens with Sister Maria Lucia de Jesus dos Santos recalling the events that transpired between May 13, 1917 and October13, 1917 in the Cova da Iria (Cove o Irene) region o Fatima, Portugal. The date is 1937 and Sister Lucia, at the Convent o Ponteverde, has been asked by her superiors to write down the events that she said “changed her lie orever.” Sister Lucia places the events in time, demonstrating that they took place during a period o great turmoil—the First World War in Europe and the Communist revolution in Russia. “In Fatima,” she says, “we were lucky. It seemed to us as i our lives went on as normal.” Lucia introduces us to her cousins, the
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other two seers, the compassionate Francisco and the younger Jacinta. Although primarily black and white, lmmakers Ian and Dominic Higgins creatively utilize color in the lm during those moments when the supernatural is breaking through to our natural world. This rst happens during the heavenly lady’s rst appearance to the three children on May 13, 1917. At the rst apparition, the heavenly lady asks the children to pray the Rosary every day, and asks them to return to the same place, at the same time, on the 13th o every month or ve months. Although the children agree not to tell anyone, Jacinta is unable to contain her excitement, revealing the events to her amily members. Jacinta’s ather, “Ti” Marto, is one o the rst to believe the children. Others are skeptical. Lucia’s own mother, Maria Rosa (played by Jane Lesley), is both doubtul and hostile, blaming her husband or lling their children’s heads with “airy stories.” Unable to get her daughter to recant,
Maria takes Lucia to the parish priest, Father Ferreira, or urther interrogation. While not inclined to believe that the apparition is rom Heaven, he is willing to believe that Lucia has had some contact with the supernatural. As a result o the tremendous amount o disbelie, Lucia is plagued with doubts, nightmares, and the taunts o amily, neighbors, and riends. Determined to run away and not return to the Cova, as the 13th o June approaches, Lucia nds hersel drawn back, “like a moth to a fame.” “I had to return. She was so beautiul, so good. I had to see her ace again and eel the love in her smile,” says Lucia. During the second apparition, the children are again told to pray the Rosary daily or peace. Additionally, Lucia is told th at she must learn to read and write so that she can make the lady’s message known to the world. With each new apparition, more and more visitors are drawn to the Cova, which also attracts the attention o the government o Vila Nova de Ourem, specically the attention o the administrator Arturo de Oliveiro Santos (playedby Tarek Merlin). The vision o July 13th is unlike the previous apparitions. During this apparition the children are shown a vision o Hell, told about the uture role o Russia, and are given a vision o an assassination o the Pope. “The things we had seen changed us,” said Lucia. “Jacinta preerred solitude; Francisco became more withdrawn. We hid rom the world.” In August, the children are kidnapped by the major and brought to Ourem, thus preventing their attendance at the August 13th apparition. Unable to get them to recant, he threatens each o the children with death by being boiled in oil.
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While waiting in their prison cell, the piety o the children impresses the other prisoners, who end up praying with the seers. In one o the lm’s most moving scenes, all three children bravely decide to ace death rather than reveal Our Lady’s secrets. The children are eventually reed. By October 13th, the date o the promised miracle, between 60,000-70,000 people arrive at the Cova. There, Our Lady reiterates to Lucia that people must turn to God. Lucia is also told that Francisco and Jacinta will be going to Heaven soon.
“I am told that there is a language in which Fatima means peace. It is my hope that Fatima will remain a light in the dark. A light that will lead us to peace.” —Sister Lucia Lucia is worried that she will be let alone, but Our Lady tells her that she will always be with her. Those gathered at the Cova witness the incredible Miracle o the Sun as it spins and then dives in the sky, drying up the ground which had been soaked by rain. Ater the First World War,Francisco succumbs to the Spanish infuenza and dies on April 4, 1919. Jacinta ollows on February 20, 1920. Lucia goes to Porto to enter the School Sisters o St. Dorothy. “I am told that there is a language in which Fatima means peace,” says Lucia at the lm’s end. “It is my hope that Fatima will remain a light in the dark. A light that will lead us to peace.” Sister Lucia died on February 13, 2005. The Shrine at Our Lady o Fatima continues to receive more than 4 million pilgrims annually.Y
What Happened at Fatima? o the casual observer or the individuMay 13, 1917 al who has never beore heard o the On the morning o the east o Our Lady Church-approved apparitions at Fatima, o the Blessed Sacrament, the three visionPortugal, the events may at rst seem aries, Lucia (10), Francisco (9), and Jacinta shocking, even unbelievable. Yet, the cul- (7) led their fock o sheep rom Aljustrel, mination o the apparitions—with the Mir- proceeding north to the slopes o the acle o the Sun—was witnessed by more Cova da Iria. than 70,000 and testied to by even secular The children had been praying a shortjournalists. Not only that, but events pre- ened version o theRosary, saying only the dicted at Fatima did come to pass in the beginning part o each prayer. They were years ater the visions. surprised by what they thought to be lightWhile not shown in the lm, Lucia dos ning and a strange light in the sky. Santos and Jacinta and Francisco Marto’s Near a holm oak, they saw a woman rst Heavenly visitor wasn’t a Heavenly dressed in white, shining brighter than the lady, but a snowy, brilliant, translucent g- sun, with rays o light coming rom her. ure who identied himsel as the Angel o During the visit, the woman asked the Peace and the Guardian Angel o Portugal. children i they were willing to oer themAccording to Catholic Church teaching, in selves to God and bear all the suerings the hierarchy o angels, certain angels have He wills to send as an act o reparation or been given the task o guarding particular the sins by which He is oended, and o cities, principalities and nations. supplication or the conversion o sinners. The angel’s appearance wasn’t revealed The children agreed to do so. by Lucia until 1937. The angel’s rst visit occurred in the June 13, 1917 spring o 1916. On that visit, the angel On her second visit, the Heavenly lady taught the three shepherd children to pray. said that her son, Jesus, wanted to estab“My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and lish in the world devotion to her ImmacuI love you,” taught the angel.“I ask pardon late Heart. or those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you.” July 13, 1917 During the angel’s second visit, in the During this visit, the three children were summer, he encouraged the children to entrusted with three secrets. The rst was pray and oer sacrices or reparation or a vision o Hell. The very truths that a sin. On his third and nal visit, in the all, generation has trouble believing are the he brought the children Holy Communion. truths that Our Lady allowed those willThus catechized in prayer, reparative ing to listen to see. suering, and having received Jesus Christ The second was a prediction about in the Holy Eucharist, the children were the end o the war and a warning about spiritually prepared or the visitations that another World War, and the role o Ruswould begin the ollowing spring. sia. The third secret was a vision o an
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assassination attempt on the lie o the Pope, which wasn’t revealed publicly until the Jubilee Year 2000. Our Lady also established the First Saturday devotion, encouraging the aithul to receive Holy Communion every 1st Saturday o the month or ve consecutive months or reparation.
August 13, 1917 In the government’s attempt to silence the children and the messages o Fatima, the children were abducted, thrown into a prison cell, and interrogated under the threat o death by the administrator Senhor Santos. The children were not swayed by the threats, but told the truth about the apparitions and were eventually released. As a result o the abduction, the children were not at the Cova or the August apparition. Those gathered at the Cova reported hearing thunder and seeing a fash o lightning in the clear sky. A light cloud appeared to hover above the holm oak tree. The lady appeared to the children six days later in Valinos saying that many souls go to hell because they have no one to sacrice or pray or them.
A 1917 newspaper account of the Miracle of the Sun
it, they were giventhree visions o Mary. In the rst, she appeared with the Holy Family. Mary appeared to the right o the sun. To the sun’s let, St. Joseph appeared holding the Christ-child in his arms, both tracing the Sign o the Cross with their hands. Lucia stated that Mary also appeared as Our Lady o Sorrows and as Our Lady o Mount Carmel. Many o those gathered saw the sunspinning in the sky, and then saw it break loose and zig-zag toward the earth, looking as i it September 13, 1917 would all upon the people. Those gathered During this visit, the Heavenly lady enell to the ground praying or mercy. Even couraged the children to pray the Rosary secular and government newspaper reports or the end o the war. Reportedly 30,000 tell o the Miracle o the Sun. people attended this apparition.
After the Apparitions October 13, 1917
Following the apparitions, the seers’ lives By October, the events at the Cova had were never the same. Pilgrims desired to been reported ar and wide. As a result, see the children, to ask them questions or some 70,000 people lled the countryside or prayers, and to have them bless obto observe the predicted miracle. jects. Both Francisco and Jacinta contractDuring this visit, the lady identied ed the Spanish fu and died within a year hersel as the Lady o the Rosary and o one another. Lucia entered the school asked the children to continue to pray the o the Sisters o St. Dorothy in Vilar, near Rosary daily. Oporto, in the north o Portugal. On OcLucia stated that during Mary’s nal vis- tober 24, 1925, she entered as a postulant.
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She made her rst vows on October 3, 1928, and her perpetual vows on October 3, 1934, receiving the name Sister Mary o the Sorrowul Mother. In 1946, seeking a more contemplative lie, she entered the Carmelite convent o St. Teresa in Coimbra, making her proession on May 31, 1949 and taking the name Sister Maria Lucia o Jesus and the Immaculate Heart. In the years that ollowed, the predictions made by Our Lady did come to pass. World War I ended, but was ollowed by the more horric Second World War. Russian Communism did spread its errors throughout the world, but eventually the country was Consecrated to Mary’s Immaculate Heart and the Berlin Wall and Communist Russia collapsed without ghting. And the assassination attempt on the lie o Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981 ailed. Believing that it was Our Lady’s hand that guided the bullet’s path, Pope John Paul II gave to the then-Bishop o Fatima the bullet which had remained in the vehicle ater the assassination attempt. By the Bishop’s decision, the bullet was later set in the crown o the statue o Our Lady o Fatima. Ater a long illness, Sister Lucia died on February 13, 2005 at the age o 97. The Third Secret o Fatima—that o the assassination attempt—was nally revealed to the universal Church in 2000, the same year that Francisco and Jacinta Marto were beatied. The messages o Fatima—prayer, repentance, sel-sacrice, reparation, and peace, are messages that the war-ravaged world needs today, perhaps now more than ever. Y
Fatima at a Glance Mach 22, 1907– Lucia de Jesus dos Santos was born in Aljustrel, Portugal. 1916 – The Guardian Angel o Portugal appears to Francisco, Jacinta, and Lucia. May 13, 1917– Our Lady rst appears to the children at the Cova da Iria. Augus 13, 1917– The Fatima children are kidnapped by Administrator Arturo Santos. Ocob 13, 1917– The Miracle o the Sun is witnessed by approximately 70,000 pilgrims. Al 4, 1919– Francisco Marto dies o the Spanish fu. Fbuay 20, 1920– Jacinta Marto dies. Ocob 24, 1925– Lucia enters the Sisters o St. Dorothy in Vilar, Portugal. Ocob 3, 1934– Lucia makes her perpetual vows. 1946 – Seeking a more contemplative lie, Lucia enters the Carmelite convent o St. Teresa in Coimbra, Portugal. May 31, 1949– Lucia makes her proession and takes the name Sister Maria Lucia o Jesus and the Immaculate Heart. 1952 – The ocial opening o the canonical inormative process. This began, at the diocesan level, the Cause or the Canonization o Francisco and Jacinta Marto. 1979 – The diocesan process concludes and documents related to Francisco and Jacinta Marto are presented to the Congregation o Saints. May 13, 1981– Assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. Mach 25, 1984– Pope John Paul II entrusts the world to the Immaculate Heart o Mary. May 13, 1989– Pope John Paul II approves the decree on the Heroic Virtues o the Servants o God Francisco and Jacinta Marto. May 13, 2000– Francisco and Jacinta Marto are declared Blessed by Pope J ohn Paul II. The Vatican reveals the contents o the Third Secret o Fatima. Fbuay 13, 2005– Sister Lucia dies, at the age o 97, at the Convent o the Carmelites, Coimbra, Portugal.
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A Message from the World Apostolate of Fatima MICHAEL LACOrTE excuv dco
nd The 13th Day to be as lost souls and wars that will annihilate nariveting and compelling as I did. This tions or we can spiritually nourish a world unique and powerul approach to present- in great need, which will save souls and ing the message o Fatima captures the el- bring peace to earth. We are all rail and we ements o human sacrice combined with all ail; however, we can x the damage our Divine intervention that our world so des- ailures cause by acts o reparation and by perately needs today. sinning less. Prayer, penance, sacrice, acts The Fatima message is a message o o devotion loving God, and loving each Hope or all people and or all time thatwas other provide spiritual nourishment that delivered to three shepherd children. God repairs spiritual damage and leads to the wants all people to know that hell exists salvation o Souls and World Peace. and that war is a consequence o spiritual Full members o the Apostolate are asked decay, and He also wants us to save souls to pray the Rosary daily whilemediating on and live on earth in peace. the mysteries, wear the Scapular o Mount The Blessed Mother taught us how to Carmel as an act o consecration, oer to
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avoid the re o hell notones onlyand or are Godrequired the sacrices by what we ourselves, but and alsopain or our loved to do demanded each day given our staothers and how to avoid war; warso devas- tion in lie, and accomplish the devotion o tating that nations will be annihilated i we First Saturday Devotion. Associate memdon’t ollow Heaven’s Peace Plan. bers are asked to start with prayer or the On October 13, 1917 God perormed the salvation o souls and world peace and to greatest miracle since Jesus walked the ace learn more about the message o Fatima. o the earth, the only miracle ever predicted Let us help you learn more about as to time and place, a miracle witnessed by Heaven’s plan or the Salvation o Souls over 70,000 people. The miracle was so pro- and Peace on Earth. For the asking, we ound because God wants us to know the will provide you with ree inormation on message is proound. how to pray the Rosary that includes the Pope John Paul II said, “The Message o mysteries and a ree one year subscription Fatima is More Important Now Than Ever.”to the widely acclaimed SOUL magazine The Holy Father took steps to elevate the which is published quarterly to help peoposition o the World Apostolate o Fatimaple Learn, Live, and Spread the important (Our Lady’s Blue Army) to the highest levelmessage o Fatima. Ater you see this inavailable within the Church. He did this to spirational movie we hope it become more increase our responsibility and our opportu-important to you. Y nity to help people Learn, Live, and Spread WOrLd ApOStOLAte OF FAtiMA the Message oFatima. We are the only
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HOW tO prAY: q Make the Sign o the Crossand say the “Apostles’ Creed.” w Say the “Our Father”. e Say three “Hail Marys” or the intentions o the Pope. u r Say the “Glory Be” and the “Fatima Prayer”. i t Announce the First Mystery; then say the “Our Father.” y Say ten “Hail Marys,” while meditating on the Mystery. u Say the “Glory Be” and the “Fatima Prayer”. i Announce the Second Mystery; then say the “Our Father.” Repeat y and u and continue with Third, Fourth and Fith Mysteries in the same manner. o At the conclusion o the Fith decade, say the “Regina Caeli”.
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rOSArY prAYerS: tHe ApOStLeS’ Creed I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator o heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born o the Virgin Mary, suered under Pontius Pilate, was crucied, died, and was buried. He descended into hell; the third day He arose again rom the dead. He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand o God, the Father Almighty; rom thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion o Saints, the orgiveness o sins, the resurrection o the body and lie everlasting.
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tHe OUr FAtHer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and orgive us our trespasses as we orgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation; but deliver us rom evil.
THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES 1. The Annunciation 2. The Visitation 3. The Birth o Our Lord 4. The Presentation o Our Lord tHe HAiL MArY Hail Mary, ull o grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among 5. Finding o Our Lord in the Temple women, and blessed is the ruit o thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother o God, pray or us sinners, now and at the hour o our death. tHe GLOrY Be Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. tHe FAtiMA prAYer O my Jesus, orgive us our sins, save us rom the res o hell, and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who have most need o your mercy. tHe reGiNA CAeLi Hail Holy Queen, Mother o Mercy, our lie, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children o Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley o tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes o mercy toward us, and ater this our exile, show unto us the blessed ruit o thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. R. That we may be made worthy o the promises o Christ. O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection o Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech Thee, that through the intercession o the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may obtain the joys o everlasting lie. Through the same Christ our Lord. On Monday & Saturday say the Joyful Mysteries. Tuesday & Friday say the Sorrowful Mysteries. Wednesday & Sunday say the Glorious Mysteries. On Thursday say the Luminous Mysteries.
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THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES 1. The Agony in the Garden 2. The Scourging at the Pillar 3. The Crowning with Thorns 4. The Carrying o the Cross 5. The Crucifxion and Death o Our Lord THE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES 1. The Resurrection 2. The Ascension 3. The Coming o the Holy Ghost 4. The Assumption o our Blessed Mother 5. The Coronation o our Blessed Mother THE LUMINOUS MYSTERIES 1. The Baptism in the Jordan 2. The Wedding at Cana 3. The Proclamation o the Kingdom 4. The Transfguration 5. The Institution o the Eucharist
Fatima:
Message ofHope, Promise of Peace Fr. ANdrEw APOsTOLI, CFr ay 13, 2017 will mark the 100th anA Message of Hope niversary o Our Lady’s rst appa- In what way is the message o Fatima rition at Fatima. That is less than 8 years still so important today? It is because in away (at the time this article is being pub- a seemingly hopeless world situation, lished). It is no doubt a sign o its divine Our Lady’s message still holds out hope srcin that a message given to three simple or all mankind. In one o her apparishepherd children who could neither read tions, Our Lady told the three visionarnor write should continue to be so many ies, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, that she years later such a powerul ocus o hope was “the only one who can help you!” and peace or the whole world. With the Her statement tells us two things. First, passage o years and in the light o events in the ace o the enormous problems that have happened and are still happen- o the 20th and now the 21st centuries, ing in the world, the remarkable depth, ac- there still is help available. This means curacy and importance o this message has we must not give up in despair, no matbecome clearer or all to see. ter how great the tasks and challenges are The lie o our late Holy Father, the great beore us. What were, and still are, these Pope John Paul II, became intertwined challenges? Our Lady hersel spoke o with the very message o Fatima. The as- them. She began by giving the children sassination attempt on his lie on May the consoling message that the terrible 13, 1981, the east o Our Lady o Fatima, confict o World War I would soon come dramatically introduced him to its impor- to an end and the soldiers would return tance. His own would-be assassin, Ali Aga, home rom the war-ront. In that war an told the Holy Father when he later visited estimated 20 million people died. But him in his prison cell, “I am a proessional the Blessed Mother also warned that i assassin; I never miss! Whoever’s east it people did not put her requests into pracwas that day in your Church saved your tice, another more terrible war would lie.” The Pope many times echoed this occur. World War II was to take the lives remark when he would say, “One hand o 50 million people. Finally, Our Lady guided the gun, but another hand guided oretold that the “evil” o Communism the bullet!” Furthermore, while the Pope would begin in Russia, and that it would was recovering rom his wounds in the Ge-spread its errors throughout the world. melli Hospital in Rome, he ordered all the This “evil” would provoke wars, cause documentation on the Fatima message to be amines, carry out persecutions o the brought to him. Ater studying it careully,Church and especially o the Holy Father. he remarked, “The message o Fatima is Many nations would be “annihilated.” more important now than it was in 1917!” As we can see clearly, Pope John Paul II
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was not exaggerating when he remarked that at Fatima, Our Lady summed up the whole 20th century! Pope John Paul II urther conrmed this when he called the 20th century “the most violent century in human history”: two world wars, atomic bombs, concentration camps, ethnic and religious wars! Then there is the whole “Culture o Death” which Communism spread in the attempt to destroy the Christian amilial, moral and cultural oundationo Western society. These errors have included contraception, abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, assisted suicide, divorce, pornography, child abuse and the like. To counter these evils, then, human eorts and resources alone prove totally inadequate. To expect diplomacy, or human alliances or armed resistance alone to solve world problems is a grave mistake. Yes, we must continue our eorts at dialogue and works
Him. We “believe” by acknowledging God in our daily lives; we “adore” by praising Him in worship and prayer; we “hope” by trusting in His promises and in His providential care o our lives; and we “love” by doing His Will in the keeping o His commandments. This is very important. God, through the Virgin Mary, is telling us that the rst step toward world peace is to beat peace with Him. We nd this peace especially in the Sacraments o the Holy Eucharist and Penance, both o which Our Lady encouraged us to receive regularly through the First Five Saturdays devotion. Then, we must show justice to our neighbor by respecting the God-given dignity o each person. This respect must make a real dierence in the way we live our daily lives. Whether it be between spouses or parents and children, or with Church leaders, our next-door neighbor or even the spiritually and materially poor,
o peace, but help i these recourse to all us must genuinely love, serve (assist) God or His andexclude His blessing, they andopray or one another in the course o will prove utile. At Fatima, the Blessed our daily lives. We must always rememMother reminds us o this very clearly. ber that though direct opposites, love and hate pass rom one person to another. I A Promise of Peace we share love, there will be greater unity, This leads us to the second important harmony and ultimately peace. But i we point in Our Lady’s statement: “I am the oster hatred, then as someone said, “I only one who can help you!” She says this World War III begins tomorrow, it may be because the Most Holy Trinity has placed because I hated my neighbor today!” in her hands and in her Immaculate Heart Then there is even justice to onesel. the way to peace in the world. This consists o recognizing the lie I have Our Lady stressed in her apparitions that in Christ through Baptism, and my call to people must stop oending God by their be His true disciple and witness. As Pope sins because He has already been so griev- St. Leo the Great put it many centuries ago, ously oended! There must be, then, genu-“Christian, know your dignity!” Once we ine conversion o our lives to God.This be- know it, we must live it! This means serigins with the sincere practice o the virtue ously living a lie o virtue—love,humility, o justice. Recent popes have stressed the mercy, chastity, patience, poverty in spirit, act that there can be no true lasting peace trust and cheerul service. without justice. By justice, we give to each When we have done these things, we person what is their due. Justice to God, will be ready to see the ulllment o Our then, in the words o the “Pardon Prayer” Lady’s promise o peace. We call her mesthe Angel taught thelittle shepherds, means sage at Fatima, “Heaven’s Peace Plan.” In we “believe… adore … hope … and love” the outline o this plan, the Blessed Mother
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Fatima Discussion Questions
Pope John Paul II’s Prayer to the Immaculate Heart Immaculate Heart! Help us to conquer the From the loss o awareness o good and menace o evil, which so easily takes root evil, deliver us. in the hearts o the people o today, and From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver whose immeasurable eects already weigh us, deliver us. down upon our modern world and seem to Accept, O Mother o Christ, this cry laden block the paths towards the uture! with the sufferings o all individual human From amine and war,deliver us. beings, laden with the sufferings o whole From nuclear war, rom incalculable societies. sel-destruction, rom every kind o war, Help us with the power o the Holy deliver us. Spirit to conquer all sin: individual sin From sins against the lie o man rom its very beginning,deliver us.
and the ‘sin o the world’, sin in all its maniestations.
I this is the frst time you’ve seen or heard about the apparitions at Fatima,
what is your initial reaction? Describe the variety o reactions that the children receive in response to their story about the apparitions? Which character in the story reacts in a way that most resembles your own reaction? What messages are repeated during the six-months that the apparitions took place? What do you see as the primary purpose o the apparitions?
From hatred and rom the demeaning o the dignity o the children o God, deliver us.
Let there be revealed, once more, in the history o the world the innite saving power o the Redemption: the From every kind o injustice in the lie o society, both national and international, power o merciful Love! May it put a stop to evil! May it transorm consciences! deliver us. May your Immaculate Heart reveal or all From readiness to trample on the comthe light of Hope! mandments o God, deliver us.
Which o Our Lady’s predictions/warnings came true? How might you, in your own lie, work towards peace?
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This prayer was delivered on March 25, 1984, when Pope John Paul II consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart.
From attempts to stife in human hearts the very truth o God, deliver us.
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asked or our things: (1) prayer, especially the daily Rosary, (2) sacrices or sinners, (3) the daily aithul ulllment o our duties in lie according to our vocation and specic situations, and (4) the patient bearing o the trials and suerings that come our way each day! Our Lady has told us that Jesus wants these things, and in act He needs them or the conversion o sinners. As she reminded the children, “Many souls are lost rom God because there is no one to pray and sacrice or them.” When a great number o sinners have been converted, then peace will come! Many situations around the world today pose grave dangers to peace! Unstable countries are trying to secure nuclear weapons. The resurgence o extremist elements in Islam threatens world stability. The European Union’s exclusion o God rom its vision o lie spells disaster. The
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widespread ostering o the Culture o Death must be resisted. The list goes on and on! But in spite o all these evils, there is hope in Our Lady’s great promise: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph! Russia will be converted, and an era o peace will be given to the world.” Pope John Paul II reminded us: “The Church has accepted the message o Fatima by recognition o its conormity with the teaching o the Gospel. From her sanctuary at Fatima, Mary renews again today her pressing request. Let all the Church listen to it. Let all mankind listen to it. Mary only desires the salvation o all her children according to God’s providential plans.” Y Fr Andrew Apostoli, CFR, is an expert on Fatima. His special on-hou snaon on Fatima is available by accessing the “ Scal Faus” button on The 13th Day DVD menu.
BOOKS For Adults
BOOKS For Children
Fatima or Today Spring ( 2010) The Urgent Marian Message of Hope By Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR
Our Lady Came to Fatima by Ruth Fox Hume Coloring Book: Mother o God by Katherine Sotnik
“Calls” rom the Message o Fatima by Sister Lucia
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Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words by Sister Lucia
Fatima (Narrated by Ricardo Montalban) Fatima: Altar o the World
The Last Secret o Fatima by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone
Miracle o Our Lady o Fatima Fatima: The Day the Sun Danced (animated)
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1. Luca tlls H Soy 2. th th Chln 3. Fs Aaon – May 13 4. Luca Aack by Skcs 5. Scon Aaon – Jun 13 6. Govnmn Haquas 7. Luca’s Ss Lavs 8. Vision of Hell – July 13 9. Kna o pson 10. dancng an payng n pson 11. dah n Bolng Ol 12. Reporter Interviews in Pub 13. Preparing for October 13 14. The Miracle of the Sun 15. Jacna an Fancsco d 16. Fama Mans “pac”
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