The Secret of Fatima

Our Lady at Fatima imparted a three-part secret to the children. These revelations concerning the destiny of humanity deeply impacted the children.



The first part of the secret involved a vision of hell, this was described by Lucia in her writings:

“Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers…floating about in the conflagration…amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us…”


The second part of the secret was to reveal that the First World War would come to an end, but if people did not stop offending God, a more severe war would break out (World War 11)


The third part of the secret would involve Russia and how its errors would be spread throughout the world over an unspecified period. This would involve further wars and persecution of the Church, if people did not repent and stop offending God. This third part continues to unfold, even today. The third part of the secret has several elements which are further explored within this section.


To avoid these  events, Our Lady requested the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, together with the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. Reassuring that whatever the Church would have to endure, “in the end” her Immaculate Heart would triumph.


The apparitions concluded with Our Lady teaching the children the prayer of forgiveness normally said at the conclusion of each decade of the Rosary: “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fire of hell, and lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of your mercy”.


The  third part of the secret of Fatima

There has been some controversy about this, with some people claiming that the full text of the third part of the secret has not been revealed. However, this is what Pope Benedict XVI said, when, as Cardinal Ratzinger, he was asked to write a theological commentary on the secret in June 2000. In this he stated that for the first time the third part of the secret was “being published in its entirety.”

Jacinta's visions of a future Pope

It is also the case that in Sr Lucia's third memoir, she tells us about two

incidents in which Jacinta saw visions of a future Pope


One day, while they were near the well at Lucia's home, Jacinta asked her if she had seen the Holy Father?When Lucia replied, “No.” Jacinta said: “I don’t know how it was, but I saw the Holy Father in a very big house, kneeling by a table, with his head buried in his hands,and he was weeping. Outside the house, there were many people. Some of them were throwing stones, others were cursing him and using bad language. Poor Holy Father, we must pray very much for him.”


Sr Lucia then tells us: “At another time, we went to the cave called Lapa do Cabeço.As soon as we got there, we prostrated on the ground, saying the prayers the Angel had taught us. After some time, Jacinta stood upand called to me: 'Can’t you see all those highways and roads and fields full of people, who are crying with hunger and have nothing to eat? And the Holy Father in a church praying before the Immaculate Heart of Mary? And so many people praying with him?' Some days later, she asked me: 'Can I say that I saw the HolyFather and all those people?' 'No. Don’t you see that that’s part of the secret? If you do, they’ll find out right away.' ”


Here Sr Lucia explicitly links the idea of persecutions of the Church and Holy Father in a way which goes beyond what was said by Our Lady in the second part of the secret, and which fits in much more readily with the text of the third part of the secret, which goes into detail about the actual persecutions endured by the Holy Father, bishops, priests, religious and lay people. So this gives us confidence that the full text of the third part of the secret has in fact been revealed.


Our Lady and the Angel

“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!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in

a mirror when they pass in front of it'

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A Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was 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; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the

big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.”

CLARIFICATION FOR VISITORS

On the question of the existence of an alleged second text of the third part of the secret, Our Lady told Sr Lucia to write down what her

superiors commanded of her, but not what she was given to understand of its meaning. So there was a distinction between what Sr Lucia saw in the vision of 13 July 1917, and how she was made to understand that vision.


Since Our Lady expressly told Sister not to write down what she understood of the vision’s meaning then there is no second text, and so

there cannot be any cover-up of a non-existent document.


For more information, please see: https://catholicstand.com/fourthsecret-

fatima/


The Conversion of Russia


There has also been controversy over the question of the conversion of Russia. It is claimed that the collegial consecration made by John Paul II in 1984 was not the one asked for by Our Lady because he did not explicitly mention Russia. But according to the then Bishop of Leiria- Fatima, Alberto Cosme do Amaral, John Paul II paused during the ceremony, and quietly included Russia in the consecration.


Sr Lucia later confirmed in writing that the consecration had been properly done, in the way that Our Lady wanted, saying that when people asked her, she said: “ ‘Yes.’ From that time, it is made!” And there are several further instances of her stating that the consecration had

been carried out correctly.


These massive changes in Russia and Eastern Europe support the view that the consecration of 1984 was carried out largely in accordance with Our Lady’s wishes. The Blessed Virgin promised the conversion of Russia if her wishes were complied with, but she did not say that this would happen overnight. And the conversion of Russia was also linked with the Five First Saturdays devotion by Our Lady, and so we can expect it to be retarded until this devotion is more widespread.


The conversion of the Roman Empire took centuries to fully accomplish, and only after three hundred years of intense persecution for the early Church. If it took that long to convert the Roman Empire then there is a need to be cautious about demanding quick results with regard to Russia’s

conversion.


Comparisons have been made between what happened in Mexico after Guadalupe in 1531, when there were mass conversions to Catholicism within a few decades, and the lack of a like process in Russia in recent years. But the apparitions, and the miraculous Tilma which resulted from them, were common knowledge in the country. In addition, the evangelization of Mexico following Guadalupe was largely due to Franciscan

missionaries.


But in the case of Russia, the situation is completely different. Not only was there no great public miracle like the Fatima miracle of the sun in Russia either in 1917 or 1984, but in addition the Catholic population of Russia is tiny, and there are very few priests or

missionaries available for evangelization.

There is no case in history of a large country being converted without either some sort of miraculous intervention in the country itself, or intense missionary activity.


Neither of these conditions was or is present in Russia, and so its conversion looks like being a long drawn out process, one which will require either a much larger Catholic presence in the country, or the renewal/conversion of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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