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503 Secret, 4, 3 | say to his communities: “imitate me” (1 Cor 4:16; Phil 3:
504 Intro | rights of the human person, immorality and violence, etc. ~And
505 Secret, 4, 3 | once more that there is no immutable destiny, that faith and
506 Secret, 4, 2 | perception are still not impaired. “On the lips of children
507 Secret, 2 | concludes with the blessing imparted in the name of the Holy
508 1, 2, 0(8)| which nevertheless does not impede an understanding of what
509 Secret, 4, 1 | plan of salvation, more important than the Gospel, then it
510 1, 2, 0(8)| respected, even as regards the imprecise punctuation, which nevertheless
511 Secret, 4, 2 | children's cries of “hosanna” inappropriate (cf. Mt 21:16). ~“Interior
512 Intro | From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every
513 Secret, 4, 1 | with himself through his Incarnate Son, Jesus Christ. It is
514 Secret, 4, 1 | and fundamental mode of “inculturation” of the faith. While it
515 Secret, 4, 1 | from him, when it becomes independent of him or even presents
516 Secret, 4, 3 | biblical language, the “heart” indicates the centre of human life,
517 Secret, 4, 3 | brought to him, was it not inevitable that he should see in it
518 Secret, 4, 1 | Jesus Christ himself, the inexhaustible depths of which appear in
519 Intro | history of the world the infinite saving power of the Redemption:
520 Secret, 4, 3 | last fifty years and have inflicted unprecedented forms of cruelty.
521 Secret, 4, 3 | prayer are forces which can influence history and that in the
522 Secret, 4, 2 | the other world, but are influenced by the potentialities and
523 Intro | 1957. The Bishop of Leiria informed Sister Lucia of this. ~According
524 Secret, 4 | only projections of the inner world of children, brought
525 Secret, 3 | of our time—with special insight... The insistent invitation
526 Secret, 3 | with special insight... The insistent invitation of Mary Most
527 Secret, 4, 3 | books and which draw their inspiration from long-standing intuitions
528 1, 1 | This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful
529 Secret, 4, 3 | 13 May 1981 was merely an instrument of the divine plan guided
530 Secret, 4, 1 | not a matter therefore of intellectual communication, but of a
531 Secret, 4, 2 | sensibilis - imaginativa - intellectualis). It is clear that in the
532 Intro, 0, 0(1)| the secrets of Fatima. I intend to read it with my Confessor”. ~
533 Secret, 4, 3 | love—everything else was intended to lead to this. ~Let
534 Secret, 4, 2 | usually precluded by the intense pressure of external reality
535 Secret, 3 | protection. To her maternal intercession let us entrust the Church
536 Secret, 3 | second millennium. It is an interminable Way of the Cross led by
537 Intro | society, both national and international, deliver us. ~From readiness
538 Intro | given an indication for interpreting the third part of the “secret”
539 Secret, 4, 1 | Bible, which guarantees and interprets it. But this does not mean
540 Intro | INTRODUCTION ~As the second millennium
541 Secret, 2 | the date because I had the intuition that before 1960 it would
542 Secret, 4, 3 | inspiration from long-standing intuitions of faith. It is a consoling
543 Intro | been fulfilled, Russia has invaded the world with her errors.
544 Secret, 4, 3 | fantasy: man himself, with his inventions, has forged the flaming
545 Secret, 3 | insight... The insistent invitation of Mary Most Holy to penance
546 Secret, 4, 3 | The message of Fatima invites us to trust in this promise. ~ ~
547 Secret, 4, 2 | is still more powerfully involved. He sees insofar as he is
548 Secret, 4, 1 | turn enriches the faith by involving the heart. ~We have thus
549 Secret, 3 | Intercede pro Papa nostro Ioanne Paulo II. Amen. ~Fatima,
550 Secret, 1 | special Apostolic Blessing.~IOANNES PAULUS PP. II ~From the
551 Secret, 1 | 13 July 1917 at Cova da Iria, Fatima. ~Archbishop Bertone,
552 1, 2 | revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on 13 July 1917. ~I write
553 Secret, 4, 3 | not to show a film of an irrevocably fixed future. Its meaning
554 Intro | Most Holy Mother ...” on 3 January 1944. ~There is only one
555 Secret, 3 | which had remained in the jeep after the assassination
556 1, 1 | This letter is from Father José Bernardo Gonçalves, and
557 Intro | theological commentary by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the
558 Secret, 4, 3 | trust in this promise. ~ ~JosephCard. Ratzinger~Prefect of the
559 Secret, 4, 3 | described as a Via Crucis, as a journey through a time of violence,
560 Secret, 1 | Coimbra ~In the great joy of Easter, I greet you with
561 Secret, 4, 2 | Priests and elders, who had judged the children's cries of “
562 Secret, 4, 3 | represents the threat of judgement which looms over the world.
563 Intro | freedom, the time of truth, of justice and of hope”.3.~In order
564 Secret, 4, 3 | secret” which has become justly famous: “my Immaculate Heart
565 1, 1 | Lady, who said to us so kindly and so sadly: ~“You have
566 Intro | their own punishment. In his kindness God warns us and calls us
567 1, 2 | of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross
568 Secret, 4, 1 | verification by any human way of knowing. It is the certitude upon
569 1, 1, 0(6)| everything. I shall not knowingly omit anything, though I
570 Secret, 4, 1 | a guide who discloses a knowledge previously unreachable because
571 Secret, 4, 1 | bilancio di una discussione, in La Civiltà Cattolica 104 [1953],
572 Secret, 4, 3 | they complete what is still lacking in his afflictions (cf.
573 Secret, 4, 1 | regard, Cardinal Prospero Lambertini, the future Pope Benedict
574 Secret, 4, 3 | reduced to ruins and finally a large rough-hewn cross. The mountain
575 1, 1 | transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can
576 Intro | power of this consecration lasts for all time and embraces
577 | latter
578 Secret, 4, 1 | to faith or morals; it is lawful to make it public; and the
579 Secret, 4, 1 | credibility precisely by leading me back to the definitive
580 Secret, 4, 3 | from whom might we better learn in every age than from the
581 1, 1 | myself to the essentials, leaving it to God to provide another
582 Secret, 4, 3 | our freedom continually lets itself be led away from
583 Secret, 4, 1 | concerns me at the deepest level. The prophetic word is a
584 Secret, 4, 2 | as occurs at the higher levels of mysticism. Therefore
585 Secret, 4, 3 | do the houses of the city lie half in ruins, but he makes
586 Secret, 4, 1 | communication, but of a life-giving process in which God comes
587 1, 1 | terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown
588 Secret, 4, 3 | salvation for souls” and, likewise, the summons to penance
589 Secret, 4, 3 | always keep in mind the limits in the vision itself, which
590 Secret, 4, 1 | interpretation, the main lines of which can be found in
591 Secret, 4, 1 | In this sense there is a link between the charism of prophecy
592 Secret, 3 | protection seems also to be linked to the so-called third part
593 Secret, 4, 2 | still not impaired. “On the lips of children and of babes
594 Secret, 2 | either by the Patriarch of Lisbon or the Bishop of Leiria.
595 Secret, 4, 1 | whole and which finds its literary expression in the two parts
596 Secret, 4, 3 | discussed in the relative literature that there is no need to
597 Secret, 4, 1 | interpret the present time?” (Lk 12:56). In this saying of
598 Secret, 4, 3 | World Wars and the many local wars which filled the last
599 Secret, 4, 2 | forms which are seen are not located spatially, as is the case
600 Secret, 1 | able to meet you on the long-awaited day of the Beatification
601 Secret, 4, 3 | draw their inspiration from long-standing intuitions of faith. It
602 Secret, 2 | final goal of every human longing. The conversation ends with
603 Secret, 4, 1 | that the Church can now look only to the past and that
604 Secret, 4, 3 | threat of judgement which looms over the world. Today the
605 Intro | God, deliver us. ~From the loss of awareness of good and
606 1, 2 | the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance,
607 Secret, 4, 2 | clear that in the visions of Lourdes, Fatima and other places
608 Secret, 4, 3 | his search for God. The loving arms of God welcome not
609 Secret, 2 | Coimbra. ~Sister Lucia was lucid and at ease; she was very
610 Intro | history marked by tragic human lust for power and evil, yet
611 1, 2 | SECRET” ~(translation8)~ ~“J.M.J. ~The third part of the
612 Secret, 4, 1 | attempting an interpretation, the main lines of which can be found
613 Secret, 4, 2 | Rather the images are, in a manner of speaking, a synthesis
614 Intro | texts have been added to the manuscripts of Sister Lucia: 1) the
615 Intro | pediu, desde o dia 25 de Março de 1984”: “Yes it has been
616 Secret, 2 | many letters that come from Marian devotees and from pilgrims.
617 Intro | end a period of history marked by tragic human lust for
618 Secret, 4, 2 | the vision as a whole that matters, and the details must be
619 Secret, 4, 3 | orientation. According to Matthew 5:8, the “immaculate heart”
620 Secret, 4, 1 | through human words and the mediation of the living community
621 Secret, 2 | work is called Os apelos da Mensagem de Fatima, and it gathers
622 Secret, 4, 3 | reduced to an object of mere curiosity. What remains
623 Secret, 4, 3 | assassin of 13 May 1981 was merely an instrument of the divine
624 1, 2 | souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached
625 Secret, 4, 2 | we are dealing with the middle category, interior perception.
626 Secret, 3 | him for his vital pastoral ministry for the good of all God'
627 1, 1, 0(6)| just a few small details of minor importance”. ~
628 Secret, 4, 3 | stands as a sign of history's misery but also as a promise for
629 Secret, 4, 1 | because the premise was missing—this is the boundless breadth
630 Secret, 4, 3 | believe the Good News” (Mk 1:15). To understand the
631 Secret, 4, 3 | opposite: it is meant to mobilize the forces of change in
632 Secret, 4, 1 | the first and fundamental mode of “inculturation” of the
633 Secret, 4, 2 | insofar as he is able, in the modes of representation and consciousness
634 Secret, 4, 1 | nothing contrary to faith or morals; it is lawful to make it
635 Secret, 4, 1 | the Cross,The Ascent of Mount Carmel, II, 22). ~Because
636 Secret, 4, 2 | hosanna” inappropriate (cf. Mt 21:16). ~“Interior vision”
637 Secret, 2 | Coitadinho do Santo Padre, tenho muita pena dos pecadores!” (“Poor
638 Secret, 4, 3 | found great solace there and mysteriously represents Christ, who wished
639 Secret, 4, 2 | at the higher levels of mysticism. Therefore we are dealing
640 Intro | the life of society, both national and international, deliver
641 Intro | not our petitions in our necessities”. ~The Pope then continued
642 Secret, 4, 1 | clarifications, initially needed, to a positive definition
643 Secret, 4, 1 | moved from the somewhat negative clarifications, initially
644 | neither
645 Secret, 4, 3 | Repent and believe the Good News” (Mk 1:15). To understand
646 | next
647 1, 1 | Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown
648 Intro | surprise of believers and non-believers alike, play their part in
649 Secret, 4, 2 | it is not a question of normal exterior perception of the
650 Secret, 4, 1 | treatise, which later became normative for beatifications and canonizations: “
651 Intro | Sim, està feita, tal como Nossa Senhora a pediu, desde o
652 Secret, 3 | Ecclesia. Intercede pro Papa nostro Ioanne Paulo II. Amen. ~
653 Secret, 4, 1 | The Second Vatican Council notes three essential ways in
654 Secret, 4, 1 | the desire for some other novelty” (No. 65; Saint John of
655 Intro | March 1984”: Letter of 8 November 1989). Hence any further
656 Intro | and war, deliver us. ~From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction,
657 Secret, 4, 1 | of this there must be a nurturing of faith, hope and love,
658 1, 2 | 13 July 1917. ~I write in obedience to you, my God, who command
659 Secret, 2 | I am happy, otherwise I obey whatever the Holy Father
660 Intro | who in the fullest way obeyed the divine call! ~Hail to
661 Secret, 4, 3 | whole life. It might be objected that we should not place
662 Secret, 4, 1 | offered, but which one is not obliged to use. ~The criterion
663 Secret, 4, 2 | house. This is perfectly obvious, for instance, as regards
664 Secret, 4, 2 | mind, without images, as occurs at the higher levels of
665 Intro, 0, 0(2)| the General Audience of 14 October 1981 on “What happened in
666 Secret, 4, 1 | parts of the Bible: the Old and New Testaments. It is
667 Secret, 4, 1 | forms, or deepen and spread older forms. But in all of this
668 1, 1, 0(6)| everything. I shall not knowingly omit anything, though I suppose
669 Secret, 4, 2 | children tend to be the ones to receive these apparitions:
670 Intro | grace required to abandon oneself to him with filial devotion.
671 | onto
672 Intro | Father Pierre Paul Philippe, OP, with the agreement of Cardinal
673 Secret, 2 | envelope that it could be opened only after 1960, either
674 Secret, 4, 1 | giving it a new impulse and opening the way for new forms of
675 Secret, 1 | Maria Lucia, you may speak openly and candidly to Archbishop
676 Secret, 4, 1 | other human faith, trust or opinion. The certainty that it is
677 1, 1 | another more favourable opportunity. ~In my second account I
678 Secret, 4, 3 | shows the power which stands opposed to the force of destruction—
679 Secret, 4, 3 | Its meaning is exactly the opposite: it is meant to mobilize
680 Intro | in Portuguese; the other orange, with the Italian translation
681 Intro | commits it all to paper when ordered to do so by the Bishop of
682 Secret, 4, 2 | of a higher and interior origin. But neither should they
683 Secret, 2 | pilgrims. The work is called Os apelos da Mensagem de Fatima,
684 | others
685 Intro | agreement of Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, brought the envelope containing
686 Secret, 4, 3 | Peter come to mind: “As the outcome of your faith you obtain
687 Secret, 4, 3 | characterized by the grave perils outlined in the images that follow.
688 Secret, 2 | Sister Lucia wrote on the outside envelope that it could be
689 Secret, 4, 3 | but take heart; I have overcome the world” (Jn 16:33). The
690 Intro | peoples and nations. It overcomes every evil that the spirit
691 Secret, 2 | saying: “Coitadinho do Santo Padre, tenho muita pena dos pecadores!” (“
692 Secret, 3 | Ecclesia. Intercede pro Papa nostro Ioanne Paulo II.
693 Secret, 3 | during these years of his papacy. This protection seems also
694 Intro | witness, commits it all to paper when ordered to do so by
695 Intro | has the power to obtain pardon and to secure reparation. ~
696 Intro | individuals and nations which particularly need to be thus entrusted
697 Intro | are active and responsible partners in creating that future. ~
698 1, 2 | appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop
699 Secret, 2 | suffer too”. ~As regards the passage about the Bishop dressed
700 Secret, 4, 3 | mirror” of this vision we see passing before us the witnesses
701 Secret, 4, 3 | die in communion with the Passion of Christ, and their death
702 Secret, 3 | thank him for his vital pastoral ministry for the good of
703 Intro | imagined all this: the three pastorinhos of Fatima see, listen and
704 Secret, 2 | after 1960, either by the Patriarch of Lisbon or the Bishop
705 Secret, 3 | Intercede pro Papa nostro Ioanne Paulo II. Amen. ~Fatima, 13
706 Secret, 1 | Apostolic Blessing.~IOANNES PAULUS PP. II ~From the Vatican,
707 Secret, 2 | Padre, tenho muita pena dos pecadores!” (“Poor Holy Father, I
708 Intro | tal como Nossa Senhora a pediu, desde o dia 25 de Março
709 Secret, 2 | Santo Padre, tenho muita pena dos pecadores!” (“Poor Holy
710 Intro | June 1981, the Solemnity of Pentecost, the day chosen to commemorate
711 Secret, 4, 2 | potentialities and limitations of the perceiving subject. ~This can be
712 Secret, 4, 3 | God's grace, has come to perfect interior unity and therefore “
713 Secret, 4, 2 | tree or a house. This is perfectly obvious, for instance, as
714 Secret, 4, 3 | characterized by the grave perils outlined in the images that
715 1, 1, 0(6)| the Secret which I am not permitted to reveal at present, I
716 Secret, 4, 3 | Allow me to add here a personal recollection: in a conversation
717 Intro | in depth, in a spiritual perspective alien to present-day attitudes,
718 Secret, 4, 1 | naturally produces data pertaining to the mind and to the understanding
719 Intro | for power and evil, yet pervaded by the merciful love of
720 Intro | of God!' Despise not our petitions in our necessities”. ~The
721 Secret, 4, 1 | according to Church teaching, phenomena such as Fatima are to be
722 Secret, 4, 3 | imitate me” (1 Cor 4:16; Phil 3:17; 1 Th 1:6; 2 Th 3:7,
723 Secret, 4, 2 | therefore are never simple “photographs” of the other world, but
724 Intro | which is here reproduced photostatically. The sealed envelope was
725 Secret, 4, 3 | saved from them. ~The next phrases of the text show very clearly
726 Intro | the Holy Office, Father Pierre Paul Philippe, OP, with
727 Secret, 1 | Church. May Mary, Mother of pilgrim humanity, keep us always
728 Secret, 3 | Nevertheless he also wishes his pilgrimage to be a renewed gesture
729 Secret, 2 | Marian devotees and from pilgrims. The work is called Os apelos
730 Intro | creative freedom, are the two pillars upon which human history
731 Intro | secret” the envelope was placed in the Secret Archives of
732 Intro | consecration of the world, placing it in your motherly Heart. ~
733 Intro | and non-believers alike, play their part in the unfolding
734 Intro | convulse the world: accept the plea which we make in the Holy
735 Secret, 1 | Francisco and Jacinta, which, please God, I will celebrate on
736 1, 1 | seemed to be under the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons
737 1, 1 | will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see
738 1, 1, 0(7)| Sister Lucia adds: “In Portugal, the dogma of the faith
739 Secret, 4, 1 | Son, his only Word (for he possesses no other), he spoke everything
740 Secret, 4, 2 | bounds of his capacities and possibilities. Such visions therefore
741 Secret, 4, 2 | but are influenced by the potentialities and limitations of the perceiving
742 Secret, 4, 2 | visionary, is still more powerfully involved. He sees insofar
743 Secret, 4, 2 | disturbed, their interior powers of perception are still
744 Secret, 1 | Blessing.~IOANNES PAULUS PP. II ~From the Vatican,
745 Secret, 3 | Millennium. ~Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genetrix!
746 Secret, 4, 2 | of babes you have found praise”, replies Jesus with a phrase
747 1, 2 | with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses
748 Secret, 3 | Bishop clothed in white” who prays for all the faithful is
749 Secret, 4, 1 | experience, and through the preaching of “those who, in the succession
750 Secret, 4, 3 | positions. The Pope seems to precede the others, trembling and
751 Secret, 4, 1 | and shows its credibility precisely by leading me back to the
752 Secret, 4, 2 | heart, which is usually precluded by the intense pressure
753 Secret, 4, 1 | biblical sense does not mean to predict the future but to explain
754 Secret, 4, 1 | unreachable because the premise was missing—this is the
755 Secret, 3 | the “secret”, after the preparation of an appropriate commentary. ~
756 Intro | people themselves who are preparing their own punishment. In
757 Intro | spiritual perspective alien to present-day attitudes, often tainted
758 Secret, 4, 1 | independent of him or even presents itself as another and better
759 Secret, 3 | STATE~At the end of the Mass presided over by the Holy Father
760 Secret, 4, 2 | precluded by the intense pressure of external reality and
761 Secret, 4, 3 | time forth, the word that prevails is this: “In the world you
762 1, 1 | and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask
763 Secret, 4, 3 | saw is in no way a film preview of a future in which nothing
764 Secret, 4, 1 | who discloses a knowledge previously unreachable because the
765 Secret, 2 | century. ~When asked: “Is the principal figure in the vision the
766 Secret, 4, 1 | which puts them before us as probable and credible to piety”.
767 Secret, 4 | of the Holy Father, will probably prove disappointing or surprising
768 Intro | in the core of Christ's proclamation: the Father's love which
769 Secret, 4, 1 | time this process naturally produces data pertaining to the mind
770 Secret, 4 | millennium? Or are these only projections of the inner world of children,
771 1, 1 | had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition,
772 Secret, 3 | Communist regimes which promoted atheism. For this too His
773 Secret, 4, 1 | the Spirit, do not despise prophesying, but test everything, holding
774 Secret, 4, 1 | veil on the future. The prophet speaks to the blindness
775 Secret, 4, 1 | what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken
776 Secret, 4, 3 | over the world. Today the prospect that the world might be
777 Secret, 4, 1 | In this regard, Cardinal Prospero Lambertini, the future Pope
778 Secret, 4 | Holy Father, will probably prove disappointing or surprising
779 Secret, 4, 3 | the divine plan guided by Providence and could not therefore
780 Secret, 4, 2 | replies Jesus with a phrase of Psalm 8 (v. 3) to the criticism
781 Secret, 4, 2 | of their anthropological (psychological) character. In this field,
782 1, 2, 0(8)| as regards the imprecise punctuation, which nevertheless does
783 1, 1 | God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes,
784 Intro | say that it is God who is punishing us in this way; on the contrary
785 Intro | are preparing their own punishment. In his kindness God warns
786 Secret, 4, 3 | The Heart open to God, purified by contemplation of God,
787 Secret, 4, 3 | witnesses there comes a purifying and renewing power, because
788 Secret, 4, 1 | requirements of prudence, which puts them before us as probable
789 Secret, 4, 1 | The Apostle says: “Do not quench the Spirit, do not despise
790 Secret, 4, 1 | Who is His Son. Any person questioning God or desiring some vision
791 Secret, 4, 1 | Catechism of the Catholic Church quotes a text of Saint John of
792 Intro | world and for the human race, which, in his divine Heart,
793 1, 2 | splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right
794 Intro, 0, 0(3)| Radio message during the Ceremony
795 1, 1 | in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames
796 Intro | attitudes, often tainted with rationalism. ~Throughout history there
797 Secret, 4, 3 | of your souls” (1:9). To reach this goal, the way indicated —
798 Secret, 4, 1 | people in such a way that it reaches into daily life. Popular
799 1, 2 | cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed
800 Intro | international, deliver us. ~From readiness to trample on the commandments
801 Secret, 4, 1 | Scriptures grow with the one who reads them” (No. 94; Gregory the
802 Secret, 2 | the children immediately realized during the “vision”—who
803 Secret, 2 | Father, which explained the reasons for the visit. Sister Lucia
804 Secret, 4, 3 | here. I would just like to recall briefly the most significant
805 Intro | Saint Peter's Square, while recalling the fiat uttered by Mary
806 | recently
807 Secret, 4, 1 | some of which have been recognized by the authority of the
808 Secret, 4, 3 | me to add here a personal recollection: in a conversation with
809 Intro | unable to be present, his recorded Address was broadcast. The
810 Intro | this. ~According to the records of the Archives, the Commissary
811 Intro | and consecrated. ~‘We have recourse to your protection, holy
812 Intro | unite ourselves with our Redeemer in this his consecration
813 Intro | complete the documentation—refer especially to the frightening
814 Intro | forcefully and with more specific references, as though commenting on
815 Intro | is a symbolic revelation, referring to this part of the Message,
816 Secret, 3 | the fall of the Communist regimes which promoted atheism.
817 Intro | great strides. If we do not reject the path of sin, hatred,
818 Secret, 4, 1 | classified correctly in relation to Scripture? To which theological
819 Secret, 4, 3 | so amply discussed in the relative literature that there is
820 Secret, 4, 1 | into daily life. Popular religiosity is the first and fundamental
821 Secret, 3 | him the bullet which had remained in the jeep after the assassination
822 Intro | these forgotten values. She reminds us that man's future is
823 Secret, 4, 2 | beyond the senses. It is rendered capable of seeing that which
824 Secret, 3 | wishes his pilgrimage to be a renewed gesture of gratitude to
825 Secret, 4, 3 | there comes a purifying and renewing power, because their suffering
826 Secret, 4, 3 | the Gospel comes to mind: “Repent and believe the Good News” (
827 Secret, 4, 1 | is condemned to sterile repetition. The Catechism of the Catholic
828 Secret, 4, 2 | you have found praise”, replies Jesus with a phrase of Psalm
829 Secret, 2 | Lucia has prepared as a reply to the many letters that
830 Secret, 1 | Archbishop Bertone, who will report your answers directly to
831 Secret, 4, 2 | is able, in the modes of representation and consciousness available
832 1, 1 | from Heaven to do so. God's representatives on earth have authorized
833 Intro | manuscript, which is here reproduced photostatically. The sealed
834 1, 1 | by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and
835 Intro | any further discussion or request is without basis. ~In the
836 Intro | conversion and bestows the grace required to abandon oneself to him
837 Secret, 4, 1 | faith in keeping with the requirements of prudence, which puts
838 Secret, 2 | felt honoured by this and reread the letter herself, contemplating
839 Secret, 4, 1 | message of Fatima. In this respect, let us listen once again
840 1, 2, 0(8)| the original text has been respected, even as regards the imprecise
841 Intro | to the right path, while respecting the freedom he has given
842 Secret, 4, 3 | Sister Lucia. Sister Lucia responded by pointing out that she
843 Secret, 4, 1 | what is going to happen responds to the curiosity of the
844 Secret, 4, 3 | faith. This is the correct response to this moment of history,
845 Secret, 4, 1 | fulfilment in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Christ,
846 Secret, 4, 2 | can be deciphered only in retrospect. Not every element of the
847 Intro | Pope John XXIII decided to return the sealed envelope to the
848 Secret, 4, 1 | Revelation” refers to the revealing action of God directed to
849 Intro | the path of sin, hatred, revenge, injustice, violations of
850 Secret, 4, 1 | also “to draw from” the riches of Jesus Christ himself,
851 Intro | injustice, violations of the rights of the human person, immorality
852 Secret, 4, 1 | offer new emphases or give rise to new devotional forms,
853 Secret, 3 | the occasion of a visit to Rome by the then Bishop of Leiria-Fatima,
854 Intro | evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people
855 Secret, 4, 1 | the faith is spreading its roots into the heart of a people
856 Secret, 2 | Sister Lucia is given a rosary sent by the Holy Father,
857 Secret, 4, 3 | the blood of the martyrs runs down from the arms of the
858 1, 1 | said to us so kindly and so sadly: ~“You have seen hell where
859 Secret, 4, 2 | the great visions of the saints; and naturally it is also
860 Secret, 3 | tuum praesidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genetrix! Intercede
861 Secret, 2 | kept saying: “Coitadinho do Santo Padre, tenho muita pena
862 Secret, 4, 3 | disappointed. Fatima does not satisfy our curiosity in this way,
863 1, 1 | reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded,
864 Secret, 4, 3 | because it brought the Saviour into the world—because,
865 Secret, 4, 1 | theologian E. Dhanis, an eminent scholar in this field, states succinctly
866 Secret, 4, 1 | must be scrutinized but not scorned. On this point, it should
867 Secret, 4, 1 | Gregory the Great: “The sacred Scriptures grow with the one who reads
868 Secret, 4, 1 | prophecy, which must be scrutinized but not scorned. On this
869 Intro | future. ~Tarcisio Bertone, SDB~Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli~
870 Secret, 4, 3 | sign-post for man in his search for God. The loving arms
871 Secret, 4, 1 | prediction of the future is of secondary importance. What is essential
872 Intro | Somalo, Substitute of the Secretariat of State: one white envelope,
873 Intro, 0, 0(1)| containing the third part of the secrets of Fatima. I intend to read
874 Intro | to obtain pardon and to secure reparation. ~The power of
875 Secret, 4, 3 | blood of the martyrs is the seed of Christians, said Tertullian.
876 Secret, 4, 1 | possible. These revelations seek rather an assent of human
877 Secret, 4, 3 | consoling vision, which seeks to open a history of blood
878 | seemed
879 Intro | nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war,
880 Secret, 1 | not a conversation, I am sending His Excellency Archbishop
881 Intro | està feita, tal como Nossa Senhora a pediu, desde o dia 25
882 Secret, 4, 2 | spiritual vision (visio sensibilis - imaginativa - intellectualis).
883 Secret, 4, 3 | reason, will, temperament and sensitivity converge, where the person
884 Secret, 4, 2 | not belong to our habitual sensory world. This is why there
885 Intro | which are here published in sequence so as to complete the documentation—
886 Intro | veil is drawn back on a series of events which make history
887 | several
888 Secret, 4, 1 | with prudence (E. Dhanis,Sguardo su Fatima e bilancio di
889 Secret, 4 | climate of profound piety but shaken at the same time by the
890 1, 1 | since I was told to keep it short, I confined myself to the
891 1, 1 | vision of hell. ~Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which
892 Secret, 4, 2 | same can be very easily shown with regard to other visions,
893 1, 1 | or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair,
894 Secret, 3 | it might be kept in the shrine. By the Bishop's decision,
895 Secret, 3 | the 1997 World Day of the Sick, No. 1, Insegnamenti, XIX,
896 Secret, 4, 3 | martyrs, which becomes a sign-post for man in his search for
897 Secret, 4, 1 | gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries” (
898 Secret, 4, 3 | recall briefly the most significant point. For one terrible
899 Intro | to what Our Lady wished (“Sim, està feita, tal como Nossa
900 Secret, 4, 1 | appearance of earth and sky; why then do you not know
901 1, 1, 0(6)| I may forget just a few small details of minor importance”. ~
902 1, 1 | together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every
903 Intro | the sufferings of whole societies. ~Help us with the power
904 Intro | injustice in the life of society, both national and international,
905 Secret, 4, 3 | Lazarus, who found great solace there and mysteriously represents
906 1, 2 | was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows
907 Secret, 4, 1 | everything to us at once in this sole Word—and he has no more
908 Intro | Major on 7 June 1981, the Solemnity of Pentecost, the day chosen
909 Intro | Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Substitute of the Secretariat
910 Secret, 4, 1 | have thus moved from the somewhat negative clarifications,
911 1, 2 | afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls
912 Intro | Message of Fatima in its sorrowful fulfilment: ~“Behold, as
913 Secret, 4, 2 | these reflections we have sought so far to identify the theological
914 Secret, 3 | of 1989 led, both in the Soviet Union and in a number of
915 1, 1 | back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without
916 Secret, 4, 2 | are seen are not located spatially, as is the case for example
917 Intro | is the part which refers specifically to the Act of Entrustment: ~“
918 Secret, 4 | surprising after all the speculation it has stirred. No great
919 Secret, 2 | her clear and unaffected spirituality. She was asked if she would
920 Secret, 4, 1 | a sign that the faith is spreading its roots into the heart
921 Secret, 4, 1 | private revelations often spring from popular piety and leave
922 1, 2 | the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making
923 Intro | March 1984 in Saint Peter's Square, while recalling the fiat
924 Secret, 4, 1 | popular piety and leave their stamp on it, giving it a new impulse
925 Intro | fulfilment: ~“Behold, as we stand before you, Mother of Christ,
926 Secret, 3 | and penance, issued at the start of the twentieth century,
927 Secret, 4, 2 | regard, Cardinal Sodano stated: “[they] do not describe
928 Secret, 4, 1 | eminent scholar in this field, states succinctly that ecclesiastical
929 Secret, 3 | set in the crown of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima. ~
930 Secret, 4, 3 | freedom onto the scene and to steer freedom in a positive direction.
931 Secret, 4, 3 | human heart and has thus steered human freedom towards what
932 Secret, 4, 3 | of the Mother of God and, stemming from this in a certain way,
933 1, 2 | half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and
934 Secret, 4, 1 | that she is condemned to sterile repetition. The Catechism
935 Intro | deliver us. ~From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very
936 Secret, 4 | all the speculation it has stirred. No great mystery is revealed;
937 | stop
938 Intro | little by little with great strides. If we do not reject the
939 Secret, 4, 3 | contemplation of God, is stronger than guns and weapons of
940 Secret, 4, 3 | sufferings of the century and strove to go forward through all
941 Secret, 2 | during the “vision”—who is struck dead and falls to the ground,
942 Secret, 4, 2 | The anthropological structure of private revelations ~
943 Secret, 2 | Fatima concerns above all the struggle of atheistic Communism against
944 Secret, 4, 1 | through the meditation and study of the faithful, through
945 Secret, 2 | gathers together in the style of catechesis and exhortation
946 Secret, 4, 1 | prudence (E. Dhanis,Sguardo su Fatima e bilancio di una
947 Secret, 3 | the Third Millennium. ~Sub tuum praesidium confugimus,
948 Secret, 3 | Our Lady of Fatima. ~The successive events of 1989 led, both
949 Secret, 4, 1 | scholar in this field, states succinctly that ecclesiastical approval
950 Secret, 4, 3 | Mary. A brief comment may suffice to explain this. In biblical
951 1, 1 | write to the Holy Father, suggesting, among other things, that
952 Secret, 4, 3 | an arduous ascent to the summit, history as the arena of
953 Intro | history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs which
954 1, 1, 0(6)| omit anything, though I suppose I may forget just a few
955 Secret, 4, 1 | episcopate, have received the sure charism of truth” (Dei Verbum,
956 Secret, 4, 3 | and is the light which surpasses every vision of ours. Human
957 Intro | events and which, to the surprise of believers and non-believers
958 Secret, 4 | probably prove disappointing or surprising after all the speculation
959 Secret, 4, 3 | goal, the way indicated —surprisingly for people from the Anglo-Saxon
960 Secret, 4, 3 | he himself explained his survival in the following words: “...
961 Intro | remember, and Lucia, the surviving witness, commits it all
962 Intro | assassination attempt on the “sweet Christ on earth”. Now a
963 Secret, 4, 3 | cross. The mountain and city symbolize the arena of human history:
964 Secret, 4, 3 | action is described in three symbols: a steep mountain, a great
965 Secret, 4, 2 | a manner of speaking, a synthesis of the impulse coming from
966 Secret, 4, 3 | places of the earth are synthetically described in the two images
967 Secret, 3 | the war waged by atheistic systems against the Church and Christians,
968 Intro | present-day attitudes, often tainted with rationalism. ~Throughout
969 Intro | of evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the
970 Intro | wished (“Sim, està feita, tal como Nossa Senhora a pediu,
971 1, 1, 0(6)| shall begin then my new task, and thus fulfil the commands
972 Secret, 4, 3 | open a history of blood and tears to the healing power of
973 Secret, 2 | the Pope; Our Lady did not tell us the name of the Pope;
974 Secret, 4, 3 | point where reason, will, temperament and sensitivity converge,
975 Secret, 4 | at the same time by the tempests which threatened their own
976 Secret, 4, 2 | this explains why children tend to be the ones to receive
977 Secret, 2 | Coitadinho do Santo Padre, tenho muita pena dos pecadores!” (“
978 Secret, 2 | in the Carmel of Saint Teresa in Coimbra. ~Sister Lucia
979 Secret, 4, 1 | but also in essence. The term “public Revelation” refers
980 Intro | Immaculate Heart of Mary, in terms which recalled the heartfelt
981 1, 1 | be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to
982 1, 1 | would have died of fear and terror. ~We then looked up at Our
983 Secret, 4, 3 | seed of Christians, said Tertullian. As from Christ's death,
984 Secret, 4, 1 | despise prophesying, but test everything, holding fast
985 Secret, 4, 1 | the Bible: the Old and New Testaments. It is called “Revelation”
986 Intro, 0, 0(3)| Ceremony of Veneration, Thanksgiving and Entrustment to the Virgin
987 Secret, 4, 1 | credible to piety”. The Flemish theologian E. Dhanis, an eminent scholar
988 Intro, 0, 0(3)| Entrustment to the Virgin Mary Theotokos in the Basilica of Saint
989 Secret, 4, 1 | the First Letter to the Thessalonians, seems to me to point the
990 1, 1 | to heaven. Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear
991 Secret, 4, 3 | Revelation. This represents the threat of judgement which looms
992 Secret, 4 | time by the tempests which threatened their own time? How should
993 Secret, 4, 3 | of this third part is the threefold cry: “Penance, Penance,
994 Secret, 2 | Leiria-Fatima, took place on Thursday, 27 April 2000, in the Carmel
995 Secret, 4, 1 | Testament, the Church is tied to this unique event of
996 Secret, 3 | twentieth century, remains timely and urgent today. “The Lady
997 1, 1 | in detail the doubt which tormented me from 13 June until 13
998 Intro | and embracing Communist totalitarianism. ~In 1917 no one could have
999 Secret, 4, 3 | direction. Therefore we must totally discount fatalistic explanations
1000 Secret, 2 | of Fatima. Immediately, touching it with her fingers, she
1001 Secret, 3 | of suffering they bring, tragically continue. Even if the events
1002 Intro | deliver us. ~From readiness to trample on the commandments of God,
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