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Only God knows the future. However, it is licit for us to make conjectures in
the light of probabilities.
We are living in a terrible hour of chastisements. But this hour can be one of
admirable mercy as long as we look to Mary, Star of the Sea, who guides us
through the tempests.
For a hundred years Our Lady, moved with compassion for sinful humanity, has
obtained the most stupendous miracles for us. Has this compassion now
exhausted? Will the mercies of a mother, the best of all mothers, come to an
end? Who would dare to affirm this? If someone had any doubts, Lourdes is an
admirable lesson of confidence. Our Lady will come to our aid.
She will come to our aid. This expression is partly true and partly false,
because, in reality, she has already begun to help us. The definition of the
dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and of Papal Infallibility, as well as the
renewal of Eucharistic devotion had their continuation in the supernatural
Marian events after St. Pius X’s pontificate. Our Lady appeared in Fatima under
Benedict XV. The first apparition took place on 13 May 1917, the very day Pius
XII was consecrated a bishop. During the reign of Pius XI, the message of
Fatima slowly but surely spread throughout the world. On this same occasion,
the 75th anniversary of the apparitions of Lourdes was celebrated with great
joy by the Holy Father, who sent the then Cardinal Pacelli as his
representative for the festivities. The pontificate of Pius XII was memorable
for the definition of the dogma of the Assumption and for the Coronation of Our
Lady as Queen of the World. During this pontificate, His Eminence Cardinal
Masella, so dear to Brazilians, crowned the statue of the Most Holy Virgin in
Fatima in the name of Pope Pius XII.
These are lights that constitute a brilliant sequence originating from the
grotto of Massabielle and ending at the Cova da Iria.
And this article ends with Fatima. Our Lady outlined the alternative very clearly
in her apparitions. We either convert, or a tremendous chastisement will come;
but, in the end, the Reign of the Immaculate Heart will establish itself in the
world.
In other words, no matter in what way, with more suffering for mankind or less,
the Heart of Mary will triumph.
This means that, according to the message of Fatima, the days during which
impiety dominates are numbered.
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