Our lady of fatima apparitions

  The MOTHER OF GOD appeared here

 at Fatima, Portugal in 1917 A.D.

  May-October  to 3 Shepherd children: 

                            Lucia 10, Jacinta 7, & Fransico 9 years of age.                         

This Basilica Honours
 Our Lady of The Rosary   known as
    Our Lady of Fatima.
Our Blessed Mother Mary Most Holy Ever Virgin
 gave this Message,   'The Third SECRET' 
and Almighty GOD worked the  Solar Miracle 
at Fatima, on October 13, 1917 to prove its Validity !
The MOTHER OF GOD revealed
a special Message to Lucy, which states in particular: 

"Do not be troubled, dear child,
 I AM THE MOTHER OF GOD speaking to you
  and begging you to PROCLAIM in MY NAME
 the following MESSAGE to the entire world.
 

In doing so, you will meet with strong opposition.
  But be strong in FAITH and you will TRIUMPH
  over all opposition.  Listen carefully and remember
 what I tell you: 

The good people must become better.
They must implore GOD to FORGIVE the SINS
 they have committed and will in the future commit.

You ask Me for a SIGN so all may comprehend the
words which I am addressing to mankind through you. 

You have just beheld that MIRACLE of the SUN. 

 EVERYBODY SAW IT--Believers and unbelievers.

And now  ANNOUNCE in MY NAME."

"A GREAT CHASTISEMENT
 WILL COME OVER ALL MANKIND;

not today or tomorrow,
  but in the second half of the Twentieth Century.

What I had already announced at La Salette
through the children Melanie and Maximin,

  I repeat to you now.

Humanity has not developed as GOD desired.
   Mankind has been Sacrilegious and has
 trampled underfoot the Gifts of GOD."

"No longer does order reign anywhere. 

 Even in the highest places 

Satan reigns and directs the course of events.

Satan will succeed in infiltrating into
the highest positions in The Church.

Satan will succeed in sowing

 confusion in the minds of scientists

 who will design weapons 

Satan will gain hold of heads of nations

 and will cause these destructive WEAPONS 

to be mass produced.."

"If mankind will not oppose these Evils,
      I will be obliged to let fall
  My SON's ARM.

If the chief rulers of the world and of
The Church will not actively oppose

these Evils,

 I will ask GOD My FATHER
   to visit His JUSTICE upon mankind. 

Then will GOD PUNISH mankind 

even more severely and harshly than He did
at the time of the GREAT DELUGE.

  The great and powerful will PERISH  
      along with the lowly and weak."

  A TIME of very SEVERE TRIAL is also 
          coming for The CHURCH.

 Cardinals will oppose Cardinals
 and Bishops will oppose Bishops .

Satan will enter into their very midst.
In ROME also, there will occur great CHANGES. 

 What is ROTTEN will FALL, 

and what FALLS must not be retained. 

The CHURCH will be obscured,
and all the world will be thrown into  
      GREAT CONFUSION."

"The GREAT, GREAT WAR  
 will come in the second half of the   

twentieth century.

 FIRE  and  SMOKE 
         will FALL from Heaven,

  and the WATERS of the Ocean
 will turn to STEAM,
throwing their FOAM to the very SKY. 

  Whatever is standing will be  
 OVERTURNED.

MILLIONS of people will  DIE . 

Those surviving will ENVY the DEAD. 

 DISTRESS,  MISERY, 

 and  DESOLATION 

WILL BE FOUND THE WORLD OVER."

"The TIME is drawing nearer,
      and the ABYSS is ever deepening.
 

 There will be NO ESCAPE:
 the good will DIE with the WICKED,
 the great with the lowly,
 the Princes of The Church with the faithful, 
 the rulers of the nations with their people. 

DEATH  will REIGN everywhere,
   raised to triumph by erring men,
 the helpers of Satan who will be
 the MASTERS of the Earth.

These EVILS will come at a time when
no one expects it: 

 nevertheless it must come

 as PUNISHMENT and REVENGE

  in Accordance with GOD'S PLAN."

"The AGE of Ages is coming,
         the END of all  ENDS 
    if mankind will NOT REPENT
 and BE CONVERTED,
 and if this Conversion does not come

 from the rulers of the world 

and of The Church. 

WOE and greater WOE to mankind
if  CONVERSION  does not occur."

   "Later, however, those who survive
 these TRIALS,
 if they will REPENT,
               and will call upon GOD
  in submission to His Will

 and become true followers of
 JESUS CHRIST, My SON,
  I will gather them
 and become their INTERCESSOR.

 But WOE and more WOE
  if that conversion does not occur.

 

GO,  My child,
 and  ANNOUNCE  IT;
  I will assist you."

GOD's ANGEL of PEACE Apparitions

In the spring of 1916, the three young Portugese shepherds, 

Lucy dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto,
led their sheep to graze on a hill called the Cabeco.

Rain began to fall, so the children found a place 

on the hillside to serve as shelter...
eating lunch, praying the Rosary and
playing games.

Lucy was then only nine years old, 

rancisco was eight, and Jacinta was six. 

 As they were playing, a strong wind suddenly blew,
shaking the trees, and the children saw a figure

 approaching above the olive trees.

Lucy described the figure as having  

"the appearance of a young man of fourteen or fifteen,

 whiter than SNOW, which the sun rendered 

transparent as if it were of crystal, 

and of great BEAUTY."

We were surprised and half absorbed.
We did not say a word.  While coming closer
to us, the Angel said:
 

 "Do not fear!  I am the Angel of Peace.
 Pray with me."

And kneeling on the earth, 

he bent his forehead to the ground.  

Prompted by a supernatural movement, 

we imitated him
and repeated the words 

which we heard him pronounce:

 "My GOD, I believe in Thee,
      I adore Thee, I hope in Thee 

 and I love Thee.  
 
          I ask pardon for all those
          who do not believe in Thee,
 do not adore Thee,
 do not hope in Thee
          and do not love Thee."

'Having repeated that prayer three times,
he got up again and said to us: 

 "Pray in this way. 
         The Hearts of Jesus and Mary
 are attentive to the voice of
    your supplications." 

And he disappeared.'   Lucy recalled:

 'The supernatural atmosphere which enveloped us

 was so intense that, during a long moment, 

we barely realized the fact of our own existence. 

 We remained in the position in which the

 Angel had left us,
always repeating the same prayer.

The PRESENCE of GOD made itself felt
in such an intense and intimate manner,
that we did not dare even to speak

 any longer among ourselves.  

The next day, we still felt our spirit enveloped

 in this atmosphere
which only disappeared very slowly.'

The  second   Apparition of the Angel
took place during the summer of 1916.

While the children were playing

 around their favorite well, 

the ANGEL suddenly appeared.

"What are you doing?  he asked.
  PRAY a great deal!
 
The Holy Hearts of JESUS and MARY  
     have designs of Mercy on you.

OFFER unceasingly PRAYERS
     and SACRIFICE yourselves
 to The MOST HIGH."

Lucy asked the ANGEL

 how they were to make sacrifices. 

 The Angel replied:

     "Make of everything you can
   a sacrifice and offer it to GOD
as an Act of Reparation for the SINS  
      by which He is OFFENDED,
 and in supplication
 for the conversion of sinners.

In this way, you will draw Peace
 upon your country.
 

 I am its GUARDIAN ANGEL,
 the Angel of Portugal.

Above all, accept and bear with  
   submission the sufferings
   which The Lord will send you."

Lucy comments,

 'Those words of the Angel engraved

 themselves in our spirit, 

as a LIGHT which made us understand  

Who GOD is,
how much He loves us 

and wants to be loved by us, 

the value of sacrifice  
    and how pleasing it is to Him,
    and that out of respect for it,
 GOD converts sinners."

In the autumn of the 1916, 

the children took their sheep to the Cabeco, 

the place of the first Apparition.  

They were reciting the prayer 

the Angel had taught them 

when above them 

an unknown LIGHT appeared.

Lucy relates,

 "We got up again to see what was happening,

 and we saw the Angel again, 

who had in his left hand
a Chalice over which was suspended
a HOST, 

from which some Drops of BLOOD

 fell into the Chalice."

Leaving the Chalice and the HOST

 suspended in the air, 

he prostrated himself down to the earth 

near the children and 

repeated three times this prayer:

 "Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son,
   and Holy Ghost, I adore You
   profoundly, and I offer You the
 Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul
   and Divinity of JESUS CHRIST,
   present in the Tabernacles of the
   world, in Reparation for the 
 OUTRAGES, SACRILEGES and
 INDIFFERENCES by which He,
 Himself is OFFENDED.

And I draw upon 

the Infinite MERITS of 

 The Most  SACRED HEART of JESUS

 and of The Immaculate HEART of MARY,
that You might convert poor SINNERS."

Then, getting up, 

the ANGEL took the Chalice and HOST. 

 He gave Lucy 

the SACRED HOST on the tongue.

Then while giving The Precious BLOOD

  from the Chalice with the children 

three times he said:

"EAT and DRINK 

The BODY and BLOOD

 of  JESUS CHRIST,
horribly outraged by ungrateful men.

  Make REPARATION for their
CRIMES and CONSOLE your GOD."

Then, prostrating himself on the ground 

he repeated with the children 

three times the same prayer:

"Most HOLY Trinity, etc.., 

then  disappeared.'

This final Apparition of the Angel

 was clearly the summit of the three, 

as the children were Graced to see
The PRECIOUS BLOOD of Our LORD
fall from the SACRED HOST 

into the CHALICE,

 and then receive
Holy Communion from the Angel.

They received Jesus 

in the KNEELING position,

 and the SACRED HOST

 was given on the TONGUE.

This,
with the prayers,
prepared them

 for the coming APPARITIONS of
  The QUEEN OF HEAVEN
 The BLESSED VIRGIN MARY,
 Our LADY of FATIMA
 the following spring, 1917.

The MOTHER OF GOD 

appeared six times to the 

three shepherd children

 near FATIMA, Portugal between

 May 13th and October 13th, 1917. 
She said:

 "If MY requests are granted...
 there will be PEACE."

 "If My requests are not granted, 
 RUSSIA will spread its ERRORS  
 throughout the world,
    raising up  WARS  and
 PERSECUTIONS against
 The CHURCH.

  The good will be MARTYRED,
  the Holy Father will suffer much  
  and various nations will be
 ANNIHILATED."
 

 Our Lady of Fatima

In the Apparition of July 13, 1917,

Our Lady WARNED that if we
didn't STOP OFFENDING GOD 

by our SINS,
GOD would PUNISH the world,

using RUSSIA as the 

SCOURGING INSTRUMENT

 of CHASTISEMENT,

"by means of WAR, HUNGER and 
 PERSECUTION  of The Church
 and of the Holy Father".

She told the children that

  "to PREVENT this, 

I shall come

 to ASK for
the CONSECRATION of RUSSIA  
 to  My IMMACULATE HEART".

True to Her words, 

Our Lady appeared to now Sister Lucy

 on June 13, 1929 at TUY, Spain, 

when in a great and sublime VISION 

representing
     The BLESSED TRINITY,
She announced that
 

   "the MOMENT has come
 for GOD to ask the Holy Father
to make, in UNION with ALL the 
 Bishops of the world,
the CONSECRATION of RUSSIA
to MY IMMACULATE HEART.

By this means, 

He promises to     
 save Russia."

The LORD expected swift obedience,

however, the pastors of the Church 

chose to DELAY and, 

on August 19, 1931, 

Our LORD Himself

 appeared to Sister Lucy  
in Rianjo, Spain and expressed
His displeasure, saying

"make it known to My ministers that, 

given they follow the example

 of the King of France

 in  DELAYING the execution 

 of MY COMMAND,

 they will follow him also 

into misfortune."

Our Lord's  WARNING  is grave indeed;
 referring to His command, 
 through St. Margaret Mary  
   Alacoque, to the King of France

that he consecrate his nation to  
 The Sacred Heart of Jesus . 

The King chose to

 ignore the Command 

and thus condemned
his dynasty and throne

 to the horrors of REVOLUTION,
CHAOS and the GUILLOTINE!

To this day (2022) this
  'CONSECRATION' 

       HAS NOT BEEN DONE ! 

[Russia invading Ukraine

proves that Russia

is not converted:

Russia's Goal is world

domination to Communism!]
 

 PRAY TIRELESSLY that it will be  
 done or we are all DOOMED.

In response to Sister Lucy's question 

WHY Our Lord would not convert Russia 

without the Holy Father

 Consecrating that nation
 to His Mother's Immaculate Heart,
OUR LORD replied:

 "Because I want My whole Church
 to acknowledge that Consecration

as a TRIUMPH of
The IMMACULATE HEART of MARY

so that it may extend its Cult later and  
 put the DEVOTION of
 The Immaculate Heart 
 beside the DEVOTION to
 My Sacred Heart ."

On the 13th of May, 1917,

 after Sunday morning MASS, 

the three shepherd children

 chose to lead their sheep to a property

 called Cova de Iria.  

After eating their meal at noon

 and praying

the Rosary, 

the children began to play.  

SUDDENLY they saw

 a kind of LIGHTNING, 

making them believe that a  
 STORM  was approaching, 

and they began
to descend the Hill to make for home.
When about half-way down the slope

 there was another FLASH of LIGHT,

and a LADY appeared above a holm-oak tree. 

 Lucy says that the LADY was

 "all dressed in WHITE, 

more brilliant than the SUN,

 radiating a LIGHT clearer and more intense 

than a CRYSTAL Glass 

 filled with clear water 

pierced by the most 

BURNING RAYS of the SUN."

The children stopped 

and found themselves in the LIGHT 

that emanated from HER.
Lucy describes the Apparition in this way:

'Then Our Lady said to us:

  "Do not be afraid.  I will do you no harm." 

   'Where is Your Grace from?'  I asked Her.

  "I am of HEAVEN."
 
    'What does Your Grace want of me?'

"I have come to ask you to come here
       for SIX MONTHS in succession,
      on the 13th day, at this same hour.

 Later on, I will tell you
         Who I am and what I want.
 Afterwards, I will return here
     yet a seventh time."

'Shall I go to Heaven too?' 

 "Yes, you will." 'And Jacinta?' 

  "Also."   'And Francisco?'  
         "Also, but he will have to say
many Rosaries."

'I remembered then to ask about

 two girls who had died recently. 

 They were friends of mine and they 

used to come to my home

 to learn weaving with my eldest sister.

   'Is Maria des Neves already in Heaven?'  
  "Yes, she is."   

It seems to me that 

she was about 16 years old. 

 'And Amelia?'
       

  "She will be in Purgatory
 until the End of the world."

It seems to me that she must have been 
          between 18 and 20 years old.

"Are you willing to
  offer yourselves to GOD
             to bear all the suffering
 He wants to send you,
             as an Act of Reparation for
 the SINS 

by which He is OFFENDED, 
 and for the conversion of sinners?"

  'Yes, we are willing.' 
 
        "You are then going to have
 much to suffer, but the Grace of GOD
 will be your comfort."

'It was in pronouncing those last words (the Grace of GOD, etc.) that Our Lady openedHer Hands for the first time, and communicated to us, as by a reflection which emanated from them, a LIGHT so intensethat, penetrating our heart and even to the depths of our soul, it made us see ourselves in GOD, Who was this LIGHT, more clearly than we see ourselves in the best mirrors.

Then, moved by an interior impulse which was communicated to us, we fell on our knees and said repeatedly:

           'O Most Holy Trinity,
             I adore Thee, My GOD,
             my GOD, I love Thee
        in The Most Holy Sacrament.'

The first moments passed,
and Our Lady added:

"Recite the ROSARY every day
 in order to obtain peace for the world
         and the end of the WAR."

 'Can you tell me whether the War will still
      last a long time, or will it soon end?'

             "I cannot tell you yet,
   as I have not told you what I want."

'Then She began to rise serenely,
  going up towards the east until She   
 disappeared in the immensity of the SKY.'

During the Apparitions, each child's part was distinct:  Lucy was the only one who spoke to Our Lady; Jacinta saw and heard Her but did not speak; and Francisco saw Her but could not hear Her, and had to be told afterward what She said.  Lucy explains the experience:

'The Apparition of Our Lady came once again to plunge us into the Supernatural, but in a much milder manner [than the Apparitions of the Angel].  Instead of this annihilation in the Divine Presence, which prostrated us, even physically, this last Apparition left us a Peace, an expansive JOY which prevented us from speaking afterwards about what had happened.'

Little Jacinta, however, could not contain her JOY for long and, prompted by a special grace, immediately gave an enthusiastic account of the Apparition to her parents.
As a result, the NEWS spread quickly.

Witnesses of  'Miracle of the SUN'
October 13, 1917, Fatima, Portugal

 Blessed Jacinta Marto

Seer Jacinta died shortly after
the Apparitions as Our Lady
had foretold.  Her body was
exhumed and found perfectly
 INCORRUPT !

In 1925 eighteen year old Lucy joined
the Dorothean Sisters; she became a
postulant at the convent at Pontevedra,
Spain where Our Lady,
as She promised in 1917,
came to reveal to Lucy
the first part of  GOD's PLAN
for the salvation of sinners
in our time of REVOLT against GOD;

the REPARATORY Communion
of  The FIRST SATURDAYS
of the month.

Lucy describes the encounter:

'On December 10, 1925, 

The Most Holy Virgin Herself appeared, 

and beside Her, 

bourne by a LUMINOUS CLOUD,

 The CHILD JESUS. 

The Most Holy Virgin put Her Hand 

on her shoulder and showed her a HEART
 surrounded by THORNS
which She held in the other Hand.
At the same moment, The Child
said to her:

"Have Compassion on
  the   HEART  of your
 Most Holy Mother ,
 covered with THORNS
with which UNGRATEFUL men
PIERCE IT at every moment,
and there is no one to make
an Act of Reparation
to remove them."

Then The Most Holy Virgin
said:

"Look, My daughter,

 at My HEART, 
 surrounded with THORNS 

with which 
 ungrateful men  PIERCE ME
 at every moment by their
 BLASPHEMIES and INGRATITUDE.

You at least try to CONSOLE ME
and announce in My Name
that I promise to ASSIST
at the moment of DEATH,
with all the GRACES
necessary for Salvation,
all those who,

 on  the FIRST SATURDAY
  of  Five  consecutive months

shall receive

 the Sacrament of Confession,
receive Holy Communion,
recite Five decades of the ROSARY,
and keep Me company
for Fifteen minutes
while meditating on the
Fifteen Mysteries of the ROSARY,
with the intention
of making REPARATION
to My Immaculate Heart."

On Feb. 15th, 1926, Lucy says:
 '...my confessor said...
  "this devotion already exists"...'

Jesus replied:

"It is true, My daughter,

 that many souls begin,

 but few persevere to the very end,

 and those who persevere do it

 to receive the graces promised.

The souls who make

 the Five First Saturdays with fervor 

and to make Reparation 

to the Heart of your Heavenly Mother, 

please Me more than

 those who make fifteen,

 but are lukewarm and indifferent."

'My Jesus !  Many souls find it difficult
to confess on Saturday. 

 Will You allow a confession 

within eight days to be valid ?'

"Yes, it can be made later on, 

provided that the souls are in

 a state of grace when 

they receive Me 

on the First Saturday,
and that they had the intention of
making Reparation to
The Sacred Heart of Mary."

'My Jesus!  And those who forget to
 form this intention ?'

"They can form it at the next confession,

 taking advantage of their first opportunity
to go to confession."

After that the Child Jesus disappeared 

without saying anything more. 

 Lucy's confessor asked:

 "Why 5 Saturdays and not 9 or 7...?" 

 Lucy prayed about this question;
this is what she wrote:

'As I was in the Chapel with Our Lord
part of the night of May 29-30, 1930...

I found myself more intimately possessed

 by The Divine Presence...

here is what was revealed to me:

"My daughter, the reason is simple.
There are Five kinds of OFFENSES  
 and BLASPHEMIES uttered against
The Immaculate HEART of Mary:

* Blasphemies against
 The Immaculate Conception.

* Blasphemies against
 Her Perpetual Virginity.

* Blasphemies against
 Her Divine Maternity,
 while refusing at the 
   same time to recognize Her
   as Mother of men.

* The Blasphemies of those who 
   publicly seek to place in the hearts
   of children indifference or scorn
   or even hatred towards this
   Immaculate Mother.

* The Offenses of those who outrage  
 Her directly in Her Holy Images.

"There My daughter, is the reason why
The Immaculate Heart of Mary
asked Me to request this small
 Act of Reparation ,
 and in consideration of it,
 to move  My MERCY 
to forgive souls who have had
 the misfortune to offend Her.

As for you, seek unceasingly,
through your prayers and sacrifices,
to move My Mercy with regard
to these poor souls."

When Our Lady appeared at Tuy, 

in 1929, he confirmed the necessity 

of this Devotion 

She requested at Pontevedra
with these words:

"Souls are so numerous whom the 
Justice of GOD condemns
 for SINS committed against Me
 that I come to request Reparation.

Sacrifice yourself 

for this intention  

and pray."

Sister Lucy, after becoming

 a sister of St. Dorothy in 1928, later,

after a brief visit to Fatima, 

entered the convent of the

 Carmelite Sisters of Coimbra, 

where she resided until her death--

to join Jacinta and Francisco in Heaven.

In 1926, Sister Lucy left the convent

 in Pontevedra to enter the Dorothean 

novitiate at Tuy; 

she took her habit on October 26, 1926,

 and pronounced her first vows 

on October 3, 1928.  

Sister Lucy describes a communication:

'...I knelt down near the Communion Rail,

 in the middle of the Chapel, to
recite the prayers of the Angel,
lying prostrate...Feeling tired,

 I got up and continued to recite them 

with my arms in the form of a Cross. 

 The only light was that 

of the [Sanctuary] lamp.

Suddenly, the whole Chapel lit up

 with a SUPERNATURAL LIGHT

 and on the Altar appeared 

a Cross of LIGHT
which reached the ceiling. 

 In a clearer light,

 on the upper part of the Cross,

 could be seen the Face of a man 

with His Body to the waist,

 on His Chest a DOVE,

 equally luminous; 

and NAILED to the CROSS, 

the Body of another man. 

A little below the waist

 [of Christ on the Cross],

 suspended in the air, 

could be seen a Chalice

 and a large Host,

 onto which some

 Drops of BLOOD were falling,
which flowed from the Face 

of the Crucified One

 and from the WOUND in His Breast.
Running down over the Host,
these Drops fell into the Chalice.

Under the right Arm of the Cross
was Our Lady with
Her Immaculate Heart in Her Hand...

(She appeared as Our Lady of Fatima,  

with Her Immaculate Heart in Her left hand, 

without Sword or Roses, 

but with a Crown of Thorns and Flames)
 
under the left arm [of the Cross], 

in large letters, like crystalline water 

which flowed over the Altar, 

forming these words: 

 "GRACE and MERCY".

I understood that the Mystery of
 The Most Holy Trinity
was shown to me, 

and I received lights about this Mystery 

which I am not permitted to reveal. 

 Then Our Lady
said to me:

"The moment has come 

in which GOD asks 

the Holy Father to make, 

in union with all 

the bishops of the world,
 

  the Consecration of Russia
 to My Immaculate Heart,

promising to save it by this means.

So numerous are the souls 

which the Justice of GOD

 condemns for
the Sins committed against Me,
that I come to ask for Reparation. 

Sacrifice yourself 

for this intention 
 and pray."

The Grotto of Massabielle, (the Old Rock)

 along the River Gave, was a damp,

 dirty, hidden place known as the 'pigs shelter'--

where pigs, feeding in the area took shelter.

On Thursday, February 11th, 1858, 

Bernadette's mother sent her

 to gather firewood 

with her younger sister Toinette (Maria)

 and a friend of theirs Jeanne.
 
The two girls crossed the icy water to search 
on the other bank, crying out from the cold, 
but Bernadette hesitated due to her chronic 
asthma and the icy water.  The girls insisted,
and when she began to remove her shoes,
she heard a very loud noise,
like strong gusts of wind,
which made her raise her head and look 
around. 

   "What is this" she said. 
The leaves from the trees did not move.  

The loud noise of the wind started again
and was strongest around the Grotto.

At the mouth of the Grotto 

was a ROSEBUSH which was moving,
yet there was no wind.

From the interior of the Grotto

 she saw a Golden-colored CLOUD,

 and above the Rosebush

 APPEARED a most
BEAUTIFUL young LADY,
at the entrance of 

the opening to the Grotto.

At this same moment,

 the church BELLS started to ring 

to announce the Angelus.

A LIGHT BRILLIANT AS 
 THE SUN ,
but sweet and gentle,

 like everything that comes from Heaven, 

the BEAUTIFUL LADY

 was seen by Bernadette. 

She was dressed with a

 brilliant WHITE Dress 

of an unknown texture and tied to it

 was a BLUE RIBBON; 

a long white  VEIL 

 that fell to Her feet

 covered Her Body. 

 Her bare feet of a virginal cleanliness 

seemed to lean on the wild Rosebush.

Two Gold-color brilliant ROSES

 covered the top of 

The Blessed Virgin Mary's feet. 

 Her hands were clasped together 

in front of Her chest 

in a fervent prayerful position. 

 She held a long White and
GOLD ROSARY 

with a beautiful GOLDEN CROSS 

between Her fingers.

Everything in Her radiated happiness,

 majesty,  innocence,  goodness, 

sweetness and peace.

Her forehead was smooth and serene;

Her EYES were BLUE, 

full of LOVE; 

and Her lips appeared soft and meek. 

Our LADY seemed to be 

Greeting Bernadette tenderly 

while She bent toward her.  

Bernadette took her Rosary

 from her pocket

 (since she always carried it with her),

made The Sign of the Cross 

as if to protect herself, 

and her hand became paralyzed.

At this moment 

The Blessed Virgin

 took the Cross of the ROSARY,

 made
The Sign of the Cross, 

and asked Bernadette to do the same.
Her paralyzed arm became free  

at that moment.

Our Lady started to go through the 

beads of the Rosary between Her fingers

 and Bernadette started to pray her Rosary. 

After She finished, 

Our Lady made a sign with Her finger

 so that Bernadette may come closer. 

With Her hand extended 

She leaned
gently with a SMILE

 as if  She was departing from her. 

 The Vision ended !
 

In 1925 eighteen year old Lucy joined
the Dorothean Sisters; she became a
postulant at the convent at Pontevedra,
Spain where Our Lady,
as She promised in 1917,
came to reveal to Lucy
the first part of 

 GOD's PLAN
for the salvation of sinners
in our time of REVOLT against GOD;

the REPARATORY Communion
of  The FIRST SATURDAYS
of the month.

Lucy describes the encounter:

'On December 10, 1925,

 The Most Holy Virgin Herself appeared, 

and beside Her, bourne by a LUMINOUS CLOUD, 

The CHILD JESUS. 

The Most Holy Virgin put Her Hand 

on her shoulder and showed her 

a HEART
 surrounded by THORNS
which She held in the other Hand.

At the same moment, The Child
said to her:

"Have Compassion on
  the  HEART  of your
 Most Holy Mother ,
 covered with THORNS
with which UNGRATEFUL men
PIERCE IT at every moment,
and there is no one to make
an Act of Reparation
to remove them."

Then The Most Holy Virgin
said:

"Look, My daughter, at My HEART, 
 surrounded with THORNS with which 
 ungrateful men  PIERCE ME
 at every moment

 by their
 BLASPHEMIES and INGRATITUDE.

You at least try to CONSOLE ME
and announce in My Name
that I promise to ASSIST
at the moment of DEATH,
with all the GRACES
necessary for Salvation,
all those who,

 on  the FIRST SATURDAY
  of  Five  consecutive months

shall receive 

the Sacrament of Confession,
receive Holy Communion,

recite Five decades of the ROSARY,
and keep Me company
for Fifteen minutes

while meditating on the
Fifteen Mysteries of the ROSARY,

with the intention
of making REPARATION
to My Immaculate Heart."

On Feb. 15th, 1926, Lucy says:

  '...my confessor said...
  "this devotion already exists"...'

Jesus replied:

"It is true, My daughter,

 that many souls begin, 

but few persevere to the very end, 

and those who persevere do it

 to receive the graces promised.

The souls who make

 the Five First Saturdays with fervor

 and to make 

Reparation to the Heart 

of your Heavenly Mother,

 please Me more than those 

who make fifteen,

but are lukewarm and indifferent."

'My Jesus !  Many souls find it difficult
to confess on Saturday.  

Will You allow a confession 

within eight days to be valid ?'

"Yes, it can be made later on,

 provided that the souls are in 

a state of grace when they receive Me

 on the First Saturday,
and that they had the intention of
making Reparation to
The Sacred Heart of Mary."

'My Jesus!  And those who forget to
 form this intention ?'

"They can form it at the next confession,

 taking advantage of their first opportunity
to go to confession."

After that the Child Jesus disappeared 

without saying anything more. 

 Lucy's confessor asked: 

"Why 5 Saturdays and not 9 or 7...?"  

Lucy prayed about this question;
this is what she wrote:

'As I was in the Chapel with Our Lord
part of the night of May 29-30, 1930..

.I found myself more intimately possessed

 by The Divine Presence...

here is what was revealed to me:

"My daughter, the reason is simple.
There are Five kinds of OFFENSES  
 and BLASPHEMIES uttered against
The Immaculate HEART of Mary:

* Blasphemies against
 The Immaculate Conception.

* Blasphemies against
 Her Perpetual Virginity.

* Blasphemies against
 Her Divine Maternity,
 while refusing at the 
   same time to recognize Her
   as Mother of men.

* The Blasphemies of those who 
   publicly seek to place in the hearts
   of children indifference or scorn
   or even hatred towards this
   Immaculate Mother.

* The Offenses of those who outrage  
 Her directly in Her Holy Images.

"There My daughter,

 is the reason why
The Immaculate Heart of Mary
asked Me to request this small
 Act of Reparation ,
 and in consideration of it,
 to move  My MERCY 
to forgive souls who have had
 the misfortune to offend Her.

As for you, seek unceasingly,
through your prayers and sacrifices,
to move My Mercy with regard
to these poor souls."

When Our Lady appeared at Tuy, 

in 1929,She confirmed the necessity

 of this Devotion 

She requested at Pontevedra
with these words:

"Souls are so numerous whom the 
Justice of GOD condemns
 for SINS committed against Me
 that I come to request Reparation.

Sacrifice yourself for this intention 
                  and pray."

Sister Lucy, after becoming

 a sister of St. Dorothy in 1928, later,

 after a brief visit to Fatima,

 entered the convent of the

 Carmelite Sisters of Coimbra, 

where she resided

 until her death--to join

Jacinta and Francisco in Heaven.

In 1926, Sister Lucy left the convent 

in Pontevedra to enter the Dorothean 

novitiate at Tuy; she took her habit on

 October 26, 1926, and pronounced her first vows 

on October 3, 1928.  

Sister Lucy describes a communication:

'...I knelt down near the Communion Rail, 

in the middle of the Chapel, to
recite the prayers of the Angel,
lying prostrate...Feeling tired,

 I got up and continued to recite them 

with my arms in the form of a Cross.  

The only light was that 

of the [Sanctuary] lamp.

Suddenly, the whole Chapel lit up 

with a SUPERNATURAL LIGHT 

and on the Altar appeared 

a Cross of LIGHT
which reached the ceiling. 

 In a clearer light, 

on the upper part of the Cross,

 could be seen the Face of a man 

with His Body to the waist,

 on His Chest a DOVE,

 equally luminous; 

and NAILED to the CROSS, 

the Body of another man. 

A little below the waist

 [of Christ on the Cross], 

suspended in the air,

 could be seen a Chalice 

and a large Host, 

onto which some 

Drops of BLOOD were falling,
which flowed from

 the Face of the Crucified One

 and from the WOUND in His Breast.
Running down over the Host,
these Drops fell into the Chalice.

Under the right Arm of the Cross
was Our Lady with
Her Immaculate Heart in Her Hand...

(She appeared as Our Lady of Fatima, 

with Her Immaculate Heart 

in Her left hand, 

without Sword or Roses, 

but  with a Crown of Thorns

 and Flames)
 
under the left arm [of the Cross], 

in large letters, like crystalline water 

which flowed over the Altar, 

forming these words: 

 "GRACE and MERCY".

I understood that the Mystery of
 The Most Holy Trinity
was shown to me, 

and I received lights about this Mystery 

which I am not permitted to reveal.

  Then Our Lady
said to me:

"The moment has come

 in which GOD asks

 the Holy Father to make,

 in union with

 all the bishops of the world,
 

  the Consecration of Russia
 to My Immaculate Heart,

promising to

 save it by this means.

So numerous are the souls 

which the Justice of GOD 

condemns for
the Sins committed against Me,
that I come

 to ask for Reparation. 

Sacrifice yourself

 for this intention 
 and pray."

Our Blessed Mother

 appeared to Bernadette 

on Feb. 11th, 1858 here
at Lourdes, France.

The message of Lourdes 

is the words and actions

 that were exchanged between

 The Virgin Mary

 and Bernadette Soubirous,

 a poor peasant virgin, aged 14,

 at the grotto of Massabielle, 

during the 18 apparitions

 from february 11, 1858, 

to july 16th, 1858--

which is the feast day of

 Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The Grotto of Massabielle, 

(the Old Rock) along the River Gave,

 was a damp, dirty, hidden place known as 

the 'pigs shelter'--where pigs, 

feeding in the area took shelter.
On Thursday, February 11th, 1858,

 Bernadette's mother sent her to 

gather firewood with her younger sister 

Toinette (Maria) and a friend of theirs Jeanne.
 
The two girls crossed the icy water to search 
on the other bank, crying out from the cold, 
but Bernadette hesitated due to her chronic 
asthma and the icy water.  The girls insisted,
and when she began to remove her shoes,
she heard a very loud noise,
like strong gusts of wind,
which made her raise her head and look 
around. 

   "What is this" she said. 
The leaves from the trees did not move.  

The loud noise of the wind started again
and was strongest around the Grotto.

At the mouth of the Grotto was 

a ROSEBUSH which was moving,
yet there was no wind.

From the interior of the Grotto

 she saw a Golden-colored CLOUD,

 and above the Rosebush 

APPEARED a most
BEAUTIFUL young LADY,
at the entrance of

 the opening to the Grotto.

At this same moment,

 the church BELLS started to ring 

to announce the Angelus.

A LIGHT BRILLIANT AS 
 THE SUN ,
but sweet and gentle, 

like everything that comes from Heaven,

 the BEAUTIFUL LADY 

was seen by Bernadette. 

She was dressed with 

a brilliant WHITE DRESS 

of an unknown texture

 and tied to it was 

a BLUE RIBBON;

 a long  white  VEIL

  that fell to Her feet 

covered Her Body. 

 Her bare feet of a virginal cleanliness

 seemed to lean on the wild Rosebush.

Two Gold-color brilliant ROSES

 covered the top of 

The Blessed Virgin Mary's feet. 

 Her hands were clasped together 

in front of Her chest in a 

fervent prayerful position.

 She held a long White and
GOLD ROSARY 

with a beautiful GOLDEN CROSS

 between Her fingers.

Everything in Her radiated happiness, 

majesty,  innocence,  goodness, 

sweetness and peace.

Her forehead was smooth and serene;

Her EYES were BLUE, 

full of LOVE; 

and Her lips 

appeared soft and meek. 

Our LADY seemed to be 

Greeting Bernadette tenderly

 while She bent toward her.  

Bernadette took her Rosary from her pocket 

(since she always carried it with her),

made The Sign of the Cross

 as if to protect herself, 

and her hand became paralyzed.

At this moment

 The Blessed Virgin took the Cross 

of the ROSARY, 

made
The Sign of the Cross,

and asked Bernadette to do the same.
Her paralyzed arm became free 

 at that moment.

Our Lady started to go through

 the beads of the Rosary 

between Her fingers 

and Bernadette started

 to pray her Rosary. 

After She finished,

 Our Lady made a

 sign with Her finger 

so that Bernadette may come closer. 

With Her hand extended 

She leaned gently with a SMILE

 as if  She  was departing from her. 

 The Vision ended !