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WE celebrate APPARITION OF OUR LADY FÁTIMA!

2021

Dear Friends,

Today we celebrate the Apparition of Our Lady of Fátima!

The apparition of Our Lady of Fátima to the three shepherds - Lúcia de Jesus (10 years old), Francisco (9 years old) and Jacinta (7 years old) - happened for the first time on May 13, 1917, in a field in Cova de Iria, in parish of Fátima, in Ourém.

May 13 marks one of the main celebrations in Fátima. One of the most important moments is the Procession of Candles, on the night of May 12, when the thousands of candles of the faithful that fill the grand square of the Sanctuary give this place a magical atmosphere, of communion and religious devotion. As impressive as the Procession of Goodbye, on May 13th. It is also a tradition for pilgrims to go to the Fátima Shrine, to pay homage to Our Lady of Fátima, and to fulfill their promises with simplicity and a spirit of faith.

"- Do not be afraid! I do not hurt you! - Where are you from? - I asked him. - I'm from Heaven. - And what do you want me to do? - I came to ask you to come here, six months in a row, on the 13th at this same hour. Then I will tell you who I am and what I want. Then I will come back here a seventh time. [- Can you tell me if the war is still going on for a long time or if it ends soon? - I can't tell you yet until I tell you what I want, too.] - And I also go to Heaven? - Yes, you will. - And Jacinta? - Too. - And Francisco? - Also, but you have to say many Rosaries. [...] - Do you want to offer yourself to God to endure all the sufferings that He wants to send you, in an act of reparation for the sins with which He is offended and of supplication for the conversion of sinners? - Yes we want! - You will therefore have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort. It was when he spoke these last words (the grace of God, etc.) that he opened his hands for the first time, communicating a light so intense, as if it were a reflection that he sent from them, that penetrating us into the chest and the most intimate of the soul , making us see ourselves in God, who was that light, more clearly than we see ourselves in the best of mirrors. Then, by an intimate impulse also communicated, we fell on our knees and repeated ourselves: - O Most Holy Trinity, I adore you. My God, my God, I love You in the Blessed Sacrament. After the first moments, Our Lady added: - Pray the Rosary every day, to achieve peace for the world and the end of the war. »

Memoirs of Sister Lúcia I. 14th ed. Fátima: Secretariado dos Pastorinhos, 2010, p. 172-173 (IV Memory); the section in square brackets belongs to the parish priest's interrogation of the seers, on May 27, 1917, in Documentação Crítica de Fátima, vol. I. Fátima: Sanctuary of Fátima, 1992, p. 9.

A huge HUUUUG! Fátima C. Brízio

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