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Behold Thy Mother A Publication of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Ghost Spring/Summer 2017 Volume 19 Issue 56 100th Anniversary of Fatima 1917-2017 Issue #2 Veni Sancte Spiritus per Mariam! Missionary Sisters of the Holy Ghost P.O. Box 589 • Veradale, WA 99037 Dear Readers, We promised you, at the beginning of this year, that we would continue to take you through different aspects of the message of Our Lady of Fatima, “The time since we celebrate, during 2017, 100 years since she first came to Fatima, Portugal. She pleaded with mankind to heed her past warnings, to begin for now to amend their lives, dress modestly, make reparation, study their doubting faith and pray the family Rosary each and every day. Fatima She appeared during the reign of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV and is over, continued giving messages to the eldest seer, Sr. Lucia into the reign of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, but it was not until the reign of His Holiness, Pope now Pius XII, that all doubt was removed from these apparitions, and in 1950, is the time for He spoke those famous words that launched the Crusade of Fatima, “The time for doubting Fatima is over, now is the time for action.” He was so action.” sure of the message of Fatima, that He said to the Master General of the Dominicans, “Tell your religious that the Pope’s thinking is contained in Pope Pius XII the Message of Fatima.” August, 1950 While the message was young, Pope Benedict XV urgently asked all of the Christian people to beg the Virgin Mary to obtain the peace of the world, and to solemnly entrust the task to Her alone. As time went on, Pope Pius XI wished to read all the results of the Canonical Process of Fatima, so that He would be personally acquainted with Our Lady’s apparitions. He then granted a partial indulgence to those who individually visited the Shrine Intentions for: and prayed for the intentions of the Holy Father, and a plenary indulgence, once a month, to those who went there in a group. After all of this, still Morning Offering May: That all the members of the there were those who doubted the authenticity and contents of this message, (In the spirit of Holy Slavery) Church Militant may grow in so it took Pope Pius XII to tell the world to cease doubting Fatima. O Jesus, through the Immaculate fervor in the practice of their holy In this issue, we hope to share with you a glimpse into what Pope Pius XII Heart of Mary, in reparation for my faith. did in order to make sure this message was known and lived. Due to His sins, I offer Thee all my prayers, June: The universal reign of the intense promotion of Our Lady’s Peace Plan from Heaven, which was works, joys and sufferings of this Sacred Heart of Jesus, our King, comprised, in part, of the Holy Rosary, Modesty and Consecration to Mary’s day and of my entire life, for all the intentions of Thy Most Sacred Immaculate Heart, He is known, to this day, as “the Pope of Fatima,” “the through the spread of devotion to Heart, in union with the Holy Pope of Peace! Mary, our Queen. Sacrifice of the Mass validly and licitly offered this day throughout July: The preservation of the My prayers and the prayers of our Sisters are with you. We thank you for the world, the infinite graces and your prayers and for your support. purity and modesty of our youth merits thereof to be dispensed in during the summer months. accord with Thy Divine Will for the In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, salvation of souls, the conversion August: The conversion of of sinners, and the special intention recommended for this month: sinners, and reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Behold Thy Mother is published three times a year. Subscription rates are $16.00 per year within the United States. Foreign rates, $22.00 per year. 3 2 Heaven’s Plan Eugenio Pacelli at the Fr. Eugenio age of six, and Pacelli Fr. Eugenio becomes, Pacelli, on His the day of his Excellency, priestly Bishop ordination, Eugenio April 2, 1899 Pacelli bishop, a cardinal, and the Peter, becoming the 262nd Holy Father, Himself, creat- pope of the Roman Catholic May 13, 1917 ing the means He needed, to Church, taking the name of become Mary’s messenger, Pius XII, until His death in Everything in our life is a Eugenio was born into a and proclaim to the world, 1958, He worked tirelessly part of the wonderful and family which, for most of the “The time for doubting for Holy Mother Church, and stupendous plan of Almighty nineteenth century, was in Fatima is over, now is the for His Heavenly Mother God. Each person we meet, service to the Holy See. time for action!” Mary, even creating a feast God had a purpose for On Easter Sunday, April 2, On the very day God for Mary’s Immaculate Heart allowing our paths to cross. 1899, he was ordained a chose for His Mother to in 1945, and issuing an ex Only in eternity will we fully priest, and said his first Mass appear, for the first time, to cathedra proclamation understand why things the following day, at the the three shepherd children, defining the dogma of her happened the way they did altar of “Salus Populi Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, Assumption in 1950. in each and every day of our Romano”. The title “Salus May 13, 1917, He also This great man of God, life. Populi Romano”, (Protectress planned, for His beloved son, was not only to become one Such is also the way God and Health of the Roman Eugenio, to be raised to the of the greatest Holy Fathers works with those He has People) is a Roman Catholic Sacred Bishopric! in the History of the Catholic great plans for in life. title associated with the His Holiness, Pope Church, but He was to be the Eugenio Maria Giuseppe venerated image of the Benedict XV, consecrated Fr. instrument Heaven used, to Giovanni Pacelli, was such a Blessed Virgin Mary in Rome. Pacelli as bishop in a special bring Catholics to their one that God, from all eter- She is enshrined within the ceremony in the Sistine senses, regarding the great nity, planned to be the herold Borghese Chapel of the Chapel, and at the same message of Fatima! of His Mother’s great mes- Basilica of Saint Mary Major. time, elevated him to the Today, Pope Pius XII is sage at Fatima, Portugal, in This priest was to go on in rank of archbishop. known as, “the Pope of 1917. God’s plan, to become a From 1939, when he Fatima”, and the “Pope of ascended the Throne of Peace”. 4 5 The Pope who The Holy Father gave associated himself Fatima with the closing to celebrations of the the Jubilee of Fatima, by consecrating World! the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary! orbi the name of Our Lady of delegate to Fatima, to repre- Excerpts from: Fatima in an Apostolic Letter sent, as he said, “Our own Fr. John A Hardon, S. J. addressed to the Portuguese person at the shrine of the Review for Religious Bishops, but published for the Virgin of Fatima, to act in whole world.” (Da Cruz, Our own name, and to preside with Our Fatima owes its present vocations to the missions, he Fatima, 1949, 99). authority”(A.A.S.., 43, 781). popularity in the Church wrote in 1940, “Let the On October 31, 1942, the Cardinal Tedeschini, very largely to the interest faithful, when reciting the Holy Father associated him- archpriest of St. Peter’s and encouragement of Pope Rosary so strongly recom- self with the closing celebra- Basilica, was the papal legate Pius XII. Although the mended by Our Lady of tions of the Jubilee of Fatima, who assisted at the Fatima bishops of Portugal had Fatima, not omit to address by consecrating the world to celebration on October 13, authorized the cultus of Our an invocation to the Blessed the Immaculate Heart of 1951, when more than a Lady of Fatima in 1930, and Virgin in favor of missionary Mary, as Our Lady of Fatima million pilgrims came to the Pius XI made an implicit vocations” (Osservatore, June had requested. And in the Portuguese shrine. reference to the “extraordi- 29, 1940). This was so signifi- same year he extended the In his own radio message nary benefits with which the cant that the Portuguese Office and Mass of the Im- to the pilgrims, the Holy Blessed Virgin recently fa- Hierarchy in 1942 were able maculate Heart to the Uni- Father emphasized one vored” Portugal, it was Pius to say, “We are happy to see versal Church appointing the practical aspect of the mes- XII among the Popes who the Supreme Authority of 22nd of August as the feast sage of Fatima which de- first explicitly referred to the Vicar of Jesus Christ day. serves to be better known: Fatima in a formal papal evoke thus the testimony of He then sent, for the the Family Rosary. “The document. Pleading for more Fatima, and proclaim Urbi et second time, an official 6 7 The Catholic Church, that beautiful Mountain, spoken of by Isaias the Prophet, will be in eclipse. Virgin Mother’s insistence XII, tells us the power of that on the recitation of the Rosary when he said, “We family Rosary,”he said, esteem the Rosary to be the “was meant to teach us that most suitable and efficacious the secret of peace in family means to obtain the help of life lies in imitating the God.