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The True Message of Our Lady at Fatima The True Message of Our Lady at Fatima outraged and offended by the sins of Heart will be your refuge and the way humanity, and we are lovingly urged that will lead you to God.” If we wish to console Her by making reparation. to go to God, we have a sure way to She showed Her Heart, surrounded by Him through true devotion to the piercing thorns (which represented the Immaculate Heart of His Mother. sins against Her Immaculate Heart), to the children, who understood that When Sister Lucy questioned Our Lord their sacrifices could help to console as to why He would not convert Russia Her. without the solemn public consecration of that nation The children also saw that God is specifically, Jesus answered: terribly offended by the sins of humanity, and that He desires each of Because I want My us and all mankind to abandon sin and whole Church to make reparation for their crimes acknowledge that through prayer and sacrifice. Our Lady consecration as a sadly pleaded: “Do not offend the Lord triumph of the our God any more, for He is already Immaculate Heart of too much offended!” Mary, so that it may extend its homage The children were also told to pray later on, and put the The general Message of Fatima is not and sacrifice themselves for sinners, devotion to This complicated. Its requests are for in order to save them from hell. The Immaculate Heart prayer, reparation, repentance, and children were briefly shown a vision of beside the devotion sacrifice, and the abandonment of sin. hell, after which Our Lady told them: to My Sacred Heart. Before Our Lady appeared to the three “You have seen hell where the souls of shepherd children, Lucy, Francisco and poor sinners go. To save them, God Thus, we see that the conversion of Jacinta, the Angel of Peace visited wishes to establish in the world Russia cannot take place unless and them. The Angel prepared the children devotion to My Immaculate Heart. If until the Pope and bishops consecrate to receive the Blessed Virgin Mary, what I say to you is done, many souls specifically Russia, because God has and his instructions are an important will be saved and there will be peace.” reserved this grace — this special aspect of the Message that is often grace — to this special act of honor overlooked. She said that if people did not stop and reparation to the Immaculate offending God, He would punish the Heart of Mary. Jesus does this The Angel demonstrated to the world severely by means of war, because He wants to establish children the fervent, attentive, and famine, persecution of the Church, throughout the world, in the hearts composed manner in which we should and persecution of the Holy Father. To and minds of the faithful, the all pray, and the reverence we should prevent these chastisements, Our importance of devotion to His Mother’s show toward God in prayer. He also Lady offered a remedy: She would Immaculate Heart. explained to them the great return to ask for the Consecration of importance of praying and making Russia to Her Immaculate Heart and Devotion to the Immaculate Heart is sacrifices in reparation for the the Communion of Reparation on the central to the Fatima Message. God offenses committed against God. He Five First Saturdays. If Her requests determined that the Consecration of told them: “Make of everything you were heeded, there would be peace. If Russia and the Communion of can a sacrifice and offer it to God as not, Russia’s errors would spread Reparation on the First Saturdays be an act of reparation for the sins by throughout the world, causing wars the means of implementing this which He is offended, and in and persecutions against the Church, devotion throughout the world, and supplication, for the conversion of the Holy Father to suffer much, gave this task to His Pope and bishops sinners.” In his third and final martyrdom of the good and the and to individual souls to practice and apparition to the children, the Angel annihilation of various nations. promote this devotion. gave them Holy Communion, and demonstrated the proper way to Our Lady indicated to us the specific In order to move ever closer to Her, receive Our Lord in the Eucharist: all root of all the troubles in the world, and therefore to Her Son, Our Lady three children knelt to receive the one that causes world wars and stressed the importance of praying at Communion; and Lucy was given the such terrible suffering: sin. She then least five decades of the Rosary daily. Sacred Host on the tongue and the gave a solution, first to individual She asked us to wear the Brown Angel shared the Blood of the Chalice people, then to the Church’s leaders. Scapular. And we must make between Francisco and Jacinta. God asks each one of us to stop sacrifices, especially the sacrifice of offending Him. We must pray, doing our daily duty, in reparation for Our Lady stressed the importance of especially the Rosary. By this frequent the sins committed against Our Lord praying the Rosary in each of Her prayer of the Rosary, we will get the and Our Lady. She also stressed the apparitions, asking the children to graces we need to overcome sin. God necessity of prayers and sacrifices to pray the Rosary every day for peace. wants us to have devotion to the save poor sinners from hell. The Another principal part of the Message Immaculate Heart of Mary and to work Message of Fatima, to individual souls, of Fatima is devotion to Our Lady’s to spread this devotion throughout the is summarized in these things. Immaculate Heart, which is terribly world. Our Lady said, “My Immaculate Maria: Mater Ecclesia In Roman Catholic Mariology, Mother of Pope Paul VI pronounced the title at the the Church (in Latin Mater Ecclesiae) is closing of the third phase of the council. a title, officially given to Mary during the A former archbishop of Milan, Paul VI Second Vatican Council by Pope Paul VI. used similar language to that of Saint The title was first used in the 4th century Ambrose of Milan, calling Mary Model of by Saint Ambrose of Milan, as the Church in light of her faith, love and rediscovered by Hugo Rahner. complete unity with Christ and Mother of the Church because she gave birth to The title "Mother of the Church" was used Christ. by Pope Benedict XIV in 1748[3] and then by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.[4] The title was Paul VI made the pronouncement of the also used by Pope John Paul II[5] and is title Mother of the Church during his also found in the Catechism of the Catholic speech upon the closing of the third Church. session of the Second Vatican Council on November 21, 1964: "For the glory Pope John Paul II stated that overall the of the Virgin and our consolation, we title indicates the Blessed Virgin Mary's proclaim Mary the Most Holy Mother of maternity of Christ's faithful, as deriving the Church, that is, the Mother of the from her maternity of Christ in that "Mary whole People of God, both the faithful is present in the Church as the Mother of and the pastors." Christ, and at the same time as that Mother whom Christ, in the mystery of the In Redemptoris Mater Pope John Paul II Redemption, gave to humanity in the referred to Paul VI's "Credo of the person of the Apostle John [cf. John People of God" as a reaffirmation of the 19:27]. Thus, in her new motherhood in statement that Mary is the "mother of the Spirit, Mary embraces each and every the entire Christian people, both faithful one in the Church, and embraces each and and pastors" and wrote that the Credo every one through the Church." "restated this truth in an even more On September 17, 1997, St. Pope John forceful way" St. Ambrose and Hugo Rahner Paul II devoted a Wednesday general Pope Benedict XVI also referred to the audience to the title "Mother of the The Church has traditionally portrayed the Credo of Paul VI and stated that it sums Church" with regard to its application to Blessed Virgin Mary together with the up all of the scriptural texts that relate to the Blessed Virgin Mary. apostles and disciples gathered at that the matter. first Pentecost, joined in prayer with the The faithful first called upon Mary with the first members of the Church. The title, Pope St. John Paul II title "Mother of God", "Mother of the Mater Ecclesiae is found in the writings of faithful" or "our Mother", to emphasize her Berengaud, bishop of Treves (d. 1125). Following the 1981 assassination attempt personal relationship with each of her on his life, Pope John Paul II ordered the children. Later, because of the greater In the 1895 encyclical Adjutricem populi installation of a mosaic of Mary, Mother of attention paid to the mystery of the (Helper of the People) Pope Leo XIII the Church on a building overlooking St. Church and to Mary’s relationship to her, wrote, "She is invoked as Mother of the Peter's Square, partially as tribute to her the Blessed Virgin began more frequently Church and the teacher and Queen of the intercession in saving his life. In 1987, he to be invoked as "Mother of the Church" Apostles". Following the title's usage by repeated this title Mother of the Church in Leo XIII, it was later used many times in his encyclical Redemptoris Mater and at a The title "Mother of the Church" thus the teachings of John XXIII and Paul general audience on September 17, 1997.
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