Director: Fr. Carlos Cabecinhas * Proprietor: Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima (Portugal) * Quarterly publication * Year X * Nr. 40 * 2014/02/13 Enveloped in the love Christmas Campaign funds will go of God for the world towards Philippine People Shrine thanks During the walk the Shrine of Fatima July’s apparition is still marked by is taking to prepare the celebration of the another prayer taught to the Little Shep- pilgrims for their Centennial of the Apparitions, this pasto- herds by Our Lady: «O My Jesus, forgive ral year is dedicated to the apparition of us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell generosity the month of July and has as theme the and lead all souls to Heaven, especially title “Enveloped in the love of God for those in most need!» But once again, the world”. Since it is an apparition rich what is behind this prayer is love: the in contents, we chose the love of God for love of God, Who wants that all souls be the world as the unifying theme and the saved. dimension which better allows us to ap- It is still in July’s apparition that Our proach the different contents of the Mes- Lady entrusts to the Little Shepherds the sage of Fatima transmitted in this appari- so-called ‘Secret’, which, once revealed, tion. let us know the immense love of God for The inspiration for the formulation the world and shows us a God Who, be- of the theme came from the prayer itself cause He loves us infinitely, will not al- that Our Lady taught to the Little Shep- low that our history progresses towards herds in July: «O Jesus, it is for the love the abyss. of You…» This prayer makes it explicit The theme of this pastoral year brings what are the motifs of all the sacrifices us back, through the Message of Fatima, the Little Shepherds made: «it is for the to the center of the Christian message: love of You». It is in response to the the revelation that God is Love: «God is love of God, which the Little Shepherds love, and he who abides in love abides in The Shrine of Fatima has an- strongly experienced, that they are will- God, and God in him» (1Jn 4, 16). This nounced that the funds gathered by ing to make sacrifices for the conversion theme is an invitation for us to be aware the Christmas Campaign of 2013 of sinners and in reparation to the Im- of the great love of God for us; but it also came to €19,539.93, which, as an- maculate Heart of Mary. It was love that challenges us to practice that love for nounced at the beginning of Decem- motivated them: the love of God, which God and for neighbor, just like the Little ber 2013, will be sent by Caritas to Our Lady led them to know and expe- Shepherds did. the Philippines, in order to assist the rience and to which they tried to corres- people affected by Hurricane Hai- pond. Fr. Carlos Cabecinhas, Rector yan, in November. Fr. Carlos Cabecinhas, Rector of the Shrine of Fatima, appreciates from the bottom of his heart the gen- erous participation of his pilgrims and visitors in this campaign of soli- darity, which was held at the end of the official Masses of Christmas, New Year and Epiphany, at the mo- ment of osculation of the Child Je- sus, and thanks them for it, and wish- es that the donation may help resolve some of the most urgent situations. During the month of December, for the same cause, let it be said that the Shrine of Fatima also sent an ear- ly donation, through Caritas: the sum of €25,000, for a first aid to the most pressing needs. 2 2014/02/13 Temporary Exhibition «Secret and Revelation» Manuscript of Third Part of Secret of Fatima exhibited at Fatima windows covered with veils of different templation, by means of works of art and transparencies and opacities, we see the other strategies of representation, of the first documents where the word ‘secret’ Third Part of the Secret. This last part, is pinned. named «The Martyr Church», turns the Sets 1 and 2 are organized with Lucia’s literary images contained in the manu- original manuscripts related to the first script into visual images: the pope’s white and second parts of the Secret, presented garment (cassock of John Paul II; NSF, according to the way they are in the Third inv.420-TEX.I.41) is placed on the axis Memoir (Episcopal Archives of Leiria) of the cross (Reliquary of the Holy Cross; and contain several works of art which MSF, inv. 86-OUR.II.15) which presides lead the visitor to interpret each of these over this whole space, marked by Stations parts: «the vision of Hell» and «the Devo- of the Cross (models of IV and V stations tion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary». of the Stations of the Cross of Valinhos, Before getting to the most emblematic MSF; inv. 849-ESC.II.71/72) where are piece of the exhibition, the visitor has to projected the faces of the popes who led pause for a moment, while going through the Church throughout the XX century, a corridor that, by means of two big chro- according to the interpretation of Cardinal nologies (about the historic moments of Joseph Ratzinger in his theological com- the XX century and the Secret), clearly mentary on the Secret of Fatima. states that Fatima is really «the most pro- Open to the public in the lower floor Taking as motif the apparition of July phetic of contemporaneous apparitions». of the Basilica of Most Holy Trinity, in 1917, the Shrine of Fatima offers to its This «long wait» flows into an auditorium St. Augustine’s Convivium, every day of pilgrims a temporary exhibition, whose where a screen shows the revelation of the the week, between 09h00 and 19h00, this purpose is to present, by means of histori- Third Part of the Secret made by Cardinal exhibition has already been visited, up to cal documentation and artistic pieces, one Angelo Sodano, on May 13, 2000. January 31, by 17 436 people, who thus of the most important topics of Fatima: It is after this announcement that the were able to understand that «the Mes- the Secret which from Cova da Iria leads pilgrim has access to the main document sage of Fatima invites us to trust in the to the contemplation of today’s whole of the exhibition: the original manuscript promise» contained in the Gospel: «You world. (Archives of the Congregation for the will suffer in the world. But take courage! Before walking through the sets ex- Doctrine of the Faith, A.S.381) written by I have overcome the world» (Jn 16, 33)» hibiting each of the three parts of the Se- Sr. Lucia on January 3, 1944, and loaned (Joseph Ratzinger, Theological Commen- cret, the visitor is placed in the ambiance to this exhibition by the Congregation that tary to the Secret of Fatima). of frenzy which, already in 1917, was keeps it since 1957. felt around the subject. It is in this con- This document opens up a new chapter Marco Daniel Duarte, text that, in between frames looking like in the exhibition, dedicated to the con- Exhibition’s Curator 2014/02/13 3 Manuscript of Third Part of Secret of Fatima written 70 years ago The manuscript of the Third Part of the so-called Secret of Fatima was written by Sister Lucia on January 3, 1944, thus having completed 70 years at the beginning of the year. The manuscript, belonging to the Secret Archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in the Vatican, is now, until the end of October 2014, at the Shrine of Fatima, where it can be seen in the temporary exhibition “Secret and Revelation”. In the meantime, at the initiative of the Shrine of Fatima, there is being done a diplomatic and paleographic study of the document, by Maria José Azevedo Santos, Professor at the School of Literature of Coimbra University, a specialist in Diplomacy and Paleography. Document’s History The study of the document According to the Archives of the Department of Studies and Information (SESDI) of the Shrine of Fatima, the document con- taining the Third Part of the Secret, relative to the revelation of the Virgin Mary on July 13, 1917, was written by Sister Lucia in Tui, on January 3, 1944. Later on, it was sent, in a sealed enve- lope, to Bishop José Alves Correia da Silva, of Leiria. From amongst the various vicissitudes the document went through until today, which can be known through the chronol- ogy shown in the exhibition “Secret and Revelation”, SESDI highlights the hand-over of the Manuscript to the Apostolic Nunciature, in Lisbon, by Msgr. João Pereira Venâncio, Auxil- iary Bishop of Leiria, on March 1, 1957. The following month, on April 4, the Manuscript of the Third Part of the Secret of Fatima arrives in the Vatican, where it is Maria José Azevedo Santos, Professor at the School of Lit- now kept in the Secret Archives of the Holy Office, today’s Con- erature of Coimbra University and specialist in Diplomacy and gregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Paleography, was invited to analyze, in light of these two sci- Two years later, on August 17, Pope John XXIII asks that the ences, the Manuscript of the Third Part of the Secret of Fatima, document be taken to him, but decides not to reveal what is in it.