Mary’s Promise, 2017
Note: Not an endorsement. You can use other approved Church sources in addition to Fatima. (LaSalette, Heede,, etc)
“Do not lose heart, I will never forsake you! My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.” (Our Lady of Fatima, June 13, 1917)
Just think a moment — St. Teresa of Avila, that great doctor of the Church, came back to say, … what?
To explain her mystical insight in the Mansions? No.
She returned to urge her sisters to pray the simple, loving Hail Mary.
Dear readers, Our Lady’s promise to us is simply this: Her Immaculate Heart, that is, her most pure and perfect will, to strengthen us and lead us through this maelstrom of the spiritual Chastisement of the Church today.
Today, we have a pope who appears to be an apostate, and who misleads the faithful that contraception is allowed in some instances, that some couples who co-habit without marriage have the grace of marriage while many who have been sacramentally married do not, who never misses the opportunity to attack the faith of those who still listen to him. Then the devil rejoices! This is the Passion of the Bride of Christ; do not fail Our Lord now.
Although the hour is late, we must struggle in this wreckage of a world with all its dreary temptations. The grace – and with it the graciousness – of the Christian era has receded, leaving a most barren landscape, where lost souls wander. Look around you – how few believe in Christ or His Church; even fewer know of Our Lady of Fatima and even less actually obey her.
It is 100 years after Our Lady’s appearances, and how few Catholics are aware of the simple, effective means God has provided for our salvation and that of those entrusted to us.
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We must perfect our wills. The essence of the love that must transform us is in the the fusion of our will with the Immaculata’s. It must burn brightly within us and through us in all that we do, all that we choose to avoid doing, our sacrifices, penances. We consecrate our hearts to her Immaculate Heart, that is, our wills to her pure and perfect will.
To be very clear: what is necessary is not that we engage in complex spiritual programs or discover new “revelations” or new devotions; no, only one thing is necessary: each moment, in the midst of whatever distractions beset us, we must form the desire to unite our will with our Mother’s. Then, when she has our attention, she will show us the way. This is the way of spiritual infancy, of childlike trust in our Mother.
It is this intention, this movement of the will that is the whole point here. God sees our intentions. They are so precious to Him. They mean more than heroic deeds accomplished without this love, for whatever comes from the pure heart of the Immaculata is most precious to Him. So give yourself, heart, mind, will to Our Lady and she will offer your imperfect deeds to her Son in loving reparation and in petition for the conversion of poor sinners.
In this time, we must avail ourselves of the simplest, most effective methods. Sister Lucia assured us the remedies asked for are the Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. That devotion means practicing the total surrender of our will to hers at every moment throughout the day, offering all to her, according to her pure and perfect will.
Resolve now to be her child! Cast all else aside and give yourself without reserve to our most pure and perfect, most loving and merciful Mother!
Our Lord Jesus Christ knows how difficult these times are for us, and that is why Our Lady is here, offering us her Immaculate Heart, her perfect will to support our imperfect one. Oh, I want so badly to help you to see there is all of heaven for you in your next Hail Mary! Give her your heart, give it to her regardless of the feeling of desolation, even the repugnance that may beset you. These temptations of the devil are allowed by God to chasten and strengthen our wills. Again, sentiment has no place here.
The devil works overtime these days to deceive us with sentiments, to make us believe that God is not pleased with our devotion to the Rosary, to Our Lady, because we don’t “feel good” about it, that is, we have aridity, distractions and struggle to concentrate. Yet it is by persisting in the face of these temptations that we merit great grace for ourselves and those entrusted to us!
When we feel arid, desolate, we must stand before her like the beast of burden we are, heavily laden with the sins for which we must make reparation. She sees our heart, for her Immaculate Heart suffers greatly, pierced by a sword in order to know our hearts. Her sorrowful heart bears our same sorrows, she endures for them with us, adoring God always in the Blessed Sacrament of His Love. Just acknowledge your situation and continue to offer to her this moment and all moments, always simply willing to be hers alone. She will do, indeed, cannot but do, the rest.
There is so much merit in this! Do not waste another moment attempting to master new devotions, or searching the web for new prophecies. She offers her Heart to you now – Give her yours. Let us simply focus on that one thing, a well said Hail Mary, moment by moment, hearts fused in union with Jesus, adoring Him. Let us be led by the Queen of the Holy Rosary, our Immaculate Mother.
Readers have so many questions! “How will I know what is His will, so that I may do it?” “If we are called to help save all others entrusted to us, how do we know who they are, and how do we accomplish this?” All I can offer you is to recommend that you return to your question and see for yourselves – it is clear to those who will see – Over and over you have been told that His will is that we unite our wills to the will of His beloved Mother. In His Gospel, He tells us to take up our cross and follow Him, He tells us sell all we have and come follow Him. He is telling us to cast aside all that we want and to want only Him, to allow nothing to come between His will and ours.
In this time of trial, He knows we cannot do this except with great help, and so He offers us, as He did from the Cross with His dying breath, His own Mother, in whose indomitable strength we find refuge. She who crushes the head of satan will easily triumph over him in our petty affairs. We must remember that when God gives us a remedy, He is not pleased if we spurn it.
It is very unwise to spend our precious time looking for other remedies. At Tuy, Our Lady held out to us her Immaculate Heart, pierced with thorns. How sad that so few notice this, and even fewer actually avail themselves of this remedy!
In conclusion, let’s revisit Our Lady’s apparition of June 13, 1917 at Fatima to Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia. Sister Lucia wrote,
‘It
seems to me that on that day, that reflection of light had as a
principal goal to instill in us a knowledge and a special love towards
the Immaculate Heart of Mary; in the same way as the other two times, it
had that same goal, but with respect to God and to the mystery of the
Most Holy Trinity. Since that day, we felt in our hearts a more ardent
love for the Immaculate Heart of Mary’.
We must not lose heart now. Satan never
has the Church and never will; Although he deceives many, he will be
cast into hell with his false gods of islam and modernism, marxism and
protestantism by Our Lady of Victory, Our Lady of the Rosary, the
Immaculata.NOTE: As I prepared this post, readers have asked me about various prophecies available online, some even from protestants. And so, once again, we repeat our warning – please do not seek beyond what Our Lady herself has given us at Fatima and Akita. Akita was given only because the Vatican refused to obey the Blessed Virgin’s requests. It is a stern warning against disobeying Our Lady.
I must warn you strongly to avoid any prophecy after Fatima except Akita. In order to diminish and obscure the essential truth of Fatima, Lucifer has many times distracted people, and even fooled Popes and some holy persons with false apparitions. Our Lady gave us the complete truth that we need at Fatima. Akita simply reinforces the same message. There is no other. Readers write me to contest this and I refuse to “dialogue” about it. Fatima is complete. It is a great insult to Our Lady to keep looking for other “messages”, and it endangers many souls.
We are today living the Third Secret – we are living the Chastisement; at least, the spiritual portion. Many, many souls are being swept to damnation because they have not given their hearts, that is to say, surrendered their wills, to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady promises us she will help us to serve Our Lord and save our souls if we are faithful to her. This must be our goal. We must allow ourselves to be led by the Immaculata.
In this mortal combat with Satan, he tempts us with the restless urge to be always seeking new prophecies, more information. But take heart, each temptation gives us the opportunity to earn great graces to save souls: when tempted with curiosity for more information, resolve anew to trust in Our Lady to intercede for us and provide the necessary wisdom and graces to assist us in our needs.
As Sister Lucia said, it is all there in the Apocalypse. Soon, we will finish up our review of the relevant portions. Now is the time for us to make reparation as far as is possible, to help save souls from damnation. If the Lord God would have saved Sodom and Gomorrah for just a few good and faithful men, how much souls will be saved by our efforts? Isn’t that worthwhile?
And so, we pray our Rosaries and offer our sacrifices for the conversion of sinners, especially for our poor, misguided hierarchy. Please pray for the Pope who will perform the Consecration of Russia as requested by Our Lady.
† Queen of the most Holy Rosary, hasten the triumph of thy Immaculate Heart!
† Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy Kingdom come! Thy will be done!
† St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!
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