It was recently announced that “the diocesan phase of the canonization process
for Sister Lucia, one of the three seers who saw and conversed with Our Lady of
the Rosary at Fatima, came to an official close on February 13.” This announcement
marked a major step for Sister Lucia’s canonization process, which began almost
10 years ago.
Rosary
“When lovers are together, they spend hours
and hours repeating the same thing: ‘I love you!’ What is missing in the
people who think the rosary monotonous is Love; and everything that is not done
for love is worthless.”
“The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in
which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such
an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether
temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our
families… that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you,
no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy
Rosary.”
“Since we all need to pray, God asks of us,
as a kind of daily installment, a prayer which is within our reach: the Rosary,
which can be recited either in common or in private, either in church in the
presence of the Blessed Sacrament or at home, either with the rest of the
family or alone, either when traveling or while walking quietly in the fields.
A mother of a family can say the Rosary while she rocks her baby’s cradle or
does the housework. Our day has 24 hours in it. It is not asking a great
deal to set aside a quarter of an hour for the spiritual life, for our intimate
and familiar converse with God.”
Daily Sacrifices
“Putting up with any sacrifices that are asked of us
in our day-to-day lives becomes a slow martyrdom which purifies us and raises
us up to the level of the supernatural, through the encounter of our soul with
God, in the atmosphere of the presence of the Most Holy Trinity within us. We
have here an incomparable spiritual richness!”
Message of Fatima
“Hell is a reality.
It is a supernatural fire and not physical. It cannot be compared to fire that
burns wood or charcoal… Continue preaching about hell because Our Lord himself
spoke about hell, and it is in Sacred Scripture. God does not condemn anyone to
hell. God gave men the liberty to choose, and God respects this human liberty.”
“Let us all willingly
endeavor to follow faithfully the path that He has mapped out for us. Yes,
because it was out of love that God sent us this pressing call from his mercy,
in order to help us along the way of our salvation.”
The End-Times
“The final battle
between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about marriage and the
family. Do not be afraid, because anyone who works for the sanctity of marriage
and the family will always be fought and opposed in every way, because this is
the decisive issue. However, Our Lady has already crushed his head.”