Dear Reader,
So yesterday, the Holy Father Consecrated the world to the BVM.
October the 13th was an importnat day for the appritions in Fátima
Below is partly from the EWTN Website.
Enjoy.
oh, I was on vacation for my last few months. I am going to try and do something every chance I get, but every Sunday should be something here. This I promise. I have not forgotten the promises I made about certain documents... they will be coming.
"What do you want of me?"
Immaculate Heart of Mary... Pray for Us.
Our Lady of the Rosary... Pray for Us.
Our Lady of Fátima ... Pray for Us.
and while I mention it... Russia... Some incredible things have been happening there in recent years... one wonders if the conversion is finally coming about!?!?!?!
Let us In that case Let us Pray for the People and Nation of Russia.
So yesterday, the Holy Father Consecrated the world to the BVM.
October the 13th was an importnat day for the appritions in Fátima
Below is partly from the EWTN Website.
Enjoy.
oh, I was on vacation for my last few months. I am going to try and do something every chance I get, but every Sunday should be something here. This I promise. I have not forgotten the promises I made about certain documents... they will be coming.
The Apparition of 13 October 1917
During the night of 12-13 October it had rained throughout, soaking the
ground and the pilgrims who make their way to Fátima from all directions by the
thousands. By foot, by cart and even by car they came, entering the bowl of the
Cova from the Fátima-Leiria road, which today still passes in front of the
large square of the Basilica. From there they made their way down the gently
slope to the place where a trestle had been erected over the little holm oak of
the apparitions. Today on the site is the modern glass and steel Capelhina
(little chapel), enclosing the first chapel built there and the statue of Our
Lady of the Rosary of Fátima where the holm oak had stood.
As for the children, they made their way to the Cova amid the adulation
and skepticism which had followed them since May. When they arrived they found
critics who questioned their veracity and the punctuality of the Lady, who had
promised to arrive at noon. It was well passed noon by the official time of the
country. However, when the sun arrived at its zenith the Lady appeared as she
had said she would.
"What do you want of me?"
I want a chapel built here in my honor. I want you to continue saying
the Rosary every day. The war will end soon, and the soldiers will return to
their homes.
"Yes. Yes."
"Will you tell me your name?"
I am the Lady of the Rosary.
"I have many petitions from many people. Will you grant them?
"
Some I shall grant, and others I must deny. People must amend their
lives and ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend our Lord any more,
for He is already too much offended!
"And is that all you have to ask?"
There is nothing more.
As the Lady of the Rosary rises toward the east she turns the palms of
her hands toward the dark sky. While the rain had stopped, dark clouds
continued to obscure the sun, which suddenly bursts through them and is seen to
be a soft spinning disk of silver.
"Look at the sun!"
From this point two distinct apparitions were seen, that of the
phenomenon of the sun seen by the 70,000 or so spectators and that beheld by
the children alone. Lucia describes the latter in her memoirs.
After our Lady had disappeared into the immense distance of the
firmament, we beheld St. Joseph with the Child Jesus and Our Lady robed in
white with a blue mantle, beside the sun. St. Joseph and the Child Jesus seemed
to bless the world, for they traced the Sign of the Cross with their hands.
When, a little later, this apparition disappeared, I saw Our Lord and Our lady;
it seemed to me to that it was Our Lady of Sorrows (Dolors). Our Lord appeared
to bless the world in the same manner as St. Joseph had done. This apparition
also vanished, and I saw Our Lady once more, this time resembling Our Lady
of Carmel. [Only Lucia would see the later, presaging her entrance into Carmel
some years later.]
This would be the last of the apparitions of Fátima for Jacinta and
Francisco. However, for Lucia Our Lady would return a seventh time, in 1920, as
she had promised the previous May. At that time Lucia would be praying in the
Cova before leaving Fátima for a girls boarding school. The Lady would come to
urge her to dedicate herself wholly to God.
As the children viewed the various apparitions of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
the crowd witnessed a different prodigy, the now famous miracle of the sun.
Among the witnesses there were the following:
O Seculo (a pro-government, anti-clerical,
Lisbon paper):
From the road, where the vehicles were parked and where hundreds of
people who had not dared to brave the mud were congregated, one could see the
immense multitude turn toward the sun, which appeared free from clouds and in
its zenith. It looked like a plaque of dull silver, and it was possible to look
at it without the least discomfort. It might have been an eclipse which was
taking place. But at that moment a great shout went up, and one could hear the
spectators nearest at hand shouting: "A miracle! A miracle!
Before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose aspect was biblical as
they stood bareheaded, eagerly searching the sky, the sun trembled, made sudden
incredible movements outside all cosmic laws---the sun "danced"
according to the typical expression of the people.
Standing at the step of an omnibus was an old man. With his face turned
to the sun, he recited the Credo in a loud voice. I asked who he was and was
told Senhor Joao da Cunha Vasconcelos. I saw him afterwards going up to those
around him who still had their hats on, and vehemently imploring them to
uncover before such an extraordinary demonstration of the existence of God.
Identical scenes were repeated elsewhere, and in one place a woman cried
out: "How terrible! There are even men who do not uncover before such a
stupendous miracle!"
People then began to ask each other what they had seen. The great
majority admitted to having seen the trembling and the dancing of the sun;
others affirmed that they saw the face of the Blessed Virgin; others, again,
swore that the sun whirled on itself like a giant Catherine wheel and that it
lowered itself to the earth as if to burn it in its rays. Some said they saw it
change colors successively....
O Dia (another Lisbon daily, edition of 17
October 1917):
"At one o'clock in the afternoon, midday by the sun, the rain
stopped. The sky, pearly grey in colour, illuminated the vast arid landscape
with a strange light. The sun had a transparent gauzy veil so that the eyes
could easily be fixed upon it. The grey mother-of-pearl tone turned into a
sheet of silver which broke up as the clouds were torn apart and the silver
sun, enveloped in the same gauzy grey light, was seen to whirl and turn in the
circle of broken clouds. A cry went up from every mouth and people fell on
their knees on the muddy ground....
The light turned a beautiful blue, as if it had come through the
stained-glass windows of a cathedral, and spread itself over the people who
knelt with outstretched hands. The blue faded slowly, and then the light seemed
to pass through yellow glass. Yellow stains fell against white handkerchiefs,
against the dark skirts of the women. They were repeated on the trees, on the
stones and on the serra. People wept and prayed with uncovered heads, in the
presence of a miracle they had awaited. The seconds seemed like hours, so vivid
were they.
Immaculate Heart of Mary... Pray for Us.
Our Lady of the Rosary... Pray for Us.
Our Lady of Fátima ... Pray for Us.
and while I mention it... Russia... Some incredible things have been happening there in recent years... one wonders if the conversion is finally coming about!?!?!?!
Let us In that case Let us Pray for the People and Nation of Russia.
Vale Amicus, Till Next time...!
