Friday, October 29, 2004
FATIMA
The message:
I shall come to ask consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my request is heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If not, Russia shall spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecution of the Church; the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated; in the end my Immaculate Heart shall triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me which will be converted, and some time of peace will be given to the world."
The consecration:
March 25, 1984: Pope John Paul II, "united with all the pastors of the Church in a particular bond whereby we constitute a body and a college," consecrates "the whole world, especially the peoples for which by reason of their situation you have particular love and solicitude." Both the Pope and Sr. Lucia initially seemed uncertain that the consecration has been fulfilled, but shortly thereafter Sr. Lucia tells the papal nuncio to Portugal that the Consecration is fulfilled.
The consecration has been done and we are now in the promised "time of peace."
Justice-and-Peace Groups Have 1st World Congress
Vatican Overseeing Event for Ecclesial Organizations
Cardinal Angelo Sodano was speaking Wednesday at the opening of the 1st World Congress of Ecclesial Organizations Working for Justice and Peace, attended by some 300 officials of the organizations, representing 92 countries. They will reflect on the topic "Proclaiming the Gospel of Justice and Peace."...
In describing the context of this proclamation, Cardinal Sodano recalled Pope Paul VI's words in the encyclical "Populorum Progressio": "Human society is sorely ill."
"Since then, the illness seems to have worsened; injustice and violence have multiplied," the cardinal said.
He referred to "those places where humiliation has become a system of life." He also cited "areas where war, guerrillas and terrorism expand," as do "refugee camps," "the exiled" and "racial and religious discrimination."
The cardinal further mentioned "places of work where the impression is of being used as means," places where there is a "lack of political and trade-union freedom," and "so many situations in which there is no justice and peace."
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
