The Blessed Mother appeared in Fatima not to scare us but to inspire us to turn away from sins, to be converted and be holy so that the world may truly find peace in Jesus her Son. If we take the Fatima apparitions as a whole, we find in it more of messages of hope and joy for us in the world. So that the world may truly find peace in Jesus her Son. The Blessed Mother appeared in Fatima not to scare usД«ut to inspire us to turn away from sins, Lucia who said before her death in 2005 that all Fatima Secrets have been fully revealed.ДЇrom the Parish of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, 2020. One problem with the common perception of many people even up to now with the last apparition of Fatima is to equate it with the end of the world, of worldwide catastrophe that have instilled more of fear and even controversies that included doubts of the Vatican allegedly not fully revealing the Third Secret despite assurances from the visionary herself, Sr. Lucia continued to received private visions while in the convent as a nun in 1925 through the 1930вЂ™s. In the light of our readings today in relation with our being under the patronage Our Lady of Fatima as a University and a Medical Center, let me share with you two things for reflections.ДЇirst is to see the last apparition of Octonot as the final one but the beginning of the unfolding of more revelations and realizations for us. Lucia revealed how during that last apparition to them (her two cousins have died in 19 during the flu pandemic), the Blessed Virgin Mary looked very sad and never smiled to indicate the gravity and seriousness of her messages to them.ДЄmid the many interpretations of the events of October 13, 1917, Fatima has remained so popular and very significant to this day because of its truth and relevance to our own situation and experiences from the not-so-distant-past.

In 1957 during her last interview while already a cloistered Carmelite nun, Sr.

They must not offend our Lord any more, for He is already too much offended!вЂќ From en.ДЄnd even though the Fatima feast is officially celebrated every May 13, many churches and devotees around the world have continued to celebrate the October 13 apparition not only due to the dancing Sun miracle but most of all because it was on this date when the Blessed Mother introduced herself as the Lady of the Rosary, telling the children how World War I would soon end, and that was when the Virgin Mother said вЂњPeople must amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. Page fromВ IlustraГ§ГЈo Portuguesa,В 29 October 1917, showing the people looking at the Sun during the FГЎtima apparitions attributed to the Virgin Mary.

Fatima the radiant one