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Below is the full text of the
secrets of Fatima recently released by the Vatican, with the third secret
being at the bottom – or is it ??? What
is the secret? It seems to me that I can reveal it, since I already have
permission from Heaven to do so. God's representatives on earth have
authorized me to do this several times and in various letters, one of which,
I believe, is in your keeping. This letter is from Father José Bernardo
Gonçalves, and in it he advises me to write to the Holy Father, suggesting,
among other things, that I should reveal the secret. I did say something
about it. But in order not to make my letter too long, since I was told to
keep it short, I confined myself to the essentials, leaving it to God to
provide another more favourable opportunity. In
my second account I have already described in detail the doubt which
tormented me from 13 June until 13 July, and how it disappeared completely
during the Apparition on that day. Well,
the secret is made up of three distinct parts, two of which I am now going to
reveal. The first part is the vision of hell. Our
Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth.
Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent
burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the
conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within
themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every
side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid
shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us
tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and
repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and
transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful
enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising,
in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven. Otherwise, I think we would
have died of fear and terror. We
then looked up at Our Lady, who said to us so kindly and so sadly: "You
have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes
to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to
you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is
going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will
break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined
by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that
he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and
persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall
come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the
Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded,
Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread
her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions 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 will triumph.
The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and
a period of peace will be granted to the world".(7) The
third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on 13 July
1917. I
write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency
the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine. After
the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a
little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand;
flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world
on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady
radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his
right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance,
Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something
similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a
Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'.
Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at
the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree
with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big
city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain
and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having
reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he
was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in
the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and
women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions.
Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal
aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs
and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God. Tuy-3-1-1944". |
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