Prayer of the heart Monday of the seventh week of Easter. Come Holy Spirit
and help me to put in your presence everything that worries me, everything that
troubles me, everything that disturbs the gazebo. You know what my deepest concerns
are, but today I want to tell you, because it' s better
to share them with you than to pretend to face them with my few human
forces. Listen to me, sir, because I cry to you with all
my soul to you, I raise my arms and I beg you to help
me. Today we celebrate the Blessed Virgin of Fatima. The Gospel is from
St John. Chapter sixteen verses, twenty- nine to thirty- three.
At that time, the police told Jesus. Now you' re clear and
you don' t use comparisons. Now we have to know everything and you
don' t need to be asked why we believe it has come out of
God. Jesus answered them. Now you believe, for look is to come
the better hour and I have come that you will disperse each other by his
side and leave me alone, but I am not alone, because the Father
is with me. I told you about this so that you will find peace
in me in the world. You will have fights, but you have courage.
I have overcome the world as many times as I have been able to
be at the Shrine of Fatima. I have seen the various ways, how
devotion to our Holy Mother Mary is always a way to go to Christ.
As I wrote to St Louis Maria, Griñón de Vanfort, This devotion is
an easy, short, perfect and safe way to reach the Union with God,
in which Christian perfection consists, although we know the facts of some summary.
On May 13, seventeen thousand, three cousins named Lucia, Jacinta and
Francisco, were in the countryside caring for the sheep in the area of Coba
Iria, Portugal. In the middle of the morning it started to rain.
The children had to find a shelter so they wouldn' t get wet.
Following the beehouse, they began to look for a place to shelter themselves.
Suddenly they began to see a white light hiding between the trees. They approached
and discovered that there was a woman dressed in white with a rosary in her
brothers. It was the Virgin Mary. The lady asked the children something.
He ordered them to return there. On the thirteenth day of each month,
the three were amazed and quickly returned to the village to tell what had happened.
The children fulfilled Mary’ s promise to them. You came to Mary.
In fact, they announced more appearances to their neighbors. They were all
the same day, on the thirteenth day and in the following months. After
the second apparition, in June, the young people told that the virgins had
been announced that two of them, Jacinta and Francis, were grinding for Jesus.
It happened in December of the year nineteen hundred and eighteen because of an
epidemic, the Spanish flu epidemic. Francis and Jacinta fell ill more. Later,
in April, Francis died. On the contrary, Jacinta improved the flu
for her health. He resented again because of another disease, fulfilling what Our
Lady had foretold, and died on February 20, nineteen hundred and twenty.
In all her apparitions, Our Lady made a special paragraph on the prayer of
the rosary and dismissed the children who, when they prayed it after every mystery,
would say oh Jesus forgive us for our sins drones of fire hell and
bring to heaven all weapons, especially those most in need of your divine Mercy.
Our Lady' s last apparition took place on the 13th of October in
a thousand nine hundred and seventeen. On that day came the so- called
Sun Mirador. According to several witness statements, After a rain, the ground
shed a different light than the usual one. Some of the people who were
present came to think it was the end of the world. In addition,
some witnesses reported that the soil and clothes that were wet by the rain had
instantly dried up viciously, a fact witnessed by thousands of people brought by the
children, decided to go to that place to prove that what the young people
were telling was true. One of those present, John of Matchi, wrote
that moment, before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose appearance was almost
biblical. Waiting and anxiously looking up at the sky, the sun trembled,
made unexpected and incredible movements outside of all cosmic laws. The sun danced according
to a typical expression of people. The rest you know and how the devotion
of the Virgin of Fatima has become worldwide known. We, who want to
be good children of Our Lady, corresponding to her mother' s care,
try to love her with a toological and effective affection, not only with a
sentimental and empty affection written, with a theological affection, that is, imitating
the affection and predilection that the most holy vitrity has for Our Lady. On
one occasion, a holy priest told a group of young people around him,
my children, that every time we pray the bird Mary, we tell Our
Lady the Lord is with you, that is, we declare that God is
present in her in a very special way real. Indeed, in the catechism
of the Catholic Isia. In number seven hundred and twenty- one. Hem
reads something that' s really amazing. Mary, the Blessed Virgin, mother
of God, the ever virgin, is the masterpiece of the mission of the
Son and the Holy Spirit in the fullness of time, for the first time
in the sign of salvation and because her spirit has prepared her. The father
finds the dwelling where his son and the spirit can dwell among men. The
first part is clear. Mary is God' s masterpiece that the Holy Spirit
has prepared. The second part of an explanation of this could be a delicious
explanation for us to understand in a simple way. He tells us the text
that meets the Blessed Virgin and her father tells her the Holy Spirit. Forgive
me, the most holy Trinity and God, Father, tells the Holy Spirit
to prepare for him to become a mother of Jesus, the Holy Spirit fulfills
the task and when they present the Father to the Virgin, this one says
you have really prepared a worthy dwelling for God, son. It' s
a masterpiece we' ll love above all men. When we honor Our Lady,
we do so because before she has honored the Most Holy Trinity. And,
on the other hand, we always fall short and all we do for
her is little. Never will what we do with Our Lady be an exaggeration,
because God did more. We also have another reason to honor her,
and that is that she is our mother and also, a good mother who
is always waiting as a good mother of her children, imploring for us what
is best for us and always listening to our ex- demands and is coming
forward to them how good a Christian does not have to thank the Virgin so
many favors. But we also stop the Virgin an effective affection, that is,
with facts, because a love has no details, it has no details,
it has no hobbies, it is not noticed, it is not love.
We really want Our Lady when we come to her, as when we
treat her, but especially when we follow her in her counsel do what Our
Most Holy Mother says. He appeared in fatima to convey a message, to
make us a commission in all the apparitions from May to October he always asked
us the same thing, to pray and, more specifically, to pray the
Rosary every day. She herself presented herself as the Virgin of the Rosary.
But Our Lady also asked us something more difficult, that we no longer offend
God, our lord who is already very offended, and that we make penance
sacrifices to bring relief and comfort to Jesus and that so many souls should not
be lost. Therefore we must put the means to be better, to hate
sin. And when, out of weakness or malice, we fall to look
at the Virgin and her merciful eyes and immediately approach the sacrament of concession,
to repent of our guilt if we need it, and thus to tell Marie,
Mary and Jesus and thus to give forgiveness to the Virgin of Jesus a
consolation with our lives. We can' t let this party break out,
but make a specific purpose of bar more and improve the virgin. And for
that the best way is to pray the rosary. Nor will we be able
to stop the very sweet heart of Mary from being consular to see the folly
of her children, being generous to us with our sacrifices, so that we
can hear as the visionaries of Fatima at the apparition of September. God is
content with your sacrifices. I give you the credit, God, almighty Bless
you on this day when you ascended to heaven and opened the entrance of glory
to you to come near him, Christ, who disappeared to his disciples.
After the resurrection, it also manifests itself to you. Full of misericals when
he comes to the final judgment and when he proclaims orious with his father,
he grants you the joy of experiencing that he remains with us until the end
of the world' s mute, as he has promised, and the blessing
of God, almighty father, son, and holy spirit, descend upon you
and always prevail Amen.