1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:07,040 Prayer of the heart Monday of the seventh week of Easter. Come Holy Spirit 2 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:13,679 and help me to put in your presence everything that worries me, everything that 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:18,800 troubles me, everything that disturbs the gazebo. You know what my deepest concerns 4 00:00:18,879 --> 00:00:24,920 are, but today I want to tell you, because it' s better 5 00:00:25,679 --> 00:00:28,960 to share them with you than to pretend to face them with my few human 6 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:33,439 forces. Listen to me, sir, because I cry to you with all 7 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:37,880 my soul to you, I raise my arms and I beg you to help 8 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:43,799 me. Today we celebrate the Blessed Virgin of Fatima. The Gospel is from 9 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:48,039 St John. Chapter sixteen verses, twenty- nine to thirty- three. 10 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,000 At that time, the police told Jesus. Now you' re clear and 11 00:00:54,039 --> 00:00:57,799 you don' t use comparisons. Now we have to know everything and you 12 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,719 don' t need to be asked why we believe it has come out of 13 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:07,159 God. Jesus answered them. Now you believe, for look is to come 14 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,120 the better hour and I have come that you will disperse each other by his 15 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,519 side and leave me alone, but I am not alone, because the Father 16 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,719 is with me. I told you about this so that you will find peace 17 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:22,719 in me in the world. You will have fights, but you have courage. 18 00:01:23,439 --> 00:01:29,400 I have overcome the world as many times as I have been able to 19 00:01:29,519 --> 00:01:34,560 be at the Shrine of Fatima. I have seen the various ways, how 20 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,319 devotion to our Holy Mother Mary is always a way to go to Christ. 21 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,519 As I wrote to St Louis Maria, Griñón de Vanfort, This devotion is 22 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:47,560 an easy, short, perfect and safe way to reach the Union with God, 23 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,760 in which Christian perfection consists, although we know the facts of some summary. 24 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,719 On May 13, seventeen thousand, three cousins named Lucia, Jacinta and 25 00:01:57,959 --> 00:02:01,079 Francisco, were in the countryside caring for the sheep in the area of Coba 26 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:06,040 Iria, Portugal. In the middle of the morning it started to rain. 27 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,199 The children had to find a shelter so they wouldn' t get wet. 28 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:13,680 Following the beehouse, they began to look for a place to shelter themselves. 29 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,599 Suddenly they began to see a white light hiding between the trees. They approached 30 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,199 and discovered that there was a woman dressed in white with a rosary in her 31 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:27,759 brothers. It was the Virgin Mary. The lady asked the children something. 32 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,280 He ordered them to return there. On the thirteenth day of each month, 33 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:38,919 the three were amazed and quickly returned to the village to tell what had happened. 34 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:44,039 The children fulfilled Mary’ s promise to them. You came to Mary. 35 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,599 In fact, they announced more appearances to their neighbors. They were all 36 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,439 the same day, on the thirteenth day and in the following months. After 37 00:02:53,479 --> 00:02:55,400 the second apparition, in June, the young people told that the virgins had 38 00:02:55,439 --> 00:03:00,280 been announced that two of them, Jacinta and Francis, were grinding for Jesus. 39 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:05,439 It happened in December of the year nineteen hundred and eighteen because of an 40 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:12,000 epidemic, the Spanish flu epidemic. Francis and Jacinta fell ill more. Later, 41 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,199 in April, Francis died. On the contrary, Jacinta improved the flu 42 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:21,400 for her health. He resented again because of another disease, fulfilling what Our 43 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,960 Lady had foretold, and died on February 20, nineteen hundred and twenty. 44 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,639 In all her apparitions, Our Lady made a special paragraph on the prayer of 45 00:03:30,719 --> 00:03:36,919 the rosary and dismissed the children who, when they prayed it after every mystery, 46 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:43,840 would say oh Jesus forgive us for our sins drones of fire hell and 47 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:50,039 bring to heaven all weapons, especially those most in need of your divine Mercy. 48 00:03:50,479 --> 00:03:54,400 Our Lady' s last apparition took place on the 13th of October in 49 00:03:54,439 --> 00:03:58,719 a thousand nine hundred and seventeen. On that day came the so- called 50 00:03:58,759 --> 00:04:02,280 Sun Mirador. According to several witness statements, After a rain, the ground 51 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:06,840 shed a different light than the usual one. Some of the people who were 52 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:12,840 present came to think it was the end of the world. In addition, 53 00:04:13,159 --> 00:04:15,959 some witnesses reported that the soil and clothes that were wet by the rain had 54 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,480 instantly dried up viciously, a fact witnessed by thousands of people brought by the 55 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:26,680 children, decided to go to that place to prove that what the young people 56 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:32,360 were telling was true. One of those present, John of Matchi, wrote 57 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:38,040 that moment, before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose appearance was almost 58 00:04:38,079 --> 00:04:43,439 biblical. Waiting and anxiously looking up at the sky, the sun trembled, 59 00:04:44,319 --> 00:04:48,120 made unexpected and incredible movements outside of all cosmic laws. The sun danced according 60 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:55,240 to a typical expression of people. The rest you know and how the devotion 61 00:04:55,279 --> 00:05:00,759 of the Virgin of Fatima has become worldwide known. We, who want to 62 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,120 be good children of Our Lady, corresponding to her mother' s care, 63 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:09,959 try to love her with a toological and effective affection, not only with a 64 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,639 sentimental and empty affection written, with a theological affection, that is, imitating 65 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,519 the affection and predilection that the most holy vitrity has for Our Lady. On 66 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:23,920 one occasion, a holy priest told a group of young people around him, 67 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,600 my children, that every time we pray the bird Mary, we tell Our 68 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,040 Lady the Lord is with you, that is, we declare that God is 69 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:38,600 present in her in a very special way real. Indeed, in the catechism 70 00:05:38,639 --> 00:05:42,759 of the Catholic Isia. In number seven hundred and twenty- one. Hem 71 00:05:44,199 --> 00:05:50,040 reads something that' s really amazing. Mary, the Blessed Virgin, mother 72 00:05:50,079 --> 00:05:55,519 of God, the ever virgin, is the masterpiece of the mission of the 73 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,279 Son and the Holy Spirit in the fullness of time, for the first time 74 00:05:59,439 --> 00:06:02,759 in the sign of salvation and because her spirit has prepared her. The father 75 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:09,439 finds the dwelling where his son and the spirit can dwell among men. The 76 00:06:09,519 --> 00:06:13,759 first part is clear. Mary is God' s masterpiece that the Holy Spirit 77 00:06:13,759 --> 00:06:18,279 has prepared. The second part of an explanation of this could be a delicious 78 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:24,439 explanation for us to understand in a simple way. He tells us the text 79 00:06:24,519 --> 00:06:30,240 that meets the Blessed Virgin and her father tells her the Holy Spirit. Forgive 80 00:06:30,439 --> 00:06:35,319 me, the most holy Trinity and God, Father, tells the Holy Spirit 81 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:40,680 to prepare for him to become a mother of Jesus, the Holy Spirit fulfills 82 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:46,199 the task and when they present the Father to the Virgin, this one says 83 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:48,800 you have really prepared a worthy dwelling for God, son. It' s 84 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:55,360 a masterpiece we' ll love above all men. When we honor Our Lady, 85 00:06:55,759 --> 00:06:59,680 we do so because before she has honored the Most Holy Trinity. And, 86 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,240 on the other hand, we always fall short and all we do for 87 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,639 her is little. Never will what we do with Our Lady be an exaggeration, 88 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:13,639 because God did more. We also have another reason to honor her, 89 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,120 and that is that she is our mother and also, a good mother who 90 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:23,480 is always waiting as a good mother of her children, imploring for us what 91 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:30,800 is best for us and always listening to our ex- demands and is coming 92 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:32,759 forward to them how good a Christian does not have to thank the Virgin so 93 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:35,720 many favors. But we also stop the Virgin an effective affection, that is, 94 00:07:35,839 --> 00:07:41,800 with facts, because a love has no details, it has no details, 95 00:07:41,839 --> 00:07:44,959 it has no hobbies, it is not noticed, it is not love. 96 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,959 We really want Our Lady when we come to her, as when we 97 00:07:49,959 --> 00:07:55,720 treat her, but especially when we follow her in her counsel do what Our 98 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,560 Most Holy Mother says. He appeared in fatima to convey a message, to 99 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,720 make us a commission in all the apparitions from May to October he always asked 100 00:08:05,759 --> 00:08:09,720 us the same thing, to pray and, more specifically, to pray the 101 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:15,000 Rosary every day. She herself presented herself as the Virgin of the Rosary. 102 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,680 But Our Lady also asked us something more difficult, that we no longer offend 103 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:24,519 God, our lord who is already very offended, and that we make penance 104 00:08:26,079 --> 00:08:30,399 sacrifices to bring relief and comfort to Jesus and that so many souls should not 105 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:33,279 be lost. Therefore we must put the means to be better, to hate 106 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:39,080 sin. And when, out of weakness or malice, we fall to look 107 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:52,000 at the Virgin and her merciful eyes and immediately approach the sacrament of concession, 108 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:58,039 to repent of our guilt if we need it, and thus to tell Marie, 109 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,360 Mary and Jesus and thus to give forgiveness to the Virgin of Jesus a 110 00:09:01,399 --> 00:09:07,000 consolation with our lives. We can' t let this party break out, 111 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,960 but make a specific purpose of bar more and improve the virgin. And for 112 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,279 that the best way is to pray the rosary. Nor will we be able 113 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,480 to stop the very sweet heart of Mary from being consular to see the folly 114 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:28,519 of her children, being generous to us with our sacrifices, so that we 115 00:09:28,639 --> 00:09:31,799 can hear as the visionaries of Fatima at the apparition of September. God is 116 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:39,440 content with your sacrifices. I give you the credit, God, almighty Bless 117 00:09:41,879 --> 00:09:46,879 you on this day when you ascended to heaven and opened the entrance of glory 118 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,519 to you to come near him, Christ, who disappeared to his disciples. 119 00:09:52,120 --> 00:10:00,960 After the resurrection, it also manifests itself to you. Full of misericals when 120 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:05,679 he comes to the final judgment and when he proclaims orious with his father, 121 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,799 he grants you the joy of experiencing that he remains with us until the end 122 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:13,600 of the world' s mute, as he has promised, and the blessing 123 00:10:13,759 --> 00:10:20,600 of God, almighty father, son, and holy spirit, descend upon you 124 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:20,600 and always prevail Amen.