“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.”
During this month of May, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, we look at the apparitions at Fatima to bring a plan for peace to the world.
The year before Mary began to appear to the children, the angel of peace appeared to them. The angel said to the children, "Fear not, I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.” Kneeling on the ground, he bowed low and cited this prayer three times, with the children repeating it after him: "O my God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You." The angel showed us the importance of believing in God, adoring God to have hope in God and to love God.
The angel of peace also explained it was necessary to pray in order to have peace. The angel said, "Pray! Pray a great deal. The hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs concerning you. Offer prayers and sacrifices continually to the Most High. Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners. Bring peace to our country in this way...I am the Guardian Angel of Portugal. Accept and bear with submission all the sufferings the Lord will send you."
The angel as a messenger of God reveals that in order to have peace we need to make reparation for sins which have offended God and we are to love others by being concerned for their salvation. We show our love for others by making sacrifices for them and praying for their conversion.
The angel also said something very important about how to obtain peace. The angel said, “Accept and bear with submission all the sufferings the Lord will send you." This is an important point for all those who endure all sorts of sufferings and trials. If we are about to have surgery, or if we have just been diagnosed with an illness most of us would be afraid. Our hearts would be troubled because we worry about our life and our health. This is a normal emotion anyone would have. But if we accept and bear with submission all the sufferings that come our way, we will have peace in the midst of them. Our Lord said, “Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.”
The angel of peace taught the children of Fatima to adore God, to make reparation and to pray for the conversion of sinners. The angel came bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. The angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground, saying this beautiful prayer: "Most Holy Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - I adore you profoundly. I offer you the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences whereby He is offended. And through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of you the conversion of poor sinners."
We find peace when we come to Jesus, who is peace. The Holy Mass and Holy Communion is the most profound and most powerful way we come in contact with Jesus. The Mass gives us peace because we are present at Calvary. Also at Mass, we receive Jesus, who is peace, within our heart in Holy Communion During Holy Communion, Jesus wants us to pray with the heart.
To talk to Him about our needs, our concerns and to thank Him for His love and for coming to dwell within us.
So what are the indifferences and outrages against the Eucharist that the angel was speaking of?
These list of things are not happening in our parish, but happen in many parishes throughout the world. Some people are indifferent to Jesus when they receive Holy Communion and do not pray to Him when He comes inside their heart. When in church, some pay no attention to Jesus in the tabernacle. Some treat the Host, as though it was ordinary bread. Some people leave right after Communion and do not talk to Jesus, whom they have received. Others may only say rote prayers after Communion and do not talk to Him as a person, who has come to dwell within them.
However, Jesus wants us to pray with the heart. To talk to Him about our needs, our concerns and to thank Him for His love and for coming to dwell within us.
With regard to sacrilege, some receive Holy Communion when they should not, after they committed a mortal sin, such as to purposely miss Mass on Sunday without a serious reason or some other mortal sin such as premarital relations, impurity, contraception, pornography or adultery. We will not have peace when we receive Communion if we are in the state of mortal sin, and we commit a sacrilegious Communion and offend Jesus and receive no grace at all when doing so.
The sacrament of Confession is the font of mercy and gives us peace because through it, we are reconciled with God and with others. The forgiveness of sins brings peace to our hearts. Only when we are in the state of grace should we receive Holy Communion.
The angel of Fatima reminds us to adore Jesus in the Eucharist. Eucharistic Adoration brings peace to our hearts because by adoration we are in the presence of Jesus. If you do not already have one, I would like to encourage you to commit to praying a Holy Hour at least once a week. And you will become more of a peaceful person. And you will give that peace to those around you.
The blood dripping down from the Host into the chalice reminds us that the Eucharist is truly the body and blood of Jesus.
The Virgin Mary showed the children of vision of hell. She said, "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 children later said the vision of hell caused them to greatly increase their prayers for the conversion of sinners. It caused them to grow in love of neighbor by being concerned about their soul. No one can have peace, who at the same time is living a seriously sinful life.
The Virgin Mary asked the Rosary be prayed every day. The rosary brings peace to the soul, because through the rosary, we meditate on the mysteries of Jesus and His Mother. The rosary is powerful because we are asking Mary to pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Mary said, “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 granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing 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 will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me and she shall be converted, and a period of peace shall be granted to the world."
On March 25th, 1984, Pope St. John Paul II in union with all the bishops of the world consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, but didn’t explicitly mention Russia. However, he said it was in his mind when he said it. This would cause the fall of communism the dissolution of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, Dec. 25th 1991. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this year on March 25th, Pope Francis in union with all the bishops of the world specifically consecrated Russia and the Ukraine and world and the Church to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We pray this will bring about an era of peace soon.
There are several men who met St. Padre Pio when they were in the US army. Padre Pio told the future Fr. John Dugan, “the Russian people will be converted. Their total conversion will happen very fast. The conversion of the US will be slow but sure.” When Corporal Leo Fanning was an American solider as well, he was also by Padre Pio, “Your name is not just Leo. Someday it will be Fr. Leo.” He would later be ordained in 1954. Padre Pio told Leo Fanning, “Yes, Russia will be converted. However, Russia will teach the United States a lesson in conversion.” We pray St. Padre Pio’s prophecy will be fulfilled. It certainly gives hope for our country.
Pope St. Paul VI asked every person be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady wants us to consecrate ourselves and our families to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Bishop Kemme in union with each parish consecrated the diocese of Wichita to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. When we consecrate our self and our family to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we trust She will obtain peace for us. She is the Queen of Peace and She asks Jesus, Her Son, to give us His peace.
Before St. Jacinta died she spoke about various things and had deep insight into things of the future. She once said, “Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her." St. Jacinta and also the angel that appeared to the children said that the Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to our prayers, so we should ask favors from them.
Our Lady also asked for Communions of Reparation for sins committed Her Immaculate Heart on the First Saturdays of the month. One should go to Confession, receive Holy Communion in reparation for sins against Her Immaculate Heart, pray the Rosary and also meditate for 15 minutes on any of the mysteries of the Rosary. Mary said, “I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for the salvation of their soul.”
To sum up, we need to pray with the heart regularly and daily pray the Rosary. Adore God at Mass by coming to Mass often and to make our Holy Communion time fruitful. We can spend an hour with Jesus in Adoration weekly. Accept and bear with submission all sufferings that come our way. To go to confession monthly. To be concerned for the salvation of others by making reparation and praying for their conversion. To consecrate our self and our family to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to make reparation on the First Saturdays.
If we have Jesus and Mary, we will not be troubled or afraid and we will trust the words of Jesus who said, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.” Our Lady of Fatima, Queen of Peace, pray for us!
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