We all might have heard of the secrets of Fatima. There are three of these so-called secrets which were parts of the message Mary revealed to the shepherd children that were not immediately made public. This is especially true with the third secret of Fatima, which Lucia only revealed when directly ordered to do so by her bishop in an act of holy obedience. The three secrets of Fatima are:
1. A vision of the souls in Hell.
2. Prediction of the end of WWI and a prediction of the beginning of WWII as well as a request to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
3. A vision of the Pope, along with other bishops, priests, religious and laypeople, being killed by soldiers.
Pope Benedict XVI, responded to these theories by saying.
“The purpose of the vision is not to show a film of an irrevocably fixed future. Its meaning is exactly the opposite: it is meant to mobilize the forces of change in the right direction. Therefore we must totally discount fatalistic explanations of the “secret”, such as, for example, the claim that the would-be assassin of 13 May 1981 was merely an instrument of the divine plan guided by Providence and could not, therefore, have acted freely, or other similar ideas in circulation. Rather, the vision speaks of dangers and how we might be saved from them.”
As we are celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Fatima today, let’s pray for the world especially Ukraine to be blessed with peace.