MARY, OUR MOTHER

DO YOU KNOW?

The requests of Our Lady of Fatima to bring peace to the world?
Do you know that when a sufficient number of people fulfill Our Lady's requests, "Russia will be converted and a period of peace will be granted to the world"?
Are you doing what Our Lady of Fatima asked you to do while there is still time?

• Are you offering up your daily tasks as a sacrifice in reparation?
• Are you praying the Rosary every day?
• Are you wearing the Brown Scapular as a sign of personal consecration and making acts of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary?
• Are you making further reparation: First Saturday requests and visits to the Blessed Sacrament?

MORNING OFFERING

O my God, in union with the Immaculate Heart of Mary (here kiss your Brown Scapular as a sign of your consecration, with partial indulgence also), I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Jesus from all the altars throughout the world, joining with It the offering of my every thought, word and action of this day.

O my Jesus, I desire today to gain every indulgence and merit I can and I offer them, together with myself, to Mary Immaculate, that she may best apply them to the interests of Thy most Sacred Heart. Precious Blood of Jesus, save us! Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us! Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!

REMEMBER

Our Lady of Fatima said:

These quotations are in the exact order in which Our Lady of Fatima spoke them

beginning with the first apparition on May 13, 1917:

1. OFFERING: "Will you offer yourselves to God, and bear with submission all the sufferings He sends you, in reparation for the sins that offend Him, and for the conversion of sinners?"
2. BLESSED SACRAMENT: Our Lady opened Her hands and flooded the children with light. They fell to their knees, repeating: "Oh Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament!"
3. HEAVEN: "I come down from Heaven." Our Lady promised that the children to whom She appeared will go to Heaven, but one of them would have to pray many Rosaries "first."
4. PURGATORY: "She is in purgatory . . ." (In reference to a friend who had recently died -- Amelia.)
5. ROSARY: "Pray the Rosary every day, to obtain peace for the world. (In July:) Add after each decade the following prayer: 'O my Jesus, forgive us our sins; save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy."
6. IMMACULATE HEART: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."
7. SACRIFICES: "Make sacrifices for sinners, and say often, especially while making a sacrifice: 'Oh Jesus, this is for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for offences committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.' "
8. HELL: "You have seen hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. It is to save them that God wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If you do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace." Before Our Lady spoke these words, She opened Her hands, as Lucia says in her memoirs, and "we saw a sea of fire. Plunged in this flame were devils and souls that looked like transparent embers; others were black or bronze, and in human form; these were suspended in flames . . ."
9. FIVE WARNINGS: "If my requests are not heard, Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various entire nations will be annihilated."
10. PEACE: "If my requests are fulfilled, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; . . . In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph . . . an era of peace will be granted to mankind."
11. PRAYER: "Pray, pray a great deal, and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them."
12. AMENDMENT OF LIFE: "I have come to ask the faithful to amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. They must cease offending God, Who is already too much offended!"
13. ST. JOSEPH: The only saint who appears at Fatima besides Our Lady. St. Joseph held the Child Jesus in his arms and blessed the 70,000 people three times.
14. SCAPULAR: In the final vision, on October 13, 1917, Our Lady silently held out the Scapular. Lucia has said the Blessed Mother wants everyone to wear it: "The Scapular and the Rosary are inseparable."
15. FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION: "I promise to assist at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, whoever, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite 5 decades of the Rosary and keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the Mysteries, with the intention of making reparation to my Immaculate Heart."
16. WAR: "War is a punishment for sin."
17. FASHIONS: "Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord very much."
18. MARRIAGES: "Many marriages are not good, they do not please Our Lord and are not of God."
19. PRIESTS: "Priests must be pure, very pure. They should not busy themselves with anything except what concerns the Church and souls. The disobedience of priests to their superiors and to the Holy Father is very displeasing to Our Lord."
20. SIXTH COMMANDMENT: "More souls go to hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason."

(From "Two Hearts of Wit & Wisdom.")