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Lady of Fatima
The story is that Mary appeared to 3 shepherd children in Portugal in 1917. She told them that God was disappointed in humankind (WWI was raging) & that he would send more wars to punish us for our sins. The wars would be caused by atheistic Russia &, to stop this, Catholics should pray, esp the rosary, & work to convert Russia . This really resonated when I first heard it as a school kid during the Cold War -- we were having regular nuclear war drills at the time. Of course the lady kind of missed Germany & we never did end up fighting directly against Russia, but she certainly had the right idea about more wars coming. For the last visitation (there were 4 or 5) she promised a miracle to prove it wasn't a scam. That day the sun enlarged, whirled like a pinwheel & danced in the sky. The lady also gave the kids a secret message, which they wrote down & gave to their bishop, who handed it on to the pope. The secret was supposed to be revealed by 1960, but it's still a secret today. For me as a kid, this secret message was the most fascinating part of the story. What was it about? What had they decided was TOO TERRIBLE for us to know?
Interestingly, as I researched this on google, guess what I came upon? Cardinal Ratzinger, the recently elected pope, had had a look at the secret message back when he was enforcer for the last guy. "In an interview conducted in November 1984, Cardinal Ratzinger (of the Holy Office) confirmed that, with the Pope’s permission, he had read the Secret and that it concerns, in his words, 'a radical call to conversion, the absolute gravity of history, the dangers threatening the Faith and the life of a Christian, and therefore the world. And also the importance of the last times.' " Source is here
Lady of Fatima
The story is that Mary appeared to 3 shepherd children in Portugal in 1917. She told them that God was disappointed in humankind (WWI was raging) & that he would send more wars to punish us for our sins. The wars would be caused by atheistic Russia &, to stop this, Catholics should pray, esp the rosary, & work to convert Russia . This really resonated when I first heard it as a school kid during the Cold War -- we were having regular nuclear war drills at the time. Of course the lady kind of missed Germany & we never did end up fighting directly against Russia, but she certainly had the right idea about more wars coming. For the last visitation (there were 4 or 5) she promised a miracle to prove it wasn't a scam. That day the sun enlarged, whirled like a pinwheel & danced in the sky. The lady also gave the kids a secret message, which they wrote down & gave to their bishop, who handed it on to the pope. The secret was supposed to be revealed by 1960, but it's still a secret today. For me as a kid, this secret message was the most fascinating part of the story. What was it about? What had they decided was TOO TERRIBLE for us to know?
Interestingly, as I researched this on google, guess what I came upon? Cardinal Ratzinger, the recently elected pope, had had a look at the secret message back when he was enforcer for the last guy. "In an interview conducted in November 1984, Cardinal Ratzinger (of the Holy Office) confirmed that, with the Pope’s permission, he had read the Secret and that it concerns, in his words, 'a radical call to conversion, the absolute gravity of history, the dangers threatening the Faith and the life of a Christian, and therefore the world. And also the importance of the last times.' " Source is here