On 5/13/2013 the
ministry of Pope Francis was consecrated
to the Lady of Fatima by the following
prayer to the Virgin Mary (who is not God,
the Father, whom we should pray to.)
http://www.santuario-fatima.pt/portal/index.php?id=63917
“Consecration
to
Our
Lady of Fatima
of
the Ministry of Pope Francis”
Fatima,
May 13, 2013
Most Holy Virgin,
1. We,
the Bishops of Portugal and this multitude of
pilgrims, are at Your feet in this Cova da
Iria, on this 96th anniversary of Your first
apparition to the Little Shepherds,
in order to fulfill the desire of Pope Francis,
clearly expressed, to consecrate to You,
Virgin of Fatima, his Ministry of Bishop of Roma
and Universal Pastor. Thus, we consecrate
to You, Our Lady, You Who are the Mother of the
Church, the Ministry of the new Pope;
please fill his heart with the tenderness of
God, which like no one else You Yourself experienced,
so that he may embrace all men and women of our
time with the love
of Your Son Jesus Christ. Today’s
mankind needs to feel loved by God and by the Church. Only
feeling loved she will overcome the temptation
of violence, of materialism, of
forgetting God, of losing the direction towards
a new world, where love will reign. Please
grant Pope Francis the gift of discernment in
order to be able to identify the ways to renew
the Church; give him courage to follow, without
hesitation, the ways suggested by the
Holy Spirit; support him during the difficult
hours of suffering; help him overcome,
in charity, the trials he’ll encounter while
renewing the Church. Please
always be
at his side, whispering to his ear those words
well known to You: “I am
the Handmaid of
the Lord; be it done onto Me according to Thy
Word!”
2. The
ways of renewing the Church lead us to the
rediscovery of the timeliness
of the Message You left with the Little
Shepherds: the
demand that
we convert to God, Who has been so much
offended, because we have forgotten
Him. Conversion
is always a return to the Love of God. God forgives
because He loves us. That is
why His love is called mercy. The Church,
protected by Your maternal solicitude and
guided by this Pastor, ought to
stand up evermore as a place of conversion and
pardon, because in her the
truth is always expressed in charity. You
have pointed out prayer as the decisive way
towards conversion. Please teach
the Church, of which You are a member and the
model, to be, more
and more, a people praying in union with the
Holy Father—the first of this people
to pray—and also in union with the former
Pope, His Holiness Benedict XVI, who chose
the way of silent prayer, challenging the
Church to embrace the ways of prayer.
3. In
Your Message to the Little Shepherds here at
Cova da Iria, You highlighted
the Ministry of the Pope, the “Bishop
dressed in white”. Three of the
last Popes came as pilgrims to Your Shrine.
Only You, Our Lady, in Your
maternal love for the entire Church, can put
into the heart of Pope Francis
the desire to come to this Shrine as a
pilgrim.
This is not something one can
ask for other reasons; only the silent
complicity between You and him will
make him feel attracted to this pilgrimage,
being certain that he will be in
the company of millions of believers willing
to hear once again Your Message. Here,
on this Altar of the world, he will be able to
bless all mankind and make
today’s world feel that God loves all the
men and women of out time, that the
Church also loves them and that You, Mother of
the Redeemer, lead them with tenderness
through the ways of Salvation.
+
JOSÉ, Cardinal-Patriarch
President
of the Bishops Conference of Portugal
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Examining
the Fatima “Miracle of the Sun,” Cris
Putnam discusses the Fatima miracle of the sun
in ufological terms. This
connection follows
logically from the fact that the sun’s
movement would upset the solar system to such a degree
that the earth would be flung from its normal
orbit exterminating life on earth. This strongly
infers a local event to Fatima.
http://www.logosapologia.org/?p=4968