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December 6, 2009

Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Repair their crimes and console your God

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Fatima and the 3rd visit of the Angel in the Fall of 1917

The angel appeared to the children and prostrated himself on the ground before a chalice and host and said, "Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee 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 indifference's whereby He is offended. And through the infinite merits of His most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.”

An Angel, a pure Spirit, who Lives Constantly in the Intimate Presence of God, Prostrates Before the Eucharist in Adoration and Teaches the Children How to Make Reparation in Prayer!

The angel in giving the children Holy Communion taught them to offer their Communions in reparation for those who abuse this Most Blessed Sacrament in various ways: Rising the Angel took the chalice and the Host. He gave the sacred Host to Lucia. He gave the precious blood of Jesus in the chalice to Jacinta and Francisco, saying; "Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Repair their crimes and console your God."

Another example of Heaven

Speaking in Signs and Symbols. 

Jesus answered and said, you know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say to him, we are able. Mathew 20:20-22. 

God always works with our free will. 

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At Fatima, Our Lady also asked the three shepherds a similar question to the one that Jesus asked the apostles. 

Would they accept they also accept their mission from God?  In her first apparition in May our Lady asked the three children: "Are you willing to offer yourselves to God to bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?" "Yes, we are," was their reply. And the Blessed Mother answered: "Then you are going to have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort

Jacinta & Francesco Receive
First Holy Communion
From the Chalice.
 


They did not receive the sacred Host. This act by the angel signified that
they would soon join Jesus in drinking the cup of suffering from the Father and both died during the Spanish flu pandemic. Francesco first in 1919 and Jacinta in 1920. By giving Lucia the Host the Bread of Life" FOR THE
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JOURNEY signifying the manna that  physically sustained the Israelites in their 40 year journey toward the Promised Land. The Bread of Life sustains us spiritually both now and eternally. It sustains us for the journey of this life and prepares us for our journey's end our destination and goal. The bread of life is like that bread given to Elijah who was weighed down by his burden of being a lonely faithful prophet. No one listened to him. He was tired and had enough. As the reading says, "He sat under a broom tree waiting for death.” God sent an Angel to feed him two times. “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” This bread and water gave Elijah enough strength to go forty days in the desert alone. This bread a foreshadowing the strength we receive to journey through this life from the Blessed Sacrament. The Eucharistic Bread that gave Lucia strength to live the Mission of Elijah a lonely profit who no one listened too for the next 88 years.

The Eucharist is alive!
Jesus is there!

He is hidden there and he wants to give graces to our souls. "When I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces but souls do not even pay attention to me; they leave me to myself and busy themselves with other things. They treat me as a dead object." Our Lord to St. Faustina (Diary of St. Faustina, 1385)

"We believe that as the bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His body and His blood, which were to be offered for us on the cross, likewise the bread and wine consecrated by the priest are changed into the body and blood of Christ, enthroned gloriously in heaven." -1968 Credo of the People of God

"The Hidden Jesus"
Under the consecrated species of bread and wine, Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real, and substantial manner.” Catechism of the Catholic Church– #1415

The children at Fatima called the Blessed Sacrament the “Hidden Jesus” Francesco knowing he was to die soon instead of going to school spent those hours in the parish church before his “Hidden Jesus”. His heart longed to be with him and console him for the outrages and in differences committed against the Blessed Sacrament reciting the prayers the Angel taught in 1916.

Let us learn from these simple children how to evaluate what is important in life and how we spend the gift of time that God has given to us. Your eternal happiness will depend on what you do with the time God has given you in this life.

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Above Photo is copyrighted by the Real Presence Association you are invited to visit their web page for a complete listing of Vatican approved Eucharistic Miracles. 

November 28, 2009

Homily given by Venerable John Paul II during the beatification Mass of Bl. Jacinta and Francesco of Fatima May 13, 2000



Homily given by John Paul II during the Beatification Mass of Jacinta and Francesco of Fatima-5/13/2000
“God does not want anyone to be lost; that is why 2,000 years ago he sent his Son to earth, "to seek and to save the lost" (Lk 19: 10). And he saved us by his death on the cross. Let no one empty that Cross of its power! Jesus died and rose from the dead to be ‘the first-born among many brethren’ (Rom 8: 29).
In her motherly concern, the Blessed Virgin came here to Fátima to ask men and women "to stop offending God, Our Lord, who is already very offended". It is a mother's sorrow that compels her to speak; the destiny of her children is at stake. For this reason she asks the little shepherds: "Pray, pray much and make sacrifices for sinners; many souls go to hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them".
Little Jacinta felt and personally experienced Our Lady's anguish, offering herself heroically as a victim for sinners. One day, when she and Francisco had already contracted the illness that forced them to bed, the Virgin Mary came to visit them at home, as the little one recounts: "Our Lady came to see us and said that soon she would come and take Francisco to heaven. And she asked me if I still wanted to convert more sinners. I told her yes". And when the time came for Francisco to leave, the little girl tells him: ‘Give my greetings to Our Lord and to Our Lady and tell them that I am enduring everything they want for the conversion of sinners’. Jacinta had been so deeply moved by the vision of hell during the apparition of 13 July that no mortification or penance seemed too great to save sinners.
She could well exclaim with St Paul: ‘I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church’ (Col 1: 24). Last Sunday at the Colosseum in Rome, we commemorated the many witnesses to the faith in the 20th century, recalling the tribulations they suffered through the significant testimonies they left us. An innumerable cloud of courageous witnesses to the faith have left us a precious heritage which must live on in the third millennium. Here in Fátima, where these times of tribulation were foretold and Our Lady asked for prayer and penance to shorten them, I would like today to thank heaven for the powerful witness shown in all those lives. And once again I would like to celebrate the Lord's goodness to me when I was saved from death after being gravely wounded on 13 May 1981. I also express my gratitude to Bl. Jacinta for the sacrifices and prayers offered for the Holy Father, whom she saw suffering greatly.
‘Father, to you I offer praise, for you have revealed these things to the merest children’. Today Jesus' praise takes the solemn form of the beatification of the little shepherds, Francisco and Jacinta. With this rite the Church wishes to put on the candelabrum these two candles which God lit to illumine humanity in its dark and anxious hours. May they shine on the path of this immense multitude of pilgrims and of all who have accompanied us by radio and television. May Francisco and Jacinta be a friendly light that illumines all Portugal and, in special way, this Diocese of Leiria-Fátima.
My last words are for the children: dear boys and girls, I see so many of you dressed like Francisco and Jacinta. You look very nice! But in a little while or tomorrow you will take these clothes off and ... the little shepherds will disappear. They should not disappear, should they?! Our Lady needs you all to console Jesus, who is sad because of the bad things done to him; he needs your prayers and your sacrifices for sinners. Ask your parents and teachers to enroll you in the "school" of Our Lady, so that she can teach you to be like the little shepherds, who tried to do whatever she asked them. I tell you that "one makes more progress in a short time of submission and dependence on Mary than during entire years of personal initiatives, relying on oneself alone" (St Louis de Montfort, The True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, n. 155). This was how the little shepherds became saints so quickly. A woman who gave hospitality to Jacinta in Lisbon, on hearing the very beautiful and wise advice that the little girl gave, asked who taught it to her. ‘It was Our Lady’, she replied. Devoting themselves with total generosity to the direction of such a good Teacher, Jacinta and Francisco soon reached the heights of perfection. "Father, to you I offer praise, for what you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed to the merest children". Father, to you I offer praise for all your children, from the Virgin Mary, your humble Servant, to the little shepherds, Francisco and Jacinta. May the message of their lives live on for ever to light humanity's way!”