On 13 October 1917 the children surrounded by a crowd of 70.000 persons under a torrential rain, Lucy asked again of the Lady:"What do you want from me?" she answered: "I am the Lady of the Rosary, I desire here a chapel in my honor to be built, that people continue to recite the Rosary every day."
"Will the war finish?"
"The war is going to end, and the soldiers will soon return to their homes."
Then Lucy asked: "may I ask you for cures and conversions, will you grant them?"
"Some yes, others no. It is necessary that they ask pardon for their sins, that they no longer offend God our Lord, he is already too much offended." - Source
I ask pardon for my sins and the grace to no longer offend Our Lord, who is already too much offended.
Sr. Lucia to Fr Augustin Fuentes in 1957:
Father, the devil is in the mood for engaging in a decisive battle against the Blessed Virgin. And the devil knows what it is that most offends God and which in a short space of time will gain for him the greatest number of souls. Thus, the devil does everything to overcome souls consecrated to God, because in this way, the devil will succeed in leaving the souls of the faithful abandoned by their leaders, thereby the more easily will he seize them.
That which afflicts the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus is the fall of religious and priestly souls. The devil knows that religious and priests who fall away from their beautiful vocation drag numerous souls to hell... The devil wishes to take possession of consecrated souls. He tries to corrupt them in order to lull to sleep the souls of lay people and thereby lead them to final impenitence...
“Father, the Blessed Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last times of the world, but I understood this for three reasons:
“The first is because she told me that the Devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God or we are with the Devil; there is no middle ground.
“The second reason is because she told me, as well as my cousins, that God is giving two last remedies to the world: the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And, being the last remedies, that is to say, they are the final ones, means that there will be no others.
“And the third, because in the plans of the Divine Providence, when God is going to chastise the world He always first exhausts all other remedies. When He sees that the world pays no attention whatsoever, then, as we say in our imperfect way of talking, with a certain fear He presents us the last means of salvation, His Blessed Mother.
If we despise and reject this last means, Heaven will no longer pardon us, because we will have committed a sin that the Gospel calls a sin against the Holy Spirit. - Source
Truly, there is no middle ground.
ReplyDelete"The last remedies"...
ReplyDeleteTerry, haven't there been other devotions and "other remedies" introduced since then? I know Divine Mercy came before St. Lucy said these words, but it certainly came after the apparitions at Fatima.
Also, in discussing the chastisement re: Fatima, why do we always assume that World War II was not it? (killed 70+ million)