Revelations concerning the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary took place shortly before the political revolutions in the planet began – French and Bolshevik respectively. It can be said that these visions were the "last chance" of respite; the chance unfortunately not used.
The cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus has spread since St. Margaret Mary Alacoque appeared from 1673 to 1689. little than 3 centuries later – in 1917 – Mary appeared to 3 children from Fatima. Both the Lord Jesus and His parent promised large graces to the worshipers of their hearts.
King's religion Deficit
However, in addition to the call to worship His Most Holy Heart, the Savior besides called on King Louis XIV and his full household to dedicate themselves to this Heart, to worship it publically and to build a temple dedicated to it. Christ promised that if the king and all of France fulfilled this message, he would bless her and lay her enemies at her feet. The country was so endowed with a remarkable promise; it had the chance to become an example of actual religion for another nations; 1 could call it a "chosen nation."
Unfortunately, the French rejected this call. This may have partially been the consequence of the heresy of Jansenism, whose assumptions mostly coincided with the Calvinist view of predestination. For it was hard to proclaim the message about Jesus ’ Heart and that the service to him could save the world, since the Jansenians felt that everything was premeditated and that human efforts did not make sense.
In 1689. Margaret personally went to King Louis, who at the time was the largest of European monarchs. Unfortunately, Louis refused to sacrifice himself and his household to the Sacred Heart of Jesus; he besides refused to build a chapel to honor this Heart. Louis did not believe Sister Margaret's message, reasoning that if God truly wanted him to do so, he might have revealed himself to him personally. He besides justified himself that if he fulfilled God's demand, and France suffered, then people's trust in God could be violated. It's like he "knows better."
Louis' disobedience resembles the sin of Moses, who, though proceeding the divine command, “Speak to the rock, and it will produce water” (Lb 20:8), did not believe that a miracle could be That's it. large and alternatively hit the stone with a cane. God asked him for little: he wanted to manifest his power, showing that water could flow from the stone to itself words Moses. However, this 1 preferred to hit the stone with a cane, and although it was inactive a miracle to swim out of it, it was no longer so great, due to the fact that any Israelites thought that there was a hidden origin below the rock, opened by impact. The Lord God besides required small of Louis, but he did not believe the authenticity of St Margaret's imagination and did not fulfill God's request. Already 3 years later, Louis and his army suffered defeat at the naval conflict of La Hogue, surrendering to the troops of the Augsburg League, or united states against France. And that was just the beginning of misery.
In 1789, equal to 100 years after the gathering between Sister Margaret and King Louis, the revolution began in France. The Monarchy was overthrown; Catholics suffered large persecution and even slaughter. The French Revolution has harmed not only France itself, but besides the full world. This was the beginning of the “discourse” with the monarchy, the introduction of anti-cleric and laitic ideas—the word, the secularization of societies of many nations. Can this be called punishment for failing to fulfill Christ’s request? Even if we do not qualify it, Louis XIV rejected the anticipation of having incomparable assistance from heaven itself – support that could save his successor and the full country.
Stop Russian errors
It seems that just as Christ's message to St. Margaret warned the French revolution, so the apparitions of Our woman in Fatima announced the coming of the Bolshevik Revolution. But now the dedication of the nation – not France, but Russia – was to be made by the full pope in union with all bishops of the world. Our woman appeared to 3 children – Lucia, Francis and Hiacynta – from 13 May to 13 October 1917, calling on them to pray fervently in the Rosary.
– Refuse the rosary all day to make peace for the planet and the end of the war – asked Our Lady. To Lucia herself, she said: – Jesus wants to usage you to make people know and love me better. He wants to establish in the planet a service to my Immaculate Heart. Those who accept it, I promise salvation. These souls will be as dear to God as the flowers I adorn his throne.
Sister Lucia experienced the sight of Our woman – as well as of Christ himself – long after the apparitions in Fatima ended. Their content remained similar, and it was a request to introduce the service of the first 5 Saturdays of the period in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Our woman and the consecration of Russia to the Heart of Mary. This sacrifice was to halt the mistakes Russia spread throughout the world, and the first 1 was without a uncertainty communism.
– The time has come erstwhile God wants the Holy Father in union with bishops from all over the planet to dedicate Russia to my Immaculate Heart. It'll save her. The justice of God condemned many souls for their sins against me, so I come to ask for compensation. Consecrate in this intention and pray – said Our Lady, appearing to Sister Lucia in 1929.
The Bolshevik revolution has caused quite a few harm – especially in Europe, but not only. It was due to her that communism spread so much in the planet – a strategy that considered religion to be “the opium of the people.” You don't gotta mention how much suffering he caused. The Bolshevik Revolution hit the Church, aristocracy and private value. It was Communist Russia and Nazi Germany that started planet War II, and after it ended that communist authorities persecuted and proceed to persecute Catholics. This utilized to happen in the alleged east bloc countries; now – in China, North Korea, Vietnam or Cuba.
The consecration of Russia, which Our woman requested, was to be accomplished by the Holy Father in union with all bishops of the world. According to Sister Lucia, it did not take place until 1984. However, any Catholics uncertainty whether Our Lady's request was surely fulfilled at the time; for the planet was afraid at the time, without mentioning Russia in particular. However, Russia was explicitly mentioned in the consecration which Pope Francis made in 2022. We might ask if Russia had been sacrificed earlier, could it have been possible to reverse any of the harm caused by communism? The revolution broke out shortly after the apparitions in Fatima, as already in November 1917. But decades passed to the act of consecration – whether in 1984 or in 2022.
Rescue at the time of death
Devotions to the Most Holy Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary are a rescue for sinners for the hr of death. Both revelations include a call for reparation for sins and a hope of salvation in the hr of death. Shortly after the apparitions there were revolutions and wars, and death was a common and major threat. The messages of Christ and Our woman can so be regarded as an incentive to organize your spiritual life and establish a close relation with them, which, as promised, will be a large aid in the hr of death.
– I promise in the excess of the Mercy of My Heart that His all-powerful Love will grant to all who will communicate for the first 9 Fridays of the period in a row, the grace of the final penance, that they will not die in a state of disfavor or without the sacraments of the saints, and that My Heart will be a safe escape for them in the last hr of their lives said the Savior to Sister Margaret Maria Alacoque.
Christ besides asked to establish a peculiar feast in honor of His Heart on Friday after the end of the octave of God's Body. – Therefore, I request that the first Friday after the octave of God's Body should be consecrated from now on, as a separate vacation to celebrate My Heart and pay me by Holy Communion and another godly practices of insults which I experience erstwhile I am set on altars. In return, I promise you that My Heart will pour out generous favors upon all who thus worship Him or contribute to the expansion of His feast.
Our woman asked for the establishment of the first 5 Saturdays of the month.
My daughter – said to Sister Lucia – Look, my heart surrounded by thorns, which ungrateful men through blasphemy and ungratefulness constantly hurt. At least you effort to bring me joy and declare in my name that I will come in the hr of death with the graces essential for salvation to all those who will make confession for 5 months on the first Saturdays, accept Holy Communion, refuse 1 Rosary, and for 15 minutes of meditation on the rosary mysteries will accompany me in the intention of reparation.
To fulfill the conditions of the first Fridays and the first Saturdays of the month, 1 must be in a state of sanctification, or free from any dense sin (to confession may come earlier) and accept Holy Communion. On the first Saturdays you should besides deny the 5 mysteries of the Rosary and consider the content of the rosary mysteries for 15 minutes. It is crucial that confession and Holy Communion be made in the intention of salaries. However, this intention does not request to be made clear all month, but adequate intentionhabitual, i.e. adopted erstwhile and never cancelled – it is simply a once-in-a-lifetime decision to enter confession and Holy Communion on the first Friday and first individual in the intention of remuneration.
Adrian Fyda
(Texts of apparitions for: fatima.pl, pl.aleteia.org, usłubnicza.pl, fronda.pl)
