ANG THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA

The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in Fatima before the Three Children: Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia. Now Jacinta and Francisco are already Beatified and the place, Cova da Iria, houses one of the most popular Basilica and Marian Center in the world.

janesa said...

Helow Fr. Abe.. may tanong lng po ako tungkol s "Secret of Fatima" may "4th secret" po bah Fr n na reveal c Mama Mary ky Sister Lucy? Kong my Copy po kayo ng 3rd secret of Fatima pwede pong paki post Fr.?

salamat po ng marami Fr.Abe

August 4, 2010 1:34 PM

Fr. Abe, CRS said...

Dear Janesa,

Ang buong text ng Third Secret of Fatima ay iniutos ni Pope John Paul the Great na ilathala nuong Great Jubilee 2000. Mismong si Josef Cardinal Ratzinger na ngayon ay Pope Benedict XVI na at si Cardinal Bertone, now Cardinal Secretary of State ang nagpahayag sa publico ng nasabing documento.

Subalit, hanggang ngayon may mga taong nagsasabi na meron pa raw Fourth Secret.

Sa aking palagay ay sobra na iyan. Masyado na silang gumagawa ng mga Conspiracy Theories. There is no reason for Pope John Paul the Great and Pope Benedict XVI to hide something or to lie about the matter. I TRUST OUR POPES MORE THAN THE COSPIRARCY THEORIES ADVOCATES.

Here are the texts of the FATIMA PROPHECIES:

First secret

The first secret was a vision of Hell:

Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven. Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror. [Santos, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words I (2003), pg. 123]

Second secret

The second secret is a statement that World War I would end and goes on to predict another war, World War II during the reign of a Pope Pius XI, should men continue offending God and should Russia not convert. The second half requests that Russia be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart:

You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light*, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.[Santos, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words I (2003), pgs. 123-124]

The third part of the secret was allegedly written down "by order of His Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and the Most Holy Mother". . . on 3 January 1944.["The Message of Fatima" from the Vatican]. In 1943, Lúcia fell ill with influenza and pleurisy, which had killed her cousins. For several months, she was sure she was going to die. Bishop Silva, visiting her on 15 September 1943 while she was bed-ridden, first suggested that she write the third secret down to ensure that it would be recorded in the event of her death. Lucia was hesitant to do so, however. She was under strict obedience according to her Carmelite vows, but when she received the secret, she had heard Mary say not to reveal it. For a time, she was in a quandary as to whose orders took precedence. Finally, in mid-October, Bishop Silva sent her a letter containing a direct order to record the secret, and Lúcia obeyed. In June 1944, the sealed envelope containing the third secret was delivered to Silva, where it stayed until 1957, when it was finally delivered to Rome.[Zimdars-Swartz, Sandra L., Encountering Mary (1991), pgs. 203-206.]

It was announced by Cardinal Sodano on 13 May 2000, 83 years after the first apparition of the Lady to the children in the Cova da Iria, that the Third Secret would finally be released. In his announcement, Cardinal Sodano implied that the secret was about the persecution of Christians in the 20th century that culminated in the failed assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II on 13 May 1981.[Address of Cardinal Sodano Regarding the "Third Part" of the Secret of Fatima at the Conclusion of the Solemn Mass, 13 May 2000]

The text of the Third Secret was published on 26 June 2000:

THE THIRD SECRET

J.M.J.

The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fátima, on 13 May 1917. I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.

After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.

Tuy-3-1-1944. ["The Message of Fatima" from the Vatican. See also Santos, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words I (2003), pg. 215.]

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Along with the text of the secret, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger published a theological commentary,["The Message of Fatima" from the Vatican. See also Santos, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words I (2003), pgs. 221-233.] in which he states that:

"A careful reading of the text of the so-called third 'secret' of Fatima ... will probably prove disappointing or surprising after all the speculation it has stirred. No great mystery is revealed; nor is the future unveiled."

After explaining the differences between public and private revelations, he cautions people not to see in the message a determined future event:

"The purpose of the vision is not to show a film of an irrevocably fixed future. Its meaning is exactly the opposite: it is meant to mobilize the forces of change in the right direction. Therefore we must totally discount fatalistic explanations of the “secret”, such as, for example, the claim that the would-be assassin of 13 May 1981 was merely an instrument of the divine plan guided by Providence and could not therefore have acted freely, or other similar ideas in circulation. Rather, the vision speaks of dangers and how we might be saved from them."

He then moves on to talk about the symbolic nature of the images, noting that:

"The concluding part of the 'secret' uses images which Lucia may have seen in devotional books and which draw their inspiration from long-standing intuitions of faith."

As for the meaning of the message:

"What remains was already evident when we began our reflections on the text of the 'secret': the exhortation to prayer as the path of 'salvation for souls' and, likewise, the summons to penance and conversion."

August 6, 2010 2:52 PM