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"You
have seen hell, where the souls
of poor sinners go.
To
save them,
God wishes to establish in the world
the
devotion to My Immaculate Heart.
If what I say to you is done,
many souls will be saved ...
In the end,
My Immaculate Heart
will triumph...
Do not lose heart -
I will never forsake you;
My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge,
and the way that will lead you to God ...
Sacrifice yourselves for sinners,
Pray the Rosary every day.
I
am the Lady of the Rosary."
(Our Lady of the Rosary, Fatima, 1917)
Most
Holy Virgin and our beloved Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints
of Your Immaculate Heart, surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men
place therein at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Moved
by the ardent desire of loving You as our Mother and of promoting a true
devotion to Your Immaculate Heart, we humbly prostrate ourselves at Your
feet. We desire to prove the sorrow we feel for the grievances caused to
You and to atone - by means of prayer and sacrifice - for the offences
with which Your maternal love is returned. Obtain for all souls the pardon
of so many sins, and hasten, O Lady, the conversion of all hearts, that we
may love Jesus and cease to offend God, Who is already so much offended,
and that we may be spared the punishments of hell.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death -
be our refuge and the way that will lead us to God.
On
10th December 1925, the Most Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Sister Lucia
of Fatima. Elevated on a luminous cloud next to the Blessed Virgin was the
Child Jesus.
The
Blessed Virgin rested Her hand on Sister Lucia's shoulder, and showed her
a Heart encircled by thorns, which She was holding in Her other hand. As
Sister Lucia beheld this vision, the Child Jesus spoke -
"Have
compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns,
with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no-one
to make an act of reparation to remove them."
Then the Blessed Virgin spoke -
"Look,
My daughter, at My Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men
pierce Me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at
least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of
death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the
first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy
Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary and keep me company for
fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary,
with the intention of making reparation to Me."
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us - be our refuge and the way that
will lead us to God.
 
"Tell
everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Tell
them to ask graces from Her, and that the Heart of Jesus
wishes
to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
for
the Lord has confided the peace of the world to Her."
- Our
Lady of Fatima to Jacinta Marto, 1917
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