Fatima - Message for Our Times

The 20th and 21st centuries must be understood in the light of Fatima.

Mary’s visit to this little hamlet in Portugal is a fact that is part of contemporary history. The Message of Fatima concerns all of us. Its blessed influence can touch all of us, touch families, touch nations: “If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.”

The commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the apparitions of Fatima must not simply consist in “remembering” them; it must also be an opportunity to measure our fidelity to the pressing calls Mary addressed to the entire world in 1917 through the intermediary of three shepherd children. Never has Our Lady spoken to her children on earth with such gravity and insistence, using such striking means to get them to heed her requests and save their souls: the revelation of Her Immaculate and Outraged Heart, the vision of hell, the miracle of the sun before 70,000 witnesses…