November: Antonia Moffat - The Message of Fatima

The connection between the request for Consecration,

and the First Saturdays of Reparation in the Fatima Message,

stating how each of them lean on the other

Some background on Fatima’s historical context

Our Lady appeared in Fatima, whilst the world was ravaged by an ongoing

4th year of War. Millions had needlessly perished, and the endless slaughter

seemed unstoppable. Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) had worked tirelessly

to try to end the war diplomatically, but was ignored on every side. He

labeled World War 1 as “the suicide of civilised Europe.” Russia suffered

devastating defeats, which led to revolution by militant atheists, whose

avowed aim was for world domination under communism. From March to

November 1917, the Russian revolution annihilated the Czar, and all

resistance, to the launch of the Soviet totalitarian State. The age of the

greatest number of martyrs in the history of the Church was inaugurated.

Pope Benedict XV promulgated a special Novena of Rosaries in Rome to

plead the intercession of Our Lady Queen of Peace. It started on May 5th,

1917, entreating her for the end of the war. Nine days later on May 13th, Our

Lady appeared in Fatima as if directly answering the Holy Fathers pleadings

for peace. Heaven had listened, where no one else would! At the same time

in Rome, Eugenio Pacelli was consecrated Bishop who would become Pope

Pius XII in 1939. This Pope throughout his pontificate paid close attention to

the message brought by the Mother of God.

Our Lady appeared in Fatima, and asked that the Rosary be prayed daily for

the end of the war, and for peace. She asked that sacrifices be made for the

conversion of sinners, and to help spread devotion to her Immaculate Heart.

Later she asked for two crucial things which she indicated would obtain the

peace of the World, and the conversion of Russia - so that Russia would not

continue to spread its errors throughout the world, annihilating nations,

persecuting Christians, crucifying the Church, and causing much suffering to

the Holy Father.

Two crucial Requests as an antidote for War, and for the prevention

of the spread of Communism!

The message of Fatima highlights for us that Russia cannot be converted, nor

can there be peace in the world, without Consecration to the Immaculate

Heart of Mary, and establishment of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

through the practice of the First Saturdays of Reparation.

1On July 13th 1917 Our Lady gave insight into the meaning of the need for

reparation to her Immaculate Heart when she said:

“Sacrifice yourselves for sinners, and say many times especially when

you make some sacrifice: O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the

conversion of sinners, and in reparation for sins committed against the

Immaculate Heart of Mary.”

As Our Blessed Mother said these words, she extended and opened her

hands, as she had done during the two previous months, and showed the

three young shepherds the terrifying vision of Hell.

Lucia speaks: “The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw

as it were a sea of fire. 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 huge fires, without weight or

equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us

and made us tremble with fear. (It might have been this sight which caused me to cry

out, as people say they heard me.) The demons could be distinguished by their

terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and

transparent like burning coals.”

Our Lady then said with great sadness:

“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 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 will be converted, and a

period of peace will be granted to the world.”

2The Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays, and the Collegial

Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart, led by the Holy Father in

communion with all the Bishops of the world are the two crucial requests!

One remains unheard, unpracticed and is hardly known - the First Saturdays

of Reparation!

If the Requests go unheeded!

Our Lady foretold what might unfold if people did not convert and return to

God - the tyranny of communism, that Russia would spread her evils

throughout the world, that another War (World War II) could break out, that

the good would be martyred, and that the Church would experience severe

persecution. Russia it seemed was used as a symbol for all those who tried,

and still try to eradicate God, through what ever atheistic systems and

philosophies they can, to destroy the values of faith, the sanctity of marriage

and family, and the sanctity of life from the moment of conception to natural

death. Our Lord himself in 1936, said to Lucia, “If they do not wish to heed

my request, as like the King of France, they will repent and do it, but it

will be late. Russia will have already spread her errors throughout the

world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The Holy Father

will have much to suffer.”

The Light of Fatima and the Message

Fatima is a light illuminating the darkness of our times. Its strong light has

shone, since its dawning to the three little shepherd children in 1916/1917,

and then onwards through the mission of Sr. Lucia in 1925 and 1929, and

beyond to the present day. Fatima is a witness to faith. It is a mystical grace,

which at our invitation, has the power to draw us into the mystery of the

Most Holy Trinity, and an experience of the love of God. Fatima is at the

same time prophetic, and a warning, a call to people to turn from sin, to

change and to convert, and to embrace God in His loving Will. Fatima points

to future events, but encouragingly demonstrates that our response to the

calls of the Angel of Peace, Our Blessed Lady and Our Divine Lord through

prayer, confession of sin, penance, reparation for sin, and consecrations to

the Immaculate Heart of Mary, have the spiritual power to mitigate or even

bring to naught the punishments which in justice are due because of the sin

of the world. Fatima is an outpouring of God’s love and mercy for all people.

Some of the first words of the Angel of Peace (1916) were,“The Hearts of

Jesus and Mary have designs of mercy on you.”  The Fatima Message is

also presenting us with the Peace Plan of Heaven!

Praying for the Salvation of Souls

Jesus and Mary are pleading with us to pray for the salvation of souls, to

save them from the fires of hell. What matters for all of us is Eternal Life …

the destiny which Our Lord and Our Lady desire for each person. As the

Catechism of Christian Doctrine (1985) said: What must you do to save

your soul? To save my soul I must worship God by Faith, Hope and Charity;

that is, I must believe in him, I must hope in him, and I must love him with my

whole heart.”

On August 19th 1917 Our Blessed Lady said:

“Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls

go to hell, because there are none to sacrifice themselves and to pray

for them.”

The Fatima Message teaches us how prepare for Eternal Life, and to plead

for the salvation of those who do not believe, do not adore, and do not love

God. Our Lady’s motherly concern in Fatima echoed the Catechism of the

Catholic Church which states: “The chief punishment of hell is eternal

separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness

for which he was created and for which he longs. The affirmations of Scared

Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to

the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of

his eternal destiny.” (CCC1036-1036)

The request for the First Saturdays of Reparation

Our Lady often appeared holding Her Heart which was encircled by piercing

thorns. This demonstrated that Our Blessed Lady is outraged, and that she

is seeking reparation. Reparation for sin is due in justice to God and

neighbour. The more serious the sin, the greater the need for reparation. Yes,

we go and confess our sins in the Sacrament of Confession. We are then

given a penance. Reparation compliments the penance. Ven. Archbishop

Fulton Sheen once gave this helpful analogy:

Imagine a woodblock with a nail in it. When you go to Confession your sin is

confessed and removed. Like the sin the nail is removed … yet what remains

is the hole representing the wounds of sin! The wounds which need to be

healed by acts of reparation. Think of a festering wound! It is no good

placing a sticking plaster over it, and failing to treat it! Septicaemia is likely to

follow, with death close at hand! The wound needs close attention paid to it,

cleaning, purifying, and the prescription of medications to totally heal it. Like

physical symptoms sin often leaves behind a trail, and we need to do

something about it. Various acts of Reparation are our spiritual antidotes,

4and spiritual medications so that the wounds of our sin might be healed from

their roots. Hence, Our Blessed Mother in Fatima asked us for a monthly

Confession and acts of Reparation. They are a means to re evaluate our

catholic practice and witness. A monthly confession helps all of us to

examine our consciences in a more profound way.

At the core of the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is the call to

Penance, Penance, Penance, and Reparation, Reparation, Reparation, which

preceded the request for the Consecration of Russia.

In July 1917 Our Lady said:

“Sacrifice yourselves for sinners, and say many times especially when

you make some sacrifice; “O Jesus, it is for love of you, for the

conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against

the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”

Practice of the First Saturdays of Reparation

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Heaven’s Peace Plan!

Heaven's Peace Plan – 5 Days that have the potential to change you and

bring peace to the World! Are you willing to help change the WORLD?

Heaven's Peace Plan for the Church, Families and Nations was presented to

us through the Messages of Our Lady of Fatima. It is a humble and peaceful

plea - to pray the Rosary daily and to practice monthly the First Saturdays of

Reparation.

The Rosary and the First Saturdays are the great desire of both the Hearts of

Jesus and Mary for these dangerous times. Heaven is pleading with sinful

earth through these requests!

Heaven's Peace Plan is seemingly so simple - so simple that most in the

Church have missed it! The devotion can be done individually or

communally. If done communally with others, it gives a powerful witness of

faith to the rest of the Church.

Sr. Lucia strongly stated in 1939: “War or Peace in the world depends on

the celebration of this devotion  (the First Saturdays), and the

Consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary connected to it …”

On the First Saturday of every month – we are invited to undertake …

4 practices with 1 Great Intention.

Each First Saturday we are asked to:

1. Go to Confession (on the day, or as soon as possible before or after)

2. Receive Holy Communion as a Communion of Reparation (in a state of

grace)

3. Pray the daily Rosary

4. Meditate for 15 minutes on the Rosary Scriptures whilst keeping Our Lady

company.

All with the intention of making Reparation for sins committed against

the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and which are so offensive to God.

The First Saturday Apparition

On December 10th, 1925, Jesus and Mary came to Lucia when she was

a postulant in the Dorothean Convent in Pontevedra, Spain. Lucia had

only joined the convent on October 26th 2025, just 6 weeks before.

Lucia described it thus: “It was December 10, 1925. I was in my room,

when suddenly the room lit up and it was the light of my dear Mother in

Heaven who came with the Child Jesus a luminous cloud. Our Lady as if

wanting to install courage, rested her hand on my shoulder, and as she

did so, showed me her Immaculate Heart encircled by thorns, which she

was holding in her other hand.”

The child Jesus  said, “Have compassion on the Heart of your Most

Holy Mother covered with the 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 Our Lady  said, “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 all 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 mysteries of

the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.”

Lucia further added: “After this grace, how could I take myself away

from the least sacrifice that God asks of me to console the Heart of my

beloved Mother in Heaven, happy that Mary depletes the bitter drops of

the Chalice.”

The First Saturdays are crucial and integral to the PEACE plan of Heaven.

This message requesting the First Saturdays is the great Crown of the June

13th and July 13th messages given in Fatima in 1917 to Lucia, Jacinta and

Francisco in which Our Lady said she would come to ask for the

Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of

Reparation on the First Saturdays.

Immediately following the apparitions at Pontevedra, Sr. Lucia

communicated Our Lady’s request to her confessor and to the Bishop of

Leiria (Fátima), so that the devotion could be approved by the Church, which

only happened officially in 1939. Lucia’s main concern was to have the

devotion approved by the Church, and once the Church approved it, she left

it to the Church to further spread it, although she would speak about it to the

people she would meet privately.

And then as if this was not enough! On February 15th 1926 Jesus himself

appears to Lucia when she was bringing out the rubbish, and strongly

rebukes her for not promoting the First Saturdays. Lucia infers that she had

previously met him some days before. Poor Lucia, who was a postulant, and

not exactly free to actively action the request. In all Jesus came three times

asking for this devotion to be spread. This is remarkable! And yet 100 years

on … we in the Church have hardly started this great work! Jesus might ask

us … “And have you spread through the world what our heavenly

Mother requested of you?”

Why would we not want to practice,

and spread the First Saturdays?

A Day of Reparation, each month in every parish throughout the Church –

would transform the Church and Nations, and be the means of the

sanctification and salvation of millions. First Saturdays may be done

individually, communally or in small groups as long as all the requirements

are fulfilled.

It is so humble a request – that most of us have managed to overlook it!

100 years ago on December 10th 1925 Jesus and Mary both requested them

of us.

Why 5 Saturdays?  Our Lord revealed to Sister Lucia that the Devotion was

in reparation for the five offences and blasphemies spoken against the

Immaculate Heart of Mary:

1. Blasphemies against Her Immaculate Conception.

2. Blasphemies against Her Virginity.

73. Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, refusing, at the same

time to receive Her as the Mother of mankind.

4. Blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of

children indifference, disrespect and even hate for this Immaculate

Mother.

5. Blasphemies and offences of those who revile Her directly in Her

Sacred Images.

We have only to look at the various news channels, social media channels

and the like to see how widespread these blasphemies have become in our

own times. Sadly, daily, in countries like England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,

France, Canada, Spain, America, Australia, Nigeria & many parts of Africa,

many parts of South America, Asia, India, Pakistan, the Middle East, we hear

of churches being burnt to the ground, dreadful sacrileges being committed,

statues being smashed, and peoples being murdered and terrorised in the

most brutal of ways just because they are Christian. Never in history have

such outrages and sacrileges been committed on such a massive scale.

Never in history has the Blessed Sacrament been so outraged, as so few

catholics believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Most Holy Eucharist,

Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. Never has there been such open disrespect

in our Catholic Churches. In St. Peter’s, Rome, it seems that sacrileges and

abominations occur. Recently a man urinated on the actual altar under the

Baldachinno. This is totally shocking, outrageous, blasphemous, and

sacrilegious. These types of outrages are becoming common place. Yet as

catholics, are we outraged into reparation?

The First Saturdays are the forgotten part of the Fatima message, and the

most important for the peace of the world and for the salvation of souls.

Jesus and Mary gave to us all, and to Holy Church, a monthly means of

prayer of Reparation for the sins of the world, and a call for us to make a

monthly confession and Communion of Reparation.

Our prayer, fasting and sacrifice give the grace to awaken faith, repentance,

hope and charity in those who do not believe, do not adore and do not know

God. Prayer together with sacrifice offered to God for love of Him and

neighbour is redemptive. Reparation is about putting love where there has

been a hurt. Do we love enough to put Heaven’s humble plea into action? Do

we believe that our participation in the First Saturdays can help change the

world and bring peace?

Jesus on the Cross made reparation for all our sins and reconciled us with

the Father, but we too have to cooperate with this redeeming work on behalf

of souls. This is what the request for the Five First Saturdays is all about - so

let us get to work!

A timely reminder!

It seems that St. Carlo Acutis (1991-2006), and Our Lady of Fatima have a

fascinating connection. St Carlo had a great love for the Eucharist and the

Blessed Virgin Mary. He was a great devotee of Fatima, and of praying the

daily Rosary. In the final year of his young life in 2006, St. Carlo was on

pilgrimage in Fatima, and had a vision of the three young seers. St.

Francisco especially asked Carlo for prayers of Reparation, and acts of

sacrifice for sacrilege of the Eucharist, whilst Venerable Sr. Lucy reiterated

the importance of the Five First Saturdays of Reparation, and expressly

connected them to the world’s destiny. Carlo died from leukaemia in 2006

and was canonised by Pope Leo XIV in September 2025.

Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Consecrating ourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the

Immaculate Heart of Mary is at the very centre of the Fatima Message, and

serves to strengthen the foundation of our spiritual response of Reparation

as requested in the angelic visitations, the visitations of Our Blessed Mother,

and finally in the post Fatima visitations to Sr. Lucia as an adult, by both Our

Divine Lord Jesus and his Holy Mother Mary.

Consecration and Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary makes

complete our devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Our Lady told the

children that to save souls from hell, “God wants to establish in the world

devotion to My Immaculate Heart.”

Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary already existed in the world before

the Fatima apparitions but was little understood. What Jesus and Mary

emphasised through the Fatima messages was the importance of

‘establishing in the world’  devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In

other words to build up the practice of the devotion already present, and

make it integral and visible, at the heart of the spiritual life of the Church in

every parish.

What exactly is an Act of Consecration?

An Act of Consecration is a supernatural event. The origin and source of the

Act of Consecration is in the spiritual authority of the Bishops before

Almighty God. An Act of Consecration is a cry for help, the recognition of

fault, and an appeal for mercy for a new beginning.

An Act of Consecration means to set aside an individual, a family, a country,

a parish, a school or a diocese for God’s purposes. An Act of Consecration

9means that we want to become Holy! A Consecration involves a conscious

and total renunciation of sin. The better an Act of Consecration is prepared

for with confession, repentance and reparation, by the faithful and clergy, the

more fruitful it will be spiritually speaking. God is greatly pleased with such

Acts of Consecration.

The Highest form of Consecration is of the entire Church and the World,

when the Pope undertakes it in communion with the Bishops. This is what

Our Blessed Mother asked for in Fatima, and which took place on March

25th 1984 at the request of St. John Paul II.

Catholics need to awaken and become holy - for this will give the evangelical

witness which will win our peoples, nations and world to Christ! We have the

task of daily giving to Our Blessed Lady and her Divine Son JESUS - our

lives, and beloved Church, more beautiful and resplendent than they ever

were before!

Over the centuries these Acts of Consecration have been seen and

witnessed as heroic Acts of Faith, often during times of great persecution,

war and National upheaval. Throughout history we have witnessed

extraordinary graces of intervention in their aftermath.

Some people only see these Acts of Consecration as ‘devotions of the little

ones (the anawim), of not much importance’ – they are not! They have been

carried out by Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, Priests and Laity throughout the

rich and complex history of the Catholic Church in all the nations where she

is present. So please HEAR  this, and not confuse it with just another

devotional request!

Fatima, and Acts of Consecrations to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

by successive Popes

Pope Pius XI  supported the propagation of the First Saturdays. He

inaugurated the Feast of Christ the King to counter anti-Christian regimes.

Interestingly, on December 14th 1927, Pope Pius declared St. Therese of

Lisieux Patroness of the Missions, while also naming her as Patroness of all

the works for the conversion of Russia. Sr. Lucia’s pleas to him were not

going unheard!

On October 31st, 1942, Pius XII  spoke to the Portuguese peoples. This

radio broadcast ended with a Consecration of the World to the Immaculate

Heart of Mary which was repeated in Rome on December 8th 1942,

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

10On July 7th, 1952, Pius XII  through his Apostolic Letter “Sacro Vergente

Anno” to the Russian peoples - (“In the Sacred Year that is ending”)

consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, hoping for their

salvation amidst the hostility of the Soviet regime towards religion. The

Consecration came at the end of the letter, and the Pope addressed them as

Dearest Russian Peoples.

Consecration of the peoples of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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Pope Pius XII.

“We, therefore, so that Ours and your prayers are answered more easily, and

to give you a singular attestation of Our particular benevolence, as a few

years ago we consecrated the whole world to the Immaculate Heart of the

virgin Mother of God, so now, in a way very special, we consecrate all the

peoples of Russia to the same Immaculate Heart. In the sure confidence that

with the most powerful patronage of the Virgin Mary, the vows will happily

come true as soon as possible, that We, that you, and all good people work

for a true peace, for a fraternal harmony and due freedom for all, and in the

first place to the Church; so that, through the prayer that We raise together

with you and with all Christians, the saving kingdom of Christ, which is "the

kingdom of truth and life, the kingdom of holiness and grace, the kingdom of

justice, love and peace", triumphs in every part of the earth and is firmly

established.

And with suppliant invocation we pray to the same most clement Mother, so

that she may assist each one of you in the present calamities and obtain from

her divine Son that light which comes from Heaven, and implore for your

souls that virtue and that strength, by which, sustained by divine grace, may

you victoriously overcome every impiety and error. Amen.”

Rome, at Saint Peter's, July 7, 1952,

the feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, XIV Year of Our Pontificate. PIO PP. XII

Pope St. John XXIII, formerly Cardinal Angelo Roncalli, visited Fatima in

1956 as Patriarch of Venice. As Pope he decided not to reveal the third

secret of Fatima in 1960 as the message had instructed. The Pope stated it

was "advisable to preserve the mystery”.

Pope Paul VI  towards the end of the Second Vatican Council on November

21st 1964 referred to the consecration which Pope Pius XII had made, in

reference to Fatima. He then announced that he would present the Shrine in

Fatima with a Golden Rose (Nov 21st 1964).

Sr. Lucia made it clear at these times that Our Lady’s requests had not been

satisfied or fulfilled.

11Pope St. John Paul II  was the Holy Father who finally fulfilled what Our

Blessed Lady asked for. The assassination attempt on his life on May 13th

1981, prompted him, whilst in hospital to request to read the document

containing the secret of Fatima. As he reflected he realised that Our Lady of

Fatima had saved him on the very anniversary of the first apparition.

On May 13th 1982, Pope John Paul II went to Fatima to give thanks to Our

Lady for saving his life, and to make the Act of Consecration. The Pope had

asked to speak with Sr. Lucia before this but was not able to, in order to try

to understand more fully Our Lady’s actual request. Only afterwards was the

Pope able to speak with Sr. Lucia, and discovered that he had not fulfilled all

that was necessary for the Consecration to be accepted. In the light of this

20 minute conversation, the Pope on December 8th, 1983, Solemnity of the

Immaculate Conception, wrote a letter to all the Bishops of the Catholic

Church inviting them to make the Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of

Mary, with him, from wherever they might find themselves on March 25th

(1984) Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord.

Pope John Paul II made the solemn Act of Consecration before the

renowned image of Our Lady of Fatima, which was sent to Rome at his own

personal request. The statue was placed near the papal altar directly above

the tomb of St. Peter. This is the only time a full collegial Act of

Consecration has ever taken place in the history of the Catholic Church.

This was the moment of grace which Heaven fully accepted. Sr. Lucia

endorsed this with gratitude, and thanksgiving.

When I watched the video of this Act of Consecration, I was moved by the

spiritual power of it, in the person of Pope John Paul II. His entire person,

eyes, heart and soul were fixated upon Our Lady of Fatima, and his

vestments flowed gently in the wind, perhaps symbolising a forthcoming

movement of the Holy Spirit, which will break forth upon the world, through

the Motherly and powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Pope John Paul II  followed this momentous Act of Consecration by making

a dramatic gesture of gratitude, for Our Lady saving his life. He offered the

bullet which had targeted him, and shot him to the Bishop of Fatima, who

had it embedded in the Crown of Our Lady of Fatima. It was the final jewel

and most precious jewel in the crown, which fitted perfectly in its centre and

heart.

The Third Secret of Fatima  was published by the Vatican on June 26, 2000,

also during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II. The Vatican released the full

text, which Sr. Lúcia dos Santos, the surviving visionary, affirmed was the

complete vision, she had, under obedience, written down in 1944. It was

published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It contained the

12full text of the vision, a handwritten version by Sr. Lúcia, and a theological

commentary by Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI).

Pope Benedict XVI  consecrated the world's priests to the Immaculate Heart

of Mary in Fatima, Portugal, on May 12, 2010 and, granted a Golden Rose to

Our Lady of Fatima as a tribute of gratitude. Pope Benedict XVI said when

praying before the Statue of Our Lady of Fatima: “It is a profound consolation

to know that you are crowned not only with the silver and gold of our joys

and hopes, but also with the ‘bullet’ of our anxieties and sufferings.”

Pope Francis  led a renewal of the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate

Heart of Mary on both October 13th 2013, and March 25, 2022, a spiritual

plea for peace amid the war between Russia and Ukraine. The act was

intended as a gesture of the universal Church, asking for an end to the

violence by entrusting humanity to the Queen of Peace. The Pope also called

on communities to annually renew this consecration on that same date.

Pope Francis presented a Golden Rose to Our Lady of Fatima during his visit

to the shrine on May 13, 2017 to mark the centenary of the apparitions.

Pope Leo XIV  recently presented with love and devotion a Golden Rose to

Our Lady of Fatima on Saturday October 11th 2025, amidst Jubilee

celebrations of Marian Spirituality. Like St. John Paul II he asked that the

statue of Our Lady of Fatima be brought to Rome for this spiritually

important occasion. His Holiness led a special vigil of Prayer and Rosary for

Peace from St. Peter’s. Then on Sunday October 12th during the closing

Mass of the Marian Spirituality Jubilee, His Holiness solemnly Entrusted/

Consecrated the World, all of Humanity, especially your children who are

tormented by the scourge of war, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is

curious that the catholic media made nothing of this, and if they did, they

called it a prayer to Our Lady??? Very strange!

Within days of this taking place, the historic Peace Plan for the Middle East

was inaugurated, and signed on October 13th 2025, the very anniversary of

Our Lady’s last appearance in Fatima to the three young shepherd children.

A sign to us all that Our Blessed Mother is powerfully at work for the

salvation of souls, and for the peace of the world, and that perhaps the

practice of the First Saturdays is beginning to have an impact.

How do the requests for Consecration and Reparation

lean on one another?

The fullness of the grace of an Act of Consecration is realised when the

solemn Act of Consecration is fully prepared for by repentance, confession

of sin, and prayers, fasting and sacrifices of reparation. We, the catholic

13faithful of today, need to take seriously the call of the Gospel for a radical

personal, communal and national repentance and reparation for our own sins

and those of our families, peoples and nations. We, the lay faithful and our

bishops and priests need to rediscover this basic call! For it is only when we

Catholics awaken and become holy that we can HOPE for the Conversion of

Nations. The graces of an Act of Consecration lean on the fruitfulness of the

response of individual, and communal acts of Reparation.

An Act of Consecration on its own will not bring the graces from HEAVEN for

which we all long for - the peace of Nations and the salvation of souls. Peace

in the world lies initially in the sanctification of the priests and laity of the

Catholic Church, where we grow in Faith, Hope and Charity. As we grow in

love so the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance

will take root, paving the way for empowerment in the Holy Spirit for

apostolic action and evangelisation.

The work and initiation of this great movement of repentance and reparation

will happen when the Church finally endorses, and publicly proclaims the

practice of the First Saturdays of Reparation.

The world again stands on the brink of war

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will you ENACT the Peace

Plan of Heaven for the peace of the world?

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It is in your hands!

Fr. Donald Calloway, leaves us with this stark warning, as he relayed the

following!

‘War is your fault’

My fellow Marian, Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, sometimes tells a story that a

priest ministering in Japan shared with him in Rome. This priest was at an

international gathering of Christians from across the world, attended by

foreign dignitaries. The ambassador from Japan approached the priest and

verified that the priest served in Japan, and was a Catholic priest, and then

said: “War is your fault.”

The priest was surprised and asked what the ambassador meant. The

ambassador said, “You Catholics, all of you

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we do not have peace in the

world. It is your fault”. The priest said, “Ambassador, why do you blame us?”

The ambassador said, “I’ve read about this. The Lady came to you at Fatima,

right? That’s what you believe? She told you what to do to secure peace in

the world. Well, there’s no peace in the world, so obviously you Catholics

haven’t done it.”

The priest had to acknowledge that the ambassador was correct, but still

tried to protest, saying, “Isn’t peace everyone’s responsibility?” The

ambassador was vehement. “No, she came to you Catholics. Not to

Buddhists. Not to Hindus. She came to you, and it is your responsibility.”

14That ambassador had more faith than a lot of Catholics! But he’s right - Our

Lady came and asked for specific things at Fatima. If we had listened to her,

and did what she had asked, there would be peace in the world! Imagine if

we had listened …. what a different world we would live in today!

The Holiness of catholics in the Church matters

Finally let us look at, and unpack the deeper meaning of the Prayers of

Reparation given by the Angel of Portugal to Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco

before the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima began:

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love You! I ask pardon of You for

those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love

You.

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I

offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus

Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the

outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. And

through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart, and of the

Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners.

The Angel spoke of indifference!  It matters how we behave in Church, and

give witness to our Faith. It matters how we enter Church, and place our

fingers in the Holy Water Stoop, and then make the sign of the Cross. Do we

do it with loving intention, witnessing to our faith in Jesus Christ, the Most

Holy Trinity? Do we genuflect with love, and reverence to the Blessed

Sacrament? Do we genuflect with intention and care? As we enter into one

of the benches do we immediately begin to commune with Jesus, or do we

attract the attention of people we know ,and begin to chat, and disturb those

endeavouring to commune with the Lord? How sad it must be for the Lord to

see so many parish churches full of chattering people, treating our churches

as if they are concert halls or council chambers?

So many Catholics seem to have forgotten that Our Divine Lord dwells

silently in the Blessed Sacrament awaiting our love, prayers and adoration.

Need I say more!

How do we receive Holy Communion? Are we approaching Holy Communion

with faith, reverence and love whether on the tongue or in the hand as a

throne? Are we receiving Jesus with reverence and love? After we have

received Jesus, do we make the sign of the Cross? Do we return to our

kneelers and deeply commune with Him?

15And then we look at the outrages and actual sacrileges of the Holy

Eucharist which so offend Our Lord. Receiving Holy Communion in a state

of unconfessed serious sin, and sadly actual attacks on the Holy Eucharist,

carelessness in handling the sacred Body and Blood of Christ, thefts of the

Sacred Species, and sadly so much more …..

The prayers of Reparation of the Angel of Fatima are more needed today

than when they were first uttered by the Angel in 1916. We would do well to

meditate on these prayers often and pray them. It matters what witness we

give in our churches to children and young people. It matters what witness

we give in our churches to fellow catholics and to non believers! Why is it

that so many people, especially young people in our churches, do not know

how to genuflect, make the sign of the Cross, receive Holy Communion with

reverence, or even know the basic prayers?

The monthly First Saturdays of Reparation are a monthly means to bring this

all before the Lord, and his Holy Mother in Reparation. They are a means to

revaluate our catholic practice and witness. Pope St. John Paul II fulfilled Our

Lady’s request for the Consecration of Russia on March 25th 1984. Pope

Benedict XIV, Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV have all made significant Acts

of Consecration since, in times of Global crisis. The Pope’s have done their

part, and continue doing their part! We need to do ours through the practice

of the First Saturdays!

Lucia when petitioning Pope John Paul II about the Consecration, wrote in

1982: “I humbly lament and beseech the Consecration of Russia to the

Immaculate Heart of Mary in union with all the bishops of the world. So that

this consecration is a bond of union of all the members of the Mystical Body

of Christ, who with Mary, the Mother of Christ and Our Mother, offer to the

Lord to complete the work of Redemption of the world.”

This is beautiful, and invites us all to renew daily, this bond of union of all

members of the Mystical Body of Christ with the Pope and Bishops of the

world. We are in this together with Mary our Co Redemptrix who will obtain

from God, the Conversion of Russia, and that of the whole world through the

Reparation of the First Saturdays, and the graces obtained through the

Collegial Act of Consecration of March 25th 1984, and other Acts of

Consecration both before and after.

Take note again!  - the fragile peace accord for the Middle East was signed

on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima - October 13th 2025! Perhaps a sign that

the graces of our First Saturdays are at work?

Pray the Rosary daily for Peace & practice the First Saturdays of

Reparation. The Peace of the World depends upon your response!

Antonia Moffat

October 2025

Background Reading

1. A Pathway Under the Gaze of Mary  - Biography of Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus

and the Immaculate Heart by the Carmel of Coimbra.

2. Inside the Light

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Understanding the Message of Fatima by Sr. Angela de

Fatima Coelho - Postulator for Venerable, Servant of God Sr. Lucia dos Santos, &

previously for both St. Jacinta and St. Francisco.

3. Fatima and the First Saturdays  - Communal First Saturdays publication

4. The Message of Fatima  - by Sr. Lucia

5. Numerous other books by Sr. Lucia, various priests and WAF publications.

I highly recommend the reading of the above books.

Daily Prayer in preparation of the Centennial of the apparition of the

Infant Jesus and His Virgin Mother (December 10th 1925)

to the Venerable Servant of God Lucia dos Santos

O Virgin Mother of God and my dearest Mother, Our Lady of Fatima of the Most Holy

Rosary, I gaze upon your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart pierced with so many thorns by

the ingratitude and grievous sins of your children. I am deeply and forever sorry for how

my sins have offended your Divine Son and you, His sinless Mother. With a humble and

contrite heart, I wish to make reparation for the offences - great and small - given to your

Heart by the sins of your children.

In your maternal love, you have taught me, through your daughter, the Venerable Servant

of God Lucia dos Santos, the way to make reparation for sins by the First Saturdays

Devotion. On the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of your apparition, together with the

Infant Jesus, to the Venerable Servant of God, on December 10, 1925, I pledge to

observe the First Saturday of the month in heartfelt reparation for sins by the sacramental

confession of my sins, by the worthy reception of Holy Communion, by the recitation of

five decades of the Rosary, and by keeping company with you for fifteen minutes while

meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary. Please intercede for me that my practice of

the First Saturdays Devotion may redound to the salvation of many souls and to peace in

the world.

Help me also to bring your message of the First Saturdays Devotion to others. In

obedience to your maternal counsel, may the Church throughout the world offer to you

this loving act of humble and contrite hearts in sincere reparation for sins committed.

I give my heart completely to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart and, with you, I rest

my heart forever in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. With all my heart, I offer this prayer in

Him Who alone is my salvation. Amen.

Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke  - September 8th 2025 - Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

17Act of Entrustment to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pope Leo XIV

on occasion of the closing Mass in St. Peter's Square

for the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality

October 12th 2025

Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our Hope,

your caring presence in this Year of Grace

accompanies and consoles us and gives us,

in the dark nights of history, the certainty

that in Christ evil is overcome and every person

is redeemed by his love.

Perfect disciple of the Lord, you have treasured

all things of God in your heart.

Teach us to listen to the word of God

and to understand it interiorly so that we may walk confidently

on the path of holiness.

To your Immaculate Heart we entrust

the whole world and all of humanity,

especially your children who are tormented

by the scourge of war.

Advocate of grace, advise us on the path

of reconciliation and forgiveness,

do not fail to intercede for us,

in joy and in sorrow, and obtain for us

the gift of peace that we earnestly implore.

Mother of the Church, welcome us kindly,

so that under your mantle, we may find refuge,

and be helped by your maternal aid

in the trials of life.

With you, Immaculate Virgin,

we magnify the Lord,

recognising at every moment

the great works of his love.

Holy Virgin, Mother assumed into Heaven,

Queen of Peace, Lady of the Immaculate Heart,

pray for us!