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A few years ago Pope Benedict gave a sermon in Fatima about the incompleteness of the message of Fatima and how it is still unfolding:-
"We would
be mistaken to think that Fatima’s prophetic mission is complete. Here there takes on new life the
plan of God which asks humanity from the beginning: “Where is your brother Abel
[…] Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!” (Gen 4:9). Mankind
has succeeded in unleashing a cycle of death and terror, but failed in bringing
it to an end… In sacred Scripture we often find that God seeks righteous men
and women in order to save the city of man and he does the same here, in
Fatima, when Our Lady asks: “Do you want to offer yourselves to God, to endure
all the sufferings which he will send you, in an act of reparation for the sins
by which he is offended and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?” (Memoirs
of Sister Lúcia, I, 162).
At a time
when the human family was ready to sacrifice all that was most sacred on the
altar of the petty and selfish interests of nations, races, ideologies, groups
and individuals, our Blessed Mother came from heaven, offering to implant in
the hearts of all those who trust in her the Love of God burning in her own
heart. At that time it was only to three children, yet the example of their
lives spread and multiplied, especially as a result of the travels of the
Pilgrim Virgin, in countless groups throughout the world dedicated to the cause
of fraternal solidarity. May the seven years which separate us from the
centenary of the apparitions hasten the fulfilment of the prophecy of the
triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to the glory of the Most Holy Trinity."
Benedict XVI
Sermon
Fatima, May 13, 2010
We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s prophetic mission is complete.
Here there takes on new life the plan of God which asks humanity from
the beginning: “Where is your brother Abel […] Your brother’s blood is
crying out to me from the ground!” (Gen 4:9). Mankind has succeeded
in unleashing a cycle of death and terror, but failed in bringing it to
an end… In sacred Scripture we often find that God seeks righteous men
and women in order to save the city of man and he does the same here, in
Fatima, when Our Lady asks: “Do you want to offer yourselves to God, to
endure all the sufferings which he will send you, in an act of
reparation for the sins by which he is offended and of supplication for
the conversion of sinners?” (Memoirs of Sister Lúcia, I, 162).
At a time when the human family was ready to sacrifice all that was most
sacred on the altar of the petty and selfish interests of nations,
races, ideologies, groups and individuals, our Blessed Mother came
from heaven, offering to implant in the hearts of all those who trust in
her the Love of God burning in her own heart. At that time it was only
to three children, yet the example of their lives spread and multiplied,
especially as a result of the travels of the Pilgrim Virgin, in
countless groups throughout the world dedicated to the cause of
fraternal solidarity. May the seven years which separate us from the
centenary of the apparitions hasten the fulfilment of the prophecy of
the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to the glory of the Most
Holy Trinity.
Benedict XVI
Sermon
Fatima, May 13, 2010
- See more at: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/12/2017-prophetic-mission-of-fatima-is-not.html#more
