These words, spoken by Our Lady of Fatima, are being full filled before our very eyes as Vladimir Putin invades the land where my German refugees settled for a time, Odessa.
In these days of danger, let us continue to entrust this whole affair to Our Lady of Fatima. She promised that Her Immaculate Heart would be our refuge and the way to God.
so, fear not, little flock. Our Lady will take care of us.
I found this quote from In Sinu. In many ways this is my journey with ALS. It is a constant state of stigmata. It allows me to draw many souls, because I don’t have the pride of my invisible sufferi
ng.
It is normal that a priest be stigmatised; what is not normal, in fact, is that he not be. The real union with the Crucified each day at the altar should leave the traces of His holy wounds in his hands, in his feet, and in his heart. In offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the priest is totally assimilated to Jesus crucified. This the Father sees; this the angels see; it is only men who do not see it.
The depth of the impression of the wounds of Jesus in the heart and in the soul of the priest is proportionate to his degree of abandonment to the embrace of Jesus, who desires only to unite him to Himself. In some, the interior impression is so strong that it manifests itself even in the flesh of the priest; in others, the identification with the Crucified remains all interior and hidden; in still others, it is barely sketched in the soul of the priest, because he rebels against the idea of letting himself be crucified with Christ, and wants to keep his life for himself.
To ascend to the altar to offer there the Holy Sacrifice is already to offer oneself to the piercing of the nails and of the lance, and to the crown of thorns. To offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is already to risk the secret interior stigmatisation that the Father sees, who sees in secret, and the angels who are admitted to contemplate the immolation of the Lamb renewed in the body and in the soul of a man.To offer oneself to the interior stigmatisation is entirely in the logic of priestly ordination. In some men, God permits it to be manifested visibly, with outpourings of blood. In others, the same mystery is lived in secret, without any outward manifestation. It remains that every priest is chosen to bear the marks of the Passion of Christ, and to be the living icon of His immolation each day upon the altar.
In Sinu Jesu
Our Lady of Fatima to the three shepherd children in Fatima:
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 against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated
In these days of confusion about the Ukraine and Russia, we would do well to ramp up our devotion, prayer, and penance. The Lord has many ways to get our attention and call us to conversion. War is one of them. So, yes, pray for peace, but if God does not grant it, remember we did not heed the message of Fatima.
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.
