One By One!
By: Silvio Mattacchione (March 2005 "Inside the Vatican")
The most important message in the world today is one many successors of Peter have pointed us toward in recent decades. The message is neither sensational nor confusing; it does not concern itself with trifles; what tasks us to do is not impossible for us to attain; we can, in our own lives, help to accomplish it.
It is... the message of Fatima.
The message of Fatima is the best hope we have to obtain real peace in our world. If we really want peace, if we really want to avoid war, why do we not follow the requests of Our Lady of Fatima,. Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix?
Perfect happiness consists in suffering much for Our Blessed Lord, who willed to suffer so much for us! We most give faith back to souls. There alone lies salvation for society and individuals.
One with Mary, we can help many souls to encounter Jesus Christ. Without Our Blessed Mother this cannot be done. We must dedicate our lives, our strengths, our health to this great mission. We must evangelize, for this was the very mission of Our Lord. We must go to the poor, to the workers, to the humble, to the little ones, to the abandoned and to all of those who suffer. We must speak to them, show them and teach them of the Kingdom of God. If we wish to triumph with Him, we must fight with Him.
Everything speaks to us Of the Cross. Contemplate the Crucified, for suffering is the consecration of all Christian life.
Let us therefore take our stand at the foot of the Cross with Our Mother and His. Let us wield her Most Holy Rosary well, and reach out to all souls while it is still possible, for Heaven and Hell are locked in modal combat and the earth shakes from the shock of the encounter.
As the foundress of the Propagation of the Faith and The Living Rosary; Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot was endowed with a unique vision and a profound common sense. Pauline Jaricot was born into a devout Catholic family in Lyon, France , on July 22, 1799. She had a great concern for the peoples of Asia and dreamed of becoming a great missionary. At 17 she took a perpetual vow of virginity, and at 18 composed a treatise on the Infinite Love of the Divine Eucharist.