Jacinta's Visions

Jacinta's Visions of the Holy Father

"One day we spent our siesta down by my parents' well. Jacinta sat on the stone slabs on top of the well. Francisco and I climbed up a steep bank in search of wild honey among the brambles in a nearby thicket. After a while, Jacinta called out to me:

'Didn't you see the Holy Father?'

'No.'

'I don't know how it was, but I saw the Holy Father in a very big house, kneeling by a table, with his head buried in his hands, and he was weeping. Outside the house, there were many people. Some of them were throwing stones, others were cursing him and using bad language. Poor Holy Father, we must pray very much for him.

"At another time, we went to the cave called Lapa do Cabeço. As soon as we got there, we prostrated on the ground, saying the prayers the Angel had taught us. After some time, Jacinta stood up and called to me: 'Can't you see all those highways and roads and fields full of people, who are crying with hunger and have nothing to eat? And the Holy Father in a church praying before the Immaculate Heart of Mary? And so many people praying with him?' "

Jacinta's Visions of War

"One day, I went to Jacinta's house to spend a little time with her. I found her sitting on her bed, deep in thought.

'Jacinta, what are you thinking about?'

'About the war that is coming. So many people are going to die, and almost all of them are going to hell! Many homes will be destroyed, and many priests will be killed. Look, I am going to heaven, and as for you when you see the light which the Lady told us would come one night before the war, you run up there too.' " (Fatima In Lucia's Own Words p. 65-66)

"Our Lady said that there is much war and dissension in the world."

Wars are nothing but punishments for the sins of the world."

"Our Lady can no longer hold back the arm of her beloved Son from the world. It is necessary to do penance. If people change their ways, Our Lord will still avail the world; but if they do not, the chastisement will come."

"Our Lord is profoundly indignant at the sins and crimes that are committed in Portugal. For this reason, a terrible social cataclysm threatens our country, particularly the city of Lisbon. It seems that a civil war of anarchic or communist character will break out, accompanied by sackings, assassinations, fires, and devastations of all kinds. The capital will be changed into a veritable image of hell. When Divine Justice, outraged, inflicts so frightful a punishment, all who can should flee from this city. This punishment now predicted should be announced gradually and with due discretion. (See De Marchi, 255; Walsh, 160-161.)

"If men do not change their ways, Our Lady will send the world a punishment the like of which has never been seen. It will fall first... upon Spain." (See De Marchi, 92.)

Jacinta also spoke of "great world events that would take place around 1940." (See De Marchi, 92.)

On Priests and Rulers

"My godmother, pray much for sinners! Pray much for priests! Pray much for religious! Priests should only occupy themselves with the affairs of the Church. Priests should be pure, very pure. The disobedience of priests and religious to the superiors and the the Holy Father greatly offends Our Lord."

"My godmother, pray much for those who govern! Woe to those who persecute the religion of Our Lord! If the government left the Church in peace and gave freedom to the holy Faith, it would be blessed by God." [The reader must bear in mind that with the anti-clerical revolution of 1910, the separation of Church and state was decreed, Church property was confiscated, religious congregations were dissolved, and the use of religious garb was forbidden. It was also stipulated that "ministers of religion enjoy no privileges." - John R. Spann] (See De Marchi, 255-256; Walsh 161.)

On Sin

"The sins that lead more souls to hell are the sins of the flesh."

"Fashions that will greatly offend Our Lord will appear. People who follow God should not follow fashions. The Church has no fashions. Our Lord was always the same."

"The sins of the world are very great."

"If men knew what eternity is, they would do everything to change their lives."

"Men are lost because they do not think of the death of Our Lord and do not do penance."

"Many marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord, and they are not of God."

On Christian Virtue

"My godmother, do not walk in the midst of luxury. Flee from riches. Be very fond of holy poverty and silence."

"Have much charity even for those who are bad. Speak ill of no one and flee from those who do so. Be very patient, for patience leads us to heaven. Mortification and sacrifices greatly please Our Lord."

Confession is a sacrament of mercy. Therefore, one must approach the confessional with confidence and joy. Without confession there is no salvation."

"The Mother of God wants more virgin souls who bind themselves to her by the vow of chastity."

"To be a woman religious, it is necessary to be very pure in soul and body... To be pure in body is to keep chastity. To be pure in soul is not to commit sins, not to look at what one should not see, not to steal, never to lie, always to tell the truth however hard that may be."

"Those who do not keep the promises they make to Our Lady will never succeed in their affairs."

"Doctors do not have the light to cure the sick properly because the do not have love of God."

"Our Lady does not want people to talk in church." (See De Marchi, 252; Walsh, 160.)

Sources

De Marchi, I.M.C., Rev. John. Era uma Senhora mais brilhante que o sol... (It was a Lady more brilliant than the sun...) 3d ed. Cova da Iria, Portugal: Seminári das Missões de Na. De Fátima.

Walsh, William Thomas. Our Lady of Fatima. 4th printing. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947