Comments on: Feastday of Our Lady of Fatima

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:23:01 +0000

Hi, Terry; thanks for stopping in. It is an interesting fact about the timing of Sr. Lucia’s and JPII’s deaths, isn’t it. I only found out about that recently. They had such a close spiritual connection during their lives, brought together by Our Lady of Fatima, and I suppose by the famous third secret…

By: terry

terry — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:54:07 +0000

I was catching up and I read a lot in your last few posts that captured my attention.

Regarding Fatima, I always thought it was interesting that Sr. Lucia and John Paul II died within weeks of each other. And I really do get the “peace for the sake of peace and not to avoid the horror of war” theme.

I love Merton’s imagery of the “supreme graces of solitude and society” coinciding.

If I opened a book and found a note that had my name and that message on it I would have been ecstatic. A love note from heaven.

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:10:31 +0000

As I read this beautiful prayer, I flashed back to the Merton post I had done on Christmas Eve, in remembrance of the troops:

“…the best reason for loving peace is not that war is horrible. A nation that loves peace because war is degrading, disgusting, unpleasant, brutalizing, filthy, etc. will get in plenty of trouble. No matter how horrible anything is there has to be a better reason, than its horribleness, for our hating it.”

The prayer to Our Lady of Fatima for peace is another reminder, isn’t it, that true peace is God’s peace, coming from a foundation of love for our brothers and sisters, from a conversion of hearts (as Ann also reminds us – harden not your hearts).

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:03:36 +0000

Mary has very clearly indicated to the world the means by which to bring about peace. The same could be said of her words as are said of those of her Son:
O that today you would listen to His voice
Harden not your hearts.
What a beautiful excerpt you have chosen, Gabrielle.

By: Laure

Laure — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:48:50 +0000

May these words find their way into ebb and flow of our days . . . not as an ideal but as our very life.

By: Our Lady of Fatima : I see a light, a bright light

Our Lady of Fatima : I see a light, a bright light — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:37:02 +0000

[...] Today is a commemoration of Our Lady of Fatima. I don’t have enough to say about this, so I’ll link over to the Contemplative Haven. Ave Maria, thank you for caring. [...]

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:54:18 +0000

Amen, and amen.

She never gives up, does she?

A blessed Fatima Day is wished to all who see this.

(And thank you for the explanation in the other post, G.)