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INTRODUCTION As the second millennium gives way to the third, Pope John Paul II has decided to publish the text of the third part of the “secret of Fatima”. The twentieth century was one of the most crucial in human history, with its tragic and cruel events culminating in the assassination attempt on the “sweet Christ on earth”. Now a veil is drawn back on a series of events which make history and interpret it in depth, in a spiritual perspective alien to present-day attitudes, often tainted with rationalism. Throughout history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs which go to the heart of human events and which, to the surprise of believers and non-believers alike, play their part in the unfolding of history. These manifestations can never contradict the content of faith, and must therefore have their focus in the core of Christ's proclamation: the Father's love which leads men and women to conversion and bestows the grace required to abandon oneself t...

Today, we celebrates the feast of our Lady of Fatima. There are three things i would like to share with you. 1. The Story of the three children whom the Virgin Mary appeared to Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta by Michael Jones taken from http://www.medjugorjeusa.org/fatima.htm. 2. The Secrets of Fatima as revealed by the Congregation of Faith 3. Present Philippine Concern 1. The Story By Michael K. Jones In the year of 1916 three shepherd children, Lucia d os Santos, age nine and her two cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Mart o, age eight and six respectively tended their parents flock of sheep. It was a fine spring morning for grazing sheep on Lucia's father property. The children played as the sheep feasted on the grass. Suddenly there was a change in the weather. A steady drizzle fell and the breeze was chilling from a northwest wind. Quickly gathering the sheep they lead them to a small wooded area where they too k shelter in a cave. The drizzle proved to be just a pa...