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To: Robert Drobot
I would hope people would not focus so much on the third secret itself, but the message of Fatima in general. I think Cardinal Ratzinger said it best on 10/13/96 at a Mass at the Cova da Iria:

"To all the curious I would say I am certain that the Virgin Mary does not engage in sensationalism. She does not create fear. She does not present apocalytic visions, but guides people to her Son. And this is what is essential."

He is also quoted as saying on a Catholic Radio interview that "Our Lady did not appear to the Fatima children to create sensation. Mary's purpose is, through these simple children, to call the world back to simplicity, that is, to the essentials: conversion, prayer and the sacraments."

God Bless Sr. Maria Lucia!

21 posted on 02/14/2005 11:09:39 AM PST by Gerish (Choose God, he has already chosen you.)
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To: Gerish

"She does not present apocalytic visions"

Based upon that, we should all ignore what she said at Fatima........and to Lucia post 1917........as well as what she said at Lourdes, LaSallette, Akita, Betania......

She was sent by God to us with warnings - which have, by and large been ignored by the clergy. Woe unto them!


27 posted on 02/14/2005 12:17:11 PM PST by thor76 (Vade retro, Draco! Crux sacra sit mihi lux !)
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