Highly Recommended by Ralph Martin (over 200 pages). https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=fatima+in+lucia's+own+words+pdf
Highly recommended - Lucia describes the suffering of little Jacinta for poor sinners to prevent them falling into hell - I recommend that everyone on this forum reads pages 45 - 63 over the Easter Triduum. They recount Jacinta's reactions and meditations upon seeing hell, her sufferings and death. What a heroic little lady she was in imitation of Our Lady. Those pages are a summation of true Catholic spirituality. Contrast with the current hierarchy and also Bishops like Barron who erroneously think hell might be empty -- they are in for a shock - When you read this book you realise the current malaise in the Church goes deep & it is shocking to realise how out of touch with spiritual realities most Catholics are today. It is almost like there are two different religions, the 'pre-Vatican II spirituality' shines through in this book in contrast to the 'nice' religion of ecumenism, dialogue and laxity because everyone is going to heaven, Kum Ba Ya! ----------------------------------------- I am going to Lisbon in late July and hope to spend a day in Fatima. But I might also try to visit the children's hospital where little Jacinta died. I wonder if they would let you see the ward in which she died?
Jacinta remained sitting on her rock, looking very thoughtful, and asked: “That Lady also said that many souls go to hell! What is hell, then?” “lt’s like a big deep pit of wild beasts, with an enormous fire in it – that’s how my mother used to explain it to me – and that’s where people go who commit sins and don’t confess them. They stay there and burn for ever!” “And they never get out of there again?“ “No!” “Not even after many, many years?” “No! Hell never ends!” “And Heaven never ends either?” “Whoever goes to Heaven, never leaves it again!” “And whoever goes to Hell, never leaves it either?” “They’re eternal, don’t you see! They never end.” That was how, for the first time, we made a meditation on Hell and eternity. What made the biggest impression on Jacinta was the idea of eternity. Even in the middle of a game, she would stop and ask: “But listen! Doesn’t hell end after many, many years, then?” Or again: “Those people burning in hell, don’t they ever die? And don’t they turn into ashes? And if people pray very much for sinners, won’t Our Lord get them out of there? And if they make sacrifices as well? Poor sinners! We have to pray and make many sacrifices for them!” Then she went on: “How good that Lady is! She has already promised to take us to Heaven!” Jacinta took this matter of making sacrifices for the conversion of sinners so much to heart, that she never let a single opportunity escape her. There was a woman in our neighbourhood who insulted us every time we met her. We came upon her one day, as she was leaving a tavern, somewhat the worse for drink. Not satisfied with mere insults, she went still further. When she had finished, Jacinta said to me: “We have to plead with Our Lady and offer sacrifices for the conversion of this woman. She says so many sinful things that if she doesn’t go to confession, she’ll go to hell.” A few days later, we were running past this woman’s door when suddenly Jacinta stopped dead, and turning round, she asked: “Listen! Is it tomorrow that we’re going to see the Lady?” “Yes, it is.” “Then let’s not play anymore. We can make this sacrifice for the conversion of sinners.” Without realizing that some one might be watching her, she raised her hands and eyes to heaven, and made her offering. The woman, meanwhile, was peeping through a shutter in the house. She told my mother, afterwards, that what Jacinta did, made such an impression on her, that she needed no other proof to make her believe in the reality of the apparitions; henceforth, she would not only not insult us any more, but would constantly ask us to pray to Our Lady, that her sins might be forgiven
Thank you, garabandal; what an example Jacinta is! It shows me what a wimp I am. Jacinta lived an eternal Lent with great joy. I am now praying to become like her. Lord, may I suffer for you as an expression of love for how you suffered for me!
Amen, Amen - from another wimp on the forum :-( The poor children to whom Our Lady appeared never denied her anything it seems and suffered with joy for years. Am thinking not only of Fatima, but Lourdes, La Salette, Garabandal, Medjugorje and many others.
Yes. Agree. Jacinta and Francisco advanced very fast into real sanctity. As did Bernadette. All 3 suffered a great deal.
I have that little book. It’s the best one on Fatima. In 2016 I visited Fatima with my youngest daughter. There’s a lovely stations walk on a hillside and we made it together. On our first night we joined the pilgrims on the large concourse and both of us experienced a profound sense of the presence of God, quite independently of each other. We did see the crown which has the bullet that might have killed St JP II but didn’t think of trying to see inside the hospital where Jacinta died.
Thanks! Here's the fifth memoir of Sr. Lucia or Fatima In Lucia's own words II https://disk.yandex.ru/d/v_dTKQh_jVtmU/Writings of the Saints/Marian Apparition/Marian Apparition/Fifth Memoir of Sr Lucia.pdf And Calls by Sr. Lucia https://disk.yandex.com/i/U0xwLL7103emVw Source: Free Catholic Books Pope St John Paul II
