Fatima
"Calls" from the Message of Fatima
$14.95 - 304 pages - Soft
Cover |
Finding herself inundated with constantly repeated questions concerning
the apparitions and the visionaries, the message they received and the
reason for some of the requests contained in that message, and feeling
that it was beyond her to reply individually to each questioner, Sister
Lucia asked the Holy See for permission to write a text in which she
could
reply in general to the many questions that had been put to her.
This permission was granted, hence the present work entitled in English: ‘Calls’ from the Message of Fatima. The work is, in effect, a long letter, written entirely by Sister Lucia and addressed by her to all those who have written to her concerning their doubts, questions, and difficulties, and their desire for greater fidelity in living up to what was asked for from Heaven in the Cova de Irai. |
 by Sister Lucia $9.95 - 240 pages - Soft Cover |
The 11th edition of the first volume of Sister Lucia's Memoirs in the English language has been enriched in relation to the previous editions. To the previous editions. To the first four Memoirs, written by the command of the Bishop of Leiria, Jose Alves Correira de Silva, and to the Appendices I and II, accounts of the apparitions in Pontevedra and Tuy - in fulfillment of the promise of 13 July 1917: "...I will come to the Communion of Reparation on the first Saturdays" are now joined the text of the important document entitled "The Message of Fatima", with the third part of the "secret", which John Paul II entrusted to the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith with the charge of making it public after preparing a suitable commentary. Thus, with the publication of the third part of the "secret" received from Our Lady by the three Little Shepherds on 13 July 1917, the entire Message of Fatima is now contained in this first volume. |
Fatima in Lucia's own words II $8.95 - 204 pages - Soft Cover |
The publication of this book can be seen as forming part of this dynamism. There are publications which pave the way for certain happinings, and there are others which are the fruit of such happenings. This one is consequence of the International Year of the Family. Although urged by, and under obedience to her superiors, to some extent Sr. Lucia wrote these Memoirs, in particular the one about her mother, under the impulse of this spirit of support for families. Her parents' home, which Sister Lucia inherited and gave to the Shrine in Fatima, has been transformed by those in charge of it into a place of pastoral reflection on the Family for the benefit of the pilgrims who visit it. The emphasis at Fatima is on the family. The Memoirs about her parents, "admirable examples of a Christian family, united in faith, hope and love" are, in a sense, a letter written by Sister Lucia to all who are concerned for the future of marriage and the family. |
