Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and The Message of Fatima

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Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

God sent Our Blessed Mother to Fatima with the message that He wants to establish in the world devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God wishes to establish this devotion for a number of important reasons. He knows that through this devotion, many souls will be saved. When the three children of Fatima were shown a vision of hell, Our Lady said to them: You have just seen hell where the souls of sinners go. To save them God wishes to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart. In his book, The Glories of Mary, St. Alphonsus Liguori proves that it is impossible for a client of Mary to be lost eternally if he is faithful in honoring Her and recommending himself to Mary Most Holy. Thus we can see why God is anxious (so to speak) to establish devotion to Marys Immaculate Heart. If we do what St. Alphonsus teaches, that is, persevere in the practice of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, then he assures us of eternal salvation. Pope Leo XIII taught that all graces that come to us, come from God through the Humanity of Jesus Christ, through the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary. God wants us to realize that He grants all graces, including that of final perseverance, through Mary. God wants to establish devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary because when this devotion is established, true Christian peace will come to the world as a result of the grace of God flowing to mankind through the intercession of Marys Immaculate Heart. In the Message of Fatima, God is letting us know that in order to bring peace to the world, He requires of us not only our prayers and merits, but also our appeal to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As St. Augustine says, God wants to grant certain favors and graces to men, but because men are unworthy of them, He will not grant them except through the intercession of the saints. As we are told at Fatima, peace will not be granted to the world except through the intercession and merits of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At Fatima, God promised that true Christian peace will be given to mankind when the Catholic bishops of the world, together with the Pope, on one special day, solemnly consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. When peace is brought to the world, and people see that it came
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about as a result of the consecration to the Immaculate Heart, then they will realize the importance of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. As a result, very many more people will begin to practice devotion to the Immaculate Heart and many souls will thereby be saved. True peace in the world will not only mean no war, but there will also be no instigation of class struggle by militant atheists whose real purpose is slavery of the people especially the poor under a cruel dictatorship. There will also be no subversion of morals and no tacit approval of crimes (such as abortion) against human rights by governments, but rather, there will be real truth, justice, and peace throughout society. Without the grace of God, we as individuals and societies, countries, nations and states, can do nothing. We need the grace of God, which comes to us through Jesus, Mary, and the Church to have peace in the world. -----------------------------------For further reading: Basis for Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Total Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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