The prayer of three children changed the world!

On May 13, 2020, Catholics celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, to commemorate the first apparition of the Virgin Mary to three young Portuguese shepherds in 1917. The Church has learned many lessons from them, especially this one:

We often say and believe that children can change the world. This is not because of their personal witness, or the influence that some can have on their peers, or their political influence, even though they can sometimes play a significant role in doing so. Their real power to change the world lies in three things: consoling God through prayer, converting sinners through sacrifice, and being faithful to Jesus with the help of Mary, by praying the Rosary.

The children of Fatima provide a good example of this: their Rosaries and other prayers stopped the spread of Communism, generations of Catholics began to offer sacrifices to God for others, and they gave rise to an unprecedented movement of Marian consecration throughout the world.

The feast of Our Lady of Fatima is now on the Church's liturgical calendar to remind us that the children of Fatima’s mission on this earth is far from over.

Adapted from Aleteia