In this health-centered age, the message of Fatima is more relevant than ever!

"Fatima reminds us that Heaven can’t wait. This is why we should ask Our Lady with filial trust to teach us to bring Heaven to earth."[1]

We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s prophetic mission is complete. Here there takes on new life the plan of God which asks humanity from the beginning: “Where is your brother Abel […] Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!” (Gen 4:9). Mankind has succeeded in unleashing a cycle of death and terror, but failed in bringing it to an end… In sacred Scripture we often find that God seeks righteous men and women in order to save the city of man and he does the same here, in Fatima, when Our Lady asks: “Do you want to offer yourselves to God, to endure all the sufferings which he will send you, in an act of reparation for the sins by which he is offended and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?” (Memoirs of Sister Lúcia, I, 162)." [2]

[1] Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Homily in the square in front of the Shrine of Fatima, May 12, 2010

[2] Pope Benedict XVI, Homily on the Esplanade of the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, 13 May 2010