Our Lady of Fatima’s personal question to the three children visionaries

On May 13, 1917, Our Lady said to the little shepherds at Fatima:

“Are you willing to offer yourselves to God to endure all the sufferings He will want to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?”

Unconcerned about the sufferings God was about to send them, the young shepherds entrusted themselves entirely to his will:

“Yes, we do”.

Our Lady welcomed this response as the first fruits of her message and, in a gesture of maternal protection, she enveloped us in God's immense light, while replying:

“Then you will have much to suffer, but God's grace will be your comfort.”

It is this grace that introduced us into the immense ocean of God's light, and impelled us to adore him in the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity and to love him in the divine Eucharist, saying inwardly in the silence of our hearts: 

“O most Holy Trinity, I adore you. My God, my God, I love you in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist.”

Sister Lucia

In Le message de Fatima, Carmel de Coimbra, Fatima 2006, p.36-37