Day Seven

Man is always his own worst enemy.  He deliberately
shuts his eyes to the truth.  He turns away from his
salvation and pretends he does not see it.

So we are not surprised that the simple platform of
peace laid down by heaven's queen aroused the
fierce opposition of God's enemies.

The little shepherds of Fatima were treated by the
agnostic officials of the country as if they were
criminals.

Every effort was made to keep Mary herself from
reappearing.

A conspiracy of silence, deliberate and brutal,
was developed so that Christendom would not learn
how easy was the program by which to end war
and keep peace.

Men had their own elaborate programs of
armament and treaties, of balanced power
and unbalanced budgets, of cultivated alliances
and more carefully cultivated national enmities.  They
did not want God's plan for peace or Our Lady's
invincible weapon--the rosary.

Yet despite persecution and the deliberate
hiding of the truth, despite hatred and opposition
the news of Fatima spread.

Pius XII gave the world a prayer by which it could
dedicate itself to the immaculate heart of Mary.
And millions took up the rosary, the weapon
of lasting peace.

To Mary of Fatima we pray:

The Prayer of the Queen of the Rosary

O God, whose only-begotten Son by His life, death
and Resurrection hath purchased for us
the reward of eternal salvation, grant, we
beseech thee, that meditating on these
mysteries in the most holy rosary of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, we may both imitate
what they contain, and obtain what they promise.
Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, who livest and
reignest with God the Father in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
Amen.
 

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