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Hey there, Spruz. Today is, May 15th, 2019. It is also the feast day of St. Isidore, the farmer.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about Our Lady of Fatima. Of course, her feast day was Monday, May 13th. But this whole week,

we are talking about this amazing apparition, the amazing time that she appeared to three

poor shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. We've already talked about the three visionaries, Lucia and her two cousins,

Francisco and Hesinta. Yesterday we talked about where Mary appeared and what she looked like,

and we also talked about how many people either didn't believe the children, including their

own parents, and also how authorities at the

time really tried to stop the children and even threatened to kill them. And yet many other

people believed them and flocked to the pasture each month on 13th when Mary would appear to them.

Today we're going to talk about the message of Fatima.

Mary appeared to the children each month on the 13th, and she spoke with them.

She had two main things that she spoke of most of the time, and then in July, on July 13th, she revealed three secrets to the children.

So first of all, let's talk about the two main things that she urged the children and through them she urges us to do.

Those two things were to pray and to make sacrifices. Mary, as we know her, Our Lady of Fatima,

is also called Our Lady of the Rosary. Both Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lady of Rosary refer to

her apparitions in Fatima.

She encouraged them over and over again to pray the rosary.

If you remember, Mary herself gave the rosary to St. Dominic.

It is a powerful prayer.

It was Pope John Paul II, who's now a saint. It was his favorite prayer, along with many other great saints. Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta loved the

rosary. St. Padre Pio, nearly every saint has loved the rosary. And Mary again urges us to pray the rosary,

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