Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today, May 13th, we celebrate the feast of our Lady of Fatima.

Because from May 13th to October 13th, 1917, Mary appeared to three Sheppard children in Fatima, Portugal,

Francesco, Jacinta, and Lucia, and these events culminated with the miracle of the sun witnessed by more than 70,000 people.

Now on July 13, 1917, Mary gave the three visionaries a secret with three parts to be revealed on specific dates in the future at just the right time, in order to get us into the game so that we would do our part

to help save souls and alter the events revealed in the secrets.

Now in her memoirs, Lucia relates the first part of the secret of Fatima.

She writes,

Our lady opened her hands once more.

The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth,

and we saw, as it were, a sea of fire, plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like

transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze floating about in the fire.

Amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying

and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals. Terrified and as if to plead for help we looked up at our lady

who said to us so kindly and so sadly,

you have seen hell were the souls of poor sinners go.

This is the first part of the secret of Fatima, confirming the tragic reality that souls go to

hell as a consequence of their own free choice to reject God and His mercy through unrepentant sin.

One month later on August 19th, Mary again appeared and said to the children,

Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners,

for many souls go to hell,

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