This is the movement of the Holy Family.

So welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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

Now today is the Feast of Saints Francesco and Jacinta of

Fatima, for on this day in 1920 Jacinta died of the Spanish flu and Francesco not long after her.

However, from 1916 to 1917, the Guardian Angel of Portugal and Mary, the Mother of God,

appeared to these two children with their cousin Lucia,

they were only 10, 9, and 7.

The apparitions culminated with the miracle of the sun, witnessed by more than 70,000 people

and reported by the secular newspapers the next day.

And what was our lady's message to these three children

who were then to give it to the whole world? People have forgotten God and have

turned away from him.

And anyone who does so by their own free choice and turns away from God until death

turns away forever and this is hell. But Mary is the mother of all

people and she's come from heaven to earth on a rescue mission to save her

children from hell and lead them to heaven.

She asks for our help in this rescue mission,

primarily by two things, to pray the Rosary every day and to offer sacrifices

for the conversion of sinners.

Little Francesco and Jacinta took this seriously and helped to save

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