{"id":22003,"date":"2017-09-13T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/fr-mitch-pacwa-asks-are-you-ready-to-answer-our-lady-of-fatima-54359\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T21:29:00","slug":"fr-mitch-pacwa-asks-are-you-ready-to-answer-our-lady-of-fatima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2017\/09\/fr-mitch-pacwa-asks-are-you-ready-to-answer-our-lady-of-fatima\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Mitch Pacwa asks: Are you ready to answer Our Lady of Fatima?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Worcester, Mass., Sep 13, 2017 \/ 03:29 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The first time Our Lady of Fatima appeared to the shepherd children, she asked a question.<\/p>\n

For Father Mitch Pacwa, S.J., host of \u201cEWTN Live,\u201d this question could be addressed to each one of us today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe certainly are inheriting a lot of problems that have been percolating for a while,\u201d he told a crowd of hundreds gathered Sept. 9 at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass. for the EWTN Family Celebration. \u201cWe\u2019re certainly seeing a lot of tension in our country that\u2019s even different from the sixties: there\u2019s more tension and anger at one another than we\u2019ve seen since the sixties, and perhaps a bit more intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe pray that we can avoid the mistakes that came by the failures to listen to the message of Fatima,\u201d Fr. Pacwa said.<\/p>\n

Like she asked the shepherd children a century ago, \u201c(Our Lady) asks the question each one of us has to answer: \u2018Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for all the sins by which He is offended and for supplication for the conversion of sinners?\u2019,\u201d the priest said.<\/p>\n

In 1915, an angel appeared near Fatima, Portugal to young Lucia dos Santos and three of her friends as they prayed the rosary in the fields. An angelic figure later appeared on several occasions to Lucia and her two cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto. The figure spoke to them about Jesus\u2019 and Mary\u2019s \u201cplans of mercy\u201d and on his last visit gave them Holy Communion.<\/p>\n

On May 5, 1917 Pope Benedict XV published a pastoral letter asking the faithful to ask Mary to bring an end to World War I.<\/p>\n

Eight days later, the Virgin Mary appeared to Lucia and her cousins. In a series of six apparitions, she asked them to recite the Rosary and to make sacrifices on behalf of sinners. She also brought them a three-part secret regarding the fate of the world, urging the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart.<\/p>\n

This Oct. 13 will mark the 100th anniversary of the \u201cMiracle of the Sun,\u201d when some 70,000 people gathered in response to the children\u2019s reports and witnessed the sun spin and twirl in the sky, at one point seeming to veer towards earth before returning to its place.<\/p>\n

For Fr. Pacwa, the historical context was important to remember.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can look back at many points in history and see God\u2019s activity as appropriate for its own place and time,\u201d he said.\u201d God is not there to waste effort and time, but rather to have a purpose for the salvation of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Fatima is an event that occurs at something of a key turning point in the history of western Christianity. And for all Christianity in the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At the time, Portugal itself was under the influence of Masonic government officials, and revolution was stirring in Russia. The western world was formed by atheistic philosophies, nationalism and a Darwinian \u201csurvival of the fittest\u201d mentality that ignored \u201cthe weeping mothers and fathers of the sons who died\u201d in the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1915, Pope Benedict ordered all the churches to pray for the Sacred Heart for peace. Germany, France and Spain refused to pray for peace,\u201d Fr. Pacwa said. \u201cThey absolutely refused and would not allow the prayers to go on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why in 1916, the angel of peace was sent to Fatima: to teach the children to pray. He was sent there to teach them especially that real prayer: \u2018My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I ask pardon of you for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you.\u2019 And they felt that strong hope of God\u2019s presence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fr. Pacwa emphasized the question of Fatima.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you willing to offer yourself?\u201d he asked, saying this is something each Catholic can and ought to do every time he or she goes to Mass.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the offertory, offer ourselves with the bread and the wine, so that when Christ transforms the bread and wine at the consecration, and transubstantiates it into his Body and Blood, so also he may take our offering of ourselves and transform it to him, unite our self-offering with his offering on the cross.\u201d<\/p>\n

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