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    Why Fatima? The True Secret.
    Why Fatima? The True Secret.
    Why Fatima? The True Secret.
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    Why Fatima? The True Secret.

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    This booklet is not concerned with conspiracy theories or the supposed date the world will end; it is designed to show Fatima’s true place in the history of divine apparitions. As the author says, ‘Fatima carries the weight of every prophecy conceived in heaven – gentle yet firm, simple yet epic, gracious in mercy yet uncompromising and absolute.’
    Before discussing the events of 1918, the reader is given a concise history of Our Lady’s approved apparitions: they include Guadalupe, the Rue de Bac, La Salette and Lourdes, but the author is in no doubt that Fatima both contains and amplifies these earlier revelations – indeed, the author sees it as the ultimate theophany.
    His essay is a most stimulating reflection on the ways of God to man, written in invigorating prose that is the opposite of pious sentiment. There is nothing here of rosaries turning to gold, but much profound meditation on the dialogues between Our Lady and the seers, especially Lucia. There is also a thoughtful and cautionary appendix.
    -Francis Philips. The Catholic Herald.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeo Madigan
    Release dateApr 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301417865
    Why Fatima? The True Secret.
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    Leo Madigan

    Born in New Zealand. Joined the British Merchant Navy at 16. Graduated with B.Ed from London University and taught High School in London and Izmir, Turkey.Currently lives in Fatima, Portugal.

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    Why Fatima? The True Secret. - Leo Madigan

    WHY FATIMA ?

    The True Secret

    Leo Madigan

    Published by Leo Madigan at Smashwords

    Copyright 2013 Leo Madigan

    For Paul MacLeod of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

    Preamble.

    This booklet is not concerned with conspiracy theories or the supposed date the world will end; it is designed to show Fatima’s true place in the history of divine apparitions. As the author says, ‘Fatima carries the weight of every prophecy conceived in heaven – gentle yet firm, simple yet epic, gracious in mercy yet uncompromising and absolute.’

    Before discussing the events of 1918, the reader is given a concise history of Our Lady’s approved apparitions: they include Guadalupe, the Rue de Bac, La Salette and Lourdes, but the author is in no doubt that Fatima both contains and amplifies these earlier revelations – indeed, the author sees it as the ultimate theophany.

    His essay is a most stimulating reflection on the ways of God to man, written in invigorating prose that is the opposite of pious sentiment. There is nothing here of rosaries turning to gold, but much profound meditation on the dialogues between Our Lady and the seers, especially Lucia. There is also a thoughtful and cautionary appendix.

    -Francis Philips. The Catholic Herald.

    Contents:

    The First Theophany

    The Second Theophany

    Preparatory Appearances

    St. Simon Stock

    Guadalupe

    Rue de Bac

    La Salette

    Lourdes

    Knock

    The Third Theophany – Fatima

    The Angel Appearances

    Sunday, 13th May 1917

    Wednesday, 13th June 1917

    Friday 13th July 1917

    Sunday 19th August 1917

    Thursday 13th September 1917

    Thursday 13th October 1917

    1925 10th December Pontevedra

    1926 15th February Pontevedra

    1927 December 17th Pontevedra

    1929 June 29th Tuy

    Why Fatima? – Conclusion

    Appendix. False Apparitions

    Author’s Page

    Foreword.

    Catholics are often mystified about claims for supernatural showings in this world. We don’t doubt that the Divine can, and does, traverse that membrane that separates the dimensions of time from eternity. But how to sift through all the claims, to recognize the authentic and discard the products of fraud and hysteria, is far wide of the capabilities of the unaided individual. Indeed, the Catholic Church itself is the only reliable body with the competence and the machinery to pronounce on these things and she never goes beyond saying that a claim is worthy of belief or, conversely, that she finds no evidence of supernatural involvement.

    That never goes beyond in the last sentence is true inasmuch as the faithful are never required to believe these things, but, on very rare occasions, the Church herself communicates an enthusiasm and reverence for a claim which radiates the fire of Pentecost, and when that happens the conscientious baptized are contrary indeed if they ignore the lead.

    In all the 2000 years of the Church this enthusiasm has never been accorded so unreservedly and to such a degree as it has been to the apparitions of The Lady of the Rosary in the Portuguese parish of Fatima during the summer of 1917.

    What passed during those apparitions – along with subsequent communications made to the seer, Lucia dos Santos who lived till 2005 – reinforced the spirit of the Gospels, and the teachings of the Church Fathers, in a manner at the same time majestic and simple. They provided no new routes to heaven, no hitherto undisclosed map for the successful fulfilment of each person’s individual destiny, but they did renew the sign posts in bold lettering, and establish clear road margins under bright lighting.

    The seven Popes who have followed Benedict XV, the Pontiff at the time of the apparitions, have all been outspoken champions of Fatima, both in a private capacity and as successors of Peter. Pius XII was known as The Pope of Fatima. Each of the five Popes who have succeeded him have made pilgrimages to Fatima, John XXIII and John Paul I as Cardinal Patriarchs of Venice, and Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI while holding the Papal Office.

    No other private revelation has been given such approval by the Church in all her history. Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit speaks through the Church. On this matter the Church has all but strained herself hoarse in an effort to induce the faithful to heed Mary’s firm but, in practice, delightful directions; but the majority, laity and religious, priests and prelates, ignore Mary’s wisdom and the Holy Spirit’s endorsement. They plan their own itinerary though jungles and swamps, war zones and mine fields when they could have travelled under Royal escort to the very Sanctum of the eternal and all-loving Father.

    At first we will try to get a picture of ourselves, the children of Eve in the valley of tears. We will try to get a fresh take on those religious truths we have learned and believed, but which tend to become obscured behind the dust that the tempestuous trivia of daily living churns up around us.

    Next we will concentrate on theophany – a word that simply means God’s appearance among men. Primarily we will explore the three great theophanies of history, those that perhaps mark the morning, midday and evening of mankind’s sojourn beyond Eden – Moses on Sinai, the Incarnation of God in Jesus Christ and, latterly, the appearance of God’s envoy, Mary the Mother of the Christ, at six particular places, starting in England in the 13th century and culminating in the 20th with the definitive apparition at Fatima. Then we will review our conclusions. As a footnote, we will point out the reaction of Satan to the apparitions of Mary in general, and to Fatima in particular.

    That’s the kernel of this little work. If the subject is of no interest then it would be pointless to read further.

    In the Valley of Tears.

    Heaven knocks at the door of every human person but with a gentle, often barely audible tap. Some seem to live their entire lives entertaining so much commotion in their souls that they hear nothing. With others, though they listen intently, heaven is reserved until the time is ripe. Truth is not naïve; nor is it oppressive. It is love’s twin. It bides in the shadows with exquisite patience. Why it should expend so much heavenly energy on our perverse insignificance is a greater mystery than life itself. It is a facet of the mystery of redemption, and the need for redemption is incomprehensible without a concept of Original Sin.

    For our species Original Sin was like those mighty shifts in the earth’s crust which swallows continents, or like perilous black holes in an ordered universe. Whether the Genesis story of the tree with forbidden fruit is true as it stands, or an allegory, is immaterial. I like to think it is true just as it is told, but if it is a nursery story adapted to our limited understanding it conveys a truth just as the Prodigal Son and Pinocchio and Dorian Gray convey a truth. The son rebelled against the father, the creature against the Creator, the art against the artist. God made a self portrait, a miniature and endowed it with a will of its own so that it could recognize and rely on the original. But the creature chose itself. Pride, incredible and blind, thought to outsmart the parent and abandoned home.

    To one way of thinking Adam and Eve weren’t really banished from Paradise, they chose to leave just as the Prodigal Son and Pinocchio chose to leave their father’s house. They chose to leave but, unlike the Prodigal Son, they took nothing with them but their nakedness and their pride. We, their children, have inherited that abominable nudity the rightful clothing of which is the friendship, the

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