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The last two remedies: the Holy Rosary

and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Here are extracts from an interview Sister Lucia with full knowledge and will—the salvation that is put
of Fatima (one of the three children to whom the Vir- in our hands.
gin Mary appeared in Portugal in 1917) gave to Fath- “Also, since Our Lord is a very good Son, He
er Augustin Fuentes in 1957: will not permit that we offend and
“Father, the Blessed Virgin did despise His Blessed Mother. We
not tell me that we are in the last have, as obvious testimony, the
times of the world, but I understood history of different centuries where
this for three reasons: Our Lord has shown us, with ter-
“The first is because she told me rible examples, how He has always
that the Devil is engaging in a battle defended the honor of His Blessed
with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It Mother.
is a final battle where one party will “Prayer and sacrifice are the
be victorious and the other will suf- two means to save the world. As
fer defeat. So, from now on, we are for the Holy Rosary, Father, in these
either with God or we are with the last times in which we are living, the
Devil; there is no middle ground. Blessed Virgin has given a new effi-
“The second reason is because cacy to the praying of the Holy Ros-
she told me, as well as my cousins, ary. This in such a way that there is
that God is giving two last remedies no problem that cannot be resolved
to the world: the Holy Rosary and by praying the Rosary, no matter
devotion to the Immaculate Heart of how difficult it is—be it temporal or
Mary. And, being the last remedies, above all spiritual—in the spiritual
that is to say, they are the final ones, life of each of us or the lives of our
means that there will be no others. families, be they our families in the
“And the third, because in the world or Religious Communities, or
plans of the Divine Providence, even in the lives of peoples and na-
tions.
when God is going to chastise the
world, He always first exhausts all other remedies. “I repeat, there is no problem, as difficult as it
When He sees that the world pays no attention what- may be, that we cannot resolve at this time by pray-
soever, then, as we say in our imperfect way of talk- ing the Holy Rosary. With the Holy Rosary, we will
ing, with a certain fear He presents us the last means save ourselves, sanctify ourselves, console Our Lord
of salvation: His Blessed Mother. ,and obtain the salvation of many souls.
“If we despise and reject this last means, Heaven “Then, there is devotion to the Immaculate Heart
will no longer pardon us, because we will have com- of Mary, our Most Holy Mother, holding her as the
mitted a sin that the Gospel calls a sin against the seat of mercy, goodness and pardon, and the sure
Holy Spirit. This sin consists in openly rejecting— door to enter Heaven.” v