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Fatima 1916: The final
apparition of the Angel
by Tim Tindal-Robertson, National President,
World Apostolate of Fatima, England & Wales
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t was about this time of year, one hundred years ago in 1916, that the Angel appeared for the last time
to the three shepherd children of Fatima, holding a chalice into which drops of blood were falling from
a consecrated host above it. Leaving the chalice and host suspended in the air, the Angel prostrated on the
ground beside the children and repeated this prayer three times:
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
I adore you profoundly and I offer you the most
precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus
Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world,
in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and
indifference with which He Himself is offended.
And through the infinite merits of His most
Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners.
Lady from heaven”, on 13th May 1917. On that day,
after they had seen themselves in God in the light from
Our Lady’s hands, whose rays “penetrated our hearts
and the innermost depths of our souls”, they were
moved to kneel down and repeat in their hearts, “O
Most Holy Trinity, I adore you! My God, my God, I
love you in the most Blessed Sacrament”.
At Fatima, by the desire of Jesus, the divine mysteries
The Angel then gave the host to Lucia, and the of our faith were manifested through His holy Mother
contents of the chalice to Blessed Francisco and in the lives of “mere children” (Mt 11: 25), for the first
Blessed Jacinta.
time in the Church’s history. May this prayer help
to prepare us too to celebrate the Centenary of Our
Angels “belong to him [Christ] because they were Lady’s apparitions in 2017.
created through him and for him … [as] messengers
of his saving plan” (CCC, 331). To recite the words
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of this prayer, taught by the Angel to the child seers
in front of the miraculously suspended chalice and
host issuing drops of the Precious Blood, is spiritually
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to offer in reparation to the Most Holy Trinity the
in accordance with the Roman Rite
sacrifice of Jesus on the cross re-enacted in the Mass
when, as the prayer states, Jesus becomes present in
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the consecrated host, in his Body, Blood, soul and
with the Order of Mass
divinity (cf. CCC, 1330).
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Only the priest can offer the holy sacrifice of the
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Mass, but this prayer can be offered by anyone,
including children as young as Blessed Jacinta, aged 6,
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and Blessed Francisco, aged 8; and it is offered to the
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Most Holy Trinity,