The two recent articles on Fatima uncovered a firestorm of disagreement. Some said that The Church had properly obeyed Mary’s instructions to Consecrate Russia, by name, to Her Immaculate Heart. The same people tended to agree that The Third Secret had been released.
The opinions are fiercely held. This Catholic writer has never been threatened with “pulling your plug” simply for suggesting that the Fatima Instructions, given by The Mother of God after her great Miracle at Fatima, do not seem to have been fully and promptly carried out. I didn’t expect to see a dead horse’s head under my bedspread, but it did cross my mind.
I could tell from the insults that many sincere Catholics did not feel comfortable with the thought that something kept the Church hierarchy from responding promptly to Mary’s instructions. They were even less willing to consider what it might have been. I understand that!
Interestingly, not one person said “Mary’s instructions to Consecrate Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and to release the Third Secret in 1960, were obeyed so quickly, openly, and publicly that there was no question that The Church was eager to punctually obey The Mother of God.”
Prompt, public obedience is a much better response to a direct order from a superior than documented decades of delay and obfuscation. Hopefully, in our own lives, we will be more prompt in doing what God asks than we’ve seen in the example that has been set for us by The Church hierarchy.
Who could argue with those two points?
Fatima. Maybe this analogy will help: Your mother has passed on while you are a young child. After many years, she miraculously appears in living form to three children surrounded by neighbors and tells them: “Billy’s room is a mess. Tell him to clean his room. If Billy cleans up his room, then the whole house will be straightened up.”
The neighbor excitedly reports to Billy: “Your mother appeared to me from beyond! Your neighbors (nodding in the background) saw her! She told me to tell you to clean up your room. Then, the whole house may be put in order.”
Sixty years go by! Billy’s room is still a mess. He just would not do what his mother said.
Finally, the neighbors’ complaints reach a crescendo. Billy goes in and reluctantly gives his room a lick and a promise.
The house is still a mess.
