I
am really disappointed. And how !
I
was beginning to respect Pope Franciscus. Many of the things he said
and did made some sense and I honestly believed that they had a Pope,
clever, honest and respectable.
And
then he goes and does something like this:
He
bestows Sainthood on two children, Jacinta and Francisco Marto. Two
of the three Portuguese children, ( the third was one Lucia Santos )
who, in 1917, claimed to have seen Maria, the mother of Jesus, while
they were in the vicinity of their home town of Fatima caring for
their families' sheep.
They
described the apparition in words which sound to me not at all like
words 9 and 10 year old children would use, but rather like words
taught to them by an adult, possibly a priest:
“the
angel ( who only later
became Maria, the mother of God ) was
brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light, clearer and stronger
than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and
pierced by the burning rays of the sun.”
Do relatively uneducated
children of about 10 years of age really talk like that? Or does this
sound more like the language of a Priest who told the kids what to
say?
Mary, the mother of Jesus, the
story continues, gave the children three secrets.
The First, so-called Secret, is
a vision of Hell. Of a mighty fire seemingly under the earth, in
which there were “demons and souls in human form”. There were,
throughout, shrieks and groans of pain and despair.
Goodness Gracious Sake...
Imagine: what a big secret … a vision of Hell ! As if Hell had
not been described in the Bible, and in innumerable books and
paintings before, ad nauseam.
The kids saw those pictures many
times before this vision of theirs revealed the “Big Secret”.
The Second so-called Secret
predicted the end of World War I and the beginning of a new, more
devastating war, should mankind continue offending God and should
Russia not convert.
This “Secret” was revealed
in 1941, when WWI had long since come to an end (1918) and WWII was
well under way. (1939 - 1945)
One wonders why this secret was
not revealed earlier, so that somehow mankind could prepare itself
and maybe even avoid WWII?
I suggest that nothing is easier
than to reveal a Big Secret after the issues it contains have
happened and, in fact have been concluded.
I, Bertstravels, can be the
greatest of all Soothsayers, all Prognosticators about the
past.
Throughout all of it the need
for prayer for peace is emphasized: And we all know, of course, how
much good all the praying for peace has done. The contrary result is
the more likely:
The more people pray, the worse
the killing in warfare gets.
And now we come to Secret # 3.
It, along with Secrets # 1 and
#2, was given to the children in 1917, but was not revealed by the
Vatican until June of 2000.
Lucia Santos, the surviving
member of the three children, insisted that Mary, the Mother of God,
firmly instructed her not to reveal this secret until 1960.
Elsewhere, however, she allows
that this specific year 1960 was not given to her by Mary, but was
her own idea, because, she said, it was only after this year that the
meaning of the Secret would be understood by people.
The
wording of this 3rd
Secret is a bit convoluted and speaks of people, among them Bishops,
Priests and other religious people, ascending a steep mountain, while
trudging through a destroyed city.
It
allows many different interpretation until finally, Pope Ratzinger,
came up with a wonderful explanation:
The third secret, he said, “has
a permanent and ongoing significance” and that “its significance
could even be extended to the suffering the Church is going
through today as a result of the recent reports of sexual abuse
involving the clergy.”
He, of course, makes no mention
of the suffering the abused children have gone and still are going
through as a result of this abuse by members of the clergy.
It
is most interesting to note that this same Mr. Ratzinger, when he
still was Pope Benedict the 16th,
suggested in an internal letter, that such abuse, when discovered,
must not be reported to the authorities, but must be dealt with
within the Church.
Now
he suggests, that the 3rd
Secret of Fatima may deal with the suffering of the Church, not of
the victimized children.
What a scoundrel he is, what
scoundrels they all are.
Poor, hallucinating Lucia Santos
told how the three children would tie tight ropes around their waists
and flagellate themselves, inflicting pain upon their bodies to pay
for their own and the world's sins.
She added that about this, the
apparition Mary told her “God was pleased”.
Can you imagine this? Three
children whip themselves with burning nettles and inflict pain upon
their bodies and “God” does not send them to a Psychiatrist, but
tells them that “He is pleased”.
And now, to top it all off, Pope
Franciscus declares two of the children, Jacinta and Francisco as
Saints.
The more you read about “The
Lady of Fatima” the greater must be your revulsion about this
entire swindle, likely created by, and now certainly supported by the
Catholic Church.
Bertstravels
does not dare even think about
the
even greater nonsense of Lourdes.
