Devotion to Our Lady of Fatima: the powerful seven invocations to say today
SEVEN INVOCATIONS TO THE MADONNA of FATIMA
1 - O Most Holy Virgin of the Rosary of Fatima, to give our century's labor a sign of your maternal tenderness and concern, you chose three innocent shepherd children from the ignorant village of Fatima in Portugal, because you would be pleased to choose the weak things of the world to confuse the strong, and made them dispose of angelic apparitions to the chosen mission. O good Mother, make us understand and taste the word of Jesus: "Unless you become like children, you will not be able to enter the kingdom of heaven"; so that with a pure and humble heart, and an docile and simple heart, we deserve to welcome your maternal Message of love. Mater amabilis, now pro nobis.
Ave Maria
2 - O Most Holy Virgin of the Rosary of Fatima, driven by the love that you bring us, you deigned to descend from Heaven, where you are glorious with your Divine Son, as Daughter of the Eternal Father and Immaculate Bride of the Holy Spirit; and using the three innocent shepherds of the Cova d'Iria, you came to exhort us to do penance for our sins, to change your life and to aim for the eternal enjoyments of Heaven for which God created us and which is our true homeland. O good Mother, we thank you for so much maternal condescension and we ask you to hold us tightly under your mantle, so as not to be seduced by temptation, and obtain for us the final holy perseverance which assures us of Heaven. Janua coeli, now pro nobis.
Ave Maria
3 - O Most Holy Virgin of the Rosary of Fatima, in the second apparition you ensured eternal salvation for your little confidants, you reassured Lucia with the solemn promise that you would never abandon her during the earthly pilgrimage, because your Immaculate Heart would have been the her refuge and the way that would lead her to God; and you showed them this Heart surrounded by thorns. O good Mother, grant us, your unworthy children, the same assurance, so that refugees down here in your Immaculate Heart, we can console him with our love and our loyalty to come, destroying the acute thorns that we have procured for him with so many of our shortcomings. Sweet heart of Mary, be my salvation.
Ave Maria
4 - O Most Holy Virgin of the Rosary of Fatima, in the third apparition you came to remind us that in the sad moments of the Divine punishments, like war and its sad consequences, it is you alone who can come to our aid; but you have shown us together that temporal punishments are very little in the face of the tremendous punishment of eternal perdition, in hell. O good Mother, fill us with the filial holy fear of the punishments of God, make us conceive a supreme hatred of sin, which causes them, so as to make us accept with a humiliated and compassionate heart the temporal punishments and avoid the eternal pains of hell; while we repeat the prayer taught by you: «O Jesus, forgive our sins, preserve us from the fire of hell, bring all souls to Heaven, especially the most needy of your mercy».
Ave Maria
5 - O Most Holy Virgin of the Rosary of Fatima, the ruthless persecution against your beloved little ones and their captivity; you did serve to confuse the pride of the perverts, to perfect the immolation of the three innocent and to refine their virtue, and to make the resonance of your maternal exhortation to prayer and sacrifice for the conversion of sinners wider and more effective. We welcome, O Mother, in our so miserable and cold, the ineffable echo of your ardent Heart, for the conversion of our wandering brothers; and we offer our small daily sacrifices and crosses in a spirit of reparation. May all convert, Mother, and triumph of all resistances to grace your Immaculate Heart, while we repeat the invocation taught by you: «O Jesus, it is for your love and for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for the offenses that they are made against the Immaculate Heart of Mary ».
Ave Maria
6 - O Most Holy Virgin of the Rosary of Fatima, in the fifth apparition you were not content to repeat to your beloved children the exhortation to recite the Holy Rosary and the promise of the prodigy of the next thirteenth October; but you would also like to give the crowds, who were increasingly taking part in the scene of the heavenly conversation, a sign of your presence more impressive than usual. In the form of a luminous globe, everyone saw you descend from Heaven, and after the maternal conversation with the three children, go up the streets of the sun, while white air vanished flowers rained from the sky. So you are pleased to encourage our weak faith! O good Mother, we thank you for the ineffable gift of the Holy Faith, today by so many errors and by so many seductions undermined. Let us always keep our minds subject to the truths revealed by God and that the Church proposes us to believe, without the need to wait for wonders; so as to deserve the praise of Jesus: "Blessed are those who will believe without needing to see." And for this we repeat the prayer of the Angel of Peace: "My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, I love you, I ask you for forgiveness for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, do not love you".
Ave Maria
7 - O sweet Mother our Mary, you appearing for the last time at Cova da Iria to the three lucky children of Fatima, you wanted to reveal yourselves under the title of Madonna del Rosario.
In this title, you wanted to enclose all the secret of our salvation, and all the resources of our strength in the terrible trials that would have fallen on our head. So be our guide, our light, our hope. We, O Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, invoking you with this beautiful name, find sweetness for our heart, in the time of bitterness; strength for our weakness in dangerous and difficult moments; hope of health and salvation in the perilous whirlwind of life; comfort during killing and terror; light in doubts and perplexities; triumph in the struggles against the flesh, the world, Satan. We, O Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, will not tire of calling you with this beautiful name. It will always be on our lips at the top of our thoughts as the pivot of our life. The Holy Rosary, much recommended by you, will be our daily and sovereign prayer. We or Mary, with your Rosary in hand, close to you, will not move away from you for a moment. Repeating yourselves with ever-growing affection Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, pray for us! ...
Ave Maria