What Our Lady said to Sister Lucia about the Holy Rosary

Dear brothers and sisters, we are already in October, the month of the recovery of life in all social activities: school, offices, factories, industries, workshops; month which also marks the beginning of the new social year for all lay and religious associations, as well as for all Marian communities.

We already know that the month of October is dedicated to St. Rosary, the mystical crown that Our Lady gave to St. Catherine, while her child placed it in the hands of St. Dominic.

It is therefore Our Lady herself who urges us to recite her Rosary with more faith, with more fervor, contemplating the mysteries of joy, passion and glory of her Son who wanted to associate it with the saving mystery of our redemption.

This is why I urge you to re-read and meditate on the message that Our Lady addressed to us speaking to us of the power and efficacy that the Holy Rosary always has on the Heart of God and on that of his Son. This is why the Madonna herself in her apparitions takes part in the recitation of the Rosary as in the Grotto of Lourdes with S. Bernadetta and in Fatima with me, Francesco and Jacinta. And it was during the Rosary that the Virgin emerged from a cloud and landed on the elm, wrapping us in its light. From here too, from the Monastery of Coimbra, I will join you all for a stronger and universal prayer crusade.

But remember that I am not the only one to join you: it is all Heaven that unites with the harmony of your crown and it is all the souls in Purgatory that unite with the echo of your supplication.

It is when the Rosary flows into your hands that the Angels and Saints unite with you. This is why I urge you to recite it with deep recollection, with faith, meditating with religious piety the meaning of its mysteries. I urge you also not to mumble the "Ave Maria" late at night when you are oppressed by the fatigue of the day.

Recite it privately or in community, at home or outside, in church or on the streets, with simplicity of heart following the path of the Madonna with her Son step by step.

Always recite it with lively faith for those who are born, for those who suffer, for those who work, for those who die.

Recite it united with all the righteous of the earth and all the Marian communities, but above all with the simplicity of the little ones, whose voice unites us to that of the Angels.

Never as today, the world needs your Rosary. Remember that on earth there are consciences devoid of the light of faith, sinners to convert, atheists to wrest from Satan, unhappy to help, unemployed young people, families in the moral crossroads, souls to be torn from hell.

It was many times the recitation of a single Rosary to please the indignation of Divine Justice by obtaining divine mercy on the world and to save many souls.

Only in this way will you hasten the hour of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady over the world.

I consider it a grace that God has granted me to meet His Holiness, in Fatima. For this happy meeting, I thank God and invoke for His Holiness the continuation of the maternal protection of Our Lady, so that he can continue to fulfill the task entrusted to him by the Lord, so that the light of faith, hope and love for the glory of God and the good of humanity, since he is the authentic witness of Christ, alive among us.

I embrace you all with affection.

Sister Lucia dos Santos