Excerpts from
Letter of Mother Godinho to his Holiness,
Pope Pius XII
(original
letter is currently in Lisbon, Portugal)
I am the godmother of Jacinta Marto, the seer of Fatima, who
made me privy to the following secret, which I have kept religiously for many
years, but now as I feel death approaching, I wish to communicate it to Your
Holiness. Under oath I guarantee that what I say expresses purely and simply
what I heard from her, and which forms my secret. Here is the essential part.
“Mother, tell the Holy Father that the world is troubled and Our Lady
can no longer hold back the arm of Her beloved Son, Who is very offended by the
sins committed in the world. If, however, the world decides to do penance, She
would come to its aid again, but if not, chastisement would infallibly fall
upon it, for its lack of obedience to the Holy Father.”
Jacinta then asked me to tell the Holy Father and His
Excellency, the Bishop of Leiria, that the house I occupy at Fatima ought to be
called, “the House of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima”, and that the sisters
of this order, after their approval, were to take the name of “Claretian Sisters of Mother Mary da Costa,”
and that they would keep united to the Vatican to prepare for the year 1972,
because the sins of impurity, vanity, and excessive luxury would bring great
chastisements to the world, which would cause great suffering to the Holy
Father. “Poor Holy Father!” she would say.
I could hardly believe these things; but Jacinta
insisted,
saying: “Godmother, tell the Holy Father that Our Lady wishes this work
to be
the apple of the Holy Father’s eye, try therefore to talk to him about
it”; and
among other things she said: “Our Lady wants there to be at the Cova da
Iria a house for Her, the Mother of God, and that the Sisters who go
there imitate Her
virtues, and expiate for the sins committed in other religious houses.”
Among
other things Our Lady told the seer: “In this house there will be
rigorous
silence, only what is absolutely necessary will be said, and nothing
more;
nothing will be done without permission of His Holiness, and the
religious who
live there under Our Lady’s roof will imitate the virtues of the
Heavenly
Mother; they will have no contact with the world and they will live a
very
retired life, and it will behoove them to pray particularly for the Holy
Father, uniting all their penitential practices to the Vatican, for the
intention of…”
I, a Sister of Saint Francis, Maria of the Purification, to
whom the seer Jacinta revealed these things, understood nothing of these
things, but it seems to me that she meant that wars would stop in the world
only when men also finished.
At this moment I said to Jacinta that the Holy Father knew
very well what he had to do and that Our Lord and Our Lady would inspire him so
that it would be superfluous for me to tell him what the seer related to me.
But she went on talking, and she said that the triumph of Our Lord still had to
come, but beforehand there would be many tears, because in the world His Holy
Will is not being accomplished. And she told me that she was distraught at not
knowing how to express it better, but she wanted to try anyway: “There is a
secret of Heaven and another of the earth, and the latter is frightening, it
already seems like the end of the world and in this cataclysm everything will
be isolated from Heaven, which will become white as snow.” [read
more]
Our Lady said that we must pray much and perform many
“mortifications of the senses” (give up many things) because this is
very
pleasing to Our Lord, that we must love Our Lord with all our heart and
respect
priests because they are the salt of the earth, and their duty is to
show souls
the way to Heaven. She also recommended often to the seer that I do
nothing
without the permission of the Holy Father, and the Most Reverend Bishop
of Leiria, and that Jacinta ask me to tell Your Holiness, among other
things, that
Our Lady appeared to me here at the orphanage several times, and that
she also
appeared to the seer, before the latter went to the hospital of D.
Estefania,
and at this moment Jacinta felt such harmony that it seemed to her that
she was
already in the presence of God, and already enjoyed eternal glory for
all
eternity.
This long but loyal exposition which I have made, being
concluded, the humblest of your servants casts herself at the feet as she
kisses your ring, full of respect.
Mother Maria of the Purification Godinho
April 25, 1954http://www.tldm.org/news/godinho.htm
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