Mary’s Delayed Response

A True, Recent Story…

Three months after her husband had been buried, a priest knocked on her door and asked,  "Are you Mrs. Donna E.?"

     You may not know that America Needs Fatima has 8 – 11 full-time “Fatima Custodians” crisscrossing America all year long. Each carries along a special replica statue of the miraculous Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima Statue that wept over 13 times; her most recent weeping, photographed, investigated, and approved by the Church was in a church in New Orleans, USA, during the evening of July 17, 1972. (story and photo here)

     Along with taking their statue into their hosts’ homes, our Fatima Custodians give an audio-visual presentation on Mary’s miraculous appearances at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917 and speak about her prophetic message to the world.

     Of one such recent Fatima Home Visit, our Custodian, Mr. Kenneth Murphy, relays the following true story:
     “Hosting the Fatima Visit was Mrs. Donna E., in Arlington, VA.

     While explaining how to do the Five First Saturdays devotion I asked,

     ‘Does anyone know the promise of this devotion?’

     Mrs. Donna replied, "Those who say it will receive all the graces they need before they die." (see note in P.S.)

     She then said that her husband had loved doing the Five First Saturdays devotion. However, she said that when he died it seemed that Our Lady hadn't kept her promise…he passed away suddenly.

     Here’s what happened.
     One day her husband was traveling and the roads were covered with snow. Suddenly, he suffered a heart attacked, lost control of his car, and crashed.

     The ambulance arrived in good time but, unfortunately, her husband died on the way to the hospital.

     When Mrs. Donna arrived at the hospital, she was disappointed to find out that he had died without the benefits of the Church’s sacraments. She feared for his soul.

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     Apparently, Our Lady hadn't kept Her promise.
     Three months after her husband had been buried, a priest knocked on her door and asked, "Are you Mrs. Donna E.?"

     The priest then described how, three months earlier, he had been driving behind her husband and saw him lose control of his car.

     He said, "I knew right away that he had experienced a heart attack and was in danger of dying." The priest stopped, ran over and asked, "Are you a Catholic?" Mr. E. responded in the affirmative.

     He was in a lot of pain but was able to make a full confession to the priest. The priest heard his confession and gave him Last Rites before the ambulance arrived.

     Because the priest had been on his way to say Mass, when the ambulance arrived he left for the Church.

     After hearing that Mr. E. had died on the way to the hospital, the priest felt that it was important to let the family know that he had died in the state of grace. The hospital, however, would not give him the family's information.

     Only after three months did someone at the hospital give him an address.

     And then Our Lady knocked on Mrs. Donna E.'s door...

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P.S.  OUR LADY’S EXACT WORDS: On December 10, 1925, Our Lady promised to Sister Lucia (the oldest Fatima seer) that she would “…assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months confess, receive Holy Communion, pray a Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour meditating on the fifteen mysteries with the intention of offering me reparation.”

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