He will return with his immense heart, with his heart of fire, his poor man's soul
and his smile. He will return! And the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph!

THE LIGHT IN THE NIGHT

EUCHARISTIC AND MARIAN THEOPHANY

In 1929, at Tuy, a small Spanish city on the border with Portugual, Lucy led, under the name of Maria das Dores such a hidden life that most of her companions were unaware that she was the seer of Fatima. She put into practice the message of Our Lady, observing perfectly the rule of her congregation in the consecration to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as she wrote to a nun:

« Let us give our heart with all its affections and its desires to our Beloved and to the Immaculate Heart of our most Holy Mother; and we will experience within ourselves the effects of Divine Love which will consume us through sacrifice, without us feeling anything, for love eases everything. »

Sister Lucy herself related the vision with which she had on 13 June 1929:

« I had requested and obtained from my superiors and my confessor permission to make a holy hour from 11 o’clock until midnight, from Thursday to Friday of each week.

« Finding myself alone one night, I knelt by the altar rails, in the middle of the chapel, to say the prayers of the Angel, lying prostrate. Feeling tired, I got up but continued to say the prayers with my arms outstretched in the form of a cross. The only light was that from the [sanctuary] lamp.

« Suddenly, the whole chapel was lit up with a supernatural light, and on the altar there appeared a cross of light which reached to the ceiling. In an even brighter light, there was visible, on the upper part of the cross, the face of a man and His body to the waist. On his breast there was a dove, also full of light, and, nailed to the cross, the body of another man. A little below the waist (of this man), suspended in the air, one could see a chalice with a large host onto which were falling a few drops of blood, flowing down from the cheeks of the Crucified and from a wound in the chest. These drops ran down over the Host and fell into the Chalice. Beneath the right arm of the Cross, there stood Our Lady with Her Immaculate Heart in Her hand… It was Our Lady of Fatima with Her Immaculate Heart… in Her left hand… without sword or roses, but with a crown of thorns and flames…

« Beneath the left arm (of the Cross), some large letters, as though of crystalline water running down from above the altar, forming these words “Grace and Mercy”.

« I understood that I had been shown the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, and I received insights into this mystery that I am not permitted to reveal.

« Then Our Lady said to me: “The moment has come when God asks the Holy Father to make, in union with all the bishops of the world, the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means. So numerous are the souls which the justice of God condemns for sins committed against Me, that I have come to ask for reparation. Sacrifice yourself for this intention and pray.”

« I gave an account of this to my confessor, who ordered me to write down what Our Lord wanted to be done. » (Fatima: The Only Way to World Peace, vol. 3 of the English translation of Fatima, Intimate Joy, World Event, pp. 55-56.)