Reparatory Suffering

	The Reparatory Suffering of the Young Shepherds of Fatima On May 13, 1917, Our Lady told the young shepherds of Fatima: “Do you want to offer yourselves to God and accept all the sufferings that he wills to send you as an act of reparation for the sins that offend him, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners?” Without batting an eye about the suffering that God would send them, the young shepherds abandoned themselves entirely to his will. “Yes, we do” they said. Our Lady welcomed this reply as being the first fruit of her message and, in a gesture of maternal protection, she enveloped us in the immense light of God, and answered: “You will have to suffer very much, but God's grace will comfort you.” It is this grace that led us into the immense ocean of God's light and pushed us to worship him in the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity and to love him in the divine Eucharist, while saying interiorly in the silence of our heart: “O most Holy Trinity, I adore you. My God, my God, I love you in the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist.” Sister Lucia (d.Feb. 2005) The Message of Fatima, Carmel of Coimbra, Fatima 2006