FATIMA: Not A Promise Of Peace, But A Remedy For Souls

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Benefits and Consequences

After Paris and Lourdes, Michael’s takeaway: we have drifted from Jesus and need to repent and repair. There are benefits and consequences, and it is up to us.
Fatima Series, Warnings & Salvation
After Paris and Lourdes, Michael’s takeaway: we have drifted from Jesus and need to repent and repair. There are benefits and consequences, and it is up to us.

There are benefits, and there are consequences.

Over many years, having read The True Story… and diving back in for confirmation of this and that, and revisiting Paris and Lourdes, many times, my final ‘takeaway’ from them is along the lines…
we are not doing very well,
we have drifted from Jesus,
we need to repent that,
we need to repair that.
We need to see the reasons why this is so, especially as we are shown them.
There are benefits, and there are consequences.
Unfortunately, it is up (or down) to us.

Michael’s comment

Now is a good time to be familiar with The True Story of Fatima.
The 1957 interview.
Only then will what follows make some sense.
Bearing in mind it is MY INTERPRETATION.

“It is not that people know so little. Rather they know so much, that just ain’t so.” (Mark Twain)

My Take

What Our Lady did not actually say….

“Be warned, I told you so.”

Do you agree? Leave your view in the comments.


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