On Why to Stay Catholic and Fatima as the Answer

Hopefully convincingly; hopefully well. Let me reiterate my closing point briefly:

The remedy Heaven has given us for the present age is in the message of Fatima: devotion to the Immaculate Heart, especially through the First Saturdays devotion and the daily Rosary for peace in the world.

Our Lady explained those Five First Saturdays to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries, on Dec. 10, 1925, in the following way:

See, my daughter, my Heart encircled by thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Do you, at least, strive to console me. Tell them that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the … mysteries of the Rosary. ...

If you immediately dismissed the above, I pray you, think again. If you nodded, went, "Yeah, yeah," and are eagerly anticipating me changing the subject--guys, diagnose that.

Pay attention to how hard it is to pay attention to the First Saturdays and the daily Rosary for peace.

Notice your resistance to thinking about these things seriously. Notice how easily your attention slips away.

Where we meet the greatest resistance, there the enemy fights hardest to protect himself.

Our Lady has given us the remedy to the present day--five smooth stones to take down the Goliaths of the modern age. Our Lady has given us everything we need to heal the world of the errors of Russia, beginning by healing ourselves with the Sacraments, prayer, and meditation on the mysteries of the Incarnation. Our Lady has given us the path to peace.

Use these means. Follow this path. And commit to it.

In order to lead the rest of the people of God along Our Lady's way, we who know the message of Fatima have a special obligation to live her requests. We need to simply commit to make the First Saturdays as best we can continuously till the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart or till the end of our lives, whichever comes first.

We who know the remedy need to take it ourselves, and invite our neighbors to join us on that road. We must do this for the sake of the victims of the errors of Russia, past, present, and future. We must do this for the sake of the Church, and especially for the sake of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts, which feel so keenly every loss of a soul, every act of sin, every time someone falls.

We know what we need to do. We have everything we need in order to do it. Let's go.