Extracts
from the talk of Father Gabriel Róna, International Coordinator
of The Flame of Love Movement, at the third National Conference
which took place in Montreal on November 13, 2004.
First,
let us consider the messages given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima
.
We
find three fundamental ideas:
–
The Blessed Virgin Mary prayed that we make atonement for our sins,
since God has been offended. For sin consists in being
contemptuous of the Divine Will, of God Himself; it is
disobedience, separation from God, lack of love…
At
the time of her first apparition at Fatima, the Virgin asked the children: “Do you want to offer
yourselves to God? Are you ready to accept the sufferings He will
send you in reparation for all the sins by which He has been offended?” They
answered: Yes.
“When
you make some sacrifice, say: ‘My Jesus, it is for love of You
… for the conversion of sinners’”.
This is how the Virgin taught the children to pray. Her
last words at Fatima
were: “It is important that men convert and ask forgiveness for
their sins. Do not offend God any more, because He is so much
offended already.”
–
The second great concern of the Virgin Mary at Fatima
was: to save souls from damnation and lead them to Heaven, to pray
a lot and make sacrifices for the conversion of all sinners…
This thought keeps recurring. The Blessed Virgin Mary is not afraid of
showing hell to the children. This vision of hell made such a deep
impression that the children made countless prayers and sacrifices
to prevent the souls of the poor sinners from going to hell. The
short prayer we repeat in the Rosary at the end of each decade
expresses the same motherly anguish of the Virgin Mary.
How
can we offer reparation and help the Mother of God to save souls?
– By praying, praying a lot and making sacrifices. (The children
of Fatima
did so all the way). The Blessed Virgin asked at each apparition
that we pray the Rosary daily! This prayer is of such importance
to her that she called herself Queen
of the Rosary. She also told the children: “Accept the
sufferings the Lord will send you and bear them with patience.”
–
The third message of Fatima
is about the Immaculate
Heart of Mary.
“Jesus
wants to establish in the world the devotion to my Immaculate
Heart”, said the Virgin Mary to Lucia. Why? “To make me known and
loved better”, said the Virgin. “My Heart will be for you the
refuge and the way leading you to God”, said the Virgin Mary to
Lucia, but this beautiful promise can be applied to all of us:
“God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate
Heart … to save from hell the souls of all poor sinners.”
Jacinta,
the youngest of the three seers, said to Lucia: “Tell the whole
world that God wants to spread His graces through the Immaculate
Heart of Mary … The Heart of Jesus wants us to venerate also
with Him the Immaculate Heart of Mary … God has placed peace in
her hands, and it is from the Immaculate Heart that men must seek
it.”
The
Virgin Mary also added: “The grace of God will give you the strength
you need … If what I say to you is done, many souls will be
saved and there will be peace.”
We
know with what generosity the children of Fatima
hastened to fulfill the desires of the Heavenly Mother. Let us end
our considerations on
Fatima
with this beautiful confession from Lucia: “From that day,
indeed, we experienced a more ardent love for the Immaculate Heart
of Mary.”
Let
us now go back to The Flame of Love!
For
those who have not yet heard of The Flame of Love, I would like to
read this beautiful page from the Spiritual Diary of Mrs.
Elizabeth Kindelmann when the Virgin Mary, for the first time,
revealed the Flame of Love which she gave her. (I am reading from
the Spiritual Diary…).
At
first, we are struck by the resemblance between Fatima and The
Flame of Love… Could it be that The Flame of Love is an
extension, a kind of blossoming of the revelations given by the
Virgin Mary at Fatima? The question should be left to people more able than I. Allow
me, however, to put forward a few considerations…
At
Fatima, the Blessed Virgin prayed to make reparations for sins.
In
Hungary, her petitions become more precise and more urgent. She asked to
consider two days of the week as special days of grace: Thursdays
and Fridays… She wants us to pray the Hour of reparation with
the family on one of these days. She suggests doing that by
reciting the Rosary and through spiritual readings… The Virgin
Mary said, sobbing, that in Hungary, “There is so much sin in the land! Help me to save souls!”
She said that in 1962. Looking at the world now, what would she
say? Satan is doing his utmost to snatch a multitude of souls from
God. The Virgin Mary is forced to witness an explosion of sins
which is spreading more and more throughout the world. The Virgin
Mary wants to stop
that explosion of sins!
She
has obtained from the Eternal Father a outpouring of graces by the
merits of the Wounds of her Divine Son to save souls… This
torrent of graces is called The Flame of Love of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary.
What
is it that incited the Virgin Mary to obtain this flow of graces for
us? Here is the answer: She is our Mother in the order of grace.
Her Divine Son entrusted us to her motherly love. In Hungary, she said: “I do not want a single soul to be lost … Never
has such a flow of graces been given since the Word became
flesh…”. There has not been, for the past 2000 years in the
history of the Church, a powerful flow of graces comparable to The
Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This Flame will
catch fire all over the Earth and it will spread throughout the
world.
What
can we say about this grace? Where is the source of this flow of
grace? In the merciful Heart of the Eternal Father, hoping that
all His children will return to the Father’s house so that He
may embrace them. The Father does not just wait for us: He did
send His Son to the earth and during these last two centuries,
more than once, through the messages of Mary, the Mother of His
Son, He wants to lead us to
the Father’s house…
The Flame of Love is the love of the Most Holy Trinity
intimately united with the motherly love of the Mother of God.
This love passes through the Immaculate Heart of Mary…
Let
us try to understand how this Flame of Love operates. The Blessed
Virgin Mary says that it is a ray of Light… We know in nature of a
highly condensed beam of light that can be used to perform
wonderful operations (I am referring to the laser beam). The Flame
of Love is a beam of Divine, supernatural light which is out of
this world… With this Light, the Virgin Mary wants to inflame
our hearts and urges us insistently to accept it and to pass it to
others. And when this Fire and this Light of Divine Order will
have inflamed the whole world, it will be a blaze and a fire Satan
that will be unable to bear. The Flame of Love of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary will blind Satan. He will be unable to display his
malice to lose souls…
This
Light exerts its action in two different ways: it illuminates the
inside of the souls and makes them aware of the perilous state in
which they are … This Light touches hearts… to lead them to
contrition and that makes us go back to the merciful Father.
And in the other way: it directs itself against our enemy
to face and blind Satan that he may no longer do any evil.
In
reading the Spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann, one truly
feels the palpitation of the Heart of the Virgin Mary, her anguish
for the salvation of her children. “I am this very day the Mater
Dolorosa… for I have to see so many of my children go to hell.
Help me save them!”
And
we now come, my dear brothers and sisters, to our
mission. The Virgin Mary invites and urges us, she begs for our
collaboration. I can and I want to help you but I need your
collaboration. If you are not ready to make sacrifices, you are
not capable of serving the outpouring of my graces. There are few
souls full of a spirit of sacrifice, especially those who are also
persevering.”
At
Fatima, the Blessed Virgin insistently asked us to pray the Rosary. In
Hungary, she said: “From this moment forward, add the following verse
to each "Hail Mary" you will be reciting: “Flood
the whole humanity with the blessings of your Flame of Love. This
is the prayer with which you will dazzle Satan.” This is why, in
our prayer groups, we add this jaculatory prayer as we recite the
Rosary. When we pray in church with the faithful of the parish, we
only say it with the consent of the vicar.
This
short prayer is proper to our Movement in the whole world… We
pray each time for all men… Because this action of the Virgin
Mary knows no boundaries… She wants to save all souls, even the
non-baptized…
The
final triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary has been announced
at
Fatima. This triumph is the salvation of a multitude of souls. It is the
most wonderful work: to cooperate with the Lord and His Mother to
lead mankind to the Heart of the Eternal Father.
Our
Mother in Heaven is waiting for us. Let our response be a
wholehearted Yes!
Amen!
