Devotion to Our Lady of Fatima is NOT Optional | Conference

We begin this Fatima Center conference with a talk that pertains directly to the mission of the Fatima Center.

Father Nicholas Gruner founded the Fatima Center in order to promote the entire message of Our Lady of Fatima throughout the world, so that it may be known, understood, and obeyed.

God sent his most Holy Mother to Fatima, Portugal in nineteen seventeen to call his church and the world to repentance, reparation, and conversion.

Have we listened? Have we obeyed? God sent his most Holy Mother to bring grace, truth, light, and salvation to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Have we believed? Have we responded? Have we obeyed? Our Lady of Fatima calls us to be faithful to the one true Catholic faith, outside of which there is no salvation.

She calls all souls to believe in her Son, Jesus Christ, and the one true Catholic Church.

In order to bring this about, she calls us to pray the rosary daily, to wear the brown scapular, to offer prayers and to do penance for the conversion of sinners and for the Holy Father.

And she specifically asks for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart by the Pope and all the world's bishops, and the communion of reparation to her Immaculate Heart on the first Saturdays.

But I want to emphasize right now at the outset that Our Lady of Fatima calls all souls to believe in her Son, Jesus Christ, and the one holy Catholic religion.

This ultimately is why all of us are obligated to believe her and to believe her message.

It's not just about the specifics.

It certainly is about the specifics, praying the rosary, doing penance.

But let us never lose sight of the fact that what is the most basic thing that is taking place is Our Lady of Fatima is calling us to her Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, to convert to Him, to stop offending Him, and to believe in Him.

This is absolutely essential for every single Catholic and for every single human being.

There is no salvation outside of our one Savior, Jesus Christ, and his Holy Catholic Church.

This, for example, is why the Holy Eucharist and the Holy Father, the Pope, the Holy Eucharist and the Pope play a very important role in the message of Our Lady of Fatima.

But it's good to ask ourselves why.

And the reason is because both the Holy Eucharist and the Office of the Holy Father are central to truly believing in Jesus Christ.

And that's what Our Lady of Fatima comes to do.

She comes to call us to believe in her Son, to love Him, to serve Him, to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him.

Makes sense then that the Holy Eucharist and that the papacy are going to be important themes.

The Holy Eucharist and the papacy are not optional.

We can't say, "Oh, I choose to believe in the Holy Eucharist," or, "I choose to believe in the Holy Father or not." No.

These are revealed truths, revealed by God, essential to our Catholic faith, essential to salvation.

They're not optional, and that's also why the message of Our Lady of Fatima is not optional.