Fatima and Our Lady Co-redemptrix

I furthermore believe in Our Lady's words delivered at this precise location of Fatima that "only she can help you" (16). Whether it be the ecumenical mission and the new evangelization, the battle against the culture of death and its evil seeds of abortion, euthanasia, and cloning; the crisis of family life; the threat against world peace, particularly in the Middle East; the fight against world hunger, poverty, and disease, especially in its tragic manifestation in Africa; and in all other global imperatives facing the Church and the world, I believe the remedy is the solemn proclamation of this Marian doctrine, which will formally recognize and request the full extent of her powerful mediation for all humanity.

May Our Lady of Fatima guide the People of God in the final resolution for this solemn definition of her universal mediation at the service of Christ, the Church, and all humanity.

(1) Cf. John Paul II, Address to the sick at the Hospital of the Brothers of St. John of God, April 5, 1981, L’Osservatore Romano, English edition, April 13, 1981, p. 6; General Audience, Jan. 13, 1982, Inseg. V/1, 1982, 91; Address to candidates for the Priesthood, Montevideo, May 8, 1988, L’Osservatore Romano, English edition, May 30, 1988, p. 4; cf. Pius XI, Papal Allocution at Vicenza, Nov. 30, 1933, Domenico Bertetto, S.D.B., ed., Discorsi di Pio XI 2:1013.

(2) John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris, February, 11, 1984, 25.

(3) Memoirs of Sister Lucia, Second Memoir, p. 62.

(4) Ibid.

(5) Ibid.

(6) Ibid.

(7) Ibid.

(8) Memoirs, Fourth Memoir, p. 158.

(9) Ibid., p. 162.

(10) Memoirs, Appendix I, p. 195.

(11) Ibid.

(12) Memoirs, Fourth Memoir, p. 170.

(13) Ibid. p. 161.

(14) Sr. Lucia, "Calls" from the Message of Fatima, Ch. 13, p. 137.

(15) "Calls" from the Message of Fatima, Ch. 13, p. 115. Note: Sr. Lucia also links the Virgin’s role as Co-redemptrix from within a christo-typical mariological framework with her example of Christian holiness through the fulfillment of the duties of her state in life as wife and mother in a most fruitful ecclesio-typical mariological application:

Our Lady sanctified herself as a pure and immaculate virgin by corresponding to the graces which God granted to her in that state. She sanctified herself as a faithful and devoted wife by fulfilling all the duties of her state in life. She sanctified herself as a loving mother who dedicated herself to the Son whom God entrusted to her, fondling Him in her arms, bringing Him up and educating Him, and also helping Him and following Him in the performance of his mission. With Him she traveled the narrow way of life, the rugged road to Calvary; with Him she agonized, receiving in her Heart the wounds of the nails, the piercing of the lance and the insults of the hostile crowd; finally, she sanctified herself as mother, mistress and guide of the Apostles, agreeing to remain on earth for as long as God wished, in order to accomplish the mission which He had entrusted to her as Co-redemptrix with Christ of all human beings. ("Calls," Ch. 21, p. 195)

(16) Memoirs, Fourth Memoir, p. 161.