“How shall this be done?” – a Fatima Reflection | The Fatima Center
Today the Church Universal celebrates the great feast of Our Lady’s Assumption, body and soul, into Heaven. Marian theologians acknowledge that all of Mary’s special prerogatives, including the Assumption, flow from Her divine maternity.[1] Meditating upon the Incarnation is something Holy Mother Church calls her children to every day, e.g. by the pious devotion of praying the Angelus three times a day (6 am, noon, 6 pm) and genuflecting daily during the Last Gospel (et verbum caro factum est). Hence, it is quite appropriate for us to reflect today on Her Assumption and on that singular moment when She became the Mother of God.
Fatima and the Assumption
There is a deep and profound link between the Message of Fatima and the Mystery of the Assumption. In every apparition at Fatima there was an Assumption-like event. The saintly shepherd children saw Her come down to the earth, where She received their prayers and showered …