3rd Apparition of Angel of Portugal
Fall 1916
Eucharistic & Marian Devotion Linked
May 13, 1916 liturgical calendar > Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Angel Brings Jesus in Host & Chalice
Teaches prayer and prays WITH THE CHILDREN
Angel’s Prayer
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly, and I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference with which He Himself is offended. And through the infinite merits of His most Sacred heart, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners.
The Angel of Portugal gave Holy Communion to the three children, Lucia only one who had made her First Communion.
As the angel distributed Holy Communion he said, “Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.”
Profound no apparition has remotely this content.
Greater fervor Eucharist devotion
Save souls
Fulton Sheen: friendship JC, our Christian duty, repair for others
Pray constantly
Emulating BVM most devout and pray at all time
1Thess do not return evil for evil thank in all things
Peter better for goodness than suffer for evil 1 Pt 3:17
Fall, suffering is part of the human condition.
Christ suffering becomes redemptive, mystical union with Christ, unite our suffering truly brings about his effective will
We live through suffering times, prayed for our country, suffering best quickest teacher
Intimacy came through ministrations of an angel, Lord loves intensely
Showed to children outrages, sacrileges and indifference
Children in a state of grace,
GK Chesterton, “Children love justice because they are innocent. We love mercy because we are guilty.”
Angel left, profound peace infused Lucia
6 months later, the children were ready to experience the Mother of God.
Train child in youth will not depart. Angelic instruction is beautiful. Died young from Spanish flu, they were ready to go home.