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The grace of God is transformative. Merciful. Available.

Mysterious.

You are a miracle.

There are moments in human history when God intervenes and leaves us breathless. These moments are rare, unmistakable, and yet they remind us of God's abiding presence. And they always present an opportunity for humanity to turn back to God. Fatima was one of those moments. The world was unraveling in 1917 as World War I was consuming Europe. Millions of young men were dying. Political revolutions were brewing, and fear, grief, and confusion had a grip on people's hearts. Into this fractured world, God sent Mary to speak to three shepherd children, Lucia, Francesco, and Jacinta, in a small Portuguese village called Fatima. From May to October of 1917, Mary, the mother of God, appeared to the children six times.

She came with urgency and clarity for a weary world. She spoke of prayer, sacrifice, and the urgent need for conversion. If people continued to reject God, she told the children, the world would suffer greatly. The heart of her message was about the human soul. She asked the children and threw them, the entire world, to pray the rosary every day. She asked for small, simple, daily sacrifices offered with love, and she encouraged devotion to her immaculate heart as a path to deeper union with Jesus. When a mother warns her children, it's out of love. Fatima revealed a mother begging her children to return to God before the world destroys itself.

People often get caught up in the prophecies of Fatima and miss the crucial lesson Mary taught the children. Prayer matters, not abstractly, not symbolically, but powerfully and practically. Pray the rosary every day. That's what Mary said, to bring peace to the world and the end of the war. The rosary, she insisted, is strong enough to shift the course of history. Prayer is a force that shapes the world. It quietly shapes our relationships and communities. Prayer, it's not passive. It's an active influence. It's an unseen force of unimaginable magnitude. So your prayers matter. The most famous event in Fatima took place on October 13, 1917.

It had been predicted and promised ahead of time that children had faced tremendous persecution from local authorities and opposition from skeptical neighbours and anti-religious journalists. Many people mocked the children and demanded proof of what they claimed. So Mary told the children that on October 13, she would give a sign so that all may believe. This promise drew 70,000 people to a muddy field that day in Fatima. Farmers and skeptics, believers and atheists, journalists, politicians, and ordinary men and women from far and wide. 70,000 of them, they stood soaked by torrential rain waiting to see whether heaven would keep its word.

What followed became known as the Miracle of the Sun, the most publicly witnessed supernatural event in history. The rain stopped, the clouds broke, the sun appeared as a silver disk in the sky, dancing. Witnesses described it spinning, pulsating, and casting brilliant colors across the landscape. People testified that it seemed to plunge toward the Earth, causing panics and screams and cries for mercy. And then, just as suddenly, it returned to its place. The event lasted for 10 minutes. When it finished, the crowd looked down and discovered something just as astonishing. Their shoes were dry, their clothes were dry, and the ground beneath their feet, muddy just a few minutes earlier, was completely dry.

This was not a private vision. It was predicted in advance. It happened on a specific date. It was witnessed by 70,000 people. And it was reported by secular newspapers openly hostile to religion and the biggest news outlets in the world, including the New York Times, The Times of London. Fatima remains an invitation for the people of all places and times. Mary came to Fatima as the Queen of Peace on a mission of peace. She longs for peace in the world, peace in our hearts, and peace in our homes. Mary explicitly linked world peace, peace in our hearts, and peace in our homes to conversion. Mary warned that rejecting God leads to suffering, war, and disorder, not as punishment imposed from above, but as inevitable consequences flowing from human choices.

Conversion is a turning of the heart. Mary asked each of us to look honestly at our lives and surrender whatever keeps us from God: pride, resentment, selfishness, sin, fear. And she asked us to let God reshape our priorities, heal our wounds, and transform our hearts. This conversion is not a change of religion or an emotional moment. It is a lifelong turning of the heart back to God. It is a personal, practical, daily event. It involves turning away from sin, recognizing where we choose selfishness over love, letting go of habits that separate us from God, and seeking forgiveness sincerely.

Conversion starts with humility and the courage to admit, "I need to change." It is a movement from living as if God were optional to living with an understanding that our very being depends on God. Conversion means returning to a deep trust in God by replacing indifference with attentiveness to God. Trusting God's guidance instead of self-reliance and making room for God in our daily decisions. Conversion is a reordered life. It changes the way we live. It moves us from distraction to intentionality, from self-centeredness to self-darnation.

I attended Mass with Lucia in 1996. I remember sitting there before Mass thinking to myself, wondering, "When you look at the world, what do you see? What do you choose to focus on? When you know what you know, when you have seen and experienced what you have, how does the world look different to you? For many years, I wondered that about Lucia. It would return to my mind when I was visiting Fatima with pilgrims, but also at seemingly random times. I often wondered the same with Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa. When they looked at the world, what is it that they saw?

One thing was clear: these were people who had completely surrendered themselves to God. They had released all desire to control. They were 100% available to God. They trusted in God's providence, not in some vague or general way, but absolutely from moment to moment. Is your heart open to conversion? Do you pray daily? Are you willing to develop the spiritual discipline of reparation? Where is God inviting you to surrender more fully?

How can you become an instrument of God's peace in the world? Do you believe prayer can change the course of human history? There are moments in history so powerful that they hold the destiny of humanity in their hands. These moments are not gentle nudges or private consolations. Fatima was one of those moments. It was a wake-up call for the whole world.

Trust, surrender.

Believe.

Receive. Don't let the world steal your wonder.

So what's today's lesson? Prayer is a force that shapes the world. It quietly shapes our relationships and communities. Prayer isn't passive. It's an active influence. It's an unseen force of unimaginable magnitude. Prayer can change the world. It does that by changing us and setting off a domino effect of goodness and virtue. Your prayers matter. Prayer works. Today's virtue of the day is discipline.

The virtue of discipline allows us to maximize our contribution to the world. Joy is a byproduct of realizing our God-given potential. You will never have more joy than discipline. By choosing to discipline ourselves, we suffer less, and we cause less suffering to others. Today, I want to invite you to join the Ambassadors Club.

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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God of miracles, wonders, and grace.

I thank you for all the good you have done in my life.

For the miracles I recognize.

And the many graces I so often overlook.

I open my heart completely to you today.

Inviting you to completely inhabit my soul.

So that through me.

Others may encounter your love.

Your mercy.

Your compassion.

Your kindness.

And your staggering generosity. Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you, Ambassadors. You are changing the world. Have a great day.

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