Here we reproduce in its integrity the letter of Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, asking the faithful to pray to Our Lady of Fatima, so that the antipope Leo XIV will not be persecuted. Seeing that Burke has received the Open Letter to a Cardinal, about the invalidity of the election, but not refuted in the least the facts of law it presents, it is clear that His Eminence has given himself up to the most outrageous mendacity and fraud, by implying that Our Lady of Fatima came to the Cova da Ira in 1917, and again to Pontevedra in 1925, to ask the world to pray for the antipope Leo XIV, whose mouth is daily filled with every blasphemy and heresy. This Cardinal has surely sold his soul to the Father of Lies.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

On December 10, 1925, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Fatima, with the Infant Jesus at her side resting on a bright cloud, appeared to the Venerable Servant of God Lucia dos Santos, the surviving shepherd child of Fatima, who was, at the time, a Postulant with the Sisters of Saint Dorothy in Pontevedra, Spain. During the apparition, Our Lady rested one of her hands on the shoulder of Lucia and, with the other hand, showed Lucia her Immaculate Heart encircled with thorns. The Child Jesus then spoke to Lucia with these words: “Have compassion on the Heart of your most holy Mother, covered with thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them.”[1]

After these words of the Infant Jesus, Our Lady spoke:

Look, my daughter, at my Heart surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.[2]

The words of Our Lady referred to the second part of the Secret or Message of Fatima revealed to the shepherd children of Fatima – Saints Francisco († 4 April 1919) and Jacinta († 20 February 1920) Marto, and the Venerable Servant of God Lucia dos Santos († 13 February 2005) –  on July 13, 1917, the third of her six apparitions from May to October of that year.

At the conclusion of the apparition on July 13^th, Our Lady showed the three shepherd children an understandably terrifying vision of Hell and spoke to them with these words:

You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father.[3]

Our Lady taught the shepherd children that the devotion to her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart is a devotion of reparation for the many and grievous sins which offend the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, her Divine Son, and, therefore, offend her Heart perfectly united to His Most Sacred Heart. The reparation made to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for the grievous offenses caused by man’s sins thus rescues souls from eternal death and brings peace to the world.

To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.[4]

In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world. In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved, etc.[5]

Our Lady’s words regarding devotion to her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart are the second part of the Secret or Message.

Regarding the Devotion of the First Saturdays, the Venerable Servant of God Lucia received a second vision of the Child Jesus on February 15, 1926, just some two months after the vision of December 10, 1925. In the vision of February 15, 1926, when the Venerable Servant of God said to the Child Jesus that her confessor had declared that the devotion of the First Saturdays was not lacking in the world, Jesus replied:

It is true, my daughter, that many souls begin them, but few finish them, and those who do finish them, do so to receive the graces that are promised. It would please me more if they did five decades with fervor and with the intention of making reparation to the Heart of their heavenly Mother, than if they did fifteen decades in a tepid and indifferent manner.[6]

In both the apparitions of December 10, 1925, and of February 15, 1926, the substance of the devotion is made clear: 1) a profound realization of how sin offends Our Lord and His Immaculate Mother, 2) a humble and contrite heart which strives to make reparation for sins committed and the offense they cause to Our Lord and His Immaculate Virgin Mother, and 3) trust in the promise which accompanies the devotion, that is, Our Lady’s promise to assist at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, those who observe the First Saturdays with true repentance and the desire to make reparation. The devotion is not an isolated act but expresses a way of life, namely, daily conversion of heart to Christ’s Most Sacred Heart, under the maternal guidance and care of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

​​​​​​Our Lady’s insistence on the devotion of the First Saturdays is a wonderful expression of her unfailing maternal love. Even as she appeared at Tepeyac in 1531 to bring her children to Our Lord and thus free them from enslavement to Satan and to deadly sin, so she appeared at Fatima to the three shepherd children and at Pontevedra to the Venerable Servant of God Lucia dos Santos to show her children the way to freedom from the rebellion before God, which is grievous sin with its fruit, eternal death. At Pontevedra, Our Lord Himself, the Infant Jesus, appeared to confirm the devotion of the First Saturdays as an efficacious means of reparation for sins and conversion of heart to His Most Sacred Heart through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Virgin Mother.

As we prepare to celebrate, on this coming December 10^th, the centennial of the apparition of the Infant Jesus and His Divine Mother to the Venerable Servant of God Sister Lucia dos Santos, we are deeply conscious of the great need of reparation for the sins which offend the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. At the same time, we are deeply conscious of how the same sins so profoundly disrupt the order of life in society, resulting in civil strife within nations and wars among nations, and in violent attacks on human life, on marriage and the family, and on the free practice of religion in many nations. The agents of the thoroughly evil ideology of atheistic communism continue to spread its poisonous lies with their fruit which is destruction and death.

To prepare the celebration of the centennial, I invite you to join me in nine weeks of prayer, beginning on this coming October 8^th and ending on this coming December 10^th, the 100^th Anniversary of the apparition at Pontevedra. During the nine weeks, I invite you to pray for the grace of sincere repentance for sins committed and heartfelt engagement in the acts of reparation of the First Saturdays Devotion – the sacramental confession of our sins, the worthy reception of Holy Communion, the recitation of five decades of the Rosary, and union of heart with the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary by meditating for fifteen minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, – by each of us, in our families and parishes, and throughout the universal Church. If you are not already doing so, I urge you to begin, already on the First Saturdays of the coming months of November and December, the heartfelt practice of the devotion of the First Saturdays of Reparation. Trust the promise of Our Lady of Fatima that the fruit of your devotion, by God’s grace, will be the salvation of many souls and peace throughout the world.

May Our Lord, through the intercession of Our Lady of Fatima, grant us, during the nine weeks of prayer, an abundant gift of divine grace, of love which inspires the devotion of the First Saturdays in reparation of the offense which our sins give to His Most Sacred Heart and the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Virgin Mother. Let us commit ourselves to the devotion of the First Saturdays and the way of life, the way of divine love, which it expresses: daily conversion of heart to Christ’s Most Sacred Heart, under the maternal guidance and care of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Let us trust that, through the confession of our sins and the worthy reception of Holy Communion – the most perfect communion of our hearts with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus – , and through the meditation on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary, the mysteries of our communion with the Lord – the Mystery of Faith – in the Church, we will be purified of sin and confirmed in grace to be His faithful “fellow workers in the truth”[7] for the salvation of the world.

Yours in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus                         
and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
and in the Purest Heart of Saint Joseph,

Raymond Leo Cardinal BURKE

September 8, 2025
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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