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Our Lady came to Fatima 100 years ago to tell us that it is the prayers of children that God desires to heal our wounds.
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Not even children are exempt from the fight!
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Consider the penances the 3 shepherd children voluntarily undertook.
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"Voluntary acts of expiation" are words found in the Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Pius XI, dated less than 10 years later.
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We should all be teaching our children to offer personal penances and everyday inconveniences for this purpose.
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This was the message of the Little Flower in her "Little Way" of only a few years prior to the Fatima apparitions.
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St. Therese of Lisieux told of a string of beads she made to keep track of her penances each day by sliding a bead on the string. This is something that children easily learn to do and they take to it quite naturally, when taught with love.
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