Editor’s Note: In the most recent Issue of The Fatima Crusader (#135), several writers explored how Catholics can best live the Fatima Message. Each article deals with a practice essential to Catholic life and they can all be summed up as a threefold spiritual orientation of Conversion, Reparation, and Consecration. Frère Michel de la Sante Trinité addresses each of these three spiritual themes in his magnus opus, a three-volume work entitled The Whole Truth About Fatima. What follows is an excerpt from his work which details how the theme of Conversion is related to the Message of Fatima. In light of the Vatican’s recent doctrinal note (November 4, 2025), it is interesting to note that this world-class Fatima expert – writing back in 1985 – was clearly relating Our Lady’s activity at Fatima to Her Marian titles Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces. [Note: Learn more about the deficiencies in the Vatican’s doctrinal note through an article, video, or audio podcast.]
[T]he path of our return to God, the way of our conversion, is all marked out. … To despise it or depart from it is to despise the Mercy of God, to insult the divine predilections of His Heart. If it is folly or a diabolical lie to pretend to return to the Father while ignoring His beloved and only Son, sovereign Mediator between God and men, it is a similar blasphemy, and a sure sign of the work of the evil spirit, to wish to go to Jesus while neglecting the Immaculate Heart of His Mother, whom He has established as our universal Mediatrix. “My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way which will lead you to God,” Our Lady declared to Lucia on June 13, 1917.
Thus, the wonderful dispensation of the mystery of grace, whose aesthetic and mystical aspects we have considered, now present themselves to our eyes as a dramatic requirement. In the plan of God, the cult and love of the Blessed Virgin are not something secondary and optional. On the contrary, the whole message of Fatima proclaims that they are the indispensable condition for obtaining salvation. At Tuy, the Blessed Virgin solemnly informed Her messenger of this fact. Many souls are damned because they refuse to conform with docility to the predilections of God towards Her, because they despise and insult Her: “So many are the souls which the justice of God condemns for sins committed against Me…”
We can easily understand this terrible rigor: Since She is truly our Mother, the Mother of all men, our Co-Redemptrix, Advocate and most loving Mediatrix, how could this Virgin who is all good, and also the Mother of God, the Immaculate One in whom the Trinity takes Its delight, not have an absolute right to the veneration, gratitude, and filial love of all Her children? God would no longer be God if He did not severely chastise those who spit in the face of such a Mother and do not repent. The crime is greater still because God wills that She be better known, better loved, and more exalted in our times.
Indeed “the moment has come”1; and for two centuries Heaven’s requests have become more and more pressing. The hour has come for the hierarchical Church … to now cause the full glory of the Immaculate Heart to shine, and to present Her to the world, authoritatively and in the name of Christ, as the Mediatrix of Grace and Mercy for all souls and for all nations, for the Church and for Christendom. The apparitions of Fatima, with their culmination at Pontevedra and Tuy, correspond to the apparitions of Paray-le-Monial. After the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary comes in the name of God to make known the devotion due to It in preparation for Its “triumph,” which in turn heralds the Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Taken from The Whole Truth about Fatima, vol. II, pp. 491-493.