Section 8: The Immaculate Heart Of The Lady Of Fatima
The Word Of God Vs. The Lady Of Fatima's Words

The Lady of Fatima spoke many times about her Immaculate Heart, and on one occasion "The Lord" himself appeared to Lucia, telling her,

"I desire that devotion to the Immaculate Heart of My Mother be placed alongside devotion to My Own Sacred Heart."

Insight into the linkage of Mary's Immaculate Heart with Jesus' can be gleaned from the words of St. John Eudes who, centuries before Fatima, wrote,

"Be united to the Heart of Mary that thus you may the more intimately be united to the Heart of Jesus."

It is by this union, wrote Eudes, that adherents would thus "obtain the fulfillment of all Their promises." Concerning the vital connection between these two Hearts and their devotees, "Jesus" told St. John Eudes,

"I have given you the admirable Heart of My most worthy Mother which is identified with My own Heart that it may be your true heart as well; that My children may possess only one Heart with their Mother and My members the same Heart as their Head. Thus you may serve, adore, and love God with a Heart worthy of His infinite goodness"(1).

Another Jesus, Another Spirit, Another Gospel

The prophet Ezekiel recorded God's promise of a new heart which would be one of the blessings of the New Covenant:

"I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stoney hearts and giving you natural hearts. I will put my spirit within you" (Ezekiel 36:26-27, NAB; see also Jeremiah 31:33-34).

To the Corinthians, Paul proclaimed the fulfillment of this promise:

"He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come" (2 Corinthians 1:21-22, NIV).

The fulfillment of God's promise was the filling of all believers' hearts with the Holy Spirit, uniting the members of the Body of Christ in direct fellowship. God made no promise in Scripture that if the believers united themselves with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, "His members" would be "more intimately united to the Heart of Jesus." Eudes' "Jesus" has changed the one means God has established to unite Himself with man through Christ's finished work. This "Jesus" gives "believers" the Immaculate Heart of "His Mother' which is united to his Heart rather than the Holy Spirit which has been poured out through Jesus' shed blood:

This is an example of what Paul warned the Church to beware:

"But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus [the Sacred Heart] other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit [the Immaculate Heart of Mary] from the one you received, or a different gospel [the devotions to both] from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough" (2 Corinthians 11:3-4, NIV).

With this background established, we will now consider the Lady's promises concerning her Immaculate Heart.

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Section 8 Footnotes

(1) Tract, "Promises of Our Lord to those who honor His SACRED HEART," 1975. Though there are promises accompanying Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we are dealing only with those concerning the Immaculate Heart of Mary.