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Night
The night between May 7 and 8 - that is, a few hours before the meeting of the Partners of the CEPV385 at my house to clarify everything and establish that I want to obey the Church and have it obeyed.
Jesus had said, “Meet on the 3rd (Discovery of the Holy Cross) or the 5th (Victory at Lepanto through the intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary) or the 8th. But I would prefer the 8th so that on that day I, as the Good Shepherd, with the help of the Queen of the Rosary and St. Michael the Archangel, may be able to recover on my paths the sheep that have wandered astray. Prayer in common to my Mother and yours in particular to St. Michael - that he may cast out the Disturber, so active in some - will at least obtain the binding of the perverse will and the making known of your will, without doubt.”
At 12 midnight Jesus departed and was replaced by Our Lady of Fatima, facing eastward and praying intensely.
At 12 noon on May 8, 1949, while the entreaty was being made, Our Lady turned from east to west and inclined her gaze over Father B.... A maternally afflicted gaze. She then separated her joined hands, opened her arms, and lowered them towards the ground. She then raised them to Heaven in an act of entreaty and again joined her hands in prayer, and two tears furrowed her cheeks, afterwards falling to the ground.
I felt myself getting pale, with my contemplative paleness, which I would have liked to conceal from the eight people present, who noticed, however, except for two.... I understood that Our Lady was weeping over sinful members of the clergy, one of whom was present.
385 The reference must be to the Words of Life Publishing House (Casa Editrice Parole di Vita), specifically constituted to publish the Work, but later dissolved.