It wasn't easy being visionaries, It was a great sacrifice, and the three Fatima children grew old before their time.

God was preparing Lucia before the visions took place. Father Joe notes that Lucia's mother urged her to ask God to make her a saint, and Lucia made a self-offering.

Father Joe discusses the Eucharistic prayer given by an angel to the Fatima visionaries that's remarkably similar to a prayer later given to St. Faustina.The Divine Mercy Chaplet, like the Fatima prayer, is an extension of the power of the Mass.