Lúcia felt bitter, despised, and insulted by her own family.
Her mother insisted more and more that she confess that the May apparition was a lie. All these sufferings were sacrifices she offered to God and made her feel relieved.
Our Lady consoled and encouraged her, adding that she would never leave her and that the Immaculate Heart of Mary would be her refuge and the path that would lead her to God.
Jacinta also consoled her and explained that those sacrifices were certainly those that had been announced by the Angel of Peace and were used to repair for God and convert sinners.
When the Parish Priest learned of the events, of the apparitions in May and June, he sent word to Lúcia’s mother to take her to her house.
Lúcia’s mother took the opportunity to pressure Lúcia to confess that she had lied.
After the interrogation, the Priest was not convinced that those revelations had come from Heaven.
He considered that they might have been deceived by the devil and hoped that the future would reveal something more concrete to them.
Lúcia felt tremendous distress whenever one of her sisters called her to speak with someone who had come looking for her.
She consoled herself by offering her sorrow as a form of sacrifice to God.
When Lúcia’s mother beat her, justly or unjustly, she offered that suffering as a sacrifice to God.
Lúcia received a visit from a very tall man who asked her to accompany him to the place of the apparitions. Despite of feeling frightened by him, she accepted and took him there. The two prayed a Rosary and he asked Our Lady for a grace.
After the man left, Lúcia remained frightened.
Later, in the apparition of October 13, she saw the man again.
Lúcia was surprised; the grace he had asked for came true, and she had returned to ask for a blessing.
Lúcia was a devout Catholic, assiduous in her religious obligations.
Sometimes, the need for confession became a sacrifice, and besides, he preferred to confess to a priest from outside.
When Lúcia’s mother became seriously ill, to the point of being judged to be dying, all her children went to ask her for a supposed last blessing. When it was Lúcia’s turn, her mother became so distraught that her sisters took her out of the room and forbade her from returning, such was the distress they felt seeing their mother so disturbed. Lúcia felt deeply embittered and offered that sacrifice to God.
When Lúcia’s two older sisters saw their mother without any improvement, they put Lúcia to the test: If she had indeed seen Our Lady, then she should ask Her to heal her mother. Lúcia could promise whatever she wanted.
If the cure came to pass, they would fulfill their promise (they would do what Lúcia had promised) and believe in the apparitions of Our Lady. Lúcia asked Our Lady for the cure of her mother.
After three days her request came true and they fulfilled Lúcia’s promise.
When Lúcia’s father died, she was deeply distraught; her grief was so great that she even considered that she too was dying.
He offered that suffering for the love of God, in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Holy Father, and for the conversion of sinners.
Lúcia considered an aurora borealis to be the previously announced sign that the war was about to begin. She began to promote Reparative Communion on First Saturdays and the Consecration of Russia.
Jacinta reminded Lúcia of her duty to spread devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She tells her that when she does so, she should not hide it and should also tell everyone that God grants us graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary and that it is to her that they should ask for them.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus wants the Immaculate Heart of Mary to be venerated alongside it.
Jesus wants to use Lúcia so that people may know and love Our Lady.