Francis and Jacinta, living within the Paschal mystery, your lives became a pleasing oblation to God. With Jesus, your whole existence became reparation. Throughout your short lives, you learned to do as Jesus Himself did: to bear upon you the evil that exists, struggling so that you might transform it into good, at any cost. Making reparation was incarnated into your very being through praying for those who beat you, by offering sacrifices for those who slandered you, by telling the truth when they asked you for the lie, by being good and faithful when you were tempted to perpetuate and agree with the dynamics of evil.
Saints Francis and Jacinta Marto, whose lives were offered with Christ for the salvation of humanity, pray for us.
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