, several writers explored how Catholics can best live the Fatima Message. Al Smith authored the article, “Making Reparation to the Holy Face,” and the article below provides further insight into that theme. The Gospels tell us, “Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, His Mother, and His Mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene” (John 19:25). At the most excruciating moment in human history, when the weight of the world’s sins bore down upon the Savior, Mary did not turn away. She stood. She remained. She endured. She prayed. She forgave. This standing was no passive stance. It was the posture of unwavering fidelity, of full union with the redemptive suffering of Her Son. She was not merely present as an onlooker – Mary was actively participating in the offering of Christ to the Father. Every mother suffers when her child suffers; yet Mary’s suffering was unique because She consented, with the deepest act of Her sinless will, to the sacrifice unfolding before Her. Pope …