The Fatima Prayers

The prayers Our Lady and the Angel gave the children at Fatima — including the decade prayer prayed in the Rosary.

In 1917, at Fatima in Portugal, an angel and then the Blessed Virgin Mary gave three shepherd children a handful of short prayers — prayers of reparation, of pardon, and of pleading for souls. One of them, the "O my Jesus," is now prayed by Catholics around the world after every decade of the Rosary. Here are the prayers of Fatima, in full.

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The Fatima Prayers

The Decade Prayer — "O my Jesus" (said after each Glory Be in the Rosary)

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell; lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy.

The Pardon Prayer (given by the Angel; prayed three times)

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee. I beg pardon of Thee for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love Thee.

The Angel's Prayer (the prayer of reparation, prayed three times)

Most Holy Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. And through the infinite merits of His most Sacred Heart, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.

When to pray them

The "O my Jesus" is prayed in the Rosary, after the Glory Be at the end of each decade — Our Lady asked for it at her second apparition in July 1917. The Pardon Prayer and the Angel's Prayer were given by the Angel of Peace who appeared to the children before Mary did; both are traditionally prayed three times, in reparation and for the conversion of sinners. The children also prayed a short sacrifice prayer through the day: "O Jesus, it is for love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners."

Where they came from

In 1917, three children — Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto — received apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, preceded by visits from an Angel of Peace. The Church declared the apparitions worthy of belief in 1930; Francisco and Jacinta were canonized in 2019. As a Marian apparition, Fatima is a private revelation the Church commends — not an article of the Creed, but a call to the unchanging things it urges: prayer, penance, and reparation. The prayers themselves are simply that call, put into words a child could pray.

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