By Rebecca Sande, Spiritual Direction - When the great Mother of God wants to communicate with us, her children on Earth, she too chooses from the ordinary. Lucia dos Santos, Francisco and Jacinta Marto were children, cousins, out tending sheep in a field near Fatima, Portugal, when they first witnessed Mary’s appearance on May 13, 1917. Her three-fold message to the children could have been expected – pray, sacrifice, and honor the Immaculate Heart of Mary... Ordinary things can become extraordinary under the action of divine grace. Grace – God’s own life shared with us – transforms ordinary into extraordinary, natural to supernatural. Things that cannot be done by human power happen under God’s power.