Her actions were reminiscent of her apparition on June 13, 1917, when she revealed to the Fatima children her Immaculate Heart, surrounded by terrible thorns, which, they were told, were placed there by our sins and blasphemies.On December 30th, in addition to showing her Heart to three of the children, Our Lady said: "Pray. If God said to someone, "Take this mountain on your back and carry it, for I am helping you," would not the man be a mistrustful fool if he answered, "I will not take it; for I have not strength to carry it"?Thus, when we realize how miserable and weak we truly are, and when we find ourselves most surrounded with temptations, let us not lose heart; but let us lift up our eyes to God, and say, with holy David, "The Lord is my helper; and I will despise my enemies." Although Our Lady appeared at various locations in and around the convent grounds, she appeared most of the time on a May tree—Mary's tree! Lord Jesus! "We should not be exhorted to ask," says the same Father, "unless He intended to give." The next year was an extra Holy Year, and in that Year, only a few days after her visit to Beauraing, Our Lady appeared again in Belgium, this time at Banneux. 10:23) As it is perfectly certain that God is faithful to His promises, so ought our faith also to be perfectly certain that He will hear us when we pray.Sometimes when we are in a state of spiritual dryness, or disturbed by some fault or sin we may have committed, we do not feel while praying that sensible confidence which we would like to experience. (Ps. to disseminate the story of Our Lady's thirty-three appearances in Beauraing. On the very promise made by Jesus Christ: "Ask, and you shall receive." Over the next several weeks, they saw the lady thirty-two more times, generally in the garden of the convent-school.