Finding Fatima Through The Lord of the Rings: Part 2 – Through the Fires
As I established in the first part of this series, Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien discouraged his audience from reading The Lord of the Rings as an allegory. This doesn’t mean that similarities between his fantasy and Catholicism shouldn’t be made, though. In fact, doing so only serves to strengthen our understanding of our Faith.
St. Francisco: The Boy Who Died Smiling
by Barb Ernster – The holiness of St. Francisco is hidden in the stories of Fatima. Putting it together, one sees Francisco’s advancement in the spiritual life during his time on earth, primarily in his devotion to the “Hidden Jesus.” Francisco died the morning of April 4, 1919, after a six-month battle with the Spanish […]
Lenten Lessons from Fatima’s Youngest Seer: St. Jacinta
by Father Luke Mary Fletcher, CFR Inspiration for Your Lenten journey Lent is the perfect time to get back to basics. The themes, devotions, and spirituality of Lent allow us to reexamine the essentials of our faith journey. Prayer, penance and almsgiving are our weapons against the world, the flesh and the Devil. If you […]
A Spiritual Stairway to Heaven: Embracing First Saturday Devotion
Written By Gene Zannetti A Heavenly Blueprint In a beautiful ray of hope, Our Lady of Fatima bestowed upon her faithful disciples a sacred gift—a heavenly blueprint for spiritual ascent. These divine directives, akin to marching orders, chart a course towards the triumph of the Immaculate Heart. At the heart of this celestial roadmap lies […]
The Eucharist is central to the Fatima apparitions
Written by Fr. James L. P. Miara “Fatima is Reparation” His Excellency Joao Pereira Venancio, who was a bishop of the Diocese of Leiria-Fatima from 1958-1968, when asked to summarize the message of Fatima said: “Fatima is reparation, reparation, reparation and especially Eucharistic reparation.” Fatima is very Eucharistic. This is evident when one visits the […]
SEEK24 Recap: The Faith is Alive!
Remembering God’s Grace It’s easy, nowadays, to give into the doom and gloom. Even as devoted followers of Christ, we often find ourselves discouraged by the state of this increasingly Godless world. Only earlier this week, controversial rapper Lil Nas X made a disgusting mockery of Christianity. While many religious and non-religious people have spoken […]
Is Your Rosary Too Mechanical?
Learn to Make it a Living Thing. Written by Greg Wasson Fatima and the Rosary Sometimes we forget that Our Lady of Fatima is really Our Lady of the Rosary in a similar way as Our Lady of Lourdes is the Immaculate Conception. Mary identified herself at Fatima as Our Lady of the Rosary – […]
St. Jude Thaddeus – Courageous Follower of Christ
By Donal Anthony Foley – St. Jude Thaddeus The feast of St. Jude Thaddeus on October 28 is celebrated jointly with his fellow Apostle St. Simon, known as the Zealot. St. Jude is best known as the helper in cases despaired of, and the patron saint of desperate or even hopeless situations. He is known […]
Separation of Church and State is an Impossibility
By David M. Carollo – Kennedy v. Nixon My earliest recollection of politics goes back to 1960 when John Kennedy faced Richard Nixon in the presidential race. The overwhelming subject seemed to be the fact that one candidate was Catholic, the first in the history of the nation. As a young child, I had no […]
Mary and the Gift of Courage – Why We Need It!
By Barb Ernster – Through the Woman The title Woman is not bestowed upon the Blessed Mother lightly. It connotes a very important role in salvation history, and one that is not for the faint of heart. In his book Fatima for Today, Father Andrew Apostoli tells us Mary is the only woman in Scripture […]
