Lucia on the Essential Message of Fatima
by Barb Ernster – At the very first apparition at Fatima on May 13, Mary asked the three seers, “Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended and in supplication for the conversion […]
Lucia on the Sanctification of Our Daily Cross
by Donal Anthony Foley – We are entering the “Fatima season,” May – October, related to the apparitions of Fatima in 1917. Thus, it is a good time to reflect on the requirements of our daily duty in the light of what Our Lady asked for, particularly in the very first apparition on May 13. […]
Fortitude and our daily duty
by Catherine Moran, TOF, Ph.D. At Fatima, Our Lady asked that we offer up our daily duty as the penance required of us. This sounds easy, but in reality, it is very difficult to do without the gift of the virtue of fortitude, one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Fortitude is a […]
