Aligning Our Hearts with the Sacred Heart of Jesus
by Donal Anthony Foley – Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, an opportunity for a renewal of our devotion to Christ under the image and reality of His divine-human Heart. Devotion to the Sacred Heart calls us to go to the deepest part of our […]
First Saturdays Help Us Renew and Retain the Spirit of Mary
By Barb Ernster – First Saturdays Devotion: A Call from Our Lady Amid the four things Sister Lucia identified as Our Lady’s request at Fatima, the First Saturdays devotion was intended to be a monthly renewal of our “yes” to Mary and a way to help us continue to fulfill the other requests. The most […]
As Easter People, Our Light Must Shine Brilliantly
by Donal Anthony Foley Christ is the Light of the World On the first Easter Sunday, early in the morning in the garden near Calvary, there was a moment of great light for the world; the moment when Christ rose from the dead after His terrible sufferings on Good Friday. At the site of the […]
Lenten Lessons from Saints Francisco and Jacinta
By Donal Anthony Foley – We celebrate the feast day of Saints Francisco and Jacinta on February 20 and then, two days later, Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent. And so, it is timely to see how the spirituality of the Little Shepherds can impact our own celebration of the Lenten season. But […]
First Saturdays are entrance to “school of Our Lady”
Fatima is a wonderful place where we are drawn into the heart of Our Lady and there made her true children filled with her own life.
Coming Home
God’s voice dropped upon me like a sudden ton of bricks. ‘You cannot become a saint at the expense of other people,’ I heard.
The Essence and Importance of the Immaculate Conception
by Donal Anthony Foley – Every year during Advent, on Dec. 8, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, one of the most prominent Marian feasts in the Church’s liturgical year. This celebration centers on the principle that Our Lady, from the very first moment of her existence, was free from original sin. Whereas […]
The Scapular Means “Lights Out” for Satan!
by Thomas Ross – The Brown Scapular is truly a powerful sacramental and wonderful “sign of our predestination.” It is a visible witness to others who see it, but more importantly, a physical reminder to us who wear it that we want and intend to do what is necessary to go to heaven. At Fatima, […]
The Charisma of the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Fatima
by Patrick Sabat “Statues, by virtue of the blessing of a bishop or a priest, become for us ‘visual catechism’. We, by virtue of our baptism in Christ, become a ‘living catechism.’” – St. John Chrysostom In 1947, the bishop of Fatima, Most Rev. Jose Correia da Silva, was very pleased when Mr. John Haffert […]
ANNOUNCING: NEW DEVELOPMENT IN SISTER LUCIA’S CAUSE OF CANONIZATION
We are pleased to share this great news from our international secretariat on this blessed day, commemorating the October 13, 1917, apparition at Fatima: The process of beatification and canonization of Sister Lucia has had today a new development, with the delivery in the Vatican’s Congregation for the Cause of Saints of the document on […]
