100 Years

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O Século - 15 oct 1917

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I was hoping to find the bishop's interview with the seers.  Many years ago I had read that account and the simple and honest nature of the seers in answering the questions had a profound effect on me.    Some day I will find it.

Except from The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.

Why Are Miracles Important?

Miracles are not only important; they are indispensable for the credibility of our faith. They are God’s way of enabling us to believe that someone, who claims to be speaking for God, is really telling the truth.

Fatima talk and Candlelight Procession in Chicago on May 13th

Discover and live the life of Fatima! This May 13th celebrate 100 years of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima with with a special presentation and a candlelight procession on the streets of our city.

For our first event, Fr. James Presta, Professor of Mariology in the Archdiocese of Chicago will speak about the May 13th apparition and its importance for our lives—“Heaven’s Plan for your Happiness.”

After the 7:00 pm presentation at St. John Cantius Church we will have a candlelight procession along Milwaukee Avenue to St. Stanislaus Kostka Church passing by Holy Trinity Church (total 1.0 mile).

As we pray for peace in our city, members of the local law enforcement community will escort a statue of Our Lady of Fatima along city streets in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood.

The May 13th event is the first of a six-part series of presentations from May to October 2017 in Chicago commemorating the apparitions. The events are sponsored by the World Apostolate of Fatima, USA and Relevant Radio. Pope Francis has granted to the faithful a special Plenary Indulgence for taking part in the Centennial Celebrations.

continue at St John Cantius

All I need is a miracle

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Except from The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.

Why Are Miracles Important?

Miracles are not only important; they are indispensable for the credibility of our faith. They are God’s way of enabling us to believe that someone, who claims to be speaking for God, is really telling the truth.

Fatima Centennial Tour stop at Guadalupe Shrine Sept 22-23

Also got this photo from an event recently at the Shrine:

Fr. Z, Priest of the Institute of Christ the King, and Priest of the Fraternity of St. Peter. Taken at the Shrine. #Hope

A few other upcoming events:

Tomorrow: Day of Prayer Offered for Persecuted Christians

Also November 4th:  Meet a Daughter of a Saint!

The bullet jewel

Turkish assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square

Our Lady of Fatima statue

As a sign of his gratitude, Pope John Paul II gave the bullet that was used in his
assassination attempt to the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.

All I need is a miracle

Repost.  HT Terry@AR

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Our Lady of Fatima, ora pro nobis!

I  LOVE this picture, ah Sr. Lucia, you are wonderful!

via Fatima.pt

"Many marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord and are not of God."
- Our Lady to Bl. Jacinta

First Saturdays at the Guadalupe Shrine

Just a reminder, First Saturday is always a good day to make a pilgrimage to the Guadalupe Shrine.

First Saturday Devotion

Father Peter Damian M. Fehlner, F.I. will give a presentation at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse at 10:30 a.m. in the crypt of the Shrine Church. At 11:30, we will pray the Holy Rosary in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will begin at 12:15 p.m.

Requirements

1. Go to Confession—eight (8) days before or after First Saturday with the intention in your heart of making reparation and consoling Our Blessed Mother.

(When Lucia asked Jesus if it might be valid to go to Confession within 8 days, He told her yes, and that it could be even longer still as long as they are in the state of grace when they receive Him and have the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. So, if you cannot confess on the First Saturday itself, do so when you can. Heaven is looking for dispositions of mind and heart and at least monthly Confession.)

2. Receive Holy Communion on First Saturday in a spirit of reparation—a spiritual communion will not suffice.

3. Pray five decades of the Holy Rosary with the intention of making reparation for offenses made against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

4. Keep Mary company by meditating for fifteen minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary. This meditation entails thinking or reading meditatively (frequently pausing to reflect on the material read), in order to dwell on one or more of the mysteries in Our Lady’s life. The fifteen-minute meditation and the praying of the Holy Rosary are to be performed separately.

First Saturday Promises

God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who practice the First Saturday devotion for five consecutive months.

Why five consecutive First Saturdays of reparation?

The five consecutive First Saturdays of reparation were requested by Our Lady of Fatima to atone for the five ways in which people offend her Immaculate Heart:

1. Attacks upon Mary’s Immaculate Conception;
2. Attacks against her Perpetual Virginity;
3. Attacks upon her Divine Maternity and the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all mankind.
4. For those who try to publicly implant in children’s hearts indifference, contempt and even hatred of this Immaculate Mother;
5. For those who insult her directly in her sacred images.

The First Saturday devotion was revealed to Sister Lucia while she was in prayer in the convent chapel at Pontevedra, Spain. Appearing with the Queen of Heaven in that apparition was the Infant Jesus, Who said to Lucia: “Have pity on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother. It is covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to remove them with an act of reparation.” Our Lady then spoke: “See, my daughter, my Heart encircled by thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude.”  

Obtain more information from: World Apostolate of Fatima, www.wafusa.org

Did you know that the Cardinal originally planned the Shrine to be devoted to Our Lady of Fatima?

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Our Lady of Fatima, ora pro nobis!

via Abbey Roads:

"Many marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord and are not of God."

 - Our Lady to Bl. Jacinta

MN votes on gay marriage today. 

Also, the Holy Father's trip to the Holy Land makes me very nervous....

All I need is a miracle

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Except from The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.

Why Are Miracles Important?

Miracles are not only important; they are indispensable for the credibility of our faith. They are God’s way of enabling us to believe that someone, who claims to be speaking for God, is really telling the truth.

The logic is very simple. Someone says that he is a spokesman for God. The prophet or seer is proclaiming something which requires divine authorization to be accepted on faith. But people can make all kinds of claims to being mystics or communicators of an alleged divine mission to the human race. How are their claims to be accepted? They are accepted on the grounds of sound reason not on blind credulity. Their claims are acceptable only if the claimant gives evidence of being in contact with God. Who then uses this human spokesman as the agent of a prodigy that could only be performed by the power of God?

That is why in the Gospels Christ was constantly associating two things: his teaching and his miracles. Sometimes he would work the miracle before revealing a truth that He wanted to have believed. This is what He did when He fed the five thousand people with five loaves and two fishes, which was clearly a miracle. Then, as described by St. John, He made the astounding pronouncement of giving his own flesh to eat and his own blood to drink in the Holy Eucharist. This was the revealed mystery that Christ wanted his followers to believe.

At other times Jesus would first reveal the mystery and then perform the miracle. That is what He did when He first told the man, dropped through the roof, that his sins were forgiven. That was such an unheard of claim, that the Pharisees protested “Who but God can forgive sins?” So, we may say, Jesus countered their skepticism by telling the paralyzed man to pick up his mat and walk. The miraculous healing of the paralytic provided the rational basis for accepting Christ's claim that He, the Son of Man, had power on earth to forgive sins because He was also the Son of God.

How Does the Solar Phenomenon Confirm the Message of Fatima?

It was no coincidence that the solar phenomenon at Fatima came only several months after the basic message of Fatima had been communicated to the children. The phenomenon had to have a purpose for its occurrence, and the message had to have a divine confirmation of its authenticity.

When the phenomenon occurred in October, it was witnessed by thousands of people, friendly and unfriendly, simple believers and professed skeptics, those disposed to believe Our Lady’s message and others who were openly hostile to what the Blessed Virgin was reported to have said.

In God’s providence the hostility of the skeptics was necessary to give rational grounds for believing what the children said the beautiful Lady was telling them. All the reports of those who witnessed the spectacle of the sun testify to their stupefaction at what they saw. No one, not even the most hardened agnostic, doubted that what he saw was a prodigy. This was necessary to provide the rational foundation for accepting, on faith, the Marian message of Fatima because of the solar event which everybody had to accept, as a fact, perceived by the senses.

Why, then, was the solar prodigy of Fatima necessary? It was necessary in order to satisfy our spontaneous need for giving rational credence to what Mary was telling Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta. The children did not need the solar phenomenon to believe what Our Lady was telling them. But we do.

It is not coincidental that Mary asked her Divine Son to work the miracle at Cana as the first of the signs performed by her Son. Immediately, we are told, his disciples believed in Him. She has been doing the same ever since. As God, He is master of the sun, moon and stars which He created. Her message at Fatima was to tell a sinful world to stop offending the Divine Majesty and to repent of their sins. As at Cana, she asked Jesus to work a miracle. At Cana, as the poet said, the water looked at its Maker and blushed. At Fatima the sun looked at its Maker and whirled in dazzling splendor to acknowledge its Creator.

America Needs Fatima

I was blessed to make a pilgrimage to Fatima on Palm Sunday weekend in the spring of 2002, while studying abroad. It was an amazing experience, one I find difficult to put into words still. I highly encourage anyone who can to take a trip to Fatima (and remember, we have an approved Marian apparition here in Wisconsin, the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, which is a very holy place as well).

Photo: Interior of the Basilica at Fatima.

From America Needs Fatima:

On Friday, May 13, as is customary, a multitude of pilgrims were praying in Fatima, Portugal, to honor the first apparition of Our Lady at that great shrine.

At noon, which is the time that Our Lady appeared at Fatima on May 13, 1917, a beautiful solar halo appeared in the sky.

This is significant. There seems to be a link between Friday’s solar halo and fantastic miracle of the sun that took place in Fatima on October 13, 1917, the date of the sixth and last apparition of Our Lady at Fatima.

This connection between raises the question: was Friday’s solar halo a sign from Our Lady?

The phenomenon of solar halos is explained by science. But what science cannot explain, and this is not science’s role, is why this solar phenomenon took place at Fatima on May 13, at the very time and on the same day that Our Lady appeared at Fatima.