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Our Lady of Fatima
Dear Friend,
Why is Our Lady important?
Are you experiencing the same scenario that I am where the question
above is asked multiple times within your sphere of influence? If so,
let’s embrace this opportunity together.
To answer this question, I find leaning on a reflection from
Cardinal Burke helpful where he depicts the relationship between Our
Lord and Our Lady when Jesus performed His first miracle at the
Wedding at Cana. Let’s recall Our Lady’s words, “Do whatever he tells
you.” These insightful syllables communicate not only her maternal
care for her children in need, but they also intimate her sublime
intercessory power. She is unmistakably the mediator between God and
man, the channel of graces which gush forth from Our Lord’s Just, yet
Merciful Heart.
To see the continuity of instruction and intercessory prayer from
our Heavenly Mother, fast forward to 1917 where she came to earth with
an urgent message for us. With the supplication to “Pray, pray very
much, and make sacrifices for sinners…”, Our Lady asked us to make
reparation for outrages, sacrileges, and indifference which greatly
offend the Sacred Heart of Our Lord, and to pray for peace in the
world.
Our Lady gently but gravely reminds us of the truth that as the
world cracks beneath the weight of secularism and impurity, so many
souls fall like snowflakes into the eternal depths of hell because no
one is praying and no one is making sacrifices for them.
And so here we are in the year 2021. I ask you to join me in a
Novena of prayer (which will also involve sacrifice!) to Our Lady of
Fatima to begin on May 5th and end on the Feast of Our Lady of
Fatima, May 13th.
Over these nine days, you and I ‘with confidence’ will plead for
the conversion of sinners and peace in the world while grasping at the
essence of Our Lady’s requests during her apparitions. As we come
together in our pleading, we will unveil the mystery of the Three
Secrets of Fatima so that we and our loved ones can successfully
overcome and defeat Satan along with our vices in this spiritually
decrepit culture.
The Message of Fatima was not intended only for the people of 1917.
It is still pressingly relevant for you and me today. Along with
storming Heaven during our daily Rosary, let’s rise up and fly to the
patronage of Our Lady of Fatima with this Novena!
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Our Lady of Fatima
May 5-13
Your friend in Jesus and Mary,
Thomas J. McKenna Founder and President Catholic
Action
Catholic Action For Faith And Family http://www.catholicaction.org/
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