The Great Promise of Our Lady of Fatima

    The Great Promise of Our Lady of Fatima

 

 

Our Lady appeared at Fatima in 1917  to three little children, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, to warn the world, but also to bring a message of hope: “Finally my Immaculate Heart will triumph!”

Picture taken in Coimbra, Portugal, Sister Lucia’s Memorial Museum

In 1925  Our Lady appeared to Sister Lucia, rested one hand on Lucia’s shoulder, while in the other hand she held a heart surrounded with thorns. Then Our Lady said to Lucia:

“Look, my daughter, at my Heart surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude… You, at least, try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the first Saturday for five consecutive months,

1. go to Confession,
2. receive the Holy Communion
3. recite five decades of the Rosary
4. keep me a company for 15 minutes while meditating of the mysteries of the Rosary, with intention of making reparation.”

This is how the Five First Saturday devotion came about. Our Heavenly Mother gave it to Sister Lucia, encouraging the faithful to pray the Rosary more and more, meditating on it and receiving the Sacraments of the Confession and the Eucharist.

Let’s not forget that Our Lady and Our Lord Jesus are hurt every single moment by countless sins. 

We encourage you to start this devotion, it is fine and purifying for our soul, and it helps to console Our Heavenly Mother. 

Remember this divine formula: 5 First Saturdays= Confession+ Mass & Eucharist +Rosary & 15.min Meditation+Intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Spiritual Exercises for lent: Day 29 & 30

Spiritual Exercises for lent: Day 29

Let the word “Sorry” be on the top of your agenda today! Make peace and find joy. Say sorry to those who you have mistreated, done wrong and hurt. Ask God’s help for courage to face difficult situation to lead to forgiveness.

Spiritual Exercises for lent: Day 30

Return to or start the practise of good old Catholic devotions like making sign of the Cross passing the Church, blessing yourself with the Holy Water, making morning and  evening offering, saying grace before and after meals, praying the Angelus, family Rosary, praying for the deceased, Saint Michael the Archangel/ Guardian Angel prayers, reciting Divine Mercy Chaplet, consecrating yourself to the Immaculate heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus or hanging the  two hearts images in your home.

Spiritual Exercises for Lent: Day 19

Spiritual Exercises for Lent: Day 19

Watch a good Catholic Film, such as:
1) The Call to Fatima (2007,All Regions, Universal, available from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Ebay.ie and directly from producers via PayPal, just email srluciacalltofatima@gmail.com)

2) Bernadette (Sydney Penny)

3) Don Bosco (2004)

4) The Way (2010, Martin Sheen)

5) The Human Experience (2008)     

 

 

Spiritual Exercises for Lent: Day 13

Spiritual Exercises for Lent: Day 13

Tell someone about God!Show your joy and enthusiasm.

Spiritual exercises for Lent:Day 4

Spiritual exercises for Lent:Day 4

Take any seed, for example, lemon or sunflower seed, and plant it in the container. Thus you will:
1) remember that God is the only Gardener of your soul
2) associate the seed with your faith ” For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.”Matthew 17:19

New package: book “Rosary with Sister Lucia” by Sr Lucia of Fatima+ CD “Fatima Calling 21st century” by Fr Michael Maher SM + DVD “Learn to Read” with those who participated in making film documentary “The Call to Fatima”

Dear Blog readers,

We have launched new package specially for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress which took place in Ireland June 2012.

This unique package consists of little book “Rosary with Sister Lucia” (published by Edicoes carmelo, texts of Servant of God Sister Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate heart, O.C.D.), newly recorded CD by Marist Father Michael Maher titled “Fatima Calling 21st Century”, and DVD “Learn to Read” with Dr Branca Paul (Sr Lucia’s private medical doctor), Thomas McCormack (The Call to Fatima producer/director) and Fr Maher SM (The Call to Fatima film narrator/ spiritual director).

To order this package, please email us at srluciacalltofatima@gmail.com (we accept cheque or Postal order, price of this package is €13/  £11  incl P&P)

or go to Amazon.com website to purchase on this link  http://www.amazon.com/Rosary-Sister-Fatima-Calling-Century/dp/9726401313/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340102480&sr=1-12&keywords=Sister+Lucia

Thank you, & may God bless you & protect you always!

The Call to Fatima film presentation in Mitchelstown

Our Lady Conceived Without Sin Parish Church

in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork

Invites you to the presentation of

“The Call to Fatima”  film-documentary

on Thursday, 29th March 2012 @8pm

 All are very welcome, especially youth, families and First Communion children and people from surrounding parishes!

Prayer for Christian Unity

PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY

God of compassion,
you have loved and forgiven us in Christ,
and sought to reconcile the entire human race
in that redeeming love.
Look with favour upon us,
who work and pray
for the unity of divided Christian communities.
Grant us the experience of being brothers and sisters in your love.
We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God for ever and ever. Amen.

The Call to Fatima Testimonials

 

 

Remembering Sister Lucia of Fatima

Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart

 (Fatima, 22.03.1907- Coimbra, 13.02.2005)

Sister Lucia was born in Aljustrel, a village in the parish of Fatima, in Portugal. Together with her cousins, Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto, she was visited three times by an Angel (1916) and six times by Our Lady (1917), asking them to pray and do penance for the remission of sins and the conversion of sinners. Sr Lucia’s special mission was to spread  devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as the kernel of the Message of Fatima.

She joined the Congregation of St Dorothy in Spain. where she received apparitions in Tuy and Pontevedra.  Seeking a more withdrawn life in response to the Message which Our Lady had entrusted to her, Lucia later entered the Carmel in Coimbra, where she devoted herself more deeply to prayer and penance. Our Lady came for her on 13th February, 2005, and her body was laid to rest in the Basilica in Fatima on 19th February 2006.

Sister Lucia’s cause for Beatification Process was started just three years after her death, on 13th February 2008.

Servant of God, Sister Lucia, pray for us!