Saint Wenceslaus Church in Saint Louis, Missouri will host the 100th Anniversary of Fatima & Tour for Peace: 1917 - 2017, featuring the story of the Fatima Apparitions and the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady. The date is Sunday, November 13, 2016, beginning with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at 9:00 a.m., and ending with Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament at 4:30 p.m. For more information about the Tour for Peace, please click here.
Sent by Jesus Christ, Our Lady came to Fatima, Portugal in 1917, to three shepherd children, appearing often as a Sorrowful Mother concerned for her children on earth. She warned about the coming moral evils that largely unfolded throughout the 20th century, beginning with World War II, if people did not cease offending God. But she gave us a Peace Plan from Heaven that could avoid these evils and bring peace to the world. The story of Fatima is still amazingly powerful and for our times because peace has not been achieved.
Our Lady exhorted all her children to become fervent in working for the salvation of souls. Our penances and prayers for others are central to Our Lady’s message because she identified the conversion of sinners as the key to peace in the world. Her message is one of hope, as she promised: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”
The four essential requests of Our Lady at Fatima – the Peace Plan from Heaven – are the following:
1) Offer daily the sufferings that God permits in your life for the conversion of sinners.
“Sacrifice yourselves for sinners, and say many times, especially whenever you make some sacrifice: O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
2) Pray the Rosary every day.
“Pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary… because only she can help you.”
The Blessed Mother requested this at each of the six apparitions, May through October 1917, especially to obtain peace in the world.
3) Consecrate yourself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
“You have seen Hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.”
Consecrate yourself to Jesus Christ through the Immaculate Heart of Mary and wear the Brown Scapular as a sign of your devotion to her.
4) Practice the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturday of every month.
“I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays…”
† Go to Confession.
† Receive Holy Communion.
† Pray the Rosary (5 decades).
† Meditate for 15 minutes on the Mysteries of the Rosary (life of Jesus and Mary in the New Testament).
Our Lady requested this devotion on five consecutive months with the intention of making reparation for the offenses directed at her Immaculate Heart: (1) against her Immaculate Conception, (2) against her Perpetual Virginity, (3) against her Divine Maternity, at the same time refusing to recognize her as mother of all men, (4) for those who openly seek to foster in the hearts of children indifference or contempt and even hatred for their Immaculate Mother, and (5) for those who directly outrage her in her sacred images.
+JMJ+
This information is from the website of the World Apostolate of Fatima.
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