January 2, 2025
Dear Friends,
First Friday is tomorrow and First Saturday follows (Jan. 4)—a great way to consecrate your new year to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to commit to living the Gospel message applied to our times at Fatima. Let’s give our year to the Holy Family—Jesus, Mary & Joseph.
FREE blessed rose petals for healing will be available on First Saturday. Remember we have a petitions basket next to Our Lady of the Cape for your petitions to be written and spiritually entrusted to the Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Consider lighting a votive candle near Our Lady of the Cape for loved ones you know that especially need the intercession of our spiritual mother.
More Epiphany Water will be available next week. It is the most powerful Holy Water the Church offers. The water will be already bottled and available for a donation. It can only be blessed on the traditional Epiphany date (Jan. 6) and in Latin since the blessing is from the Roman Ritual. It is highly recommended for situations of demonic disturbance and for protection from such.
Copies of Fr. Ripperger’s Deliverance Prayers (For Use by the Laity) are available ($20). Praying for healing & protection, binding spirits, breaking chains of bondage from foolish decisions we made earlier in life, interceding for one’s family members—all of this is part of NORMAL Christian spiritual warfare. Why not make this part of your New Year’s Resolution—to incorporate spiritual warfare prayers into your daily prayer life? The warfare will happen because the Devil always studies us and seeks to undermine us—the question is WILL YOU PUSH BACK with the weapons Jesus gave us through His Church?
A FREE large screen monitor & DVD player are available from the friars (good condition). Just ask Fr. Alex.
To communicate with me, please email me directly at [email protected] or call/text me at (313) 727-9784. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!
In Jesus, Mary & Joseph,
Fr. Alex Kratz, OFM
Spiritual Director of Terra Sancta Ministries