Our Lady of Fatima & our new organ

Happy Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima today!  Today is the 108th Anniversary of the first apparition at Fatima to the three children.  Below are words from Our Lady of Fatima to give you spiritual food to ponder.

Our new organ has arrived from Italy.  Thank you, all you donors, who were able to help us meet this musical need.  We believe this instrument is an investment for future generations.

We are open tomorrow, as normal.  This Thursday, May 15, is Third Thursday when we have our Evening for Vocations: at 6:30 pm we open and have Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament; at 7:00 pm we have our Holy Hour followed by Holy Mass.  “Saving souls” is more important than “saving the planet”—and the crisis of vocations is more important that the ecological “crisis.”  What has become of the “habitat” that used to produce priests in such abundance?

Keep in mind that Monday, May 19, is the Third Monday and we will have our Evening of Reparation (same schedule at Third Thursday). 

Words spoken by Our Lady of Fatima (May 13, 1917):

  1. “I come from Heaven.”
  2. “I have come to ask you to come here for 6 months on the 13th day of the month, at this same hour. Later I shall say who I am and what I desire.  And I shall return here a seventh time.”
  3. Pray many Rosaries: Lucia then asked if they would go to Heaven and she was told yes, she and Jacinta would go to Heaven, but Francisco would need to say many Rosaries first.
  4. Purgatory: Lucia asked about two young women who had died recently, and was told that one was in Heaven and the other, her friend Amelia, would be in Purgatory “until the end of [the] world.”
  5. “Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the conversion of sinners?”
  6. “Then you are going to have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort.”

To communicate with me, please email me directly at abunaalex@yahoo.com or call/text me at (313) 727-9784.  Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

In Jesus, Mary & Joseph,
Fr. Alex Kratz, OFM                                     
Spiritual Director of Terra Sancta Ministries