Novena to Our Lady of Fatima May 5th – 13th.

Dear Spera Rose,

Why is Our Lady importantt?

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 Mercif Heart.

To see the 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 2019. 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

Your friend in Jesus and Mary,

Thomas J. McKenna
Founder and President
Catholic ActionCatholic Action For Faith And FamilyMay 5th 1st Day Novena to OL Fatima

CONVERSION OF SINNERS Let us petition Our Lady of Fatima on this first day to hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners and for peace in the world and in our families.

May 6th 2nd Day Novena OL Fatima
THE DAILY ROSARY On the second day of our Novena to Our Lady of Fatima, let’s take a moment to firmly recommit ourselves to the practice of the daily Rosary, a heavenly solution to our modern day crisis. Our Lady fervently asks us to use this most powerful weapon to contend with spiritual threats to holiness.May 7th 3rd Day Novena to OL Fatima
PENANCE FOR THE FAITHFUL
At Fatima, Our Lady asked for penance. In particular, she asked the Faithful (you and me) to do penance for the conversion of sinners. Let’s pray the third day of our Novena to Our Lady of Fatima with this in mind. Penance remains another stalwart defense against the hedonism which we, the Church Militant, encounter in our daily lives.

May 8th Day 4 Novena to Our Lady of Fatima
“Before the grave situation of the world today, we are, Pope Saint John Paul II reminded us, like the first disciples who, after hearing Saint Peter’s Pentecost discourse, and asked him: ‘What must we do?’ Even as the first disciples faced a pagan world which had not even heard of our Lord Jesus Christ, so, too, we face a culture which is forgetful of God and hostile to His Law written upon every human heart.” -Cardinal Raymond. BurkeLet us petition Our Lady of Fatima to hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners and for peace in the world and in our families.

May 9th Day 5 of Novena to OL Fatima
On Day 5 of our Novena, let’s look at the importance of establishing devotion to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart in the recesses of our hearts and homes as we pray for peace and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart! We struggle daily to keep from being enmeshed in our confused culture. In our preparation for Heaven, we cannot remain neutral in this spiritual warfare. Thankfully, within Our Lady’s heart is a treasure trove of graces. We need only ask for them.

May 10th Day 6 of Our Lady of Fatima Novena

As you and I pray the sixth day of our Novena, we recognize our duty as Catholics to heed Our Lady of Fatima’s request for a Communion of Reparation. Confession, Holy Communion, and praying of the Holy Rosary on five consecutive first Saturdays will aid in healing the wounds inflicted by men which encircle her heart. Through these practices, we also fortify ourselves as soldiers of Christ against the turbulent winds of indifference present in our culture. In return, Our Lady promised to assist us at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for our salvation. In return, Our Lady promised to assist us at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for our salvation.

May 11th Day 7 of Our Lady of Fatima Novena
As you and I have witnessed, the persecution of Christians is real and ensuing around our very eyes. Around the world, most recently in Sri Lanka, those faithful to Our Lord endure suffering and even martyrdom on account of their Faith. And it is no wonder. We have been clued in by the Third Secret of Fatima that the forces of evil would contend with the forces for good. In this continuous struggle and amidst the bloodshed, Our Lady’s mantle is a sturdy shelter. We must hearken to her urgent requests for prayer and penance!

May 12th 8th Day of Fatima Novena
Under the guidance of Our Lady of Fatima, you and I continue day 8 of our Novena with special regard for the dignity of the priesthood. Priests heal our spiritual wounds in the Sacrament of Confession and nourish our hungry souls with the Holy Eucharist. But they desperately need our prayers if they are to remain faithful. Satan cunningly desires to destroy the Church from within and his plan of attack rests on the clergy. This is evident to us in the wake of the sexual abuse crisis. It is clear that the clergy need our prayers and sacrifices now more than ever!

May 13 Ninth day Novena to Our Lady of Fatima.
Happy Feast of Our Lady of Fatima!
On the final day of our Novena, you and I can reflect on Our Lady’s message as one of hopefulness, for she promises that in the end her Immaculate Heart will triumph!
Like an earthly mother who counsels her child before he makes a harmful mistake, Our Heavenly Mother guides us, her children, back into the ranks of virtue and holiness. So that through penance and the recitation of the Holy Rosary, we may escape the embers of eternal punishment.

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