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MAY 13th - OCT. 13th, 1917 Our Lady of Fatima Our Lady of Fatima 100th Anniversary of Fatima Pleaded that we Pleadedpray the Holy That Rosary we pray Februarythe Holy 26, 2017 Rosary takes place between May 13, 2017, before Sunday Mass andbefore Sunday Mass and the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, and privately from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm daily. Oct. 13, 2017, the centenary of the privately from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Miracle of the Sun during the month daily. of the Rosary. The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Our Lady of Fatima Parish CathedralOne Church Cathedral Office: Square 814-944-4603 th 2010 12 Avenue OneAltoona, Cathedral Pa 16601 Square www.ourladyoffatimaaltoona.com MostCathedral Reverend Church Ma Office:rk L. Bartchak, 814-944-4603 Bishop Our LadyRector ofy FatimaOffice Hours: Parish 2010 12th Avenue MostReverend Reverend Monsignor Mark Robert L. Bartchak C. Mazur, Bishop Rector Monday – Friday 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Altoona, Pa 16601 Reverend Monsignor Robert C. Mazur, Rector Rev. Father Dennis M. Kurdziel, Parochial Vicar www.ourladyoffatimaaltoona.com Parish Office: 814-942-0371 Reverend ChristianFather Dennis Initiation M. Kurdziel,Team: 944-4603 Parochial Vicar Rectory Office Hours: Our Lady of Fatima Mass Schedule Christian InitiationCatholics Team: returning 944-4603 Home: 944-4603 Sunday:10:30 AM Holy Days: 6:00PM Monday – Friday 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL Rosary: 10:05 AM Rosary: 5:40 PM Catholics returning Home: 944-4603 Parish Office : 814-942-0371 AltoonaWeb: www.holytrinitycatholic.school Central Catholic School: Our Lady of Fatima Parish Administrator Altoona Campus (Pre-K thru Grade 4) - 381-7011 Pre-K thru Grade 5 381-7011 Our Lady of Reverend Fatima Mass Monsignor Schedule Robert C. Mazur Hollidaysburg Campus (Pre-K thru Grade 4) - 695-6112 Sunday:10:30 AM Holy Days: 6:00PM Middle School Campus (Grades 5 thru 8) - 942-7835 Parish Secretary Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School: Rosary: 10:05 AM Rosary: 5:40 PM Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School: Carol Z. Smith Web: www.bishopguifoyle.org – 944-4014 Our Lady of Fatima Parish Administrator Web: www.bishopguilfoyle.org – 944-4014 Secretary’s Assistant Directors of Religious Education: Reverend Monsignor Robert C. Mazur Ellen Kelly Directors of Religious Education: Chris Laraia – Pre-K thru 8 - 946-3475 EucharistParish Secretary for the home bound - weekly: Chris Laraia – Pre-K thru 8 - 312-7317 Carol Z. Smith Jean Koury – 9 thru 12 – 949-2777 Patty Flanagan 942-0371 to make arrangements. Jean Koury – 9 thru 12 – 949-2777 Secretaries Assistant Religious Education Office: Sundays – 943-7424 EllenOur Kelly Lady of Fatima Church is open ConfessionsReligious Education @ Cathedral Office:: 7:00 Sundays PM Wednesday – 943-7424 Monday through Friday: 9AM - 6PM Confessions @ Cathedral : 12:307:00 PM PM Wednesday Saturday Eucharistfor visits for beforethe home the boundBlessed weekly Sacrament. Religious Education @ Cathedral: 12:30 PM Pre-K Saturday through 11 Patty Flanagan 942-0371 SacramentalReligious Education Formation @ Cathedral:@ Cathedral: Pre-K First through Reconciliation 11 Baptisms,Our LadyWeddings of Fatima and FuneraChurchls is will open be held at Sacramental Formation @ Cathedral: First First Reconciliation Communion Monday through Friday: 9AM - 6PM Our Lady of Fatima. Confirmation First Communion for visits before the Blessed Sacrament. Sacramental Formation @ the Cathedral: Confirmation Baptismal Prep Preparation for Baptism, and Weddings will be held at Sacramental Formation @ the Cathedral: Marriage Baptismal Prep Prep Baptisms,the Cathedral. Weddings 944-4603 and Funerals will be held at Marriage Prep Christian Initiation Our Lady of Fatima. Christian Initiation Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick Hospital Visitation: Call the Cathedral: 944-4603 PreparationParishioners for wishing Baptism, to and receive Weddings the sacrament will be held ofat HospitalCathedral Eucharist: Visitation: Call the Cathedral: 944-4603 thehealing Cathedral. may call 944-4603 the Cathedral Parish Office to Sunday:Cathedral 5:00 Eucharist: PM (Vigil) Holy Days: 5:30 PM (Vigil) Weekdays: 6:45 AM Sunday: 5:00 PM (Vigil) Holy Days: 5:30 PM (Vigil) Weekdays: 6:45 AM make arrangements. 944-4603 8:00 AM 8:00 AM 8:00 AM Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick 8:00 AM 8:00 AM 8:00 AM 10:00 AM 12:00 Noon 12:00 Noon Parishioners wishing to receive the sacrament of 10:00 AM 12:00 Noon 12:00 Noon OUR LADY OF FATIMA PARISH IS A RESULT OF THE 12:00 Noon 5:30 PM Saturday : 8:00 AM healing may call the Cathedral Parish Office to 12:00 Noon 5:30 PM Saturday : 8:00 AM MERGER BETWEEN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES 5:00 PM 12:00 Noon OFmake SS. arrangements. PETER & PAUL AND 944-4603 ST. LEO THE GREAT IN 1995. 5:00 PM 12:00 Noon Fatima: Still Mary’s SOS for Sinners… to the children to pray, saying the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Our Lady urges us to pray and offer sacrifices before it is have “designs” on the children, and identifies himself as too late. the “Angel of Portugal.” In the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome, an obscure Fall, 1916: Third apparition of the angel; he brings them monsignor, Eugenio Pacelli kneels before Pope Benedict communion and teaches them the: XV, who consecrates the prelate as a bishop. Off the coast Angel’s Prayer. of Jutland, Denmark, the British and German navies clash “ O most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore in a small skirmish in a war that will claim 37.5 million casu- You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, alties, a staggering 57.6 percent of all soldiers mobilized. Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the And in Fatima, an obscure Portuguese town 70 miles tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, north of Lisbon, near midday in a hollow called “Cova da sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By Iria.” three children pasture their little flock of sheep. The the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Im- day is May 13, 1917. The heavens are about to rock the maculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sin- world. ners. —Angel of Peace, Fall, 1916 The shepherd children report that a luminous being ap- The message: prayer and reparation… pears, “brighter than the sun, giving out rays of clear and What happened on May 13, and for the next five months intense light, just like a crystal goblet full of pure water leading to a spectacular culmination on Oct. 13, 1917, most when the fiery sun passes through it.” The being, a woman, of us know. The events, however, never tire from retelling. says, “I am from Haven” During those months, the three shepherd children experi- enced “the Lady from Heaven” on the 13th at around the Today, 10 years later, the Titanic still rests in the black same time. The Lady revealed herself o e Mary, the Mother waters, having passed into lore. All survivors of the hellish of God. The May 13 apparition came barely a week after battlefields of World War I are dead to this world, except in Pope Benedict XV begged Our Lady for help as Europe memory. The world remembers Pacelli as Venerable Pope stood paralyzed by a trench war, with anarchy and atheism Pius XII, who, in 1940, gave the Church’s stamp of approval looming on the horizon. This was true especially in Russia, to the Fatima apparitions. And our current Holy Father, where the Bolsheviks were about to seize control of the Pope Francis, like his predecessors calls upon the world to government. heed the appeals of Our Lady of Fatima. As Mary revealed herself to the children, she opened her “She asks us to never offend God again,” he said. “she hands, bathing them in a powerful light that bore into their forewarns all humanity about the necessity of abandoning hearts. Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta reported the same oneself to God, the Source of love and mercy.” effect of theluminois phenomenon: The light, according to Indeed, Fatima, too, lives on, but in ways more tangible Fr. Robert J. Fox, an expert on the Fatima apparitions, al- than memory. The appearances of the Blessed Mother are lowed them to “see themselves in Good, who was that as fresh and relevant today as they were those 10 decades light.” By and “interior impulse,” Fr. Fox says, “the chil- ago. This relevance shouldn't be ignored since it carries dren fell on their knees, repeating in their hearts: ' O most profound importance for every person living today. Holy Trinity, I adore You! My God, my God, I love You in the Fatima still resounds with its urgent message from most Blessed Sacrament! ' ” Heaven a century after “a lady more brilliant than the sun” Our Lady replied, “Say the Rosary every day in order to appeared to Lucia dos Santos,10, and her cousins Fran- obtain peace for the world ad the end of the war.” cisco and Jacinta Marto 8 and 7 respectively. In her July 13 apparition, Mary brought a message of re- TIMELINE: pentance, reparation, and the conversion of Russia. She March 22, 1907: Birth of Lucia dos Santos. also predicted the end of World War I, but told the children June 11, 1908: Birth of Francesco Marto. that if the world did not stop offending God, another war, March 11, 1910: Birth of Jacinta Marto. even worse would break out. Spring, 1916: First apparition of the angel to Lucia, Fran- “To prevent this,” the Blessed Mother told the Children, “I cisco, and Jacinta; he teaches them the: shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to my Im- Pardon Prayer.