The World Apostolate of Fatima Manchester Diocesan Division, Inc. P. O. Box 6432, Manchester, NH. 03108 President's E-mail: [email protected] President's Phone: 603-772-0906 Division Web Site: Bluearmy.com/Manchester

*Spreading the Message of Our Lady of Fatima ~ Promoting Devotion to Her Immaculate Heart* 2020 Summer Newsletter President's Message Welcome back from our following the guide lines of our Bishop in response to our Governor and the Nations response to the COVID-19 Virus. Now we will continue spreading the message of Our Lady of Fatima. I pray you and your families have come through this time with good health and peace of mind, through the grace of God. I pray for all our members and their families, friends and neighbors who are praying for a good outcome of this pandemic virus, COVID-19 that will be the best of stories to tell when these regulations come to their end. We pray that our Bishop Libasci, of our Manchester Dioceses be guided with prudent decisions through factual information from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the NH Department of Health and Human Services. Changes in scheduling Masses not being available to the public, priests having Masses in churches with few people present and filming those Masses for streaming to all who wish to see them, Confession by appointment, and visits to nursing homes for residents with the anointing of the sick, for those who may pass away soon. We are so blessed with these servants of God, our Priests are the BEST!!! The First Saturday Devotion has been done at home, Confession by appointment, watching the Mass on TV and web-sites, people making a Spiritual Communion. Stations of the Cross done when Churches are open, Adorations with few people and many did the "40 Day for Life Rosary" at home. I want to thank you all for all you do for people who ask you to pray for them and their intentions and for Our Lady and Jesus. The WAF Board of Trustee meeting was held on March 14, 2020 at St. Michael Parish Exeter, NH. from 10:00am to 1:00 pm where members present went over the agenda, and some items were tabled to discuss through a telephone conference call meeting on March 21, 2020 at 7:00 pm. Planning for the May 2, 2020 Annual Diocesan Council meeting was gone over and packets were sent out to Parish Rep’s for mail back reply by April 4, 2020. After the meeting was adjourned we shared refreshments. We soon after had to cancel our May 2, 2020 ADC meeting until next year May 1, 2021 as well as the four day weekend in September, to the WAF, USA Annual National Council meeting in Washington, NJ due to the "Safe Distancing" where no large groups could gather and with the traveling restrictions during this pandemic. All elections and voting will have to wait a year. On June 13, 2020 the BOT meeting was held outside on the St. Michael Rectory lawn in front of the statue of Mary, Our Lady of Grace. We started a half hour early to pray the Holy Rosary to honor Our Lady of Fatima and the second of six apparitions May through October 1917 in Fatima 103 years ago. Ten o’clock started the BOT meeting where eight members and two guests attended with two members absent. The Agenda was covered. We went over the Calendar of Events from July 2020 to June 2021. Fr. Marc Montminy, our WAF-NH Diocesan Spiritual Director is leaving on June 30, to be Pastor at St.'s Mary and Joseph Parish in Salem, NH. All WAF members present signed a Mass card for him. He will be missed at St. Mary Church & St. Michael Parish. Fr. Matthew Mason will be our new Pastor and we will accept him with much love. We will be submitting the dates for our meetings and events for acceptance by Fr. Marc's new Parish Office and will be contacting this board with results. Our Board members will need to travel to Salem to have meetings in the future. The meeting adjourned 11:39am. Our next BOT meeting is scheduled for Saturday, September 12, 2020 at St. Michael Parish, 9 Lincoln St., Exeter, NH in meeting room #1 where we should have all our questions answered about our "Calendar of Events".

Respectfully submitted, Carolyn Scanlon, President The World Apostolate of Fatima, Manchester Diocesan Division, Inc. *** *** To Jesus through Mary *** **

The Apparitions of Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the Our Lady of Fatima cont. First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her June 13, 1917 errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecution of The children were again present with the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will a number of other people and had have much to suffer and various nations will be annihilated. In finished praying the Rosary when the the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father Lady, once again, appeared. She told will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a Lucia she should learn to read in order period of peace will be granted to the world”. Our Lady to fulfill her mission to do Jesus work finished Her speech with the following request: “When you on earth. When Lucia asked her if she pray the Rosary, say after each mystery: O my Jesus, forgive would take them to Heaven, Our Lady replied: "I will take us our sins, save us from the fire of hell. Lead all souls to Jacinta and Francisco soon. But you are to stay here some time Heaven, especially those who are most in need”. Then she longer. Jesus wishes to make use of you to make me known disappeared. and loved. He wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart". "I promise salvation to those who August 19, 1917 embrace it and those souls will be loved by God like The news of the apparitions had reached the civil authorities flowers placed by me to adorn His throne". She consoled and the children were under arrest by the regional administrator. This was in the context of the banishment of the Lucia with the thought that she would not be forsaken and that by the civil authorities and followed an the Lady’s Immaculate Heart would always be there for her. intensive effort by the Church authorities to suppress the Then she opened Her hands and communicated to the little children’s story. At one point the children were threatened by children some rays of light. The children saw themselves in the civil authorities with being boiled in oil if they did not this light, as it were, immersed in God. Jacinta and Francisco recant. They refused and offered to suffer the proffered seemed to be in that part of the light which rose towards punishment. The children were released after August 13th, and heaven and Lucia in that which was poured out on the earth. In on August 19th, they, once again, saw the Lady at a place front of the palm of Our Lady’s right hand was a heart called “”. At this time, Our Lady promised to make a encircled by thorns which pierced it. It was the Immaculate miracle in the last month, so that all may believe. She told the Heart of Mary, outraged by sins of humanity, and seeking children to take the money being left in the “” by reparation. the people and to build a chapel. They were also instructed to

continue praying for the conversion of sinners with the July 13, 1917 following words: “Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices The word of the apparitions has caused a crowd to gather for sinners; for many souls go to hell, because there are none and about 4,000 people were present when the Lady appeared. to sacrifice themselves and to pray for them”. The Lady promised to make known her identity and to perform a miracle for all to see in the future. She told the September 13, 1917 children: “Sacrifice yourselves for sinners, and say many A crowd of about 30,000 people had gathered. Many people times, especially whenever you make some sacrifices: O tried to reach the children, throwing themselves on their knees Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and and begging the little shepherds to place their petitions before in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Our Lady. During the praying of the Rosary, Our Lady Heart of Mary”. Then, she opened Her hands and gave the appeared and left the following message: “Continue to pray children a vision of hell which awaited unrepentant sinners. the Rosary in order to obtain the end of the war. In October, The three little shepherds saw a sea of fire and plunged in this Our Lord will come, as well as Our Lady of Dolors and Our fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent Lady of Carmel. Saint Joseph will appear with the child Jesus burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating to bless the world. God is pleased with your sacrifices. He about the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames does not want you to sleep with the rope on, but only wear it that issued from within themselves together with great clouds during the daytime”. She also promised: “In October I will of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in huge perform a miracle so that all may believe”. fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified the children and made them terrible in fear. The demons could be distinguished by Read the October 13th Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima in their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown the Fall WAF-NH Division Newsletter. animals, black and transparent like burning coals. The Lady told the children: “You have seen hell where the souls of poor To order your subscription contact: sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world Carolyn Scanlon, President WAF-NH Division devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, E-mail: [email protected] many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a Phone: 603-772-0906 worse one will break out”. She also said: “To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the to my

First Saturday is an individual invitation to know Mary on the first Saturday itself and asked if it might be valid to go to confession within eight days. He answered: The most common disappointment I hear about the First “Yes, and it could be longer still provided that when they Saturday Devotion is that someone is unable to practice it receive Me they are in the state of grace….” She then because it is not done communally in their parish or asked: “My Jesus, what about those who forget to make anywhere nearby. The familiar phrase, “Our parish this intention?” Jesus replied: “They can do so at their doesn’t offer First Saturdays,” reveals a misconception next confession, taking advantage of the first opportunity about the devotion itself in need of dispelling. Let’s to go to confession.” begin with a look at the elements of the devotion and the Another example was made evident during the May 29- communal practice in parishes to see just 30, 1930 apparition. Sister Lucia asked Our Lord: “And how communal it is. if one could not accomplish all those obligations on a Since there is no such thing as a communal confession, it Saturday, would Sunday not do?” Jesus replied: “The is always individual. practice of this devotion will be equally accepted on the The reception of Holy Communion and offering of the Sunday following the first Saturday when, for just intention is always individual as well. Reception during motives, my priests will allow it.” the same Mass in which others receive does not render it The First Saturday Devotion is the directive given to all communal. You may recall the term “corporate” Holy of us in regards to the conversion of Russia and peace in Communion from the days of Holy Name Societies or the world. Our Lady is asking us to do our part in this Altar Rosary Societies participating in corporate fight against the anti-God, anti-family, anti-life errors Communions on given Sundays of each month. Members that have spread from atheistic Communism. We are in always sat together in the front pews of the church. Even this battle more than ever. Please commit to doing the in these instances the receptions and intentions were First Saturday Devotion every month, if possible, in individual, not communal. reparation for the blasphemies against Our Mother’s The Rosary can be prayed communally, but it can be Immaculate Heart. She promises to be with you at the prayed individually as well, and need not be done in a time of your death, that many souls will be saved by this church. reparation, and that you will be “placed like flowers” Keeping Our Lady company for 15 minutes while around the throne of God. meditating on one or more of its mysteries is uniquely By Deacon Bob Ellis, WAF, USA National Coordinator individual in that the key focus of this fourth and final If you would like to get all your questions answered element is “keeping Our Lady Company.” Her obvious about the First Saturday Devotion, we highly recommend desire is the cultivation of a one-on-one relationship with “ First Saturday Devotion Booklet” each individual practicing the devotion. In fact, this Eight page booklet $1.00 #267637 element of the devotion is often disregarded, as people think their meditation while praying the Rosary is the 15 minutes. But it is meant to be in addition to the Rosary. Three of the four elements of the practice of the devotion are always, in fact, individual. They do not become communal simply because others are in the same church at the same time. And the remaining element – the Rosary – can be communal but is not required to be so. Also a wonderful new book to help you track your First It is not my intention to either discourage or disparage Saturdays and meditations. communal practice of the devotion where and when it is “Give Me Consolation” available. But the reality is that it is far from widespread, by Michael Wick. $11.95 #GMC-P and the notion that one cannot practice the devotion unless it is available communally must be dispelled.

When we consider the four requirements of the practice of the First Saturday Devotion, I think it important to consider Jesus’ disposition of liberality toward those who Go to the giftshop.wafusa.org today! have difficulty with one or more of them. For example, when the Child Jesus appeared to Sister Lucia at the Dorothean convent on Feb. 15, 1926, she expressed her concern about people being able to confess

The World Apostolate of Fatima in New Hampshire 5 MILLION A Historical Review FOR OUR LADY OF FATIMA

In April of 2008 at the Annual Diocesan Council “God wishes to establish in the world devotion to Meeting held at The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, in Concord, NH. I, Cindy Lambert was voted in as many souls will be saved and there will be peace.” President of the WAF, NH Division serving for one year. Our Lady of Fatima, July 13th, 1917 Through four Board of Trustee meetings at the Ste. Marie Parish School in Manchester and overseeing the The World Apostolate of Fatima, USA, in union works of the apostolate, making arrangements for some with its international member nations, welcomes you to the activities, I followed it through. Our Lady of Fatima’s spiritual bouquet – World Rosary I had put together and published a web site for the 2020. WAF, NH Division to help spread Our Lady's message in This spiritual bouquet of prayers and sacrifices is New Hampshire and over the internet. Then the WAF, being offered for families, for life, for the Church and for USA gave the Divisions the ability to send our the triumph of the Immaculate Heart. information and events to them to be published online through their web site, which really helps. You can see It is easy to join in. Go to: www.bluearmy.com our web page by going to: Bluearmy.com/Manchester And just scroll down to World Rosary 2020 and click, to Every year in September, the WAF, NH fill out the form and enter your prayers and penances. Delegates have been fortunate to attend the WAF, USA, Annual National Council Meeting at The Blue Army Father Carlos Cabecinaas, rector of the Shrine of National Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, will offer our spiritual Washington, NJ. There has only been two times that the bouquet to Our Lady in the Chapel of Apparitions on National meeting was cancelled. The year of the May 13 and October 13 in a solemn and beautiful September 11, 2001 attacks on our country and this year, ceremony. 2020 because of the COVID-19 Pandemic. OUR SPIRITUAL BOUQUET TO DATE The Division President, the Spiritual Director and 42,900 Rosaries an elected Delegate are the three people who can vote in 7,800 Hours of Adoration the elections of the National Board of Trustees whose 20,700 Chaplets of Divine Mercy terms of office have expired. Unfortunately it's hard for 7,300 Masses our Priests to get away for the four days. We always tried 12,300 meals/days of Fasting to fill a car to go and enjoy the lovely shrine and meet all of those who work so hard for Our Lady to spread her These were offered on May 13, 2020 at the message throughout the US. It's truly an uplifting "Mary-thon of Prayer" from the National Blue Army experience. Shrine during the Mass, and also at the Shrine of Fatima On October 18, 2008 at Ste. Marie Church in in Portugal, together with the offerings from all of our Manchester, NH, we had our WAF, NH Annual member nations and other organizations throughout the Diocesan Marian Celebration, where I was able to get world. Mr. William Sockey for our Guest Speaker, who came with the WAF, USA National Pilgrim Virgin Statue. We *** Please continue to log your offerings *** had a great turn out of those who wanted to see this through October 13, 2020. beautiful image of Our Lady of Fatima, Mr. Sockey gave a very inspirational talk. That day was such a blessing. TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD! In April, 2009 at the Ste. Marie Parish School we As a Fatima family, united in prayer and had Deacon Bob Ellis, WAF, USA National Coordinator sacrifice, we can counter the battle that is waging on give a training on a new "Fatima Spiritual Formation" earth, according to the prophetic words of Fatima program to our Parish Representatives and WAF seer Sister Lucia to Cardinal Carlos Caffarra: “The members. final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan My year ended with a one day "Fatima will be about marriage and the family…, because this Conference" in May, 2009, at St. Joseph the Worker is the decisive issue. However, Our Lady has already Parish in Nashua, NH with guest speakers WAF, USA crushed its head.” Spiritual Director, Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR and WAF, USA Executive Director, Michael LaCorte. , pray for us! It was a great year!

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