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*Spreading the Message of Our Lady of Fatima ~ Promoting Devotion to Her Immaculate Heart* 2020 Winter Newsletter

President’s Report

Since our last meeting in November 2020, because of the "Safe Distancing" no large groups could gather during this pandemic, we are meeting at Mary Queen of Peace, 200 Lawrence Rd. in Salem, NH. Thank you for all your understanding that we have to make changes during this confusing time. I want to thank everyone for the prayers for our WAF members who were going through love one’s sickness, other members who suffered physical problems and fractures of bones. Prayers help and everyone is doing our best with all your prayers and well wishes, so we follow Fr. Marc as Spiritual Director, to keep spreading Our Lady of Fatima message.

The Pilgrim Virgin Home Visitation Statue Kits are still going to people wanting a week with Our Lady. We are so happy to keep these kits going and having donations still coming in to help with purchasing supplies for our events in the future. Please read “Kit Corner” below.

The October Celebration in Salem this year went well and all there enjoyed having the statue there during the event to install people in the Brown and New member pins. The was prayed and had a DVD showing of Fatima before the refreshments in main hall.

Our next BOT meeting is scheduled for March 13, 2021 at Mary Queen of Peace Church, in the Emmaus Room, 200 Lawrence Rd. Salem, NH. From 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

We pray for Almighty to protect us from the Invisible Enemy against humanity and all good men and women of good will in this beloved American nation.

Respectfully submitted, Carolyn Scanlon, President World Apostolate of Fatima Manchester Diocesan Division, Inc.

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The Pilgrim Virgin Home Visitation “Kit Corner”

This is the second time we had the honor of hosting Our Blessed Mother at our home. This is a very special and blessed pilgrimage that our Blessed Mother has sent to our family. We received a very special favor something we have been praying for, for many months. Praying and understanding the mysteries has brought my family closer together and closer to God! Mark, Anne, and Kyle

angel announced to him, “Do not be afraid Joseph…that what is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.” In this mystery, St. Joseph has shown us how we are to bear our trials and tribulations – in silent, trust-filled patience. His silence says to everyone, “Do likewise.”

In the Visitation, Mary hastened to help her cousin Elizabeth. St. Joseph took her on the long and treacherous journey, but he did not remain; instead he went back to Nazareth, alone with his thoughts. But he was not alone, for Mary was with him in her thoughts and prayers. His love for her was holy and pure. It is his silence that again teaches us the value of prayer and contemplation. Mary was his joyful mystery. We must imitate his prayerful silence and love. When we pray to her, she becomes our bridge from Holy Family – Claudio Coello heaven to earth.

Consoling The Immaculate Heart of Mary with St. Joseph The Nativity: St. Joseph was the descendant of King David and his son Solomon. We know of their role as kings, but also Sister Lucia before she died said, “The triumph of the of their sins. Yet, St. Joseph, a lowly carpenter, was truly the Immaculate Heart of Mary will occur when a sufficient world’s holiest of men. His holiness was not announced to number of people have fulfilled the message.” This triumph world. He was unknown and can be called the patron of has been promised, but we must fulfill the requests asked by unnoticed saints. We are all called to be holy, let us use St. Our Lady to usher it in sooner, rather than later. Sister Lucia Joseph, the silent, unnoticed saint as our role model. said the one request that has not been fulfilled is the practice of the First Saturdays. She further stated that not enough The Presentation: “They had done all things prescribed in the people are doing the . law of the Lord.” St. Joseph fulfilled his duty as a good Jew. The door to sanctity has a double lock. Doing our daily duty is Cardinal Larrona, the papal legate for St. John XXIII the outside key. The inside key is doing one’s duty for said at Fatima in 1962: “It is urgent for us to establish God. St. Joseph had both keys. He prayed, worked, slept and devotion in the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God ate all to please God, who sees all things secretly. Our Lady wishes it! Our Lady told us! Our efforts must therefore asked us at Fatima to offer up our daily duty. Like St. Joseph multiply; we must be assiduous in practicing the Five First when we begin our day, we should say, “For you Lord.” This Saturdays of Reparation, not once, but continually, for those act is the inside key that leads one to sanctity. who do not or will not heed Our Lady’s plea.” Our Lady asked us on the first Saturday of five consecutive The Finding in the Temple: “In sorrow your father and I have months we pray five-decades of the Rosary, receive Holy sought you.” St. Joseph did not live to see Jesus die on the Communion (either Saturday or Sunday), go to confession (8 cross. Yet, like all saints he was not spared the lot of suffering days before or after) and spend 15 minutes consoling the heart with Christ. His sufferings included the agonizing dilemma at of Our Lady meditating on one or all of the mysteries of the the Incarnation, allowing the birth of Jesus in a cave for Rosary. animals, Herod’s wrath which drove him to Egypt and Simeon’s concerning the future sufferings of Mary and Jesus. Now, he lost the boy Jesus, entrusted into his St. Joseph can aid our meditation care. He suffered for God. He is the silent, suffering saint–our St. Joseph plays prominently in the lives of Jesus and Mary, model of sanctity. and has a big role in the Fatima message as it unfolds for the Church and the world. His appearance during the October 13 apparition, with the Child Jesus blessing the world, shows us Through all of St. Joseph’s sufferings, beside him was Mary, that he will be part of God’s plan for our future. The following his faithful and loving spouse. Mary is also with each and meditations on the Joyful mysteries of the Rosary uses St. every one of us in our pains and sorrows. During those 15 Joseph as our guide. minutes of consoling the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we are with our Heavenly Mother, sitting with her silently and The heralded the greatest news for our sinful prayerfully as did St. Joseph. We are consoling her in humanity – the Incarnation. God became man in the living reparation for the many offenses committed against her tabernacle of Mary’s womb. During this great event, St. Immaculate Heart. Joseph was not kneeling at the side of his beloved spouse. St. By, Catherine Moran, PhD Joseph instead endured a storm of perplexities and great Catherine Moran is the president of the Byzantine Blue Army anguish. He only knew of Mary’s sanctity and great love for Division of the World Apostolate of Fatima, USA. God. He endured quietly and patiently this great trial until an

When Will We See We do not adequately and consistently offer everything as a The Triumph of The Immaculate Heart of Mary? sacrifice in reparation for sin and the conversion of sinners. We are not faithful enough in praying the Rosary every day. Recently an apparently disheartened woman wrote to me: We are not consistent in the practice of the First Saturday “When will we see Our Lady triumph? Things seem like Devotion. The brown scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel is they’re getting worse instead of better.” A fan of the too often neglected. And finally, the Eucharistic reparation admonition “Be not afraid,” I’m an ardent promoter of hope as taught to us and encouraged by the Angel of Peace during his an outcome of faith and advise people expressing fear to do a third apparition has been almost completely forgotten. It check on their faith and to beef it up. would do us all well to frequently assess our own faithfulness But this was not an expression of fear. It was, rather, a and step up wherever and whenever necessary. symptom of frustration and impatience. Many have for years Patience and years remained faithful to the requests Our Lady made of Patience has become one of the most difficult virtues to us at Fatima and are longing to see the fruits of their fidelity. cultivate today because of the fast-paced and over-cluttered Before specifically addressing the issues of patience, a nature of the modern world. No one wants to wait for somewhat misguided desire to see fruits and failure to anything. But ought we not practice patience with the recognize them when they are manifest, and deficiency in unfolding of the Divine plan at least in some proportion to the numbers, it would be helpful to examine our understanding of patience the Almighty has borne with us over the centuries of the triumph and our expectations. human history? There is Divine assistance available to us. To be properly understood the triumph of the Immaculate Romans chapter 12 teaches us how to endure with patience all Heart of Mary needs to be considered in the context of what that confronts us in daily life situations. Verse 12 points to the St. Paul taught us about what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions. critical importance of taking the time and putting forth the He wrote: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and effort to pray. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 tells us to “pray without in my flesh, I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions ceasing.” Praying and patience are in accordance with each for the sake of his body, that is, the church.” (Col 1:24) This other. How can we pray and not be patient? How can we be does not mean that Christ’s death on the cross was incomplete patient if we do not pray? We will alleviate much of our regarding its capacity to redeem the whole human race and frustration and grow in the virtue of patience if we remember reunite it with God. There is nothing that anyone can add to these teachings. the infinite value of the cross. Desire to see fruit However, there is an aspect of Christ’s suffering that is not The Spirit moves wherever He wills, but His objective is not complete- namely, the application of the merits of His Passion always achieved because, on account of our free wills, its to individual . We accomplish this for ourselves when we attainment requires our voluntary cooperation and we unite our own sufferings to those of Christ. We accomplish it frequently refuse it. If the Spirit’s goals are sometimes not for others when we make of our sufferings- reparation for their attained, how much more frequently might ours not be. I’m sins and for their conversion, as Our Lady told us we must do reminded of teachers who seldom see the fruits of their labor right after she showed the little Fatima shepherds the of because what they teach does not come to fruition in the lives hell. of their students until long after they have departed the Now let’s take a look at the triumph of the Immaculate Heart classroom. We can take at least some consolation in the fact with St. Paul’s words and their meaning in mind. that we aren’t the only ones who endure this disappointing The triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary has already experience. been accomplished just as has redemption. [In a certain sense I would be remiss if I did not point out that there have been they are one and the same.] The head of the serpent has many profound fruits of the triumph, which have been known already been crushed by virtue of Mary’s role in the sufferings to the world—the taking down of the Berlin Wall in Germany of her Son as Co-Redemptrix. However, the application of its and the dissolution of the Soviet Union among them. While merits- its impact on individual souls – requires that they unite they are chiefly recognized exclusively as accomplishments of themselves to it in the same way to bring it to completion. Its world leaders, we know their spiritual underpinnings. Let us manifestation in the world will be complete only when a resolve, through spiritual activity in cooperation with the plurality of its nations and their citizens have humbled Spirit and His spouse, to bring about more and more until the themselves and pledged allegiance to Christ the King. complete triumph is manifest. Deficiency in numbers We at the World Apostolate of Fatima, “Our Lady’s Blue The triumph’s manifestation in the world will always be Army” have great confidence that the darkness which has proportional to the number of souls who have united enveloped the world during our time will be dispelled by the themselves to it. The reason why “things seem like they’re Light of the world when we approach the end of the tunnel. getting worse instead of better” is that so many are turning The more people we can motivate to assist in its mission away from God and His Heavenly Mother. by joining the apostolate the easier will be the task for In addition, those of us who remain connected with Them everyone involved and the quicker the mission will be sometimes fail in our obligation to honor the requests Our accomplished. No one can do everything, but everyone can do Lady made of us at Fatima. something, no matter how small and insignificant it may seem. by, Deacon Bob Ellis, National Coordinator, WAF, USA.

her aid…the Christian fleet gained a magnificent victory, with no great loss to itself, in which the enemy were routed…” St. John Paul II singles out Leo XIII’s encyclical in his own apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae (On the Most Holy Rosary), especially noting the Rosary is “an effective spiritual weapon against the evils afflicting society.” John Paul II proclaimed in the same apostolic letter, “At times when Christianity itself seemed under threat, its deliverance was attributed to the power of this prayer.” That’s why in every appearance at Fatima, Our Lady told the seers — and us — “Pray the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world.” Although it was during the time of WWI, Our Lady never meant for people to stop praying the Rosary when the war was over. Then and now the Church teaches us that we are the Church Militant. St. Paul reminds us the battle “is not against human forces but against the principalities and powers, the Retreat is not an option with the Rosary rulers of this world of darkness, the evil spirits in the heavens” (Eph 6:12). So as the Church Militant we must be ready for “If you want peace in your heart, in your home, in your this spiritual combat always. country, assemble together every night and say the Rosary,” St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, who himself was once healed by Pope St. Pius X said as if he himself seemed to anticipate Our Lady of Fatima, strongly stated: “The Rosary is the Fatima several years before 1917. weapon.” We must keep this weapon in our hands for the fight Yet today we look around us and too often see society in and not let it slip, but rather to tighten our grip. turmoil. What was always good is now bad, what was always Sister Lucia said, “Calling to mind the insistence with which bad is now good. But this is no time for discouragement, and God, by means of the Fatima message, recommends the prayer no time for slacking off in the battle. of the Rosary, and also all that the Church’s has Sister Lucia of Fatima insisted: “The Most Holy Virgin in said about it over the years, we can conclude that the Rosary is these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to a form of vocal prayer which, in general, suits all of us, for the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no which we should have the highest regard, and which we problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or should make the greatest effort never to abandon.” above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our Lucia believed that “after the liturgical prayer of the Holy families…that cannot be solved by the Rosary.” Sacrifice of the Mass, the prayer of the holy Rosary, because St. Pope Pius V in the 1570’s already believed this. When he of its origin and sublime nature of the prayers which compose saw Christendom not more than a shambles and Moslem it and also on account of the mysteries of our redemption Turks ready to deal the last blow, he got Don Juan of Austria which we recall and contemplate in each decade, is the most to head remnant armies to join together forming the first Holy pleasing prayer we can offer to God and the one most League. St. Pius V called on Catholics everywhere to pray the beneficial to our souls. If this were not so, Our Lady would Rosary and implore Our Lady for her intercession. Don Juan not have recommended it to us with such insistence.” gave every man in the Naval Armada a Rosary, and all prayed “We do not hesitate to affirm again publicly that we put great it. confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils of our They asked for our Blessed Mother’s intercession, priests times,” proclaimed Venerable Pope Pius XII, the first pope to heard confessions, and against great odds, with heaven’s help hail Fatima. a small Christian fleet crushed the huge Turkish Moslem fleet Just as Europe was once saved, we can help bring about in the Battle of Lepanto. victory to save this country from its enemies, temporal and Pius V and all the leaders attributed that surprise victory spiritual. It is through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin saving Christianity and western civilization to Our Lady. He Mary, through the Rosary. commemorated this historic battle by instituting the feast of Blessed Pope Pius IX proclaimed it best: “I could conquer the Our Lady of Victories, soon changed to Our Lady of the world if I had an army to say the Rosary.” Rosary, celebrated October 7. by Joseph Pronechen In one of Leo XIII’s encyclicals on the Rosary he devotes a long section to the Lepanto victory, saying, “those who were Joseph Pronechen is a frequent contributor to the WAF, USA unable to take part formed a pious band of supplicants who Magazine and a regular contributor to the National called on Mary and unitedly saluted her again and again in the Catholic Register. He is also the author of “The Fruits of words of the Rosary, imploring her to grant the victory to their Fatima.” companions engaged in battle. Our Sovereign Lady did grant

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