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Penance! Penance! Penance! on October 13 We Initiated the Cause Only Love Can Give Meaning to Commemoration of the 90 Years of Human Suffering Director: Fr. Luciano Guerra * Proprietor: Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima (Portugal) * Quarterly publication * Year III * Nr. 11 * 2006/11/13 Penance! Penance! Penance! On October 13 we initiated the cause only love can give meaning to commemoration of the 90 years of human suffering. the Apparitions of Our Lady in Cova Our Lady, in the fi rst apparition, da Iria. Our theme will be the Mercy asked the three seers this question: of the Lord. “Do you want to offer yourselves to From the Mercy of the Lord to- God to accept all the sufferings He wards us we will take courage to also may want to send your way?” be merciful towards our brothers. In Being merciful towards the bro- that we will only succeed with sacri- thers who cause us suffering will be fi ces, at times heroic ones! the best way of uniting our lives to The main penance asked of us by the Cross of the Lord Jesus. For we the Angel and the Mother of the Lord thus complete, in our fl esh, according in Fátima is the sorrow of those God to the exhortation of St. Paul, what is calls us to understand, to pardon, to missing to His Passion (Col.1,24). heal the wounds: of revolt, of ingrati- If God wanted that the third part tude, of hate. of the Secret to be known only now, Rereading the third part of the Se- could it be because the men and wo- cret of Fátima, I wonder why God men of our time are better equipped permitted that that revelation was to understand it? If that is the case, let only made known on the threshold us then read again all that third part. of the third millennium. And why an And please let us pray that God may Angel with a fi ery sword in his hand. open our minds to its understanding. Why that triple warning with a men- The penance we practice in being acing tone: Penance! Penance! Pen- merciful and forgiving is like the ance! blood of the martyrs which runs down The cry of the Angel is certainly the Cross of Our Savior. Amidst the meant, fi rst of all, for Christians. For materialism – which the last Popes the Christians of this XXI century. So have so much lamented –, amidst the that we take the redemptive initiative loneliness and hate born of them, our of penance. So that we accept the pen- penance will be as necessary as the ance the Lord sends our way, all of it blood of martyrs. In order “to water at the service of the commandment of the souls getting close to God”. love. Only love justifi es penance, be- Fr. Luciano Guerra Statutes of the Shrine of Fátima Approved On September 13,2006, the Pontifi cal Conference, the three Portuguese Metro- “The welcome and the service rendered Congregation for the Clergy approved politan Archbishops (Patriarch of Lisbon, to the Catholic pilgrims constitute the the Statutes of the Shrine of Our Lady of Primate of Braga and Archbishop of Évo- principal purpose of the Shrine. The pil- Fátima/Portugal, which ‘by the express ra), the Bishop of Leiria-Fátima and the grimage is an important moment for evan- will of the Apostolic See’, after addition- Rector of the Shrine of Fátima. gelizing and deepening the faith’, it is said al approval by the Portuguese Episcopal According to the document, “the main in the Statutes, which go on to say that, Conference, offi cially becomes a ‘national mission of the Shrine of Fátima is to wel- since members of non-Catholic Christian shrine’. come the pilgrims and propose to them Confessions show an ever-increasing in- The ‘National Council for the Shrine that they live the Message of Fátima. This terest in Fátima, the “Shrine thus becomes of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima’, is a proposal of conversion, by means of an ecumenical point of encounter”, a rea- instituted by Pius XII, by Decree of the the Word of God and the Sacraments, spe- son why it should try to fi nd “the most Congregation of the Council dated July cially those of Reconciliation and Eucha- appropriate way to announce to these pil- 21,1958, was maintained.. According to it, rist, in order to lead men and women to grims the essential of the Message, from the members of the ‘National Council are: recognize and adore Holy God, One and the point of view of the place of Our Lady the President of the Portuguese Episcopal Triune”. in the History of Salvation”. 2 2006/11/13 Bishops from Portuguese-Speaking Countries meet in Fátima From the 10th to the 14th of October, the Christian communi- VII Encounter of Presidents of the Episco- ties was an object of pal Conferences of the Portuguese-speaking utmost concern. The countries was held in Fátima. inter-religious dia- Fourteen prelates attended the Encounter: logue has intensifi ed in from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea- several countries and Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé has become a strategy and Príncipe, Macau and East-Timor. Their for pastoral and social participation in these meetings was a fi rst for intervention, capable Macau and São Tomé and Príncipe. of overcoming differ- Holy Father Benedict XVI associated ences and of awaken- himself to this Encounter with a message of ing in the citizens a affection and spiritual closeness, which was greater awareness of read by the Nuncio, who attended the opening and capacity for fi ght- These bishops, who stayed longer in Fatima after the closure session and presided over it. ing for their human, of the Meeting, visited the works of the Church of the Holy Also attending this encounter in Fátima social and religious Trinity, accompanied by the Rector of the Sanctuary were the Executive President of the Evangeli- rights”, say the bish- zation and Culture Foundation (Portugal) and ops in the statement the Episcopal Vicar in charge of the pastoral released at the end of the encounter. the Pilgrimage to Fátima. That was precisely ministry of Macau’s Portuguese-speaking On the morning of October 12, the partici- the motive why, last year in Mozambique, the community. pants traveled to Lisbon for an audience with bishops chose this date for holding in Portugal “The awareness that it is urgent to reen- the President of the Portuguese Republic. the VII Encounter of the Portuguese-speaking vangelize the believers, giving the family “The meeting (with the President) was held in Churches”, declare the bishops. new pastoral orientations and investing in a warm atmosphere and on October 12/13 the The VIII Encounter will be held in Macau, the education of catechist families for the delegates took part in the usual celebrations of from the 10th to the 14 of October 2008. Council of Episcopal Course on Today’s Importance Conferences of Europe of the Message of Fátima meets in Fátima In the month of October, in the Shrine of Fátima, a course on “Today’s Importance of the Message of Fátima” began, taught by the Rector of the Shrine, Msgr. Luciano Guerra, on October 2007 and for which more than 260 people signed up. It is a fact: the message of Fátima continues to attract people’s attention; in this case, educated people and people from the most diverse professions. From religious to factory workers we fi nd merchants and businessmen, hairdressers and hairstylists, journalists, truck drivers, carpenters, receptionists, lawyers, bankers, students and retired people, engineers, typographers, nurses, teachers, seamstresses – amongst other professions – who make part of the ‘students’ of the Rector. While most of the participants are from the central zone of Portugal, nearest to the Shrine, there are, however, four students who come purposely, dur- ing the week, from Galicia, Spain, to hear Msgr. Lu- ciano Guerra. Rector of the Shrine of Fátima since February 13,1973, Msgr. Luciano Guerra says that his greatest joy is ‘to study and to think’ and is of the opinion that Fátima has been chosen to host, between the participation in this course ‘can lead us to further the 4th and the 7th of October 2007, a meeting love Fátima’. of the Council of Episcopal Conferences of The Rector intends to study and invite to refl ect Europe, which congregates the hierarchies on what is the essential of Fátima. The course will of the Catholic Church of 34 countries. be divided into several chapters and runs to January The announcement was made on Octo- 4,2007, meeting on Thursdays, from 21h00 to 23h00. ber 14, in Fátima, by the President of the The apparitions, the signs, the seers and their family members, the religious and civil authorities, at the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, Arch- time of the apparitions and today, these will be some bishop Jorge Ortiga, at the conclusion of the of the topics. VII Encounter of the Portuguese-speaking Other topics meriting analysis are the phenom- Churches. enon of pilgrimage, the sites of the apparitions and This meeting of the Episcopal Confer- the images of Our Lady, of the Angel and of the Little ences of Europe will take place a few days Shepherds. before the closing ceremonies of the com- In the chapters ‘Spreading of the Message of Fáti- memorations of the 90 years of the Appari- ma throughout the World’ and ‘Today’s Importance of tions of Fátima and the inauguration of the the Message of Fátima’, the Rector intends to speak new Church of the Most Holy Trinity. on the more controversial topics. 2006/11/13 3 Hungarians Renovate in Fátima Consecration to Our Lady On the morning of October 19, in the e Silva, joined the morning’s celebration.
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