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 Rosary 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 Portugal 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 Catholic Church 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 “Valinhos”. 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 “Cova da Iria” 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”.