Father Jeffrey L’Arche, MS A Message from our Spiritual Director “Family of Nazareth, Summer Issue 2013 Pray for Us” Spring and summer are beautiful months here in the Helderberg Mountains overlooking Altamont. As we contemplate the glory of God’s world we appreciate our families and friends who are also gifts to us. ‘June, July and August, the most wonderful time of the year,' is a line from a well known song. The summertime allows us to enjoy the beauty of our environment. It beacons us to prayer and thanksgiving. We take God’s creation so much for granted that we forget the God whose idea it was in the first place. The merciful apparition of Our Lady at Fatima was and is a reminder to us that we cannot live without God. When society tries to do this all kinds of horrors come forth in the world. We certainly saw that with godless communism and fascism in the last century. The same thing happens in our world today sometimes even in the name of God. As the Holy Father states; ‘there is no room for violence among the believers in God.’ Let us heed Mary’s plea for peace at Fatima. Realize that peace begins first of all in our hearts. As PARTNERS IN PRAYER with us we assure you of our continuing support and spiri- tual solidarity. Your intentions are honored by us at the St. Joseph Marian Center. May God bless you abundantly at this beautiful time of the year. (Join us July 13, see flyer inside.) Happy Summertime! Frt. Jeffrey, M.S. FATHER L’ARCHE’S Schedule of Events LaSalette Shrine, Altamont, 2013 Spiritual Director June 23: 2 pm, St. Jean Baptiste, French Mass, Waterford July 13: 12pm, OCDS picnic-shrine August 15: 5:30pm, Assumption of Mary Shrine August 17: 5:30pm, Altamont Fair Mass at Fair Chapel Sept. 18: 5:30pm, LaSalette Feast Day at Shrine Chapel Nov. 1: 5:30pm, Vigil at All Saints Chapel Nov. 2: THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED Nov. 27: 5:30pm, THANKSGIVING LITURGY - Shrine Dec. 25: THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD July 13, TOUR OF HOPE Mass, prayer, picnic with Father Jeff and Our Lady of Fatima Pilgrim Image. Reverend Jeffrey L’Arche, MS, Chaplain (Thank you for your donations for this newsletter) LaSalette Shrine, 1109 Berne-Altamont Road, Altamont NY 12009 Phone: 518-861-8159 www.stjosephmariancenter.org email: [email protected] “CLIMATE CHANGE” ??? MAY WE CHANGE THE “CLIMATE” BACK TO “SPIRITUAL” CHANGE? HOW? BY THE: POWER OF PRAYER THIS PHOTO CALLED (Sacred Heart?) “GOD PARTING THE SKY,” WAS TAKEN DAYS AFTER POPE FRANCIS’ ELECTION.THIS SIGN IN THE SKY HAS BEEN SEEN IN EVERY STATE IN USA AND AROUND THE WORLD PHOTO BY BOB FREW– LEEDS, AL. Our Holy Mother’s Promise A Call to Action Hiroshima, August 6, During the October 1960 UN meeting, POWER OF PRAYER Khruschev, the USSR Prime minister, took off his shoe and while pounding it on the table Jesuit Monks, survived the dropping of the said, “I will bury you.” He left the meeting in Atom Bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, during haste back to Russia. Pope John XXIII and the World War II. They were living only 1/2 mile bishop of Fatima took his threat seriously and from ground zero. When they were asked how sent a letter to all Bishops to hold a vigil from did you survive with only a scratch, they said October 12 to the 13th. Over 300 diocese re- we follow the Fatima messages and were saying sponded throughout the world by praying in the Rosary. These Jesuit Priests tended to the radiation victims and never came down with front of their Tabernacles and over a million radiation poisoning. For 30 years, no radiation people showed up in Fatima, Portugal Shrine ever affected them. praying all night in the torrential pouring rain. There is a memorial to these Jesuit Priest/ On this anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun” Monks in Hiroshima, Japan, dedicated to this miracles continued. miracle . Khruschev joined over 300 of his top nuclear Jesus help us prevent World War III. Forgive us . scientists in a bunker in Russia to test their lat- _________________________________________ est mega bomb. They pressed the button and Shortly after Blessed John Paul II Consecra- the missiles did not go off. They pressed it again tion, on May 13th 1984, while there was the and it did not go off. When all the top scientists largest crowd for peace praying in Fatima, Por- came out of their bunker to fix it, the missiles tugal, a huge explosion happened in Russia. exploded, killing Russia’s 300 nuclear scientists, Two-thirds of Russia’s stockpile of missiles ex- sending their nuclear program back decades. ploded. THE POWER OF PRAYER _________________________________________ THE POWER OF PRAYER “TOTUS TUUS” MOTHER MARY Muslim and Catholics Unite. On June 19th 2013, a miracle was More people were martyred in the 20th cen- authenticated and will “amaze the tury than in all centuries combined. Fatima world” by the Vatican to confirm Blessed John Paul II a saint . John has the same name as Mohammad's favor- Paul The Great pray for us who ite daughter. Our Lady appeared to all ask for your intercession for peace there . Prayer will bring us all together fol- and protection. Thank you. lowing her messages for peace to her Son . www.stjosephmariancenter.org email: [email protected] OUR AWESOME BUS TRIP TO BLUE ARMY SHRINE IN WASHINGTON, NJ May 13, 2013 www.stjosephmariancenter.org email: [email protected] How much Deirdre’s Rosary Garden has revealed about Our Lady’s Messages and God’s love. When the sun is out, it lights up the garden at night without obstacles. When the clouds are out, the solar lights do not light up as bright, or at all. Is this like what sin does in our lives by not allowing God’s light of love to shine through the clouds of sin to receive God’s love, blessings and graces? How important Confession (Reconciliation ) and Communion is for our soul. Join us in front of St. Madeleine Sophie School, 3500 Carman Rd, Schenectady, on the 13th of each month from July to September at 7:00pm. On October 13 @ 6pm, for Rosary and healing. Bring your family and children and chair if you can) . Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. Immaculate Heart of Mary we place our children and families in your Immaculate Heart’s protection and trust in you. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle, pray for us and protect us from the challenges placed on families. We are temples of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is like the lion within us driving out the devil. See you there! We pray at our Healing Garden for Healing: Healing of our souls/Church/ for faith Healing of our suffer- ings Join us every 13th of the month, from June to Healing of our families September @ 7pm @ SMS Healing Garden. Healing of our world In October @ 6 followed by Mass in Church @ 7pm. Healing of our Country In remembrance of the tragedy of 9/11/2001 Healing and cure for Cancer Healing for your Special Intentions For our unborn children Listen to our St. Louis De Montfort’s 33-Day Consecration for children and families on our local EWTN radio channel 89.9 WOPG from July 13 to August 15 at 5:00 am & 9:30pm, To Jesus through Mary. Website: PAX-ET-BONUM-RADIO.ORG THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATION THAT MAKE THIS NEWSLETTER POSSIBLE. Our next newsletter will be in September. Spiritual Shopping: Our Lady of Grace Gift Shop At Our Lady of Grace Gift Shop you will find and gifts that inspire and strengthen the faith solutions for all of your gift-giving needs in- of your loved ones! cluding weddings, baptisms, graduations, Our Lady of Grace continues to be our birthdays, anniversaries and more. Choose Resource Center for materials . from Catholic bibles, books, rosaries, statues Visit Our Lady of Grace Gift Shop at: and many more spiritual and gift items. Cele- 3637 Carman Road in Guilderland, brate life’s important occasions with faith Check us out on Facebook! Search: St. Joseph Marian Center, World Apostolate of Fatima Group. www.stjosephmariancenter.org email: [email protected] Summer Issue 2013 St. Joseph Marian Center, Inc. P.O. Box 472, Altamont, N.Y. 12009 Phone: 518.355.3897 President: Joanne O’Hara Spiritual Director: Rev. Jeffrey L’Arche, MS Return Service Requested CATHOLICS AND MUSLIMS UNITE AT FATIMA IS THIS BY ACCIDENT OR BY GOD’S DESIGN ? HOW? THE POWER OF PRAYER-EUCHARIST-ROSARY-CADETS– SACRIFICES Learn more inside…. IN RUSSIA; TODAY HAS THE EXAMPLE-OF MUSLIMS AND CATHOLICS PRAYING TOGETHER IN THE SAME CHURCH. MIKE LACORTE, WHEN WITNESSING THIS SAID, “DEMETRY, RUSSIA HAS THE ANSWER. IF CATHOLICS AND MUSLIMS CAN PRAY IN THE SAME CHURCH, THIS CAN SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.” OUR LADY OF FATIMA THROUGH OUR LADY’S BLUE ARMY WAS INSTRAMENTAL TO POPE JOHN PAUL II TO HELP THIS HAPPEN WITH THE RETURN OF THE ICON OF KAZAN AND THE ODESSA OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA PILGRIM STATUE THAT POPE PAUL VI BLESSED IN 1967. Pope Blessed John Paul II urged Catholics to recognize the Messages of Fatima is more important today than ever. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prays that Her Immaculate Heart will Triumph be- fore Fatima’s 100th anniversary in 2017 by saying in Fatima in 2010, “those who think the message has been completed are mistaken because the message is not only about Russia, but to make serious reparation for the sins of the world and to pray for the conversion of sinners.” Pope Francis I asked the Bishop of Fatima to go before Our Lady of Fatima, at the Apparition site and bless his Pontificate.