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07/06/2025

As we approach Pentecost Sunday, we remember the gift of the Holy Spirit - poured out to renew hearts, empower the Church, and fulfill the promise of Christ.

The hymn "Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God" gives voice to our longing for renewal and our call to bear fruit by the Spirit’s power. We pray it encourages you!

Listen to the song, download free sheet music, and find devotional readings at getty.pub/pentecost

19/05/2025

If God has saved your life many times, Amen
God says, “As people grow up, Satan’s gaze is fixed on every one of them, like a tiger eyeing its prey. But in doing His work, God has never been subject to any limitations arising from people, events or things, of space or time; He does what He should and what He must. In the process of growing up, you may encounter many things that are not to your liking, such as illness and frustration. But as you walk this path, your life and your future are strictly under God’s care. God gives you a genuine guarantee to last all your life, for He is right there beside you, guarding you and looking after you.”

18/05/2025

16/05/2025

Let us pray:Holy Mary, you were filled with God’s presence throughout your life; you accepted the Father’s will with total humility, and because of this the devil was never able to ensnare you with the knots of his confusion.You have already interceded with your Son on our behalf during our trials. With utmost kindness and patience, you gave us an example of how to undo the knots in our life. You are Our Mother forever: help to straighten and reveal the deeper ties that bind us to the Lord.🙏

14/05/2025

Our Lady of Fatima
Saint of the Day - 13 May 2025

The Story of Our Lady of Fatima

Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three Portuguese children–Francisco and Jacinta Marto and their cousin Lucia dos Santos–received apparitions of Our Lady at Cova da Iria near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Lisbon. Mary asked the children to pray the rosary for world peace, for the end of World War I, for sinners, and for the conversion of Russia.

Mary gave the children three secrets. Following the deaths of Francisco and Jacinta in 1919 and 1920 respectively, Lucia revealed the first secret in 1927. It concerned devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The second secret was a vision of hell. When Lucia grew up she became a Carmelite nun and died in 2005 at the age of 97.

Pope John Paul II directed the Holy See’s Secretary of State to reveal the third secret in 2000; it spoke of a “bishop in white” who was shot by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows into him. Many people linked this vision to the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981.

The feast of Our Lady of Fatima was approved by the local bishop in 1930; it was added to the Church’s worldwide calendar in 2002.

Reflection

The message of Fatima is simple: Pray. Unfortunately, some people—not Sister Lucia—have distorted these revelations, making them into an apocalyptic event for which they are now the only reliable interpreters. They have, for example, claimed that Mary’s request that the world be consecrated to her has been ignored. Sister Lucia agreed that Pope John Paul II’s public consecration in St. Peter’s Square on March 25, 1984, fulfilled Mary’s request. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prepared a June 26, 2000, document explaining the “third secret.”

Mary is perfectly honored when people generously imitate her response “Let it be done to me as you say” (Luke 1:38). Mary can never be seen as a rival to Jesus or to the Church’s teaching authority, as exercised by the college of bishops united with the bishop of Rome.

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/our-lady-of-fatima/