Palms for Jesus, Roses for Mary ~ America Needs Fatima

Today is Palm Sunday…a holy day of mixed emotions, if ever there was one. Triumphant joy in one moment, and a sense of betrayal in the next. Please know that my prayers are with you today! Now I have something important to share with you, Stanley– This May 13th, the 102nd anniversary of the first Fatima apparition will fall the day after Mother’s Day. This is a great coincidence so I want to offer you a way to give your motherTHE PERFECT Mother’s Day gift. Here’s my idea–

Flowers are springing up all around us here at America Needs Fatima headquarters. And it got me thinking about a beautiful way for a child to show his love for his mother: by handing her a bouquet of flowers. I am planning a large delivery of roses to Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal on May 13th, the 102nd anniversary of the first apparition Our Lady of the Rosary. Can I place a rose or two at Mary’s feet in your mother’s name and for her intentions? Can you imagine a more pleasing gift? Just imagine … an elegant assortment of lovely roses; nothing melts the heart of a mother quite like flowers. Or brings a warmer smile to her lips. Click here to select your own unique bouquet for Mother Mary. So, Stanley, here is your chance to send flowers to Mother Mary in honor of your own mother, living or deceased. And not just any flowers…no, only the queen of flowers will do for the Queen of Heaven. Roses. In whatever color (or colors!) YOU want to send. Please, let me explain… As you probably know already, different colored roses express different sentiments.

If your heart is full of love and devotion for your mother, choose a RED rose. If your heart swells with gratitude for the many things your mother has done for you over the years, choose the PINK rose. If just the thought of your mother gladdens your heart, place a YELLOW rose at Mary’s feet for her. And, finally, if your mother loves white roses, then you can honor that with a WHITE rose. Click here to send roses to Our Lady of Fatima for your mother — today! The choice is totally up to you! For only $7 a rose, you are invited to design your very own personal message of love to present to Our Lady of Fatima on a very, VERY special day. So as you lift your palm branches high in honor of the King of Kings today… … just think of the smile that will be on the face of the Queen of the Universe when She sees the lovely rose you have offered in your mother’s name! And there’s even something more: Click here to send your personal bouquet to Fatima. How are you going to let your mother know? Here is how:

1. I want you to have a beautiful Fatima Rose Certificate to give to your mother on Mother’s Day. With a place to write your mother’s name on it as a special keepsake! This is so that she will see what a special gift you have sent to Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal in her honor. 2. When we deliver your mother’s rose or roses to Fatima, we will send you photos so you can email them to your mother.  At the same time, Stanley, your gift offering is one that will keep on giving long after May 12th has passed and the lovely flowers have faded… ….and that is because your $7 per rose offering will help America Needs Fatima bring even more honor and glory to Our Lady with our Public Square Rosary Rallies this October. Your gift will help me reach the goal of 20,000 Rosary Rallies on October 12, 2019, to bring the Fatima message out into the streets of America. Click here to select your roses for Our Lady now! That means roughly 1 million people will be out in the public square proclaiming their love for Holy Mary, praying her rosary as she asked at Fatima and calling down graces of CONVERSION on America. Can you believe we can do all of this for just $7 a rose? Thank you for reading my rather long email; I just get really excited when I think about how much we can do for Our Heavenly Mother who has done so very much for all of us. Getting the PERFECT GIFT for your mother on Mother’s Day has never been easier—just click here and check this gift off your list today!

I remain your friend, In Jesus and Mary,

Robert Ritchie Director, America Needs Fatima www.ANF.org

PS: And when we deliver the Roses at Fatima, we will send you photos so you can forward them to your mother!

Mother's Day, 12-May-2013

Happy Mother's Day!

Thank You Mum 

for all you have done 

and always being there for me.

We should not just honour 

and show our gratefulness to our Mothers just on Mother's Day but in everyday of our lives.

Proverbs 4:3

For I too was a son to my father,

still tender, and cherished by my mother.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children arise and call her blessed;

her husband also, and he praises her.

Proverbs 31:31

Honour her for all that her hands have done,

and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

Proverbs 31:26-27

She speaks with wisdom,

and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

She watches over the affairs of her household

and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s command

and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast

and have no compassion on the child she has borne?

Though she may forget,

I will not forget you!

Psalm 139:13-16

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

Deuteronomy 6:6–7

These commandments that I give you today 

are to be on your hearts. 

Impress them on your children. 

Talk about them when you sit at home 

and when you walk along the road, 

when you lie down and when you get up.

Isaiah 66:13

As a mother comforts her child,

so will I comfort you;

and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.

Proverbs 31:25

She is clothed with strength and dignity;

she can laugh at the days to come.

Mothers have a special and important role in the lives of their children. Motherhood is not a chore or unpleasant task but is undoubtedly one of the most complex and exacting callings in life.. Just as a mother bears a child during pregnancy, and feeds and cares for a child during infancy, therefore mothers continues to play their role in the various stages of their children lives (adolescents, teenagers, young adults, or even adults with children of their own). Therefore the love, care, nurture, and encouragement a mother gives should never cease. Motherhood is one of life’s highest honours, and one of life's heaviest responsibilities. God has special grace for mothers as in Isaiah 66:13, even though God is the Father, but He has the heart of a mother.

So Blessed by You, Mum 

A mother who always cares,

A mother who’s always there.

A mother who always prays,

A mother who always stays.

When things get rough,

When life gets tough,

When all is just too much to bear,

God’s Word she shares.

God’s light she shines.

So blessed God made this mother mine.

Author Unknown

My Prayer For Mothers

Lord, I pray for all Mothers, around the world, Thank you Mothers for bring your children into this world and showering your tender loving love, care and concern to them. Grant the Mothers your blessing in life especially my Mother and my sister, who is also a Mother to her 2 beautiful children, my nieces. Jesus bestow your blessing and peace for my Mother as this Mothers Day 12 May 2013, is also her birthday.

I also pray to the Lord for my loving Mother that she will be healed for all her sickness and her recently diagnose growth in her kidney. Lord, please heal my mother with your most precious and holy blood. Lord, I truly believe that you have answered my prayers even at this moment of my prayer request. Lord, the month of May is dedicated to your most holy and blessed Mother, Mary and all the Mothers of the world, therefore Lord grant them your blessing, protection, healing and long life. Lord, I ask this prayer in the most highest name of JESUS. 

AMEN. 

My Mother

My Mother, my friend so dear

Throughout my life you’re always near.

A tender smile to guide my way

You’re the sunshine to light my day.

Author Unknown

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love." 

~ Stevie Wonder ~

"The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly." 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~