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!

Obtain an indulgence during the 100th Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima

Gain Plenary Indulgence during the Jubilee Year For the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, Pope Francis has decided to grant a plenary indulgence opportunity throughout the entire anniversary year, which began 27 Nov, 2016, and will end 26 Nov, 2017.

There are three ways of obtaining the indulgence:

1. Make a pilgrimage to the shrine

The first way is for “the faithful to make a pilgrimage to the Fatima Shrine in Portugal and participate in a celebration or prayer dedicated to the Virgin.” In addition, the faithful must pray the Our Father, recite the Creed and invoke the Mother of God.

2. Pray before any statue of Our Lady of Fatima

The second way applies to “the pious faithful who visit with devotion a statue of Our Lady of Fatima solemnly exposed for public veneration in any church, oratory or proper place during the days of the anniversary of the apparitions, the 13th of each month from May to October (2017), and there devoutly participate in some celebration or prayer

in honor of the Virgin Mary.”

Regarding this second way, the rector of the Fatima Shrine told that the visit to the statue of the Virgin “does not necessarily have to be only at Fatima or exclusively in Portugal,” but can be done anywhere in the world.

Those seeking an indulgence must also pray an Our Father, recite the Creed and invoke Our Lady of Fatima.

3. Application for the elderly and infirm

The third way to obtain a plenary indulgence applies to people who, because of age, illness or other serious cause, are unable to get around well.

These individuals can pray in front of a statue of Our Lady of Fatima and must spiritually unite themselves to the jubilee celebrations on the days of the apparitions, each month, between May and October 2017.

They also must “offer to merciful God with confidence, through Mary, their prayers and sufferings or the sacrifices they make in their own lives.”

To obtain the plenary indulgence, the faithful must also fulfill the ordinary conditions: go to Confession and Communion, be interiorly detached from sin, and pray for the intentions of the Holy Father.

Our Lady of Fatima (Optional Memorial) ~ 13 May 2014

13 May, 1917 is the first day the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the three children (Lucia Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto) of Fatima, Portugal. On Sunday, 13 May, 1917, toward noon, a flash of lightning drew the attention of the children, and they saw a brilliant figure appearing over the trees of the Cova da Iria. The "Lady" asked them to pray for the conversion of sinners and an end to the war, and to come back every month, on the 13th. Our Lady urgers us through the children for us to pray for sinners, recite the Rosary, and to carry out works of penance. 

Make of everything you can a sacrifice 

and offer it to God as an act of reparation 

for the sins by which He is offended, 

and in supplication, for the conversion of sinners.

Due to his towards our Lady of Fatima, Pope John Paul II life was spared of death by our Lady during an assassination attempt was made on his life on her feast day 13 May 1981. 

O God, who chose the Mother of your Son to be our Mother also, grant us that, persevering in penance and prayer for the salvation of the world, we may further more effectively each day the reign of Christ. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. AMEN.

Tuesday, 13 May, 2014
Our Lady of Fatima (Optional Memorial)

Reading

Acts 11: 19 - 26
19	Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoeni'cia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews.
20	But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyre'ne, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
21	And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord.
22	News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
23	When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose;
24	for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large company was added to the Lord.
25	So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul;
26	and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians.

Psalm

Psalms 87: 1 - 7
1	On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2	the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3	Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. [Selah]
4	Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia -- "This one was born there," they say.
5	And of Zion it shall be said, "This one and that one were born in her"; for the Most High himself will establish her.
6	The LORD records as he registers the peoples, "This one was born there." [Selah]
7	Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you."

Gospel

John 10: 22 - 30
22	It was the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem;
23	it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.
24	So the Jews gathered round him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
25	Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness to me;
26	but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep.
27	My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;
28	and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
29	My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
30	I and the Father are one."

The Fatima Prayer, revealed by Our Lady of Fatima on 13 July, 1917

Our Lady of Fatima to Sister Lucia ~ 13 May 1917

Apparition message on Sunday, 13 May, 1917

Our Lady: "Do not be afraid. I will do you no harm."

Lucia: "Where are you from?"

Our Lady: "I am from Heaven."

Lucia: "What do you want of us?"

Our Lady: "I came to ask you to come here on the thirteenth day for six months at this same time, and then I will tell you who I am and what I want. And afterwards, I will return here a seventh time."

Lucia: "Will I go to Heaven?"

Our Lady: "Yes, you will."

Lucia: "And Jacinta?"

Our Lady: "She also."

Lucia: "And Francisco? Will he go to Heaven too?"

Our Lady: "Yes, but first he must say many rosaries."

Our Lady: "Would you like to offer yourselves to God to accept all the sufferings which He may send to you in reparation for the countless sins by which He is offended and in supplication for the conversionof sinners?

Lucia: "Yes."

Our Lady: "Then you will have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort."

All Three: "O Most Holy Trinity I adore Thee. My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament."