This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE
We invite our readers to join us in a Novena of Prayer to Our Lady of Fatima, beginning 5 May 2019, and ending on The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, 13 May 2019.
During this Novena [Editor: Nine Days], let us Pray with confidence for our own personal intentions, as well as for The Conversion of Sinners and for Peace in The World – according to the request of Our Heavenly Mother, herself.
It was 1917, when the three young shepherds heard her plea to: “Pray, Pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners . . .”, and that urgent message, to make reparation for outrages, sacrileges, and indifference, which greatly offend The Sacred Heart of Our Lord, and to Pray for Peace in The World, is more relevant than ever.
Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us !
Reflection.
During every apparition, Our Lady of Fatima reminded the children to Pray The Rosary every day to obtain Peace for The World and The End of The War [Editor: World War One]. Our Lady told Lucia that Francisco would have to Pray many, many, Rosaries to secure Heaven. This remains a reminder to all Catholics that we must be active and not passive in our Devotion to The Holy Rosary.
Raymond Cardinal Burke comments:
“Reflecting upon the pressing need to respond to the grace of a new evangelisation, we see how timely the apparitions and message of Our Lady of Fatima remain. At Fatima, The Mother of God, Our Mother, provides for us the means to go faithfully to her Divine Son, and to seek from Him the wisdom and strength to bring His Saving Grace to a profoundly troubled World.”
Intention.
Let us petition Our Lady of Fatima to hear our Prayers for The Conversion of Sinners and for Peace in The World and in our families.
Novena Prayer.
Most Holy Virgin, you appeared at Fatima and revealed, to the three little shepherds, The Treasures of Graces hidden in The Reciting of The Rosary.
Inspire our hearts with a sincere love of this Devotion, so that, by meditating on The Mysteries of our Redemption, we may gather its fruits and obtain The Conversion of Sinners, and The Conversion of Non-Believers throughout The World.
O, Holy Mary, I also ask for the favour that I now so earnestly seek . . .
(Share your request . . .)
O, Mary, may that, which I ask in this Novena, be for The Greater Glory of God, for your own honour, and for the good of all people.
Amen.
Say:
Our Father . . . (three times);
Hail Mary . . . (three times);
Glory Be . . . (three times).
Amen.
Our Lady of Fatima,
Pray for us !
