Journey to the Living Heart of the Catholic Faith

By Kevin Burke, LSW and Theresa Burke, Ph.D. – In the month of June, we journey into the heart of Catholic devotion, and quite literally, to the physical Heart of Jesus.  June offers a unique opportunity to strengthen your Catholic faith beginning with the Feast of Corpus Christi on June 16, celebrated on Sunday, June 19, […]

Consoling Mary, A Mother in the Emergency Room of this World

by Michaelyn Hein – I stood in the emergency department desperate for help. Though people glanced our direction – unavoidable, really, considering the screams of my 4-year-old son – no one came to our aide. They hurried about to other rooms and hallways as I stood in line, cradling my boy. After what felt like […]

Lucia on the Essential Message of Fatima

by Barb Ernster – At the very first apparition at Fatima on May 13, Mary asked the three seers, “Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended and in supplication for the conversion […]

A Special Passenger

by Patrick Sabat “See, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.”  Ex. 23:30 For 75 years, the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima has crisscrossed the globe as a “messenger of her royalty,” as Pope Pius XII […]

Post-Pandemic, Not Post-Catholic

by David M. Carollo – In 2020 and 2021, in response to the directives of government officials, businesses and churches were closed to stop the spread of the Covid virus. Many felt that this was a stronger response than necessary, and that alternate solutions could have been found to assure the health of the populace. […]

Lucia on the Sanctification of Our Daily Cross

by Donal Anthony Foley – We are entering the “Fatima season,” May – October, related to the apparitions of Fatima in 1917. Thus, it is a good time to reflect on the requirements of our daily duty in the light of what Our Lady asked for, particularly in the very first apparition on May 13. […]

First Saturday Devotions Take Off

by Barb Ernster – Much attention was given the March 25th consecration of Russia/Ukraine by Pope Francis, with a multitude of bishops, priests and laypeople worldwide joining in. It spurred great attention to the other message of Our Lady – the request for the First Saturday Communions of Reparation. The Catholic media, in particular, took […]

Messy Rosaries are Blessed Rosaries

by Michaelyn Hein – “Hail Mary, full of grace,” we recited, as our four-year-old dived off the couch to the floor. Not to be outdone, our daughter followed her little brother, though with an intention not to crash to the carpet but to step carefully into a cartwheel. “We are not done with the Rosary,” […]

The Significance of Fatima’s 13th Day

by Joseph Pronechen – What significance might there be to the way ‘13’ is connected with Fatima? When our Blessed Mother appeared at Fatima, each time happened on the 13th day of the month, with the exception of August. That month, she appeared on the 15th, the feast of the Assumption, because the children had […]

United with Mary for Peace Among the Nations

by David M. Carollo The United States/Canada border was long considered the longest non-border in the world. Traveling from Upstate New York to Michigan, for example, one finds the most direct route to be through southern Ontario. Having traveled “up north” many times, I recall that it took little more than a wave to enter […]

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