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Your invitation - embracing the message of Fatima

WAF (World Apostolate of Fatima) England and Wales is actively involved in promoting the profound message of Fatima through a series of Visitations to cathedrals and churches, showcasing the National Pilgrim Virgin Statues of Our Lady of Fatima, along with the revered Relics of Saints Jacinta and Francisco.

This initiative not only seeks to raise awareness about the significance of these religious icons but also to inspire deeper spiritual engagement among the faithful. Additionally, WAF is committed to encouraging the practice of the daily Rosary, wearing the Brown Scapular, and the Five First Saturdays devotion—practices that are pivotal to a truly Marian spiritual life.

The Fatima Message is the Heaven-sent guidance to change our lives and the world around us. We invite you to become a member by completing the Fatima pledge form via the link below.  If you wish to volunteer, please follow the Volunteers info button below.

We very much need help to continue with the great work being undertaken regarding the 2025 Jubilee year Visitation programme, to build up WAF England and Wales on a diocesan and national level.

Visitations of the Statue and Relics will continue at the Cathedrals throughout this, but we also continue to promote other activities and programmes, including the praying of the Rosary, a Rosary pledge campaign, and Five First Saturdays devotion within the parishes.

For that to happen we very much need volunteers, so if you can help in any way, whether that is locally in your parish by distributing Fatima leaflets (with your parish priest’s permission), or by promoting the Five First Saturdays, or by helping with the diocesan Visitation programme, then please get in touch.

If you would like to volunteer with helping WAF nationally, we really do need assistance with accounts, admin, social media, this website, and organising the annual National pilgrimage to Fatima, amongst other things. We have a good number of WAF spiritual directors in many of the dioceses of England & Wales, and we want to develop this by setting up active WAF groups in as many dioceses as possible.

We have big plans for our future development, including setting up a permanent WAF Centre/Shrine, so that people can experience something of the atmosphere of Fatima in Britain. And it could also act as place for formation, prayer and so on.

But all of the above need people to come forward and help! Most importantly, these developments can only be realised if they are the fruit of prayer, so please include these intentions in your daily prayers, and especially invoke the powerful intercession of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, and Saints Francisco and Jacinta.

She chose them to receive her message and transmit it to the Church through the marvellous example of their lives. What made them saints, said St John Paul II, was the fidelity and commitment with which they complied with her requests and lived her message.

May we learn to follow their example with the same fidelity and commitment, so that our lives too may be sanctified, and her message established in the Church, for the conversion and salvation of souls.

We look forward to hearing from you, and will remember your intentions in our prayers.

In order to embrace the Message of Fatima we simply need to live the devotion to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart given to us at Fatima. We also need to fulfil her request - pray the Rosary daily for peace, and practice the Five First Saturdays devotion of reparation. The fruits of which help us to live a happier and more fulfilling Catholic life, working for peace in the world.

The World Apostolate of Fatima (WAF) is a Public International Association of the Faithful, approved by the Holy See, whose Decree of was made permanent on 7 October 2010, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

The WAF is the largest global Fatima apostolate with millions of members all over the world. It is present in many countries, including the Philippines, Nigeria, the USA, and England and Wales

In England, the WAF (The World Apostolate of Fatima) began in 1981, was recognised by the Bishops’ Conference in 1982, and was formally approved by the Bishops’ Conference in 2004. Since then the WAF has been included every year in the Catholic Directory for England and Wales.

WAF England and Wales is fully recognised and approved by the Conference of Bishops of England & Wales - Archbishop Mark O’ Toole is the Bishop Patron of WAF England and Wales

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