July-August 2025- Newsletter Live

Donal Foley

World Apostolate of Fatima England and Wales

July-August 2025 Newsletter

Featured this month: a beautiful insight into our children embracing the Fatima Message at a school visitation  in the Archdiocese of Westminster - more here ...

Dear Readers,


We are pleased to present the second edition of our updated newsletter, highlighting the months of July and August. We trust you will enjoy reading about Fatima and our endeavours during the pilgrimage in Spain and Portugal, as well as here in England and Wales.


PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS A DOUBLE ISSUE FOR JULY AND AUGUST - THE NEXT NEWSLETTER WILL BE IN SEPTEMBER

JULY - MONTH OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD, AUGUST MONTH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART

One of the major themes of the Fatima messages is the importance of the the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and that of the Precious Blood of Jesus appears in the apparition at Tuy in 1929.


The Precious Blood of Jesus serves as a powerful reminder of His love and sacrifice for humanity. It symbolizes redemption and grace, inviting us to reflect on our own relationship with Christ. By honouring His sacrifice, we grow closer to understanding God's unconditional love and mercy.


On the other hand, the Immaculate Heart of Mary represents pure love, compassion, and devotion. Mary, as our Mother, offers a model of faith and obedience. Her heart is filled with love for Jesus and for all of us, and she continually intercedes for us.


At Fatima, Mary urged the faithful to pray for the conversion of sinners, and this emphasises the profound connection between these two themes: through Jesus’ Blood and Mary’s heart, we find a path to healing and salvation. 

 NEWSLETTER CONTENTS


๏ปฟMESSAGE FROM OUR NATIONAL PRESIDENT

NEW / RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

FOCUS ON FIRST SATURDAYS!

WAF AGM & VOLUNTEERS - URGENT APPEAL

FROM OUR NATIONAL SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR

NOTICES - FOCUS ON ACTIVITY

PLEDGE MEMBER FEEDBACK FEATURE

FATIMA ARTICLES

FATIMA GLOBAL NEWS FEATURE

EVENTS / VISITATIONS

DONATIONS


News updates from Patrick Cunningham 

Dear Members,


The World Apostolate of Fatima is a public association of the faithful who undertake a mission to live, spread, and make known the message of Our Holy Mother, who appeared in Fatima in 1917. The message is a call to holiness, as we make our pilgrimage of faith, and as we were reminded at Fatima by the Angel and Our Lady, it also highlights the importance of:


  • Prayer, and particularly the rosary

  • Penance

  • Sacrifice

  • Conversion

  • Consecration to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart

  • Eucharistic Reparation


By living the message of Fatima and calling upon these spiritual weapons we can help to bring peace to a world where there is conflict and unrest. Our Lady will help us and guide us to her Son, if we trust in her protection, and embrace devotion to her Immaculate Heart. 


When she appeared in October 1917 she said to the three seers, “I am the Lady of the Rosary,” and requested that a chapel be built in her honour. This chapel is now the Capelinha, and later on the Basilica of the Holy Rosary was constructed. 


Please promote the importance of praying the rosary daily for the conversion of sinners and for world peace, and join us in a monthly on-line rosary, at 7pm every first Sunday of the month, commencing in this month on 6th, which is tomorrow. For further details refer to the image below.


Ave Maria

Patrick Cunningham


 NEW / RECOMMENDED  RESOURCES

Useful Resources and Media๏ปฟ

Our new website

We have now completed our new website. Please visit and explore the wide range of content:
www.worldfatima-englandwales.org.uk/

Insights from Archbishop O'Toole

Our Patron Bishop Archbishop Mark O'Toole reflects on the Fatima message and the First Saturday devotion in a short video.

New - WAF Introductory Video

Our new video emphasises the importance of the Fatima message for our times and how we can best respond. View the video here.

Portiuncula indulgence


From midday 1st August to midnight 2nd August, the Portiuncula indulgence can be obtained: that is, a plenary indulgence may be gained by visiting a parish church and reciting there the Lord’s Prayer and the Profession of Faith (the Creed), in addition to the usual conditions of receiving the sacrament of penance and Holy Communion, and saying prayers for the Pope’s intentions.


The Portiuncula indulgence was originally petitioned for by St Francis, in the little church of Portiuncula, near Assisi.


For the teaching of the Church on indulgences, see paragraphs 1471-1479 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.


The details of the indulgence are:


From noon of August 1st until midnight of August 2nd the faithful can gain a plenary indulgence applicable to themselves or the souls in purgatory on the usual conditions:


1. Be in the state of grace.

2. Confession (8 days before or after).

3. Holy Communion.

4. Prayers for the intention of the Pope (usually Our Father, Hail Mary & Glory be.)

5. And by visiting a cathedral, parochial, quasi-parochial or Franciscan church and there praying at least one Our Father & one Creed.


In addition, it is necessary to have the intention of gaining the indulgence and to be detached from all affection to sin even venial, otherwise the indulgence is gained partially.


The intentions of the Pope are:

1. The exaltation of the Church

2. The propagation of the faith.

3. The extirpation of heresy

4. The conversion of sinners

5. Concord between Christian princes

6. All other goods of the Christian people.


It is well worth trying to gain a plenary indulgence at it means the complete remission of the temporal punishment for sins that have been forgiven - so it is a way of avoiding purgatory.


Also, Saturday 2nd August 2025, is the First Saturday of the month, so we hope you will be able to participate in the Fatima Five First Saturdays devotion next month. There are details about this below.

 FOCUS ON FIRST SATURDAYS


We hope you were able to participate in the Fatima Five First Saturdays devotion recently. Here are some useful resources to help you understand better this important devotion.


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 WAF AGM & VOLUNTEERS - URGENT APPEAL


๏ปฟPlease look at this information about the WAF AGM in October this year, and our need volunteers to help our mission to spread the message of Fatima. The poster can be printed off and shared from the link below. Also this image can be shared on social media.


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 FROM OUR NATIONAL SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR

Spiritual reflections from Canon Jason ๏ปฟ

My Dear WAF family,


In a few days time, WAF England and Wales will be undertaking a special Jubilee Pilgrimage to Fatima.


We shall be in Fatima for the anniversary celebrations of the 12/13th July. This year however, we will be making a detour before we arrive at Fatima as we shall stay at Santiago for two nights enabling us to visit the Basilica of St James, and to visit the nearby town of Pontevedra where on 10th Dec 1925, Our Lady fulfilled the promise made on 13th July in 1917, that she would come to ask for the First Saturdays devotion to be practised.


At Fatima during the July apparition after the vision of Hell, Our Lady said to the Shepherd Children. 


 “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father.


“To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me and she will be converted, and a of peace will be granted to the world.”


Our Lady kept her word and came to Lucia at Pontevedra in 1925.


It will be a special joy for WAF members on the pilgrimage this year to celebrate Holy Mass at the convent chapel where Sr Lucia saw Our Lady in 1925 and received the full message of the Five First Saturdays devotion and its significance.


The Pilgrimage this year will be led by the WAF Bishop Patron, His Grace Archbishop Mark O’Toole of Cardiff-Menevia.


The centennial anniversary of the Pontevedra apparition is the reason for the present Cathedral Visitation of both the NVPS and the Centenary Pilgrim Virgin Statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so as to promote and raise awareness of a neglected part of Fatima message concerning the Five First Saturdays Devotion.


The Pilgrimage providentially falls in the Holy Year of 2025 in which we consider the theme “Pilgrims of Hope.”


As we journey through life, the Immaculate Heart of Mary is our refuge of hope that leads us to God.


There is a double promise in undertaking the First Saturdays devotion: we grow in our Christian discipleship through the regular reception of the Sacraments of monthly Confession and Holy Communion, which trains for us the final reward of assistance at the hour of death.


The Five first Saturday Devotion is the plan of Hope for the world, and this is the year to make it a reality in our parishes and in our own lives.


One day our Pilgrimage will be over and there to welcome us and lead us to God will be the Immaculate Heart of Mary. 


Be assured of my prayers and those of fellow WAF pilgrims during the National Pilgrimage.


Fr Jason


Canon Jason Jones

National Spiritual Director

WAF England and Wales

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FATIMA ARTICLES

Informative and topical articles related to the Message of Fatima

July is the month dedicated to the Precious Blood of Jesus

Although the Precious Blood of Christ isn't mentioned directly in the Fatima messages, there is a connection as regards the theme of sacrificial blood. This is found in the third part of the Fatima secret, as revealed in the year 2,000.

In the text of the secret as written down by Sr Lucia, she describes how the Pope, Bishops, Priests, and men and women Religious, were going up a steep mountain at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks. When they reached the top of the mountain the Pope and his followers were martyred. Sr Lucia then says,

"Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal 
aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God."

So we have an image somewhat similar to the above traditional image of angels collecting the Precious Blood of Christ when he was crucified.

This consideration emphasises the connection between Christ, the Head of the Mystical Body and his members, his followers, and particularly those who have shed their blood as martyrs.

There is a good book on the devotion to the Precious Blood, entitled, Why is thy Apparel Red or Glories of the Precious Blood, by Fr Max Francic Walz, which is available to download here:


https://archive.org/details/whyisthyapparelr00walzuoft


Here are some other resources relating to this devotion:

https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/overviews/months/07_1.cfm

https://www.catholicaldridge.co.uk/litany-of-the-precious-blood.html

Catholic Herald Article published 13 May 2025

Just over a century ago, between May and October 1917, Our Lady appeared at Fátima in Portugal, at the height of World War I – as Europe was tearing itself apart in a fratricidal struggle – with a message of peace and salvation for all. In our own time, we can see that we live in a world where peace is still at a premium; particularly in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia we have a situation reminiscent of the worst aspects of the terrible trench warfare of the First World War. Read more.

August and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

August is the month dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and this is a theme which is very much at the centre of the Fatima Message.


We can see this if we look at some extracts from what Our Lady said about her Immaculate Heart during her apparitions at Fatima and later on.


On 13 June 1917, in responding to Sr Lucia, she said: "Jesus wants to use you to make Me known and loved. He wishes to establish the devotion to My Immaculate Heart throughout the world. I promise salvation to whoever embraces it; these souls will be dear to God, like flowers put by Me to adorn his throne."


She also said: "Are you suffering a great deal? Don’t lose heart. I will never forsake you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”


On 13 July 1917, Sr Lucia made some requests for sick people, to which Mary replied that she would cure some but not others, and that all must say the rosary to obtain such graces, before continuing:


“Sacrifice yourselves for sinners, and say many times, especially when you make some sacrifice: O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”


After showing the children the vision of hell, the Blessed virgin said, “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart."


"I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me and she will be converted, and a of peace will be granted to the world.”


On 13 June 1929, at Tuy in Spain, Our Lady said, “The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father, in union with all the Bishops in the world, to make the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means. There are so many souls whom the Justice of God condemns for sins committed against me, that I have come to ask reparation: sacrifice yourself for this intention and pray.”


So we learn from Our Lady’s words at Fatima that God wants the devotion to her Immaculate Heart to be spread throughout the world, and also that this Heart is a sure refuge for believers. 


We also learn that in order to save souls from hell, God likewise wishes to establish in the world devotion to her Immaculate Heart, and also that the consecration to this Heart will be the means by which Russia will be saved.


All of this underlines just how powerful and important the Fatima Message and also how important it is that this devotion be spread throughout the world. That is one of the tasks of the the World Apostolate of Fatima which we all need to bear in mind, and particularly during the month of August.

FATIMA GLOBAL NEWS

Fatima News highlights from around the World

Vatican Grants Pontevedra Jubilee Year

Vatican grants a Jubilee Year to the Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Pontevedra for the centenary of Our Lady’s Apparition to Sister Lucia.

 

The Vatican has granted the Convent-Shrine of Pontevedra, in Spain, the privilege of celebrating a Marian Jubilee Year from December 10, 2025 to December 10, 2026, on the occasion of the centenary of the apparition of Our Lady and the Child Jesus to Sister Lucia. It was during this apparition, on December 10, 1925, that the devotion of the First Five Saturdays of the month was requested by Our Lady. Read more. 


EVENTS / VISITATIONS

Some video highlights of recent Fatima events and media.


Video from the first ever school visitation in the Archdiocese of Westminster, in June - St Thomas More Language College in Cadogan St., Chelsea, London.๏ปฟ

Procession of the Fatima Pilgrim Virgin Statue opened event at St Chad's Cathedral


On Saturday 28 June, St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham hosted the Visitation of the National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, and the Relics of Saints Jacinta and Francisco. You can see more details about this event, including a photo gallery and video, here...



๏ปฟMessage from the WAF International Secretariat about Online Events


We are sharing with you below the Zoom link for anyone willing to attend the 7th Formation Session, this Sunday, July 6, 2025 at 7:00 pm (Philippine Time) with the topic: THE BROWN SCAPULAR (Our Lady's Garment of Holiness).

 

Reynald & Debra Andales, from the WAF Philippines will conduct the session.


Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9079929592?pwd=QJauzuvuWbfLJHEe3qWpZMqb5wtx7d.1&omn=85084108379
Meeting ID: 907 992 9592
Passcode: 998379
 
We are also posting here below, the link to the cloud recording of the 4th Session done on March 9, 2025 with the topic: MARY'S ROSARY (Our Lady's School of Holiness):


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https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/ISGZTtC5b764PHf55EaxzjBsnhrGrmN65PADc_vgirJ09rHLL2sAfQHOuQpt2Xik.UTD_f8_i1LJm-Qz4

 

Passcode: $6DQqRe9

 

Recording Summary

Reynald led a discussion on online formation focused on modesty and dress as a sacrifice pleasing to the Blessed Mother, sharing stories and teachings about Jacinta Marto's experiences and messages from the Virgin Mary. The discussion covered various Catholic teachings on sins of the flesh, societal responsibilities, and the impact of immodest dress on spiritual welfare and personal conduct. Reynald emphasized the importance of prayer, following religious guidelines for modesty in dress, and the need for personal responsibility in rejecting inappropriate desires, concluding with plans for future topics and arrangements for sharing the presentation recording.

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By Timothy Tindal-Robertson August 7, 2025
Some Unique Aspects of Fatima by Timothy Tindal-Robertson, © August 2025 The message revealed by the Blessed Virgin at Fatima is distinct from all other Marian apparitions by virtue of the following unique aspects which it alone possesses. 1). Continuing Association with the Papacy The most important feature of the apparitions is that Our Lady came to Fatima in direct response to an urgent appeal to heaven from Pope Benedict XV. Thereby, as I have shown in my CTS booklet, Message of Fatima in the Life of the Church and Teaching of the Popes, 1917-1997 , her intervention began an association with the papacy which has steadily increased in the reigns of succeeding popes. But the most significant advances of all in the papal acceptance of Our Lady’s message have taken place in the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, culminating in the Holy Year 2000, when Fatima attained its highest ever papal recognition through three unprecedented initiatives of the Holy Father, as I have recounted in detail in my CTS booklet, Fatima in the Third Millennium , issued in 2001. Firstly, on 13 th May 2000 Pope John Paul II travelled to Fatima to beatify two of the three little shepherds chosen to receive Our Lady’s message, Francisco and Jacinta; secondly, at his direction the text of the third part of the secret was released by Cardinal Ratzinger, together with his Theological Commentary, on 26 th June; and finally, on 8 th October John Paul II made his unprecedented Act of Entrustment of the Third Millennium to Mary Most Holy, during the Jubilee Mass of the Bishops, attended by around 1500 Bishops, and in the presence of the well known statue of Our Lady, which at his request had been specially brought to St Peter’s from the Sanctuary of Fatima. Has the Mother of God ever made such a touching intervention, in direct response to an urgent plea from the Chief Shepherd of all the faithful, at a dire moment in 1917 when the raging inferno of the First World War had descended to new depths of horror, with the prolonged rain and the introduction of deadly gas weapons ? Having been rebuffed in all his attempts to negotiate peace, Pope Benedict XV sent out a pastoral letter to the whole Catholic world, dated 5 th May 1917, in which he urged all to pray fervently to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for peace, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “Mother of mercy and omnipotent by grace”. At the same time the Pope directed that the invocation “Queen of Peace, pray for us” should be added to the Litany of Loreto. Eight days later, the Blessed Virgin appeared to the three shepherd children at Fatima, and the last words in her first apparition constitute a direct response to the urgent plea of Benedict XV: “Pray the Rosary every day, in order to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war”. Providentially, at the very moment the Blessed Virgin was appearing at Fatima, the future Pope Pius XII was being consecrated Bishop. He became known as “the Pope of Fatima” because he was the first pope to consecrate the whole human race to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on 31 st October 1942. The unique nature of the papal association with Fatima is commemorated in the painting which hangs above the high altar in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima, in which are depicted the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, and Popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI. 2). Fatima mentioned three times in the Second Vatican Council As a private revelation which one is not obliged to believe, but which is highly commended, Fatima is unique in being mentioned three times by Pope Paul VI in the Second Vatican Council. The Pope addressed the Council Fathers on 21 November 1964, at the end of the third session, when the Council approved the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, whose final chapter 8 is entitled “The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in the mystery of Christ and the Church”. In his address, Paul VI considered it “particularly opportune” to recall Pius XII’s consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary; bearing that in mind, he announced that he was sending a special mission to carry the Golden Rose to Fatima; and he ended by proclaiming, “to your Immaculate Heart, O Mary, we finally commend the entire human race” (cf. Message of Fatima , p. 59). 3). Fatima the richest ever supernatural manifestation of Our Lady In a message to all the world’s priests on 13 May 1963, Cardinal Larraona, speaking as Pope John XXIII’s legate at Fatima, declared that Our Lady’s message contains “inexhaustible treasures and spiritual riches … Fatima is a living realisation of the Gospel ... indeed, never has there been a supernatural manifestation of Our Lady of such rich spiritual content as that of Fatima, nor has any recognised apparition given us a message so clear, so maternal, so profound”. Pope John Paul II said that the Church has accepted the message of Fatima because it contains the “truth and call of the Gospel itself: ‘repent and believe in the Gospel’ (Mk 1:15) ... The appeal of the Lady of the message of Fatima is so deeply rooted in the Gospel and the whole of Tradition that the Church feels that the message imposes a commitment on her” (Homily at Fatima, 13 May 1982). It is “the true Gospel of Christ, presented anew to our generation” (General Audience, 17 May 2000). 4). Parallel papal consecrations, to the Sacred Heart (1899,) and the Immaculate Heart (1984) The Blessed Virgin’s request for the Pope to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart, in a certain way parallels Our Lord’s request in June 1897, to Sister Mary of the Divine Heart (the Countess Droste zu Vischering), in which Jesus asked the Pope to consecrate the world to His Sacred Heart. Pope Leo XIII said this act, which he carried out on 11 June 1899, was “the greatest act of my pontificate”. John Paul II fulfilled Our Lady’s request, when he consecrated the world including Russia to her Immaculate Heart at St. Peter’s, Rome on 25 th March 1984, in the presence of the venerated statue from Fatima. On 17 November 2001, Sister Lucia confirmed to Archbishop Bertone that this act “was accepted in heaven”. As a result of Our Lady’s intervention, the dire persecution ceased which the Church had suffered from Marxist atheist persecution in Central and Eastern Europe (see my book Fatima, Russia & John Paul II ), and those countries have experienced the resurrection of the Church. 5). Fatima a unique prophetic warning of and spiritual remedy for current evils The message of Fatima is unique in containing a prophecy which constituted a warning of as well as a specific spiritual remedy for the most grave evils to have afflicted the 20 th century, namely: the two World Wars, and the spirit of the rejection and denial of God (the “errors of Russia”). These errors continue to threaten the Church, especially in the once-Christian West, through secularism, materialism, and the increasingly grave violations of the sanctity of human life and the family. The extent of the problem is such that “today as never before, humanity stands at a crossroads”, the Pope stated, in his Act of Entrustment of October 2000, and European culture “gives the impression of silent apostasy” in which people have everything and “live as if God does not exist” ( Ecclesia in Europa , 9). It is “because its message announces many of the later events and conditions them on the response to its appeals” that Fatima “is certainly one of the greatest .. signs of the times”, the Pope wrote to the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima on 1 October 1997. “Private revelations approved by the Church … help us understand the signs of the times and to respond to them rightly in faith”, Cardinal Ratzinger explained in his Theological Commentary issued on 26 th June 2000. By his teaching and acts, John Paul II has lived Our Lady’s message. Heaven is now awaiting the response of all people of good to follow the Pope’s example, and evangelise themselves and their communities through prayer, penance, offering up the sacrifices encountered in fulfilling one’s daily duties, amendment of life, daily recitation of the Rosary (according to the sublime teaching in John Paul II’s Rosarium Virginis Mariae of 16 Oct. 2002), and the Five First Saturdays Eucharistic communion of reparation for sin. The Blessed Virgin promised that “in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph … and a of peace will be granted to the world … if my requests are heeded”. As the Pope said, on returning to Rome after beatifying Francisco and Jacinta at Fatima on 13 May 2000, “let us receive the light that comes from Fatima, let us be guided by Mary. May her Immaculate Heart be our refuge and the way that leads us to Christ”. Francisco and Jacinta, two young shepherd children who were chosen by heaven to receive, live and convey the message of Fatima to the Church, responded to Our Lady’s requests with such fidelity and commitment that John Paul II declared them Blessed in heaven. They were canonised by Pope Francis at Fatima on 13 May 2017. May Mary’s Immaculate Heart obtain for us the grace to respond, “Yes, we are willing”, just as they did. 6). Francisco and Jacinta as youngest non-martyr Saints Finally, Francisco and Jacinta are the first children in the history of the Church who became saints in the normal course of their family life, and not through martyrdom. And that Pope John Paul II said they became saints through their heroic fidelity and commitment in fulfilling the requests of Our Lady, and not because of the exceptional supernatural manifestations that they experienced. Their lives are a demonstration that the message of Fatima is meant for the family, and that to live it will bring about sanctification for all.
By Webmaster August 4, 2025
The World Apostolate of Fatima will be holding the international Fatima congress and pilgrimage on 5th-12 December 2025. The theme of the congress is based upon the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Places of pilgrimage will be Pontevedra and Santiago of Compestela, Spain.
By Website Admin August 2, 2025
Some beautiful images from the Welsh National Shrine of Our Lady of the Taper visitation of the NPVS of Our Lady of Fàtima and the Relics of Saints Francisco and Jacinta Marto this weekend. Ave Maria.
Our Lady's Immcaulate Heart
By Archbishop John Wilson August 1, 2025
A beautiful homily delivered by Archbishop John Wilson of the Archdiocese of Southwark, focusing on the Immaculate Heart of Mary and its significance for us in the present day.
By Webmaster July 15, 2025
Our WAF England and Wales Fatima pilgrims participated in the anniversary celebrations of the 12/13th July. This year they made a detour before arriving at Fatima - staying at Santiago for two nights enabling them to visit the Basilica of St James, and to visit the nearby town of Pontevedra where on 10th Dec 1925, Our Lady fulfilled the promise made on 13th July in 1917, that she would come to ask for the First Saturdays devotion to be practised. Canon Jason (WAF Spiritual Director - England & Wales) reminded us: At Fatima during the July apparition after the vision of Hell, Our Lady said to the Shepherd Children. “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. Read More from Fr Jason
By Webmaster July 11, 2025
๏ปฟ One of the major themes of the Fatima messages is the importance of the the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and that of the Precious Blood of Jesus appears in the apparition at Tuy in 1929. The Precious Blood of Jesus serves as a powerful reminder of His love and sacrifice for humanity. It symbolizes redemption and grace, inviting us to reflect on our own relationship with Christ. By honouring His sacrifice, we grow closer to understanding God's unconditional love and mercy. On the other hand, the Immaculate Heart of Mary represents pure love, compassion, and devotion. Mary, as our Mother, offers a model of faith and obedience. Her heart is filled with love for Jesus and for all of us, and she continually intercedes for us. At Fatima, Mary urged the faithful to pray for the conversion of sinners, and this emphasises the profound connection between these two themes: through Jesus’ Blood and Mary’s heart, we find a path to healing and salvation.
By Website Admin July 10, 2025
An inspiring talk by the WAF, England & Wales Spiritual Director, Canon Jason Jones As we commemorate the anniversary of the First Five Saturdays, Canon Jason provides invaluable insights into how the Immaculate Heart of Mary beautifully mirrors the Sacred Heart of Jesus, emphasizing the deep interconnectedness between both devotions.