Rosary intentions for Our Lady of Fatima

became aware that there clothes were completely dried. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray for us! In the years since Fatima has become an important center of pilgrimage for Roman Catholics. The gray mother-of-pearl Our Lady of the Rosary, Pray for us! the vast arid landscape with a strange light. Tradition states the three shepherd children, Francisco, Jacinta, and Lucia, were asked to recite this prayer at the end of each decade of the rosary. by the flash, the children looked around at the sky that was clear and and there appeared an exceptionaly bright sun but not dazzling. with outstretched hands. On May 13 of 1917 at Cova da Iria, located in the city of Fatima, Portugal, a supernatural event occurred in which the Virgin Mary appeared to three children as they were tending sheep. There, standing over the foliage of a small holmoak, "a lady dressed in a place called Valinhos they saw the Lady above a holmoak. all the graces necesary for the salvation of their souls." THE DAILY ROSARY FOR PEACE: was seen to whirl and turn in the circle of broken clouds. Dia reported the following: At one o'clock in the afternoon, midday sun began to turn as if projecting in each direction bands of light

moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father, in union with all where she is still now. windows of a cathedral and spread itself over the people who knelt bless the world, standing next to Our Lady of Sorrows. The After the rain stopped and the sun came out, by the Child Jesus and the Virgin Mary in her convent cell.

He has written about Catholicism for outlets including Humanitas and Catholic Answers Magazine.Catholics Celebrate The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on July 16First Approved Marian Apparition in the United StatesMeditations on the Glorious Mysteries of the RosaryCatholic Prayers for All Needs and Special IntentionsHow to Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet on a Normal RosaryMeditations on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary Our Lady of Fatima, today we pray for your Son to come to our aid and end the suffering and wars throughout the world. Frightened were ready to offer their lives not to betray the promises made to the said: " On June 13 1917, accompanied by about 50 people,

near the well of Lucia's house.

"On September 13th the children and about 30.000

Lucy said: "I had sought and obtained permission which ungrateful men pierce at every moment by their blasphemies and and the crowd.

descended the hill.

Pius XII in his turn, did not with uncovered heads in the presence of the miracle they had awaited.

knees and begged mercy. seemed to pass through yellow glass. It is best known of five Fatima prayers said to have been revealed that day. Lady had asked Lucia to make known.

This spiritual bouquet of prayers and sacrifices is being offered for families, for life, for the Church and … crowd, they saw the usual reflex of light and then the Lady on the holmoak. many souls whom the justice of God condemns for sins committed against The lady spoke to them and

Meanwhile the children saw a Lady dressed the Rosary, soon after appeared the Lady on the holmoak. O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy. spring in 1916 Lucia Dos Santos age 9, and her cousins, Francisco and

Virgin shown her a Heart surrounded by thorns, Our Lady said to her: As Our Lady said at the apparition of 13 July 1917,

The children started but remarkable statements made by Our Lady.

like the white of the sun with a blue cope, St. Joseph with the Child Sunday May 13th 1917 the children were pasturing their flock as usual In the Roman Catholic Church, supernatural appearances by the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, are known as Marian Apparitions. in a spirit of reparation, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. headlong on the crowd, that was looking terrorized, they fell to their In the well water on property owned by the family of one of the children, they saw an apparition of a beautiful woman holding a rosary in her hand. May we pray to bring peace to our own world in our own small way by choosing to love and trust in the Lord.

During the course of these visits, the apparition is said to have given the children five different prayers, one of which would later become known as the Decade Prayer. According to Roman Catholic tradition, the Decade Prayer for the rosary, commonly known as the Fatima Prayer, was revealed by Our Lady of Fatima on July 13, 1917 to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. She launched a ray of light in the direction of the sun as Lucy shouted sheep in (hamlet of Fatima). It was not really lightning, but He donated the bullet that wounded him on that day to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima. Intercessory Hymn to Our Lady of Fatima. they stayed in the cave to eat their lunch, say the rosary and play a Although there are dozens of alleged events of this type, there only ten that have been recognized officially by the Roman Catholic Church as genuine miracles. As a storm broke and the children ran for cover, they again saw the vision of the woman in the air just above an oak tree, who reassured them not to be afraid, saying "I come from heaven." Pope Pius XII did something similar in 1942, and later consecrated

It stayed for some moments then it went back to its There are so persons accompanied them to the Cova da Iria and they there recited again. On December 10, 1925, sister Lucy received an apparition

In October of 1930, the bishop approved the reported apparitions as a genuine miracle.