Pastor
Monsignor Francis X. Eggert
Deacons
Deacon Sandy Hall
Deacon Thomas Jones
Deacon Keith Davis
In Residence
Father Aloysius Abaneke
the entire world if Her requests for prayer,
reparation and consecration were heard and obeyed. While many people
believed the children had actually seen the Virgin, many others
discounted the children’s story, subjecting them to much derision and
ridicule. When it became known the Lady would visit the children for the
last time on
Though the region had been subjected to three days of torrential
downpour, nearly 70,000 people journeyed through the heavy rain and mud
to the place of the previous apparitions to witness the predicted
miracle. Many were scornful, unbelievers whose sole intent was to
discredit the children’s stories.
Suddenly the “clouds
separated…and the sun appeared between them in the clear blue, like a
disk of white fire.” The people could look at the sun without blinking
and while they gazed upward, the huge ball began to “dance”. The huge
fireball whirled rapidly with dizzy and sickening speed, flinging out
all sorts of brilliant colors that reflected on the faces of the crowds.
The fiery ball continued to gyrate in this manner three times, then
seemed to tremble and shudder, and plunge in a mighty zigzag course
toward the earth. The crowd was terrified, fearing this was the end of
the world.
However, the sun
reversed course and, retracing its zigzagging course, returned to its
normal place in the heavens. All of this transpired in approximately ten
minutes. After realizing they were not doomed, the crowd began
ecstatically laughing, crying, shouting and weeping. Many discovered
their previously drenched clothing to be perfectly dry.
After what has become
to be known as “The Miracle of the Sun,” the children were grilled many,
many times, about what they had seen and been told. Their story never
changed. The heart of Our Lady’s message to the world is contained in
what has become known as the “Secret,” which she confided to the
children in July 1917. The “Secret” actually consists of three parts.
The first part of the “Secret” was a frightening vision of hell, “where
the souls of poor sinners go,” and contained an urgent plea from Our
Lady for acts of prayer and sacrifice to save souls, with particular
emphasis on praying of the rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart
of Mary.
The second part of
the “Secret” specifically prophesied the outbreak of World War II and
contained the prediction of the immense damage that
The third part was
not revealed until 2000. Its revelation coincided with the beatification
of Francisco and Jacinta. It did not contain any striking or cataclysmic
prediction, but, instead, the vision supported and affirmed the immense
suffering endured by witnesses of the faith in the last century of the
second millennium. Sister Lucia, the surviving member of the
Every
Monday
Adoration in Church
9am - 9pm
Upcoming
Events
Parish Office
Closed
January 16, 2012
and
February 20, 2012
Women's Guild
Membership Brunch
February 20, 2012
11:00am
Ash Wednesday
Februrary 22, 2012
Masses at:
6:30am
8:15am
12:10pm
6:30pm
Soup Suppers Start
February 24, 2012
5:30pm in FGH
Followed by:
Stations of the Cross
at 7:00pm
in the Church
Parish Mission Statement
The members of Our Lady of Fatima Parish
are committed and dedicated to practice and proclaim the principles of
the Catholic Church in private and in public, in accordance with
Scriptures, the Holy Spirit, the historical and sacred tradition of the
Church, and to support and encourage current and new Church membership.
The Story and Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
The
story begins in the
From May through October 1917, the Lady appeared and spoke to the
children on the 13th day of each month.
News of these apparitions began to spread throughout the region. The
children recounted that the Virgin told them that God had sent her with
a message for every man, woman, and child living in the century.
She promised that
God had sent her with a message for
every man, woman, and child living in the century. She promised that God
would grant peace to