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"....together with the women and Mary the Mother of Jesus......"This quote is from ACTS 1:14.  Notice the special mention of Mary the Mother of Jesus.   The Disciples had all gone to the upper room after the Ascension of Jesus to wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit that was promised by Jesus.  But Mary was the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, the bridge between God and 'God made Man', between God the Father and God the Son.   She was already as the Angel Gabriel said "Full of the Holy Spirit".   So Mary took her place as Mother of the Church and prayed with the disciples just as she prays with us every time we offer our prayers.   But Mary had another role.  She had lived with her Son and was able to guide the disciples by recalling his life, the life that she nourished, and answer the many questions they asked, for surely when he went off to preach the Gospel, when he went off to die on the Cross, He would have spoken of what lay ahead to His mother. ...

We have read the prayer of the Angel of Fatima  worshiping "the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ IN ALL THE TABERNACLES OP THE WORLD".   Yes, I remember when in every Church the Tabernacle containing the Body of Christ was in the centre of the altar in every Church so that people could kneel and adore Him.   In many Churches it is no longer there.  But why has it been pushed to the side or even into a separate room.   Even worse was when I visited a Cathedral where in the side Chapel the Tabernacle certainly was but there was no carpet to kneel on or bench to kneel on or even a seat to sit on.  If you wanted to praise God you had to kneel on a stone cold floor.    This is difficult for men bu impossible for women.   Now you can study the documents of Vatican II.  You can study every post-conciliar document.  You can scan the encyclicals and utterances of all the Post -Conciliar Popes but you wi...

The trouble with the false Christ of the Modern Church is that he has very little in common  with the Christ of Scripture.   The Christ of Scripture preaches against sin, the Modernist Christ does not.  The  Christ of Scripture told us to be 'perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect' but the Modernist Christ tells us that sin does not really matter and we should not take it too seriously.   It is Love the Modernist say that matters, failing to hear the words of Jesus 'If you love me keep my Commandments', indeed the Commandments are just RULES we can dispense with.   They still ask though why the Church is getting smaller. At Fatima Our Lady foresaw this crisis in the Church and she pointed out  that many souls are being lost to Hell.   In saying this she was only saying what her Son Jesus taught, bur in our Modern comfortable Church no matter how many great miracles God works to demonstrate the truth of his mother's message they find it impos...

The little boy between his cousin Lucia on the left and his little sister Jacinta on the right is Francesco, whom we may now call St Francisco of Fatima. Yes Francisco saw Our Lady at Fatima but he did not hear her speak and had to rely on his cousin and sister afterwards to tell him what Our Lady said.   While Jacinta decided to pray for the conversion of sinners, Francesco thought deeply about the words of Our Lady that God is already too much offended by sins and his apostolate was to spend hours in prayer often before the Blessed Sacrament making reparation to God and the hearts of Jesus and Mary for the sadness that sin was causing in them.  He too died of the terrible flu epidemic after the First World War,.   But there is so much we can learn for Francisco. That God is feeling offended so much is a demonstration of just how deeply He loves us.   He created us and only wanted us to serve him, yet look at the violence and the hateful place we have made of ...

Little seven year old Jacinta Marto, when the apparitions of Fatima happened, did not grow up like other girls of her age.  Her life was to be a short one.  She would die at the age of 9 years from a flu' epidemic the would rage through Europe after the First World War.  Her brother who was a year older and deserves his own story died also of this cruel ailment at the age of 10 years. Despite her life being so short Heaven had a plan for her that would make her name remembered forever.  Our Mother Mary chose her to tell us all that we must not offend God by our sins, and that our God was greatly offended by them.   She asked her to offer the Rosary every day for peace in the world for if we did not turn from sins to prayer and goodness when the First World War ended there would be a greater War and men would go on killing and fighting and hating.   This was not what God wanted for us, the people He loved so much that he sent his Son to die for us. ...

And a great sign appeared in heaven a woman clothed in the sun...............Revelatiions 12 When the Lady of Fatima appeared to the children at Fatima she wore a dazzling white dress and veil.     She was indeed as bright as the sun.    When we read Revelations 12 we see that Mary was a Great Sign.  A Great Sign is something for others to point to at some period of time, but in Revelations there are two time frames presented to us, the birth of Jesus to Mary and in failing to destroy the chid the Red Dragon goes off to destroy her other children.  This is the time now when we her children are being attacked by the Red Dragon and he is not interested in destroying our bodies but in destroying  our souls.   Perhaps then the Great Sign in Heaven refers to Our Lady appearing at Fatima.   At Fatima our Mother has come to help us in the battle against sin and to ask us to pray for our other brothers and sisters, especially those withou...

 Iwatched the Barbara Windsor story on BBC last night. I was expecting like many others to watch her rise to fame, how adored she was by everyone, and how she was so happy to have been such a success. Instead like millions of others I ws given the real story of a little girl who grew up with a broken heart. She was an only child to parents who were always rowing and when the mother pressed for a divorce little Barbara had to tell answer questions in a court about how her  father treated her mother. She was just a child but spoke truthfully about her father's abuse in yes and no answers which she did not wasn't to give. Her father whom she adored then left her and she never saw him again until much later in life and even then he was stolen from her by a new wife who refused to allow her near him. The story centred round scenes in her life with the ghost of her father beside her in many parts. The honesty of BAbs was unbelievable as she recounted many affairs and once she was ...

THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF FATIMA, FRANCISCO AND HIS LITTLE SISTER JACINTA. At Lourdes Our Mother had appeared and asked through Bernadette for the world to pray for the Catholic World to pray for the Conversion of sinners but only a few were interested. So sin and hate flourished until there was a mighty war with weapons of what we call now 'weapons of mass destruction' More and more the world turned from God and in Russia a new ideology appeared which denied the very existence of God and based morality on what was good for self rather than what was good for humankind. This immoral teaching swept over the world destroying love and replacing it with a philosophy of the strong over the weak. Thus we had thousands of people being killed for the greater good. We had babies being aborted for the greater good, We had believers . being martyred for the greater good The love of a man and a woman being given to their children, the family unit of civilisation, was also destroyed as sex...

On Wednesday I received a call asking me if I as a Knight of St Columba could help out with the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady ofjFatima which was arriving in Downside Abbey the following day. I can refuse Our Lady nothing and was eager to get there. Downside Abbey is in Bath so it was quite a journey. We arrived just as the priest was beginning to read the Gospel and Our Lady of Fatima was already on the Altar. The Choir from Downside Abbey School, a fee paying school atta ched, began to sing a Fatima Hymn and there voices were so lovely. or was it their voices or something else, but a great feeling of love swept over me and tears came to my eyes. I remained in the Abbey until the early evening when a procession round the ground started which I had to leave to be escorted back home. During that day I prayed fervently to Mary in a way i had not experienced in my life. I prayed for all the children of my own family who were facing difficulties, my nephews and nieces, the friends I had in ...