Join Cardinal Burke for Nine Weeks of Prayer to Our Lady of Fatima!

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'To prepare the celebration of the centennial, I invite you to join me in nine weeks of prayer, beginning on this coming October 8th and ending on this coming December 10th, the 100th Anniversary of the apparition at Pontevedra. During the nine weeks, I invite you to pray for the grace of sincere repentance for sins committed and heartfelt engagement in the acts of reparation of the First Saturdays Devotion – the sacramental confession of our sins, the worthy reception of Holy Communion, the recitation of five decades of the Rosary, and union of heart with the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary by meditating for fifteen minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, – by each of us, in our families and parishes, and throughout the universal Church. If you are not already doing so, I urge you to begin, already on the First Saturdays of the coming months of November and December, the heartfelt practice of the devotion of the First Saturdays of Reparation. Trust the promise of Our Lady of Fatima that the fruit of your devotion, by God’s grace, will be the salvation of many souls and peace throughout the world."


https://guadalupeshrine.org/fatima/

 

Sparrow, I belong to Cardinal Burke, too.
He is a holy Cardinal. I feel so strongly that it’s time to walk the walk and not just talk the talk about the First Saturday devotions.
I’m talking about myself here.
For those who might not know this, Cardinal Burke was in Rome on October 1 offering the TLM in his private chapel. That happened to be the same day that Pope Leo blessed the ice.

 

This does not surprise me. NOW is the time to get serious and Cardinal Burke is doing all he can to help. Last year with Our Lady of Guadalupe and now Our Lady of Fatima - he knows...

 

Agree!!!

 

Speaking of...

 

It's unmistakable and has been coming from ALL angles for some time now
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The level of the Woman

By veilofveronica on October 2, 2025

“To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.” Venerable Fulton Sheen

In the early morning hours of September 18, 2025, I had a very vivid dream. In my dream I was in a big giant circular church that had stained glass windows but they were devoid of any pictures of Saints, it was like a mishmash of broken glass pieces with no story to tell. This church was huge and I was there for a Mass. Except it wasn't a Mass. I could see Bishops and Cardinals of the Church and there was talk of sharing a meal with God's people, but there was no Holy Sacrifice, no offering to the Father by the Son through the Holy Spirit. It was a fake Mass and fake worship. I could see and hear whispering serpents. Christ was not the center of this. In fact, He wasn't mentioned at all. It was totally focused on people, not on Christ. There was no effort by Catholics to convert. And the world outside was chaos.

I could also see that there were these places, more private and more hidden, with Priests saying real Mass, sometimes alone in a secluded room. Their interior posture was one of intercession. They were interceding trying to make the bride of the church beautiful again, not because they thought themselves better, but because they saw themselves as so small next to the good and gracious God that they poured all that they had into loving Him.

This has been a recurring theme for me. That there will come a time when the Eucharist is removed in the name of Ecumenism. Ecumenism is a noble cause to pursue, but not to the detriment of leaving behind the great commission.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20

As I went to prayer today, I pondered this, and I felt the Lord speaking to me.

"The era of the Holy Spirit will be the era of the Heart of Mary in My people. This is the triumph. Make reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and families will be healed and order will be restored."

There is an urgency and a hope in looking to Mary. The level of the Woman, who is Mary, is the ushering in of the Divine Will, which lived in her from her conception to her natural death and beyond. When we honor Mary, we give glory to God. It isn't as if when we honor holy people it takes something away from the being of God. God is ALL being, and honoring those who honor Him, brings greater glory to everyone.

Heaven has advised us many times to make reparation. I grow disappointed these days when I see no First Saturday Mass or promotion of it at our parishes. As devotion decreases, as the liturgy is abused, society has become violent. There is a direct connection between these things. The woman (the church) has become so secularized and casual she has lost her dignity. But the message of Fatima still resounds.

The first 5 Saturdays make reparation for the blasphemies against THE WOMAN, Mary, who is also the archetype of the church. She is a whole and healed human person, and this is what God wants for us. We need to honor her and make reparation for;

1. Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception
2. Blasphemies against her virginity
3. Blasphemies against her divine maternity, at the same time the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all men
4. Instilling indifference, scorn and even hatred towards this Immaculate Mother in the hearts of children
5. Direct insults against Her sacred images

If we want the heart of Mary to triumph and an era of peace in the church, we must on the First Saturday during 5 Consecutive Months:

1. Go to Confession,
2. Receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion,
3. Say five decades of the Rosary,
4. Meditate for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary.

For those who cannot do this because it isn't offered to you, remember what Our Lady asked in Medjugorje. She asked that we pray all the Mysteries of the Rosary each day. When the people grumbled, she said we don't have a time problem, we have a love problem.

I often find that we, the People of God, often look at things backwards, and often make bad decisions. I used to think, how am I going to fit all this prayer into my day. Now I ask, how will I fit my day into my prayer. Make your life a liturgy and you will find a way, with the grace of God, to be a servant of the Lord while He ushers in the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.

 

And look at today's first reading!
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 141

Reading 1
Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4
How long, O LORD? I cry for help
but you do not listen!
I cry out to you, "Violence!"
but you do not intervene.
Why do you let me see ruin;
why must I look at misery?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and clamorous discord.
Then the LORD answered me and said:
Write down the vision clearly upon the tablets,
so that one can read it readily.
For the vision still has its time,
presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint;
if it delays, wait for it,
it will surely come, it will not be late.
The rash one has no integrity;
but the just one, because of his faith, shall live.

 

Extremely timely and fitting! I thought the same thing. Thank you.

 

Yes. The words leaped out to me at Mass.

 

thank you for pointing this out, greatly appreciated.