J.M.J.
Since October 2006, our Fatima Center held three International
Peace Conferences for bishops and priests on the Message
of Fatima: Tuy, Spain and Fatima, Portugal in
October, 2006; Sao Paulo State in Brazil in August 2007;
and Chennai (Madras), India in late January, early February
2008.
We were encouraged to see priests and bishops from
all over the world attend these gatherings in order
to learn more about the Message of Fatima, to better
understand its importance, and to gain ideas on how
to promote it in their priestly work.
Once our conferences come to a close, priests the
world over continue to express their interest to know
the Fatima Message and make it integral to their daily
lives.
One priest who attended the conference said, “the
conference gave me a very clear exposition of the urgency
of the Message. It was challenging. I am going to be
a Marian priest and do all I can to please Our Lady
and obey Her commands.”
In response to this need, we have formed The Fatima
Movement of Priests. It is a worldwide association
open to every priest in the Church to bring about a
true renewal of the Church in light of the Message
of Fatima, and to spare both the Church and the world
the chastisements which Heaven itself warned us about
through the Mother of God.
This is a letter of invitation
to become
part of The Fatima Movement of Priests.
It requires very little on your part. In fact, the
basic points of The Fatima Movement of Priests are
distilled into five simple principles:
1) Total adherence to the dogmas of
the Faith as infallibly defined by the Magisterium;
2) To believe and preach the constant
teaching of the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium on
Our Lady's special role as Mediatrix of All Graces;
3) To understand and promote the full
Message of Fatima;
4) To pursue unwaveringly the true
Consecration of Russia, by name, in a public ceremony
conducted by the Pope and all the bishops of the world
in obedience to Our Lady of Fatima and Her divine Son;
5) To live the Fatima Message in our
daily lives and to promote it by word and example.
We invite you to read the enclosed
booklet on The Fatima Movement of Priests.
Part I of the book contains a succinct summary of
the Fatima Message, its importance and urgency.
Part II briefly explains further the five principles
of The Fatima Movement of Priests, and how priests
can implement Our Lady’s Message into their sacred
ministry.
The booklet’s final chapter [10] contains numerous
ideas and suggestions on how to make the Message of
Fatima more central in priestly and parish life. A
number of priests who attended our international gatherings
are putting these principles into practice already!
Obedience to Our Lady’s
Message has never been more urgent.
We know Our Lady came to Fatima warning if mankind
does not repent, God will “punish the world by
means of war, famine, persecution
of the Church and of the Holy Father.”
To prevent these chastisements, Our Lady
of Fatima requested:
• The daily Rosary and the Communion of Reparation
of the Five First Saturdays;
• the Consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate
Heart, promising, “If what I say to you is done,
many souls will be saved and there will be peace.”
Catholics, non-Catholics and even non-believers sense
that the world is spiraling out of control. Not only
are wars and rumors of wars increasingly in the news,
but economic meltdown and food shortages blaze
across the headlines of the daily press.
Can we not see in all of this the predictions of
Our Lady of Fatima unfolding before our eyes?
A Word about Your Special
Role as a Preacher
Making the Fatima Message known requires, above all,
explaining, clarifying, defending and preaching. The
spoken and written word carries more power when it
comes from a priest.
Of course, lay people use the media, internet and
discussion groups to spread the word, but only the
priest is called to preach with the authority of the
Church behind him. As Blessed Abbot Marmion teaches, “only
the priest is given the mandate to preach.”
The Fatima Movement of Priests is founded to help
you in your preaching of the Fatima Message, and (as
principle #1 indicates), the preaching of all of the
sacred dogmas of the Church.
We know you preach these great truths anyway, but
how much more encouraging it is to be part of a worldwide
movement of priests all committed to this holy cause
to which Our Lady has promised us “In the end,
My Immaculate Heart will triumph ... and a certain
period of peace will be granted to the world.”
How the Fatima Center
Will Help You
The Fatima Movement of Priests is fully funded and
organized by Our Lady’s Apostolate. Through the
generosity of our 1000s of supporters and benefactors,
we are able to offer you, in addition to spiritual
support, material things you need to be effective in
the mission Our Lady of Fatima has given us.
If, as we hope and pray, you become a member of the
Movement, you will receive:
• A Certificate of Enrollment and
Membership Card;
• Resources in your ongoing education in the Message
of Fatima together with specific helps in how to more
effectively preach and promote it;
• The latest Fatima literature, including books
and DVDs which we often sell to others but at no expense
to you;
• A quarterly Newsletter to keep you up to date
in what is happening in The Fatima Movement of Priests;
• Sacramentals such as Rosaries, Scapulars, medals,
prayer cards, etc., for distribution to the faithful.
Let us say again how important this work is. The
Mother of God has warned us that failure to heed Her
request of Fatima will mean the loss of millions or
even billions of souls and the annihilation of various
nations.
In light of these dire warnings, it
is heartening to see an increasing number of bishops
and priests recognize our duty to make the Fatima Message
known, understood and obeyed.
The Fatima Movement of Priests is
an ideal vehicle by which this God-given mission can
be accomplished. It is a concrete plan of action to
implement Fatima into our lives, our parishes, our dioceses.
Please return the enclosed Pledge
of Commitment to us TODAY.
Yours in Jesus, Mary
and Joseph,
