Bulletins
May 11, 2014
Download the Bulletin as a PDFHappy Mother's Day!
Wanting for their children nothing less than everything, godly mothers want nothing more that for us to be with Jesus, no one more so than Our Lady.
Leading their flock out on the morning of the 13th of May, the feast of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, the three children Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco passed the parish church and cemetery and proceeded a kilometer or so north to the slopes of the Cova. Here they allowed their sheep to graze as they played in the pasture land. After having had their lunch about noon they decided to pray a mischievously abbreviated rosary saying only the first words of each prayer. Shortly, they were startled by what they later described as "lightening in a clear sky." Thinking that a storm might be approaching they debated whether they should take the sheep and go home. When they were half-way down, they saw another flash of lightening, and after a few steps they saw a lady dressed in white, shining brighter than the sun, giving out rays of clear and intense light, just like a crystal goblet full of pure water when the fiery sun passes through it. She said "Please don't be afraid of me, I'm not going to harm you." Lucia asked the lovely lady from where she came. "I come from heaven" she replied. She then asked her own heavenly question: "Will you offer yourselves to God, and bear all the sufferings He sends you? In atonement for all the sins that offend Him? And for the conversion of sinners?" The children agreed and so she warned, "Then you will have a great deal to suffer, but the grace of God will be with you and will strengthen you." The Lady opened her hands, from which shone a heavenly light on the little ones who then fell to their knees, repeating in their hearts as though by an interior impulse of grace: "Oh, Holy Trinity, we adore You. My God, my God, I love You in the Blessed Sacrament." The children remained kneeling in the flood of this wondrous light, until the Lady spoke again, mentioning the war in Europe, telling them to "Say the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world and an end to the war." After that she began to rise slowly in the direction of the east, until she disappeared in the immense distance. The light that encircled Her seemed to make a way amidst the stars, and that is why the children sometimes said that they had seen the heavens open.
97 years ago, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament visited Fatima in Portugal. May her Son's light shine on us. may her love for Him fill our hearts and bring her happiness.
God bless you.
Fr. Christopher J. Pollard
