The World Apostolate of Fatima

Manchester Diocesan Division, Inc. P. O. Box 6432, Manchester, NH. 03108

President's E-mail: carolyn.scanlon@comcast.net

President's Phone: 603-772-0906

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*Spreading the Message of Our Lady of Fatima ~ Promoting Devotion to Her Immaculate Heart*

Spring Newsletter

President's Report

We are beginning a new year, 2017, for spreading the message of Fatima in this 100th Anniversary year of the

Apparitions of Fatima. The World Apostolate of Fatima, (WAF) members are working to honor Our Lady with many

events. The month of January started with First Saturday Devotional Rosary prayers, the Walk for Life, at Christ the

King Church in Manchester, NH, on January 14, 2017. Many Prayer Cells and families are taking home the Pilgrim

Virgin Statue Kits traveling through the 9 Deaneries of Manchester, NH for a week or more at a time.

March 4, was the Board of Trustees meeting at St. Michael Parish in Exeter to prepare for the Annual

Diocesan Council Meeting on May 6, 2017, where all WAF Parish Representatives invite their Parish Pastors to this

important yearly meeting to vote for positions on the WAF Board of Trustees; which are a three year term. Packets

were taken to the pastors from the representatives for them to be filled out and signed and mailed back by April 8,

2017, to the Credential Committee to be reviewed and be presented at the ADC meeting on May 6, 2017.

The Annual Diocesan Council Meeting will start at 10:00 am. sharp; after the 8:00 am. Mass and then the First

Saturday Devotion Rosary. Then we will go over to the St. Michael Parish, Gabriel House in meeting room #1 for the

ADC meeting where we will then vote on any open BOT member positions, the Officers of the Board, which are the

President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary; and then Committee members. There will be refreshment and

fellowship to follow. We will clean up and close the meeting by 2:30 pm. All are welcome to attend the ADC Meeting,

but only Credentialed Parish Representatives can vote.

The WAF members are looking forward to July 2017, to visit the Churches who have invited the National

Pilgrim Statue of the USA. Bishop Peter Libasci has given permission for “The National Pilgrim Virgin Tour of the

USA” to visit the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire for the month of July 7, to 27, 2017 for the Centennial year

of the Apparitions of Fatima, Portugal. The Statue Custodian, Bill Sockey will bring this statue to set up an hour before

an event begins in each Church and he will explain how the Message of Fatima applies to our country today and

discuss what we can do to earn the blessings on our country that Our Lady promised if her requests were fulfilled.

Many will come to honor Our Lady of Fatima and to hear her important message for stopping the moral decline of our

American culture and securing God’s blessing on our Country and the whole world. “Seeing the Pilgrim Virgin is

almost like making a pilgrimage to Fatima…”

All Parish Pastors in the Manchester Diocese interested in having Our Lady of Fatima Pilgrim Virgin

Statue of the USA visit their church are welcome to call me to book a date from July 7, through the 27th 2017

and I will work with them to make this a great event; contact President, Carolyn Scanlon,

Email: carolyn.scanlon@comcast.net or call 603-772-0906.

Respectively submitted,

Carolyn Scanlon, President

World Apostolate of Fatima

Manchester Diocesan Division, Inc.

*** *** To Jesus through Mary *** ***

Apparitions of the Angel

FIRST APPARITION

In the spring of 1916, three shepherd children, Lucia

Dos Santos, aged ten, Jacinta Marto, aged seven, and her

brother Francisco Marto, aged nine, saw an Angel while they

were tending their family’s flock of sheep near their home, at

a place called “Loca do Cabeço”.

After having lunch and saying their prayers, the three

little children saw a light above the trees that stretched away

towards the east, whiter than snow, in the form of a young

man, transparent, and brighter than crystal pierced by the rays

of the sun. The Angel identified himself as the Angel of Peace

and told the children to pray to Jesus and Mary, in saying the

following words: “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I

love you! I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not

adore, do not hope and do not love You!”

SECOND APPARITION

The second apparition of the Angel took place at the

height of summer. The three little Shepherds spend the siesta

hours in the shade of the trees when, suddenly, the same Angel

appeared again with the message that prayer and sacrifice

would bring peace to their country:

“Pray! Pray very much! The Hearts of Jesus and Mary

have designs of mercy on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices

constantly to the Most High. Make of everything you can a

sacrifice, and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins

by which He is offended, and in supplication for the

conversion of sinners. You will thus draw down peace upon

your country. I am its Angel Guardian, the Angel of Portugal.

Above all, accept and bear with submission, the

suffering which the Lord will send you”. These words

impressed deeply the three children. They were like a light

which made them understand who God is, His love, the value

of sacrifice and the grace of conversion to sinners.

From then on, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco began to offer to

the Lord all that mortified them.

THIRD APPARITION

The third apparition of the Angel must have been in

October or in the end of September. The three little Shepherds

were praying the Rosary when the Angel appeared, holding a

chalice in his hands, with a Host above it from which some

drops of Blood were falling into the sacred vessel. Leaving the

Chalice and the Host suspended in the air, the Angel

prostrated himself on the ground and repeated three times the

following prayer: “Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy

Spirit, I adore You profoundly, and I offer You the most

precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ,

present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the

outrages, sacrileges and indifference with which He Himself is

offended. And, through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred

Heart, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the

conversion of poor sinners”.

Then, rising, he once more took the chalice and the

Host in his hands. He gave the Host to Lucia, and to Jacinta

and Francisco he gave the Contents of the chalice to drink,

saying as he did so: “Take and drink the Body and Blood of

Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Repair their

crimes and console your God”. Once again, he prostrated

himself on the ground and repeated with the little Shepherds

three times more the same prayer “Most Holy Trinity…”.

Then he disappeared.

Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima

MAY 13, 1917

The three children were tending their sheep in a place

called “Cova da Iria” when a flash of lightning drew their

attention to a Lady standing on the top of a small Holm oak

tree. She was all dressed in white and more brilliant than a

crystal glass filled with sparkling water, when the rays of the

burning sun shine through it.

The Lady told them that she was from heaven and that

she would appear there on six successive months, on the 13th

day of each month at the same hour. Lucia asked our Lady if

they would go to heaven and the Lady replied that all three of

them would go to heaven, but that Francisco had to say many

Rosaries.

Then, Our Lady asked the children: “Are you willing

to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills

to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is

offended, and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?”

When the three little Shepherds respond that they were willing

to follow her request, she said: “Then you are going to have

much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort”.

The Lady’s message for the children on that day was

to pray the rosary every day during the war. Then she began to

rise serenely, going towards the east, until she disappeared in

the immensity of space.

The Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima will be

continued in the Summer and Fall WAF-NH Division

Newsletters.

Please help us to continue to deliver the news of the

WAF-NH Diocesan Division by filling out the last page and

sending it in with your donation to our address listed

there. We sincerely appreciate all of your help and

prayers.

Home Enthronement is a means through which families can

obtain guidance, protection and consolation as they grow in holiness

from their proper and ultimate source, the Sacred and Immaculate

Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

The Vital Importance of Home Enthronement Today That which God desires is always and everywhere

imperative and for our benefit. As persecution of the Church rapidly

increases, its intensity and the breadth of its consequences are

broadening. The Church is being characterized by its enemies as a

menace to modern society – something which needs to be eliminated

if mankind is to progress. One Presidential candidate has openly

declared that “religious beliefs have to be changed.” Will our

churches one day be closed by the state? It’s happened more than

once before and it can happen again. While we will, of course, do

everything we can to prevent it, prudence would seem to dictate that

we ought to prepare ourselves for whatever lies ahead.

We are all aware of the plethora of vicious and multifaceted

attacks on the family today. We must make no mistake about their

source, the evil one. And while his attacks are direct in some cases,

they are most often carried out by those he has convinced that

government is better suited for the rearing of children than moms

and dads in families, and that the abolition of the monogamous

family and even the elimination of any distinction between the sexes

are noble and necessary objectives.

Why is Home Enthronement a program of the apostolate?

How is it related to Fatima? After showing the children the vision of hell during the July

13, 1917 apparition Our Lady said to the children: “You have seen

hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to

establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.”

Lucia Speaks, page 16, paragraph 4

When Sister Lucia asked Our Lord why He would not

convert Russia without the Holy Father making the Collegial

Consecration, He told her that it was because He wanted his whole

Church to acknowledge that consecration as a triumph of the

Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that devotion to her Immaculate Heart

would spread throughout the world and eventually be placed

alongside the devotion to His Sacred Heart. Lucia Speaks, page 34,

paragraph 4

When The Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and

Mary reign as King and Queen of our families and the homes in

which they reside we are contributing to the fulfillment of this ardent

desire which Jesus revealed to Sister Lucia.

For more information Contact Carolyn Scanlon, President at

Phone #: 603-772-0906

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OFFICERS/TRUSTEES

Bishop of Manchester, President, Tr: Carolyn Scanlon -Phone: 603-772-0906

Most Rev. Peter A. Libasci Vice-President, Tr: Joanne Fuller

Auxiliary Bishop, Secretary, Tr: Cynthia Lambert

Most Rev. Francis J. Christian Treasurer, Tr: Liliana MacKenzie

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Tr: Linda Worden

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CHAIRPERSONS

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Membership/Devotions Committee: Carolyn Scanlon & Trustees

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