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 February
2009
THE FATIMA CRUSADER
Issue 91
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Personally Living the Fatima
Message
We must do all we can to spread Our Lady's urgent Fatima Message. Also,
we must strive to live the Message ourselves spiritually through frequent
Confession, Holy Mass, Holy Communion, and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament,
as well as daily recitation of the Holy Rosary. |
| Personally
Living the Fatima Message |
We must do all we can to spread Our Lady's urgent Fatima
Message. Also, we must strive to live the Message ourselves spiritually
through frequent Confession, Holy Mass, Holy Communion, and adoration of
the Blessed Sacrament, as well as daily recitation of the Holy Rosary. |
| Now
Is the Time |
Consecrating
Russia Will Help, Not Harm,
Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue |
by Cathy
Pearson |
For all people who seek the truth; who seek
to love and to serve Our Lady of Fatima; for all who want world peace;
for all who seek greater and genuine understanding betwen East and West,
we urge you to read this article (originally published in another magazine)
which presents a very good case for why the Pope should once again call
for the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. |
| Window
into Saintly Souls |
by Coralie
Graham, Editor of The Fatima Crusader |
What was originally intended to be a review
of The True Story of Fatima (written by Fatima scholar Father John de Marchi,
I.M.C., who spent three and a half years interviewing the family, friends
and witnesses to the events at Fatima) became instead a collection of excerpts
from the book because “no one could ever portray in writing the beauty,
the grace, the devotion to Our Lord and Our Lady, better than what the
children have said in their own words.” |
An Introduction to the
Book: |
| Fatima
in Twilight |
by Mark
Fellows |
| Sister Lucia’s assertion that we are living in the last
times may sound fantastic to modern Catholic ears, yet she is in famous
company – in agreement with Popes St. Pius X and Pius XII and consistent
with Blessed Jacinta’s visions. In the new dawn (after the chastisement
of apostasy ends) all will realize that the nightmare we are living through
did not vitiate Christ’s promise that the gates of hell would never conquer
His Church. |
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Living
the Fatima Message |
by Father Nicholas Gruner, S.T.L., S.T.D.
(Cand.) |
This edited transcript of a talk given to hundreds of
bishops, priests and laypeople listening to the “Last Chance for World
Peace” conference in Tuy, Spain (October 2006) is a reminder of what each
and every one of us must do to honor Our Lady’s requests. By putting yourself
under Our Lady’s mantle you are symbolically acknowledging that you are
making yourself Her child. In Scripture we are told the Church is built
upon the Apostles and the prophets. The most prophetic, authentic and authoritative
message of our time is the Message of Fatima. |
| But
Wasn't the Consecration Already Done? |
Over the past 70 years, at least three Popes on multiple
occasions have carried out consecrations of the world to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary. Cardinal Bertone tells us that Sister Lucy told him in 2001 “the
consecration desired by Our Lady was made in 1984, and has been accepted
in Heaven.” Then why did each of these Popes keep trying it over, again
and again? Why did John Paul II feel he had to do still another consecration
in 2000, after the Vatican had been insisting since 1989 that it had been
done? Why did John Paul II repeatedly ask close aides, after each consecration,
whether they thought he had satisfied Our Lady’s conditions for the Consecration
of Russia? Read here for the answers to these questions. |
| The Errors of
Russia Upon Us |
Contains three recent examples of the errors of Russia
still upon us, from an article previously published in the online edition
of U.K.’s The Guardian (“Russia to Raise Nuclear Missile Output FOURFOLD”),
a Media Advisory by the Christian Security Network (“Continued Violence
Against Christian Churches”), and more news of recent persecutions in India. |
| Russia
to Raise Nuclear Missile Output FOURFOLD |
The Guardian, Tom
Parfitt in Moscow and Julian Borger, diplomatic editor |
While the world reels from economic disaster, Russia
plans to sharply increase its production of strategic nuclear missiles
as part of a massive rearmament program, which includes a new ICBM “capable
of overcoming any existing or future missile defense systems.” This is
clearly pushing us closer to the “annihilation of nations”. |
| Persecution
in India |
See photos and descriptions of recent persecutions of
Catholics in Orissa, India. |
| Continued
Violence Against Christian Churches |
Media Advisory,
Christian Security Network |
How effective is the Hate Crimes legislation? Faith-based
organizations are classified as one of the top five “at risk” groups in
the world today. |
Vatican Newspaper says: |
| Pope
Will No Longer Give Communion in the Hand |
by John
Vennari |
| In late spring 2008, the Vatican let it be known that all
those who receive Communion from Pope Benedict XVI will have to receive
kneeling and on-the-tongue. Archbishop Ranjith, Secretary to the Vatican’s
Congregation for Divine Worship, addressed the modern abuse of Communion
in the hand and Msgr. Marini, the Pope’s Master of Ceremonies for papal
Masses explained the importance of kneeling and receiving Communion on the
tongue. He also stated “it is urgent to highlight and recover” these aspects
of the sacredness and mystery of the Eucharist in modern times. |
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| The
Hail Mary of a Protestant |
by Father
Tuckwell |
| This is a true account of a fourteen-year-old boy who,
after a serious study of both Protestantism and Catholicism, found the latter
to be the only true religion and embraced it, and became one of its most
ardent apostles. Some time later he convinced his sister to pray one ‘Hail
Mary’ for the cure of her dangerously ill son. When he was cured, her whole
family received Baptism together. |
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| The
Suicide of Altering the Faith |
by Father
Paul Kramer, B.Ph., S.T.B., M.Div., S.T.L. (Cand.) |
| Father Kramer gives us an introduction to his book The
Suicide of Altering the Faith in the Liturgy. It is prophetic, it was published
in 2006 and is still very timely. Factual and to the point, Father Kramer
holds back nothing because, after all, our very souls are at stake. |
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