Day: May 12, 2026

“Be prayer and witness peace in your surroundings and be people of peace.” May 13, 2026 Our Lady of Fatima Dear Family of Mary! Today we celebrate the optional memorial of Our Lady of Fatima! Here is the summary of that apparition as printed in the Magnificat: The Blessed Mother appeared for the first time to three Portuguese shepherd children on this date in 1917. Europe was in the grip of the First World War, which would claim an astounding twenty million lives. Only eight days before the apparition, Pope Benedict XV had begged the Blessed Mother to intercede for the war’s end. During her appearances, Mary predicted the devastation of World War II and the grave threat posed by Communist Russia. Her message to the children and the world: reform your lives and do penance for your sins. Pray the rosary every day. The Fatima apparitions of Our Lady helped millions of the faithful during both world wars. Our Lady was with us then, and she is with us now. Here are three messages in which Our Lady mentioned her presence in Fatima to the Medjugorje visionaries: August 25, 1991 “Dear Children! Today also I invite you to prayer, now as never before when my plan has begun to be realized. Satan is strong and wants to sweep away my plans of peace and joy and make you think that my Son is not strong in His decisions. Therefore, I call all of you, dear children, to pray and fast still more firmly. I invite you to self-renunciation for nine days so that, with your help, everything that I desire to realize through the secrets I began in Fatima, may be fulfilled. I call you, dear children, to now grasp the importance of my coming and the seriousness of the situation. I want to save all souls and present them to God. Therefore, let us pray that everything I have begun be fully realized. Thank you for having responded to my call.” January 25, 2023 “Dear children! Pray with me for peace, because Satan wants war and hatred in hearts and peoples. Therefore, pray and sacrifice your days by fasting and penance, that God may give you peace. The future is at a crossroads, because modern man does not want God. That is why mankind is heading to perdition. You, little children, are my hope. Pray with me, that what I began in Fatima and here may be realized. Be prayer and witness peace in your surroundings and be people of peace. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Journal of Jelena: Questioned on the similarity between the signs announced in Medjugorje, and the third secret of Fatima, Jelena responds: Toward these things the Gospa told us:“Do not fear anything. You must forget what is behind you in your life. I only want that from now on, you be new people. Do not fear anything when I am near you. I love you.” Clearly Our Mother has been with us throughout this century, especially in Fatima and Medjugorje. Her presence has given us courage to pray and fast for peace and to grow in holiness. We are in good hands. Let’s stay with Our Lady in Medjugorje now in these most decisive days when peace is challenged all over the world. As she told us: “Be prayer and witness peace in your surroundings and be people of peace.” Cathy Nolan Mary TV P.S. I want again to offer the link to our donation page, in case you may want to donate to Mary TV!! Mary TV exists solely due to the generosity of our shipmates. Thank you so very much!! https://marytv.tv/donate/    

Do not worry about earthly things, but long for Heaven! May 12, 2026 Dear Family of Mary! The April 25, 2026 Message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace “Dear children, I am praying for you and encourage you to a new life, a life in joy and prayer. May the Holy Spirit fill you, little children, with joy so that you may be like a spring of pure and drinkable water; that you, little children, may be, in God and with God, missionaries of love and peace. Your life is short here on earth and that is why I am with you to lead you towards Heaven. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (With ecclesiastical approval) We are approaching the Ascension of the Lord! And I think it is an important feast!! Jesus is taken up into Heaven! But there is very little written about it in the New Testament. Here is the first reading for the Feast of the Ascension from Acts 1. We are told how Jesus gave many proofs of His Resurrection to the Apostles and disciples and then gathered them together to witness His Ascension into Heaven in His body!! A reading from the Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.”   The word of the Lord. Jesus was able to ascend into Heaven in His Body!! He was taken up into Heaven as the Apostles and Disciples looked on! It must have been an incredible sight!! Truly it amazed and energized the Apostles to evangelize all those they met!! Our Lady longs for us to all be in Heaven one day. But we need to long for Heaven too!! She told us: September 25, 2021 “Dear children! Pray, witness and rejoice with me because the Most High continues to send me to lead you on the way of holiness. Be aware, little children, that life is short and eternity is waiting for you to give glory to God with your being, with all the saints. Little children, do not worry about earthly things, but long for Heaven. Heaven will be your goal and joy will begin to reign in your heart. I am with you and bless all of you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.” May Heaven be our goal!! May our hearts already reside in Heaven with Jesus and Mary!!! May we long for Heaven and not worry about earthly things! God bless us all and may Jesus and Mary be always with us!! Cathy Nolan Mary TV P.S. I want again to offer the link to our donation page, in case you may want to donate to Mary TV!! Mary TV exists solely due to the generosity of our shipmates. Thank you so very much!! https://marytv.tv/donate/