“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
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