Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima 2020

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Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.

As I've written on this blog before, Our Lady of Fatima has been an important source of spiritual growth in my life.  Her message of prayer, penance, and peace is one to which I often aspire, but as often fail.

She came at a time of war and within a year, little Jacinta and Francesco Marto had died in the Spanish Flu pandemic.  And yet, she is a constant sign of hope from Heaven.

I would like to invite you in joining me in prayer to Our Lady of Fatima with a Fatima Litany:

Our Lady of Fatima,	pray for our dear country.
Our Lady of Fatima,	sanctify our clergy.
Our Lady of Fatima,	make our Catholics more fervent.
Our Lady of Fatima,	guide and inspire those who govern us.
Our Lady of Fatima,	cure the sick who confide in thee.
Our Lady of Fatima,	console the sorrowful who trust in thee.
Our Lady of Fatima,	help those who invoke your aid.
Our Lady of Fatima,	deliver us from all dangers.
Our Lady of Fatima,	help us to resist temptation.
Our Lady of Fatima,	obtain for us all that we lovingly ask of thee.
Our Lady of Fatima,	help those who are dear to us.
Our Lady of Fatima,	bring back to the right road our erring brothers.
Our Lady of Fatima,	give us back our ancient fervor.
Our Lady of Fatima,	obtain for us pardon of our manifold sins and offenses.
Our Lady of Fatima,	bring all men to the feet of thy Divine Child.
Our Lady of Fatima,	obtain peace for the world.
O Mary conceived without sin,	pray for us who have recourse to thee.
Immaculate Heart of Mary,	pray for us now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Let Us Pray
O God of infinite goodness and mercy, fill our hearts with a great confidence in Thy dear Mother, whom we invoke under the title of Our Lady of the Rosary and our Lady of Fatima, and grant us by her powerful intercession all the graces, spiritual and temporal, which we need. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

(source ewtn.com)