Have a Happy and Holy Easter

“May the light of Christ rising in glory dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds.” (Easter Vigil Mass) The Story does not end with the tomb, instead it burst forth from the tomb: just as Jesus promised us, it happened and it will happen again. The faith is a small light that lights up […]

The Nativity

  The first “living” crib was created on Christmas Eve 1223 in Greccio, Italy.  Here, St Francis of Assisi, wanted to relive the happy Bethlehem night in which the Almighty God was born, wrapped “in swaddling clothes and placed … in a manger” by His mother. (Lk 2:7) To create this profound experience, he made […]

100th Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima: Jubilee Prayer of Consecration

Jubilee Prayer of Consecration Hail, Mother of the Lord, Virgin Mary, Queen of the Rosary of Fatima! Blessed among all women, you are the image of the Church dressed in the Paschal light, you are the honour of our people, you are the triumph over the mark of evil. Prophecy of the merciful Love of […]

First Saturday Meditation: Blasphemies against images of Our Lady

On the 6th May 2017, we complete the fifth in the series of the five first Saturday’s devotion in reparation for offences caused to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.  We have completed the five first Saturday’s exactly as Our Lady requested!  Today, we complete our devotions to Our Lady but we are also invited to continue […]

First Saturday Meditation: Our Lady Mother of God and Our Mother

  On the 4th March 2017, we will celebrate the third of the five first Saturday of the month offered in reparation to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. This month the meditation is about the third blasphemy against Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart: the failure to recognise Our Lady’s Divine Maternity which extends to all mankind. Who […]

First Saturday Meditation: Blasphemies against Our Lady’s Virginity

On the 4th February 2017, we will celebrate the second of the Five First Saturdays in reparation to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.  This month we will meditate on the second blasphemy that Our Lord listed which is the attacks, or disbelief, on Our Lady’s Virginity.   From its very beginnings, the Church has always believed […]

First Saturday’s Meditation: Sins against Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception

“Hail Mary full of Grace” every time that we say the Hail Mary we make a reference to Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception.  The Angel Gabriel’s angelic salutation confirms the fact that Our Lady was “full of grace” which means she was full of God.  In 1854 Pope Pius IX promulgated the dogma of the Immaculate […]

The Preparation for Two Great Marian Anniversaries

Console Our Mother’s Immaculate Heart. 2017 is the year in which we will celebrate two important anniversaries: the 70th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin of Revelation at Tre Fontane, Rome, and the Centenary of the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, in Portugal 1917. What could be a better way to celebrate these […]