Spanish interview of Prof. Américo Pablo López Ortiz, International President of the World Apostolate of Fatimathat www.iglesiaenvalladolid.com (Internet TV channel of the Archdiocese of Valladolid, Spain) of more than 15 minutes, on 1st April 2011, on the "New developments of the Message of Fatima and the Seven Years of Preparation for the 100th Anniversary of the Fatima Apparitions in 2017".
1 de Abril de 2011. Centro Diocesano de Espiritualidad de Valladolid. Aprovechando la presencia en Valladolid de el Presidente Internacional del Apostolado Mundial de Fátima, D. Américo Pablo López-Ortiz, quien impartió dos conferencias en el Convento de las Salesas de Valladolid a las 19:40 horas el viernes 1 y el sábado 2 de Abril de 2011, el sacerdote Jesús Hernández Sahagún mantuvo una pequeña y animada conversación con López-Ortíz.
H. E. Mons. Antonio Marto, Bishop of Leiria – Fatima and Episcopal Moderator of the International World Apostolate of Fatima (WAF) is seen in the photo speaking after officially inaugurating the World Fatima TV Channel www.WorldFatimaTv.com with Prof. Americo Pablo Lopez-Ortiz, International President of the World Apostolate of Fatima. This was held during the International Conference “Fatima More Important Now than Ever,” held at Domus Pacis auditorium, Fatima, Portugal on 29th March 2011. Bishop Antonio had just concluded his talk on “Fatima for the XXI Century.” He gave his blessings in this public ceremony and was happy with the work and new developments of the WAF, seeing that the WAF is using technological advances as this one.
Professor Americo Pablo Lopez Ortiz earlier gave the inauguration message: “This effort of using the new technological avenues to serve the Good Lord and the New Evangelization through the authentic Message of Fatima is of the greater importance and we all should take advantage of it. We must always keep this tool to spread the Message and the Kingdom of God on earth in the highest possible esteem and use it in the most responsible way as to insure an ecclesial atmosphere coming from it where all travelers in the internet may find a place to "rest their souls" from the rushes of our daily lives. We must always keep the orthodox doctrine, away from "signs and wonders", always focusing on the four petitions of Our Lady of Fatima, our Pledge as model of spirituality and Eucharistic Adoration.”
Prof. López-Ortiz continued his inauguration address stating: “Nowadays, the media is expanding in all directions. As per the Holy Father’s advice, we are called to make maximum use of Internet to spread the saving Gospel of Jesus. The Mission of www.WorldFatimaTv.com.is to contribute to the New Evangelization of the world through the diffusion and living of the Fatima message, using "New Technologies.” Many businesses and companies are investing lots of money to sell their products. The WAF does not have that kind of money, but the Holy Spirit has provided us the free talents of our members to develop this. This website is similar to the Vatican one for Pope John Paul II's beatification. Over the next five years, the sum of all forms of video will exceed 91 per cent of global consumer traffic on the internet. Internet video is slowly becoming a substitute for television. The advent of 3G/4G and WiMAX will make video available at the price of voice, while new technologies like cloud computing will become a viable means to deliver video (broadcast, catch-up, and video on demand) to a multitude of devices. The International WAF, based in Fatima, in collaboration with the WAF-USA and the WAF-India inaugurated this TV internet channel operated from Goa, India by Dr. Celcio Dias, International Secretary of the WAF.
The World Apostolate of Fatima is an International Association of the Faithful of Pontifical Right, approved permanently by the Holy See on October 7, 2010. It is a movement of the Catholic Church , approved by the Holy See on October 7, 2005, with millions of members around the world, who follow the requests made by the Blessed Virgin Mary to the three children of Fatima, in 1917: “Do not offend the Lord our God any more, because He is already too much offended”.
The message calls for daily meditation of the Rosary for world peace, prayers and sacrifices daily offered for the sinners and in reparation to the Eucharistic Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, through the devotion of the Five First Saturdays of the month. The members of the World Apostolate of Fatima use the Brown Scapular as sign of their personal consecration to God through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Initially, it was only a Parish movement, born in 1947, in the USA, with the name Blue Army. Now, it is a worldwide movement present in more than one hundred countries. Its International Secretariat is located in Fatima, Portugal.
WAF members of any age group are warmly invited to collaborate. The easiest way to do so is to produce your own video and send it to us for International viewing. You are invited to film homilies, testimonies or religious events in your own Parish, or elsewhere of events, Power point slides, sermons recordings, talks, photos, etc. Talk WAF to the world. WorldFatimaTv will also become your personal Tv Channel. Also, you are invited to integrate the videos published on WorldFatimaTv into your friends and relatives too.
The Pontifical Council for the Laity confirmed the World Apostolate of Fatima (W.A.F.) as an International Public Association of the Faithful, with a juridical personality and with its Statutes definitively approved by Decree dated October 7, 2010, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Mons. Josef Clemens, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, in a letter to the International President of the Association, Prof. Américo Lopez-Ortiz, pointed out that "this definitive approbation of the Statutes marks a new moment for the World Apostolate of Fatima and it is our hope that it brings a new evangelization enthusiasm in your endeavors."
The World Apostolate of Fatima believes that this is an excellent opportunity to strengthen our commitment to spreading the Message of Fatima all over the world, bringing this beam of hope and peace to the hearts of humankind.
The Decree of approval does highlight that "the members of the World Apostolate of Fatima commit themselves to become faithful witnesses of the Catholic faith in their families, at work, in the parishes and communities, participating in this way in the "New Evangelization". The Association has been carrying out for the past years a series of initiatives to better meet this commitment. These include the organization of regional congresses in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America on the New Evangelization and the Message of Fatima, the formation of prayer groups, the launching of Eucharistic adoration programs for children, the coordination of programs for the visitation of the Pilgrim Virgin Statue to dioceses and parishes, publication of books, magazines, videos and websites, etc. All this to make the calls of Fatima and the Gospel reach further. We will continue this mission for the greater glory of God!
WAF PHILIPPINES WORLD APOSTOLATE OF FATIMA OF THE PHILIPPINES A Public International Association of the Faithful of Pontifical Right WAF BASIC SEMINAR Archdiocese of Lipa (Batangas) May 11 to 13, 2011
Mystical Lenten Meditation The Stations Of The Cross PROFOUND, MYSTICAL MEDITATION by a Servant of God and spiritual director of priests and contemplatives, portraying how Jesus, in us, still walks the Via Crucis, perfecting the souls of his followers
Congratulations for this beautiful work for the greater glory of God. All the best and more power to the World Apostolate of Fatima. .
God bless you always. Hail Mary!
Diana S. Aure
WAF Philippines.
Archdiocese of Jaro, Iloilo City
We are happy to this newly website of World Apostolate Of Fatima .we can know all the world wide activity by patronizing this
thank u to the promoter of this project
will glad & hoping to be come part of it .
Mother thank you for everything,,you are always there for us,,specially for me even i am a sinner you always pray for me,,last time i am not a religious person or oriented but after i realized that i am in the wrong way,,i give up my life and then i met a someone who really loves me,,she teach me how to pray the Rosary, she carries me she supports me,,she shows me that God is Life,,Mother we are in the great trial in life now,,you know every time i go to the church and after i go to your apparition there,,when my heart is almost crash i only look at your innocent face asking for help,,you know Mama even though we have a problems, i told to my self that as long i have God in my life i can pass through trust God,,and now every time that i knock He always open the door for me,,and with all your prayers Mama i got my Job here in Singapore..I Love you MAMA MARY,,We Love you so much,,,your loving SON
International TV Internet Channel <worldfatimatv.com>
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!! to the whole team.
may the devotion of mother Mary reach to every home through this Chanel. PEACE of Jesus Christ touch to every hearts through our heavenly mother Mary. may GOD Bless you all.and your family.
Be a guiding light and bless us all.Keep all world christans together by your devotion.and help us to pray and recite the holy rosary in our homes daily
It is so very wonderful to have a website dedicated to Our Blessed Mother. In this world of changing opinions this site is like a breath of fresh air, invigorating and its purpose of bringing all Marian Catholics is well served. Congratulations and lets all keep this beautiful site going on and on and on....
mama mary guide us ur christian in the evil force i hope that this my praying alwyz in the rosary is to be guidance to the christian in this our times and alwayz witness hope,reconciliation and peace and bring this in to the whole world with ur precence oh! may mother!AVE MARIA!!!!
Magnificent I've been really enjoying it - OK its a very much 'Oh look here's another gentle touch from Mother Mary' It's an absolute classic... Like being hit over the head with a very soft melting Love ...........twenty twelve times
Oh and Olivia Colman really gives you all the honors - Always....
thank you for this creation through this the whole world will know much better about the blessed virgin Mary.... people will have the chance to share their experiences with the virgin Mary...
In the spring of 1916, Lucia, age 9, Francisco, age 8, and Jacinta, age 6, were tending their families' flock of sheep at Chousa Velha, Portugal, when a strong wind shook the trees and then a light appeared. As the light drew near they saw a young man in a shining, flowing robe. "Fear not, I am the Angel of peace. Pray with me." He taught them the following prayer: "My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love you." He then said, "Pray this way. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the words of your prayers." He appeared a few weeks later and urged them to pray and sacrifice. His third and last visit occurred in the fall of that year and he gave Lucia communion, and to Francisco and Jacinta, who had not yet made their first communion, he offered a chalice for them to drink.
May 13, 1917
On May 13, 1917, the children, now a year older, were tending their sheep, when they were startled by a flash of light. Fearing a storm, they ran under a holm oak, or carrasqueira . A second flash of light was even brighter, and frightened, they ran again, until they suddenly stopped in amazement in front of a small evergreen called the azinheira. For there stood the most beautiful Lady they had ever seen. In Lucia's own words, "she was a Lady dressed all in white, more brilliant than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal glass filled with crystalline water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun." She held a rosary in her right hand.
"Do not be afraid. I will not harm you."
They felt peaceful in her presence, and Lucia asked her where she was from.
"I am from Heaven."
The three children asked if they would also be going to Heaven one day, and she said yes, but with gentle reproach, Francisco would first have to say many rosaries. She asked them to return to the same spot on the same day for the next six months and then she would identify herself. She then asked them a difficult question:
"Do you wish to offer yourselves to God to endure all the sufferings He may send you in reparation for sins and for the conversion of sinners?"
With childlike faith they heroically said yes.
"Then you will have much to suffer. But the grace of God will strengthen you and be your comfort."
She then opened her hands and from her palms came two streams of light which in Lucia's words, "made us see ourselves in God more clearly in that light than in the best of mirrors."
The children then prayed in her presence, and then she said,
"Say the Rosary every day, to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war." She then glided towards the east and disappeared in the sunlight.
June 13, 1917
On June 13, 1917, Mary gave the children a prayer to say after each decade of the Rosary:
"Oh, my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fire of hell
and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Your Mercy."
She then spoke to Lucia: "I will come soon for Jacinta and Francisco. You will remain on the earth for a long time. God wishes to guide you to make me known and loved, to establish throughout the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. I promise salvation to those who embrace devotion to my Immaculate Heart."
July 13, 1917
During the third apparition on July 13, 1917, Mary revealed the three secrets of Fatima. She opened her hands and the rays of light pierced the very heart of the earth, and the children were given the first secret, a vision of hell, described in Lucia's own words: "A sea of fire; and plunged in this fire were the demons and the souls, as if they were red-hot coals, transparent and black or bronze-colored, with human forms, which floated about in the conflagration, borne by the flames which issued from it with clouds of smoke, falling on all sides as sparks fall in great flagrations- without weight or equilibrium, among shrieks and groans of sorrow and despair which horrified and caused us to shudder with fear. The devils were distinguished by horrible and loathsome forms of animals frightful and unknown, but transparent like black coals that have turned red-hot."
She then gave them the second secret:
"You have seen hell, where the souls of sinners go. To save them God wishes to establish in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do as I shall ask, many souls will be converted and there will be peace. This war (World War I) is going to end, but if people do not cease offending God, not much time will elapse and during the Pontificate of Pius XI another and more terrible war will begin. When you shall see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign from God that the chastisement of the world for its many transgressions is at hand through war, famine, persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father."
"To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heard, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors throughout the entire world, provoking wars and persecution of the Church. The good will suffer martyrdom; the Holy Father will suffer much; different nations will be annihilated.
In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph.
The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and it will be converted and a period of peace will be granted the world."
Mary then revealed a third and final secret. Sister Lucia had written down the secret in 1944, and it was taken to the Vatican in 1959. There was hope that the secret would be released on January 3, 1960, but both Pope John XXIII and later Pope Paul VI decided not to release the third secret. Forty years after the planned release of the Third Secret of Fatima, the Vatican internet site released text as the third secret of Fatima on June 26, 2000.
After her revelation of the three secrets of Fatima, Our Lady disappeared. The crowd remained in silence, sensing the solemnity of the occasion, when nothing less than the fate of the entire human race may be at stake. On the night of January 25, 1938, the strange illumination of light appeared, serving as a harbinger of World War II, which began the following year.
August 13, 1917
On August 13, 1917, the children were kidnapped by the chief magistrate of the county, Arthur Santos, in an effort to quell the growing publicity of Fatima. However, his effort backfired, as this only infuriated the crowd that had gathered for the event. Our Lady appeared privately to the children later in the week.
September 13, 1917
A crowd of 30,000 gathered on September 13, 1917, and they were astonished when a luminous globe of light suddenly appeared in the cloudless sky. Our Lady asked the children:
"Continue to say the Rosary to bring about the end of the war."
Then she said she would identify herself and perform a miracle in October.
The night of October 12, 1917, a terrible storm and winds descended on Fatima and the surrounding areas. Nonetheless, 70,000 brave souls withstood the onslaught to be present for the day of the miracle.
October 13, 1917
The Lady appeared in the rain on October 13, 1917 over the azinheira.
"I have come to tell you to build a chapel here in my honor. I am the Lady of the Rosary."
Her face became graver as she continued, "Let them offend our God no more, for He is already much offended." The three children then saw a vision of the Holy Family:
Mary was standing by St. Joseph who was holding the child Jesus.
Then the crowd of 70,000 saw the miracle of the sun,
as described by William Thomas Walsh, our primary source.
"The sun stood forth in the clear zenith like a great silver disk which, though bright as any sun they had ever seen, they could look straight at without blinking, and with a unique and delightful satisfaction. This lasted but a moment. While they gazed, the huge ball began to dance"-that was the word all the beholders applied to it. "Now it was whirling rapidly like a gigantic fire-wheel. After doing this for some time, it stopped. Then it rotated again, with dizzy, sickening speed. Finally there appeared on the rim a border of crimson, which flung across the sky, as from a vortex, blood-red streamers of flame, reflecting to the earth, to the trees and shrubs, to the upturned faces and the clothes all sorts of brilliant colors in succession: green, red, orange, blue, violet, the whole spectrum in fact. Madly gyrating in this manner three times, the fiery orb seemed to tremble, to shudder, and then to plunge precipitately, in a mighty zigzag, toward the crowd, causing widespread panic. This had lasted about ten minutes, perhaps. Then all saw the sun begin to climb, in the same zigzag manner, to where it had appeared before. It became tranquil, then dazzling. No one could look at it any longer. It was the sun of every day."
Epilogue
The great influenza epidemic of 1918 struck Europe and the entire world, and afflicted the two youngest children. Francisco received his first Communion April 3, 1919, and died the following day. Jacinta died February 20, 1920
Lucia joined the Sisters of St. Dorothy at Vilar, near Porto and became Sister Maria of the Sorrows. There, on December 10, 1925, Mary appeared to Lucia and further explained the Communion of reparation of the First Saturdays: "Look, my daughter, at my Heart wounded... with the thorns of ungrateful men... You, at least, try to console me, and announce that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour meditating on its mysteries with the intention of offering me reparation."
Pope John Paul II in union with the Bishops consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25, 1984.
Our Lady of Fatima is an approved apparition of the Catholic Church.
How could little children in a rural town in Portugal predict the rise and fall of Russia in the Twentieth Century!
Was the third secret related to the tragic death of Pope John Paul I on September 29, 1978?
Pope John Paul ll believed the assassination attempt on his life on May 13, 1981 was related to the third secret.
Will further events unfold in the future that will relate to the Third Secret of Fatima?
Congratulations for spreading the Good News our Lady always wanted to propagate. Let the Youth be guided to use the Internet for all the good it propagates and shun the evils that destroys man. Let us all who use the Internet dedicate ourselves through this media to Mother Mary who will Guide us and Deliver us from All Evil. Let us recite the Hail Mary and ask Our Lady to protect us from the evil, so we her children do not go astray.. Amen
Congratulations & May God bless you & your team in this great work of spreading devotions to the Hearts of Jesus & Mother Mary.
Let us also in a special way pray for the global consecration of all the Youth to the Hearts of Jesus & Mother Mary. Let us put this intention in our daily recitation of the Rosary.
Thanking the team for giving us the material on Mother of Fatima. Our church here at Karjat which is part of the Archdiocese of Bombay India is the first church to be named Our Lady of Fatima in Asia. Our church has a statue which was brought from Portugal in the year 1920. Every year in the month of October on Sunday following 13th is a big day. There are thousands of Pilgrim visiting the Shrine. Lets work together to make the message of Fatima know to people around the world. Mother of Fatima be with us. Fr Calistus Fernandes 09422095931 India
The Pontifical Council for the Laity confirmed the World Apostolate of Fatima (W.A.F.) as an International Public Association of the Faithful, with a juridical personality and with its Statutes definitively approved by Decree dated October 7, 2010, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
