WorldFatimaTv.com Launched by World Apostolate of Fatima
Metropolitan Archbishop Patriarch Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa and Daman, India is seen in the photo inaugurating the website www.WorldFatimaTv.com on 29th March 2011. Also seen is the Indian National Executive Board Secretary and Goa Vice Chairman Mr Anthony R.V. Viegas.
PANAJI: The World Apostolate of Fatima has officially launched WorldFatimaTv.com, the international TV Internet channel from Goa on Tuesday.
Dr Celcio Dias, international secretary and Asian president, Indian Centre/Goa unit co-ordinator of World Apostolate of Fatima said, "The Bishop of Fatima, our international episcopal moderator and many around the world had this simultaneous inauguration on this day."
The mission of WorldFatimaTv is to contribute for the new evangelisation through the diffusion and living of the Fatima message, using new technologies. Another landmark is that the Pontifical Council for the Laity confirmed the World Apostolate of Fatima as an international public association of the faithful, with a juridical personality and with its statutes definitively approved by decree, says the press release here.
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.
Fr. Virgílio Antunes, Rector of the Fatima Shrine was appointed by the Holy Father, the new Bishop of Coimbra, the diocese where Sister Lucia lived for many years as a Carmelite nun.
We pray for him and for his new mission!
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
Each National Centre of the World Apostolate of Fatima should circulate among its members this “Itinerary for the spiritual preparation anticipating the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary announced at Fatima ".
In his past visit to the Shrine of Fatima last May, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI requested that the entire Christian community may learn and live the authentic Message of Fatima and therefore it is necessary to prepare the Centennial of the Apparitions of Fatima which will be celebrated in 2017, during this seven year period, starting this year 2011, in communion with the Shrine of Fatima. Each year has a Theme and a Purpose which shall serve as guidelines for our pastoral programs of the World Apostolate of Fatima.
With our persistent and arduous apostolic work we will make possible, with the Grace and Mercy of God, the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary announced in Fatima, as said by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in the Little Chapel of the Apparitions on May 13, 2010.
Please discuss with all your Board members this Pastoral Plan, which must be made known and implemented by everybody.
In Christ and Mary Queen,
Prof. Americo Lopez-Ortiz
International President World Apostolate of Fatima
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm.
A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadems. Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth. She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne. The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God, that there she might be taken care of for twelve hundred and sixty days.
Revelation 11:19-12:1-6
The Ark of the Covenant as described in the Old Testament Book of Exodus was the sanctuary for the Holy of Holies, the tabernacle in which was the dwelling-place of the Lord. In the Book of Revelation, the Ark of the Covenant precedes the "Woman clothed with the sun," as described in the above passage. Just as the Ark of the Covenant was the dwelling-place filled by the presence of the Lord God, the Blessed Virgin Mary became the dwelling-place for Jesus Christ, the Word made Flesh, as described in the Gospel of Luke.
Who is the Woman clothed with the sun? St. John in his Gospel was the first to implicitly refer to Mary as the new Eve, the woman of Genesis 3:15. St. John's Gospel refers to Mary, the mother of Jesus, as woman at the wedding feast at Cana (John 2:1-5), at the Cross (John 19:25-26), and here in Revelation 12:1. The word woman suggests deep symbolism, as "woman" was not the customary or polite way in Semitic cultures to refer to a mother. Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, the Messiah who will rule with an iron rod (Psalm 2:9), and who is caught up to God and his throne (Revelation 12:5). Reaffirming the Tradition of the Church, Pope Pius X in 1904, Pope Pius XII in 1950, and Pope John Paul ll, in his 1995 encyclical The Gospel of Life, stated that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the "woman clothed with the sun" in Revelation 12:1.
The woman also serves as a collective symbol for both Israel and the Church. She is Israel, the Daughter of Zion, the nation from whom the Messiah comes, the community of faith and obedience that awaits the birth of the Messiah (Isaiah 66:7). In Hebrew a country is expressed in the feminine tense, as mother of her inhabitants. The symbol clearly refers to the Church, for Jesus at the Cross gives his Mother Mary to his disciple (John 19:26-27). The Church are the faithful disciples of Christ, whom the dragon in Revelation 12:17 went "to make war with the rest of her offspring who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus."
The ending of the twentieth century has witnessed an overwhelming number of reported appearances of Mary, suggesting we are entering the end times prophesied by the Book of Revelation. While public revelation - the Bible - is a matter of faith, one does not have to accept private revelation, such as apparitions. However, one cannot ignore the profound effect of historical apparitions such as Guadalupe, Lourdes, and Fatima.
Fr. Virgílio Antunes, Rector of the Fatima Shrine was appointed by the Holy Father, the new Bishop of Coimbra, the diocese where Sister Lucia lived for many years as a Carmelite nun. 
