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THE WORLD APOSTOLATE OF FATIMA

invites you to join the

FATIMA CONGRESS

"The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary"

&

PILGRIMAGE

to Pontevedra and Santiago of Compostela, Spain

FROM 5 to 12 DECEMBER 2025

Dia Mundial dos Avós e dos Idosos

O IV Dia Mundial dos Avós e dos Idosos celebra-se no domingo, dia 28 de julho de 2024.  O tema escolhido pelo Santo Padre – «Não me rejeites na minha velhice» (Salmo 71, 9) – pretende chamar a atenção para o facto de, infelizmente, a solidão ser a amargura na vida de muitos idosos, tantas vezes vítimas da cultura do descartável.

cq5dam.web.1280.1280O primeiro Dia Mundial dos Avós e do Idoso foi celebrado em 2021 e o Santo Padre estabeleceu que fosse celebrado todos os anos no domingo mais próximo da festa dos São Joaquim e Santa Ana, avós de Jesus.

Neste ano de preparação para o Jubileu de 2025, que o Santo Padre quis dedicar à oração, o tema do Dia Mundial é retirado do Salmo 71, o apelo de um idoso que reflete sobre a história da sua amizade com

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Meeting in Rome with the Pope

On June 13, 2024, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life held in Vatican the annual meeting with the Moderators of associations of the faithful, ecclesial movements and new communities. The World Apostolate of Fatima was represented by its international Secretary, Mrs. Edith Koch and by the Director of the Secretariat, Nuno Prazeres.  

The meeting revolved around the theme “The Challenge of Synodality for Mission”, bringing together more than 200 people from 95 international associations of the faithful out of the 117 recognized by the Dicastery. The day began with the celebration of Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, presided over by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, followed by an audience with the Holy Father in the New Hall of the Synod.

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The Challenge of Synodality for the Mission

On June 13, 2024, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life will hold its annual meeting with the Moderators of associations of the faithful, ecclesial movements and new communities in the New Hall of the Synod in the Vatican. The World Apostolate of Fatima, an international association of the faithful, will also be present with two delegates.  

popeThe theme of the Meeting will be ‘The Challenge of Synodality for Mission’. The Church, through the Synod on Synodality, is experiencing a prolonged time of consultation, reflection and dialogue to fully implement the synodal dimension, which is part of its nature as a mystery of communion, in the image of Trinitarian communion.

This year's Meeting with the Moderators of international

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May 13 – Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

Photo 2 Our Lady of Fatima CapelinhaThe month of May is traditionally dedicated to honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary, in a special way by praying the Rosary.

In Fatima, Our Lady asked to pray the Rosary each day to “bring peace to the world and bring an end to the war.”  This is more relevant now than ever!

We would like to invite you to pray and to support the Apostolate’s mission, by ordering some items from Fatima for your home at:  https://shop.worldfatima.com/

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Fatima on the 107th anniversary of her first

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40th Anniversary of the 1984 Consecration

March 25 is a special date in connection with Fatima. Forty years ago, in 1984, on this same day, Saint Pope John Paul II, in union with all the bishops,consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in the presence of the original statue of Our Lady of Fatima, in St. Peter’s Square, Rome.

25 marçoThis solemn act was to fulfil the request made by Our Lady during the Fatima apparitions and, more explicitly during her apparition to Sister Lucia in Tuy, Spain, in 1929, where She said:  “The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father to make, in union with all the bishops of the world, the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means.”

When the consecration was finally made,

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