Our Lady of Fatima Home Visitation Program

The Mission of the Our Lady of Fatima Home Visitation Program is to foster devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and evangelize and catechize people of all ages on the message of Fatima as a teaching especially pertinent for our times. We do this by:

• instructing the faithful in the history, messages and the requests of the Mother of God given at Fatima, Portugal in 1917;

“We judge it right to declare as worthy of credence the visions of the children in the Cova da Iria, parish of Fatima, of this Diocese, on the thirteenth day of each month from May to October 1917.” José Alves Correia da Silva, Fatima, Portugal, October 13,1930

• encouraging home visitations of the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima;

“Like the beloved disciple we welcome Jesus’ mother into our homes, for she has become the mother of all the living. We can pray with and to her.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, para. 2679.

• renewing the tradition of daily recitation of the Most Holy Rosary; which is a meditation on the life of Christ;

“…while the message of Our Lady of Fatima is a motherly one, it is also strong and decisive…. It calls to prayer. It recommends the Rosary.” Pope John Paul II, Homily at Mass in Fatima May 13, 1982.

• urgently promoting the wearing of the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel as a sign of consecration of oneself to Jesus through Mary;

“As Pope Paul has reminded us, the rosary and the scapular are among these tested forms of devotion that bring us closer to Christ through the example and protection of His Holy Mother.” National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Behold Your Mother, Woman of Faith, Chapter 4, para. 93

• propagating the wearing of the Miraculous Medal with the prayer* “O Mary! conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!”; 

"A medal must be struck upon this model; those who wear it indulgenced, and repeat this prayer* with devotion, will be, in a special manner, under the protection of the Mother of God.” Blessed Virgin Mary, The Miraculous Medal, M. Aladel, C.M. p. 49 ©1880

• cultivating the practice of offering sacrifices and penance for the conversion of sinners; and finally, observing the first Saturday of five consecutive months by

- receiving Holy Communion and the Sacrament of Penance, (within 8 days before or after);

- praying five decades of the Holy Rosary;

- meditating for 15 minutes on the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary

• all with the intent of making reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

“…I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.” Our Lady of Fatima, Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words ©1976, p. 195