Praising God in Devon

Dearest friends, Our Lady of Fátima is a title given to the Virgin Mary following her apparitions to three shepherd children—Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto—in Fátima, Portugal, in 1917.  Between May and October, Mary appeared six times, delivering messages emphasising prayer, repentance, and devotion to God.  She identified herself as the “Lady of the Rosary,” urging the children to pray the Rosary daily for peace and to make sacrifices for sinners. The apparitions included three…

Dearest friends, May is here and with it comes the tradition of honouring Our Lady – not just for a day, or even a few days – but for a whole month. Buy why do we do this? The tradition goes back centuries, but as with many of the traditions surrounding Our Lady it found its modern form in the medieval period.  May was seen as a month in which the darkness of winter had finally been expelled and the…

Dearest friends, In the 1930’s a Polish nun called Sr. Faustina (now St. Faustina) experienced a series of visions of Jesus. Amongst her visions Jesus asked her to paint a very special image – an image of the Divine Mercy of God flowing from His Sacred Heart.  Her visions were centred around Jesus bringing her to a place where she could see the mercy of God at work in the world around her.  She wrote of her pain at her…