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Prayers Requested for Marie Corpe

Cover Image: Marie with another long-time worker/volunteer for The Fatima Center, Bernadine Dumelie (December 2010). In your charity, please pray for Marie Corpe, a long-time Fatima Center volunteer and employee (since 2001). She has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Marie worked closely with Fr. Gruner for many years, including making and answering many phone [...]

An Epiphany Tradition and Sacramental

Blessing the Christian Home The Fatima Center strives to send correspondence to our supporters by mail at least once every month. This month we mailed out a Christmas greeting card and a prayer card with an abbreviated form of the Epiphany Tradition of “Chalking the Doors.” The complete rite for the Epiphany House Blessing can [...]

The Reverence Shown to the Altar Since Apostolic Times

Christianity Is a Religion of Sacrifice That Christianity is a religion of Sacrifice is indisputable when considering the importance and constant presence of altars in all true Christian worship. Joseph de Maistre (18th-century philosopher) famously remarked, “Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.” And that is most true in the Catholic Religion, which offers [...]

Get Your Epiphany Chalk!

With the onset of Advent, we begin a new liturgical year. The term ‘advent’ comes from the Latin ‘Adventus Domini’ – that is, “the Coming of the Lord.” It is linked to the Hebrew term “Maranatha” (see 1 Cor 16:22). Scriptural scholars have long debated if that then should be interpreted in the subjunctive or [...]

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