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A Journey Through the three Kingdoms

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Cliffs of Moher, Lislorkan North, County Clare, Ireland Part 1: Erin’s Green Isle It is amazing how much of the American psyche is bound up with the nations of the British Isles – the traditional “Three Kingdoms” of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with Wales, Cornwall, the Isle [...]

Sister Lucia of Fatima Declared Venerable

A decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Sister Lucia dos Santos and declaring her Venerable was promulgated on Thursday, June 22 with the approval of Pope Francis. The decree advances Lucia’s cause for eventual canonization. Sister Lucia (†2005) was the oldest of three shepherd children who witnessed the six monthly apparitions of the Blessed Virgin [...]

Who Are the Souls “Most in Need”?

An interesting question (or perhaps better, a perennial point of confusion) which routinely surfaces among devotees of Our Lady of Fatima regards the Decade Prayer which Our Lady taught to the children in Her third apparition. Immediately after communicating to them by word and vision the Great Secret on July 13, 1917, She said: “Do [...]

THE PRAYER FOR SOULS

Editor’s Note: This excerpt is taken from Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité, The Whole Truth about Fatima, Vol. I, pp. 207-211. We invite you to also read a complementary article, “Who Are the Souls Most in Need?” by James Hanisch. What souls does it have to do with? The souls of sinners? Or the [...]

The Brother of All Sinners

This article is from One Peter Five Four centuries ago, on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, town in south-central France, was born a man who, according to his sister Gilberte, “has always had an admirable clarity of mind for discerning what is false”: Blaise Pascal [† 1662].[1] About this mathematician, inventor, theologian, attentive explorer of [...]

10th Anniversary of a Powerful Film

This article is from One Peter Five Ten years ago, a priest set out on an 8700 mile foot pilgrimage from central Europe to Jerusalem and back. I just recently re-watched the documentary he made about it, titled “Where God Dwells: A Eucharistic Meditation.” A beautiful film, simple yet completely professional, it’s near silence instills [...]

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