Fatima -- the Immaculate Heart of Mary

“Jesus wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world.

I promise salvation to those who embrace it.” (Our Lady of Fatima, June 13, 1917

This years’ centennial commemoration of the Fatima apparitions reminds us of the urgent call to prayer, conversion, and consecration contained in the message of Our Lady.  I would like to highlight the Five First Saturdays devotion that Our Lady asks for as a small effort to encourage you to take up this prayer on behalf of peace in the world, and peace in your heart.

Our Lady of Fatima explained the Five First Saturdays to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, one of the visionaries, “Tell them that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months: go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the mysteries of the rosary.  

More information on this devotion can be found at http://www.marian.org/13th/firstsaturday.php

Summer Newsletter

Please take a few minutes and read our Summer Newsletter 2017.  We have lots to share with you and ask your prayers for our mission.

The Year of Witness and Martyrs

The Year of Witness and Martyrs

An Excerpt from the Pastoral Letter

of His Beatitude

Patriarch Bechara Peter Rai

The Year of Witness and Martyrs on the Feast day

of our Father, Saint Maron on February

9, 2017, and end it on March 2, 2018,

the Feast day of our Father, the First

Maronite Patriarch, Saint John Maron.

“The Year of Witness and Martyrs is a

special occasion to renew our Christian

commitment to witness to Jesus and to

be prepared to fulfill it even to the

witness of blood, so that hatred can be

conquered by love, war by peace,

enmity by fraternity, and injustice by

justice. It is a year that removes fear

from our hearts while we are witnessing

nowadays torture and persecution of

Christians. …

In the Year of Witness and Martyrs we

lift up our thoughts and our minds to

Massabki Brothers, Martyrs

Mary our Mother, the Queen of

Martyrs. We ask that this year be a

period of hope and perseverance, to

complete the work of salvation that

Jesus Christ has started and completed,

a work that Saint Paul describes as, "in

my flesh I am filling up what is lacking

in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of

his body, which is the Church"

(Colossians 1:24). May this year be an

incentive to follow in the footsteps of

our witnesses and martyrs, to collect

their heritage, a year to discover the

forgotten martyrs and the unknown, so

they can all intercede for us and be an

example for us to follow Christ and

witness to his love, in giving,

sacrificing, forgiveness and

reconciliation.”

Safe Zones and Syrian Refugees in Lebanon.

Please take less than two minutes and watch this video sharing some of the staggering statistics about Syrian refugees in Lebanon and the desperate need for Safe Zones.