Traditional Latin Mass Pilgrimage -- Cabrini Shrine, NYC

Pilgrim Fatima Statue at Holy Innocents Church, NYC

 

This coming Friday, November 22nd, one of the Pilgrim Virgin Statues of Our Lady of Fatima will visit the Shrine and Parish Church of the Holy Innocents.

 

Please note that there will be two (2) traditional Solemn Masses to celebrate such event.

 

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11:45 a.m. - Arrival of the Statue and Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary

 

12 noon – 1:30 p.m. - Confessions

 

12:15 & 1:15 p.m. - Holy Masses in English

 

2:00 p.m. - Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Mysteries of Light

 

3:00 p.m. - Chaplet of Divine Mercy

 

4:00 p.m. - Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary

 

5:00 p.m. - Glorious Mysteries of the Holy Rosary

 

4:45 p.m. – 5:35 p.m. - Confessions

 

6:00 p.m. - Solemn High Tridentine Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary followed by Outdoor Candlelight Procession of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima  

 

 

Night Vigil consisting of 20 Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary and prayers of reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

 

 

12 midnight - Solemn High Tridentine Votive Mass of Our Lady on Saturday followed by the singing of the Te Deum and traditional Fatima Farewell (please bring a white handkerchief to wave to Our Lady)

 

“Coffee Hour” and refreshments in the Parish Hall

 

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A number of statues of Our Lady of Fatima have been carved by the Sanctuary in Portugal to travel throughout the world in order to spread Our Lady’s Peace Plan and Message of Fatima which is one of prayer, especially the prayer of the Holy Rosary, sacrifice and penance in reparation for sin, and Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary through the Brown Scapular. The Archdiocese of New York is privileged to receive the sixth statue carved for this purpose. Having been carved decades ago, the Pilgrim Virgin which will be vising us has traveled the world many times over and has been venerated by countless Faithful.

 

Parish Missions

PARISH MISSIONS

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What is the point of a parish mission? Are parish missions necessary? Who benefits from parish missions?

 

A mission is an opportunity for a parish to experience in a heightened and intense way spiritual services, sermons, and Sacraments focusing on the major themes of our Faith.

 

We all know of parishes where we can find people who habitually neglect Mass on Sunday and on feasts of obligation, even though they could go without any difficulty. Such people, if they go to their annual confession, manifest some kind of sorrow when questioned about this point, and promise to amend. Yet, after having attended Mass twice or three times, miss it again the same as before. Next year they make the same promises, and the same relapses follow. Nothing but a good mission will bring these people to a change of their stubborn dispositions and make practical Catholics out of them.

 

In every parish, there is a smaller or greater number of such as neglect the Sacraments for years, and all the efforts of a zealous pastor, of a solicitous mother or wife, of committed relatives and friends, all the prayers of pious souls, are unsuccessful in bringing them to reconcile with God. Nothing but a well-conducted mission can bring about their conversion.

 

In these cases, only the plain (but forcible) exposition of the evil of sin and its terrible consequences on the one hand, and the reflection on the mercy and goodness of God on the other, made by experienced missionaries who have experience in dealing with such cases, can make an irresistible impression upon their perverted hearts. Only a good parish mission may be able to bring these souls back to God.

 

The benefits that grow from parish missions in Christ’s vineyard cannot easily be overestimated. Parish missions are times of extraordinary grace in which the kingdom of God is re-established in the hearts of the faithful, sinners are restored to God’s friendship, tepid souls are re-animated to a life of fervor, and the righteous are encouraged in their efforts to aim at still greater perfection. In a word, a mission well-made destroys the kingdom of Satan, purifies and renovates the parish, and glorifies the Church of God.

 

With good parish missions, the better portion of the parishioners are strengthened in their faith; they learn to appreciate their religion in greater measure and to practice it more cheerfully; and they are put on their guard against dangers that threaten them at the present, or may rise up against them in the future. The weaker portion of the congregation is animated to greater fervor; the wayward are brought back; the erring are enlightened; the ignorant are instructed; and all classes of sinners are brought to repentance and to true reconciliation with God and His Church.

FATIMA DEVOTIONS & CONSECRATION OF THE PARISH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS, NYC

COMMEMORATION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FINAL APPARITION OF OUR LADY AT FATIMA & OF THE "MIRACLE OF THE SUN"

This coming Friday, October 13, after the 6PM Mass, the Church of the Holy Innocents will have devotions to Our Lady of Fatima (as it has had every 13^th of the month) to commemorate the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima. October 13^th will also be the commemoration 6^th apparition and of the 100^th anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun.”

 

On that day, the Pastor of the parish, Fr. James Miara, will consecrate the parish to the Immaculate Heart of Mary following the devotions to Our Lady of Fatima.

 

Additionally, those who have been preparing themselves for 33-days to make their Total Consecration to Our Lady will have the chance to do so.