THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST NEWSLETTER | APRIL 30th, 2024 (Updated Video: May 1; typographical errors resolved, 11:10 AM, EST)
MEMORIAL OF THE BEATIFICATION OF ST. FAUSTINA KOWALSKA With today’s Live Record Presentation, THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST takes readers / listeners to Valinhos on a virtual pilgrimage to Imitate the Angel of Portugal as we continue this unique 33-Day Consecration Journey starting with the Apparitions of 1916 by the Angel of Peace.
Today’s guests include:
Fr. Anthony Gramlich, MIC (National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in the USA);
Fr. Nuno Rocha (Archdiocese of Braga in Portugal);
Fr. David Michael Moses (Texas, USA).
Keep watching to the end to see clips from the April 25th Mass led by Cardinal D. António Marto who travelled from Fátima to preside over the 20th Anniversary celebration of the beatification of Beata Alexandrina of Balasar, the only Saint in the Church to promote an apparition and who lived for 13+ years on the sustenance of the Holy Eucharist alone.
Video ends with the narrator of our podcast, Fr. Chris Alar, interviewing Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle - watch this short clip with quotes by St. Faustina on the grounds of The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, MA
We invite you on today’s memorial of the canonization of St. Faustina to pray the Chaplet to the Divine Mercy in your parish and/or with the Marian Fathers here: https://www.thedivinemercy.org/
CLICK BELOW FOR THE FREE CONSECRATION JOURNEY PRAYERS GUIDEBOOK which includes brief notes from a book by Father Afonso: https://oterco.substack.com/p/rosary-365-the-rhp-33-day-consecration.
QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE CONSECRATION JOURNEY
Sat. May 11 to June 13 (2nd Apparition of Our Lady of Fátima)
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"THE MEU DEUS"
A DAILY PRAYER OF REPARATION (1916)
UPDATED 12 MAY 2024, VIGIL OF OUR LADY OF FÁTIMA:
Fr. Anthony notes in his video above that the “Angel appeared” in order to demonstrate to the children that “God exists.”
The children, of course, were told by adults that their “vision” was false, and that they should renounce having seen anything supernatural.
(Those who don’t know how this story ends might feel free to brush up on the story with the “movie” version here:)
or … read the story using the following pdfs:1
https://fatima.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-True-Story-of-Fatima.pdf
IN PORTUGUESE:
https://fatima.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/True-Story-of-Fatima-Port.pdf
Also read the Memoirs of Venerable Lúcia in the original Portuguese: https://www.fatima.pt/files/upload/fontes/F002_Memorias1.pdf
THE THEOLOGY OF THE FÁTIMA STORY:
RE-READ THIS TEXT PORTUGUESE: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_po.html
THE QUESTION DRIVING THE 1916 APPARITION OF THE ANGEL OF PORTUGAL:
DOES GOD EXIST?
Debate this point with someone you know? How do you know? Revisit the Catholic Catechism section on the purpose of Angels in this equation here: (see articles 328-336):
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p5.htm
At the heart of many conversations about Fátima and even many films / videos about angels is this question that Fr. Chris, by way of coincidence, just posted about: "Proof that God Exists". Watch if you like and comment in the box below:
THE MEU DEUS: WHY THIS PRAYER OF REPARATION?
For this part of the new Consecration Journey, we will jump straight to the actual prayer text that is used in Portugal at the beginning of the Terço, which is located in Fr. Nuno Rocha's Rosary transcript. Note that Fr. Nuno lists the "Meu Deus", for the LEITOR to utter 3 times after making the sign of the cross.
Here is the text using this screenshot of the document:
STEP 1: LEARN THE WORDS OF THE PRAYER
Let's start with learning the prayers before we understand them.
Fr. Elias Mary Mills, in our Spiritual Direction sessions this past April 2024 has noted to our team that this need to LEARN THE PRAYER TEXTS of the Rosary is an effective place for children of God to begin: the Rosary begins with taking the time to learn the words and commit them to memory as we pray them! If you love to sing, instead of simply reciting this prayer like poetry, try singing the words as featured in Fátima. We invite you to imagine walking to Valinhos:
OTHER WAYS TO LEARN THESE PRAYERS THROUGH VISUALS & ARTFUL LETTERING
We'll comment on the above another time. You can see how easy it is to create colouring pages for children to learn the "words" and the "Why" and the story behind the prayers. This method can be applied to ANY PRAYER of the Rosary.
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SAMPLE COMMENT 1:
Meditate upon the Mysteries of the Rosary with the Angel of Portugal.
St. Louis Marie de Montfort, pray for us.
St. Jacinta, St. Francisco, and Venerable Lúcia, Pray for us.
The Rosary Hour Podcast Team
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FOOTNOTES: 
Why does God intervene? Explore "why" the Angel of Portugal appeared in 1916 to St. Jacinta, St. Francisco & Venerable Lúcia in Valinhos: watch Fr. Anthony Gramlich, MIC in *new* Live Record.