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FATIMA CELL PROGRAM FOR AUGUST Theme DEVOTION
AND CONSECRATION "God wishes to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart." "My Immaculate Heart will be your sole refuge and the path that leads you to God." Discuss what is meant by a true devotion to Mary's Immaculate Heart and how it is evidenced in the lives of her true children; promote devotion and consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by individuals, homes and families, classrooms, and communities; pray the Novena and daily Devotions in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima. |
OPENING
PRAYERS: MEDITATION: STUDY
& DISCUSS: |
*
Come Holy Ghost *
Hymn: Immaculate Mary *
From the "Imitation of Christ" *
Officer's reports; Cell Memos |
*
The Rosary with meditation on each mystery *
Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel *
Act
of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary *
Alternately, from the "Glories of Mary" *
Reading of the Salve
Maria Regina
Bulletin. |
First
Meeting
1. THE
INCREDIBLE CATHOLIC MASS:
Discuss pgs. 240-247 of Chapter 15 – “By Means of Holy Mass Venial Sins Also Are
Blotted Out” (10 min. report; 10 min. discussion).
Reference: The Incredible Catholic Mass by Fr. Martin von
Cochem.
2. MARY
IN DOCTRINE AND DEVOTION: Discuss
the history and the significance of the Feast (August 5) of Our Lady of the Snows (15 min.
report – 10 min. discussion). Reference: Salve
Maria Regina No.
114.
3. THE
DORMITION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY:
Discuss the last years of Our Lady's life on earth and her Dormition (15 min. report and discussion). Reference:
Salve
Maria Regina No.
125; The Glories of Mary (Liguori).
Second
Meeting
1. WHERE
WE GOT THE BIBLE:
Discuss Chapter VI – The Originals and Their Disappearnce (15 min. report; 10
min. discussion). Reference: Where We Got the Bible by Right Rev. Henry G.
Graham.
2. MARY
IN DOCTRINE AND DEVOTION:
Discuss the Mystery and the Feast (August 15) of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(15 min. report – 10 minute discussion). Reference: "Munificentissimus Deus" – Apostolic Constitution of Pope
Pius XII on the Assumption; Salve
Maria Regina
No. 132.
3. THE
COURT OF OUR HEAVENLY QUEEN:
Feasts
for discussion (choose two or three whose lives and virtues may be discussed): St.
Alphonsus Maria Liguori; St. Dominic; St. Cyriacus, Holy Helper; St. Jean Marie Vianney;
St. Lawrence; St. Clare of Assisi; St. Joachim; St. Philomena the Wonderworker –
discuss her life, martyrdom, and miraculous intervention in the lives of the faithful; the
devotion of the Cord of St. Philomena; St. Jean Marie Vianney, the Curč of Ars, who had
such a fervent devotion to St. Philomena. (10 min. report & reflection; discuss
briefly the lessons learned and virtues taught by their lives, and how to practically
apply these virtues in our own daily lives.) Reference: Martyrology; The Fourteen Holy Helpers; St.
Philomena the Wonderworker by Sullivan.
Third
Meeting
1. FORCES
OF ERROR:
Discuss the first half of the article The Deadly Peril the World Faces VI: The Ottoman
Empire (15 min. report – 10 min. discussion).
Reference: The Reign of Mary No. 44.
2. "MY
SON WISHES TO ESTABLISH DEVOTION TO MY IMMACULATE HEART":
Discuss this request of Our Lady, and the promise of her triumph to all those who live
the Total Consecration to Her Immaculate Heart which God requested through her at
Fatima. "My Immaculate Heart will be
your sole refuge and the path that leads you to God."
Discuss what is meant by a true devotion to Mary's Immaculate Heart and how
it is evidenced in the lives of her true children, especially by making REPARATION for the
sins which wound her Immaculate Heart; what is meant by a false devotee of Our
Lady? Discuss how to promote devotion to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary by individuals, homes and families, classrooms, and communities
(15 min. report – 10 min. discussion). Reference: "In
the End My Immaculate Heart will Triumph"; True Devotion to Mary (St.
Louis Marie De Montfort).
3. OUR
LADY OF FATIMA: Discuss
the August apparition of Our Lady
of Fatima (10 min. report and discussion). Reference: See link.
Fourth
Meeting
1. FORCES
OF ERROR:
Discuss the second half of the article The Deadly Peril the World Faces VI: The Ottoman
Empire (15 min. report – 10 min. discussion).
Reference: The Reign of Mary No. 44.
2. MIRACULOUS
IMAGES OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: Discuss
the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Liesse (10 min. report – 10 min. discussion). Reference:
The Reign of Mary No. 44.
3. COURT
OF THE QUEEN:
How does meditating upon the lives of the saints inspire us to a more perfect living of
our consecration to our Heavenly Queen? Discuss two or three of the following: St.
Hyacinth; St. Helena; St. John Eudes; St. Bernard; St. Bartholomew; St. Louis IX, King of
France; St. Augustine; St. Rose of Lima (15 min. report & reflection; briefly discuss
application). Reference: Martyrology; article on St.
Helena in Salve
Maria Regina No.
114; article on St. John
Eudes in Salve
Maria Regina
No. 125; article on St. Bernard in Salve
Maria Regina
No. 105.
CLOSING PRAYERS:
LEAFLET OF THE MONTH: |
* Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
*
The Fatima Prayers * Act
of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
* Hymn to St. Philomena * "In the End My Immaculate Heart
Will Triumph" |
Cell
Plan of Apostolic Action for August
| To promote the Message of Fatima | Sanctification
of self, family, neighbor
|Conversion
of sinners, salvation of souls | Adoration,
reparation, total consecration