FATIMA CELL PROGRAM FOR AUGUST   Theme DEVOTION AND CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY "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       * The Litany of Loretto       * 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. 385-392 of Chapter 27 – “An Exhortation to Hear Holy Mass Daily” (15 min. report; 10 min. discussion).  Reference: The Incredible Catholic Mass by Fr. Martin von Cochem.

 

2.       MARY IN DOCTRINE AND DEVOTION: 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).

 

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; Bd. Peter Julian Eymard; 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 Curè of Ars, who had such a fervent devotion to St. Philomena. (15 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; Salve Maria Regina No. 143;The Fourteen Holy Helpers; St. Philomena the Wonderworker by Sullivan.

 

Second Meeting

1.       WHAT FAITH REALLY MEANS: Discuss Chapter II – “Faith Necessary for Christianity.”  (15 min. report; 10 min. discussion.)  Reference: What Faith Really Means by 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 (10 min. report – 10 minute discussion).  Reference: "Munificentissimus Deus" – Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII on the Assumption; Salve Maria Regina No. 132.

 

3.       THE WISDOM OF HOLINESS: Discuss the article “The Danger of Putting Off Our Repentance” (15 min. report and discussion).  Reference: The Wisdom of Holiness No. 15.

 

 

 

 

Third Meeting

1.       THE INCREDIBLE CATHOLIC MASS: Discuss pgs. 392-400 of Chapter 27 – “The Example of the Saints is an Incentive to Us to Hear Mass Daily” (15 min. report; 10 min. discussion).  Reference: The Incredible Catholic Mass by Fr. Martin von Cochem.

 

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 (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.       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 (10 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.

 

Fourth Meeting

1.       WHAT FAITH REALLY MEANS: Discuss Chapter III – “Human Faith and Divine Faith.”  (15 min. report; 10 min. discussion.)  Reference: What Faith Really Means by Rev. Henry G. Graham.

 

2.       TITLES OF OUR LADY FROM THE LITANY OF LORETO: Discuss the title “Mother Inviolate” (10 min. report; 10 min. discussion).  Reference: The Reign of Mary No. 50.

 

3.       FORCES OF ERROR: Discuss the errors of the evolutionists as detailed in the article The Age of the Universe (15 min. report and discussion).  Reference: The Reign of Mary No. 50.

 

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