Show c 4 St. St Marys Mary's Church Notes Comments Gone It is June the month In which was wn held the consecration of the family and home to the sacred heart of Jesus J Come Comes July when Is le suggested family unity through a R family Interest Helping children to become Interested In home affairs Is U a sure way to pre preserve erve the tho unity of at the home Itself The aim should be to discover Interests which parents and children may share One such auch In In In- terest Is pictures A whole family may educate Itself in art and learn tho rho stories of the Old and New Testament through the simple and fa fascinating way of pictures For us Catholic Catholics to study the Bible Dible deeply Is la most Important It ItI I I will strengthen our faith a great deal besides to know It well will give gl the lie Ill to thou tholo who Ignorantly continue to assert that we are not allowed t tread to read It T The e truth Is le that the Bible owes In great part Its Us very toda today to the exl tance of ot the Catholic Church In early centuries following the apostolic age Itself Itsell I Next Saturday July 4 4 Is dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima In whose honor evening devotions will be held In St. St Marys Mary's Church Park City at 7 Parishioners Parishioner should make It a point to join In large numbers In this practice of or devotion to Mary Our Mother for tor five first Saturdays It consists In receiving Holy Communion on these days day and reciting re reciting reciting re- re citing the Rosary dally This was waa apeci- apeci specifically specifically requested by her Its It's the story atory of ot Fatima a village some sixty miles north of Lisbon capital city of at Portugal In 1917 the Blessed Virgin appeared six alx times to three little children minding their flock of at sheep Heaven seems seem to have a a. for tor shepherds Our Lord himself would would use their language In confirming St. St Peter as shepherd of his church when three times he would bid him Feed Peed my lambs feed my sheep Our favored shepherds were Jacinta age 7 Francis Francia age 9 9 and Lucy age 10 She Bhe told the children that God wished to establish throughout the world devotion to her Immaculate heart that men must stop of offending tending her divine I son already too offended and that they should pray the Rosary to end the war then raging and aDd to I assure peace for tor the world T The e Blessed Mother uttered a solemn warning that If It her requests went unheeded unheeded unheeded un un- heeded another and more terrible war would begin precisely In the next pontificate pontificate pon pon- of ot Pope Plus XI that different different differ ditter- ent nations would be destroyed famine and persecution would rage many would be martyred and the Holy Father would suffer much On the other hand If It the faithful heeded her warnings amended their lives and were faithful to their i consecration to her Immaculate heart Russia would be converted and there would be peace In October 1917 1017 In the presence of or people God worked In honor of ot otHis Ills His blessed mother the stupendous awe- awe Inspiring miracle of ot the sun That great Heavenly body changed in color from Irons gold to a silver hue emitted In every direction long rays of multicolored multi col ored light and three times for tor four tour minutes each time revolved on Its axis like a a. wheel of ot fire tire Then to the consternation consternation consternation con con- of at the assembled multitude It began careening down towards the earth coming so BO close that the people thought the end of ot the world was at hand The children saw In the sky a a. Heavenly tableau In which Our Lady appeared first with St. St Joseph and the divine Infant then with her divine sou son who blessed the assembled crowd The Blessed Virgin appeared finally in the garb of ot Our Lady of ot Mount Carmel Curmel It was at this time that our Blessed Mother kept the promise made mode to Lucy on the occasion of ot the apparition to tell the children who she ahe was She announced I I am the Lady of the Ro Rosary ary In 1858 to In i Lourdes Our Lady In her last apparition I had declared I am Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception a Heavenly confirmation of ot the doctrine declared official article of ot faith by the Catholic Church In 1854 just four lour years previously But It had always been believed by the faithful down through all the centuries of the church which is 1 not of yesterday As Assaid said Bald St. St Paul and the poet might add odd of ot the Catholic Church Time writes no wrinkles on her ancient brow Having visited Lourdes In former years yeara and having seen Its wonders I have not the slightest doubt of or the sent Heavenly apparitions to Our Lady to Lourdes 1858 of ot for tor that matter to Fatima Portugal In In 1917 Since God can do all things we believe believe be- be lieve in that scriptures say the holy spirit breathes where he will Then It ItIs Itis Is is Js only natural and logical that we accept It all miracles Included as aa the ways of ot God Clod so strange to those those of ot little or no faith One miraculous ous cure at Lourdes In earlier years was that of ot Jack Trainor living In Liverpool Liverpool Liv Liv- England where I was stationed In 1933 I knew him per personally he had 1 been wounded In World War I seventeen I wounds Including part of his leg bone shot away and impossible tC to replace by byI I natural knitting or growth of limb left I him such liuch a a. cripple over o er years yean That a a. I pilgrimage party to Lourdes refused to toI I accept him on the train at Liverpool but faith all all for tor Jack had 1 I himself lying as he was on a a. stretcher I slipped aboard unknown to the official priest In charge of the pilgrims being brought to Lourdes From there Jack Trainor returned healthy completely cleared of all his war wounds erect reel on hi hit feet and no longer bound in pain to the stretcher on which he had lain helpless for many moons moone He lie sold lold coal in bags and I 1 often otten saw him after his return from Lourdes hoist holat with ease sacks that would weary any ordinary man to even raise from the ground Jack U It now dead but In gratitude to Our Lady he returned every summer ummer to Lourdes Lourd to help carry the sick stretched out on carriers as he once had been Hui home his hi children were named alter after Lourdes and Its ids associate He Ue could I talk of ot nothing but Its It's won wonders and andye ye e et with such luch a saving grace irace and sweet wt U peas ness that listeners never bored of ot ht his hi conversation HU Ills story splendidly auth I I has hag already been told in hr a buckle booklet published some years year ago ailo by byI bythe tithe the Catholic Truth Society in England I When 1 I visited d Oakland California in to 1 last U las t May I 1 found people very my anxious to hear hoar his story which it I U la to be hoped i Continued 1 on Page Three |