Our Lady of Fatima

The Blessed Virgin Mary has many beautiful titles and today we celebrate one of them, Our Lady of Fatima.  This is truly a title for our time because Our Lady appeared to the three shepherd children during a period of months in 1917!  Two of the children, Jacinta and Francisco, died early, but Lucia, who became a nun lived until 2005.  She passed away several months before Blessed John Paul II.  Who can forget May 13, 1981, when Pope John Paul II was shot as he went around St. Peter's Square.  I was in grade school at the time and I remember the teacher bringing a television into the class room so we could see the coverage.  Thankfully, the Holy Father recovered, and he always thanked Our Lady of Fatima.  As he said, "It was a motherly hand that guided the bullet through his body."  Our Lady always takes care of us!  Mary is the Mother of God and the Mother of us all.  We have a great intercessor and today we can say, Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for Us!!!