Happy Mothers Day to all the Mothers.  May you take your motherhood seriously and lovingly.  The Greatest career is that of a mother.  AVE MARIA!

Our Lady of Fatima Pray For US!

The miracle of the sun was one of the most spectacular miracles recorded in the 2000-year history of the Church. It was heaven’s verification of the message which the Mother of God
came to deliver to the world. A miracle had been foretold months in advance, as to its exact day and hour. While the nature of the miracle was not foretold, 3 things were foretold: “In October I will tell you [1] who I am and [2] what Iwant, and [3] I will perform a miracle so that all may believe” (July 13, 1917).It is not correct to say that Our Lady foretold the miracle of the sun. She simply foretold a miracle, without stating what kind. The miracles of Jesus in the New Testament were to bring people to faith with a response in ove. Such too was the reasonfor the miracle of Fatima.

The Blessed Mother described who she was with the words: “I am the Lady of the Rosary.” Fatima begins and ends with the Holy Eucharist. What Our Lady wanted was “a chapel to be erected here in my honor, for I am the Lady of the Rosary.” A chapel is primarily for the offering and preservation of the Holy Eucharist. What is the logic of Our Lady desiring a chapel in her honor “for I am the Lady of the Rosary”?
In the Portuguese language one word is used for Rosary when it refers to praying only five decades of the Rosary. That word Mary used when she asked that the Rosary be prayed daily. When she gave herself the title “The Lady of the Rosary” Mary used the word “Rosario,” which means all the decades or meditating on all the mysteries: Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous.

Mary asked at Fatima that we pray the Rosary daily and properly, that is, while meditating on the mysteries of Christ. Pope Benedict XV said that when we have meditated on the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries, we have meditated on all the chief mysteries of our salvation. So what is our heavenly Mother saying when she tells us “I am the Lady of the Rosary”? It is like saying “I am the Mother of the chief mysteries of Jesus Christ.” The chief mysteries of Jesus Christ are celebrated, even made present sacramentally, in the divine liturgy of the Holy Eucharist for which a chapel is normally needed. As the Mother of Jesus Christ and the Church, Mary is the Mother of the Mysteries. “I wish a chapel to be erected here in my honor, for I am the Lady of the Rosary. Continue to say the Rosary every day” (October 13).
Before the release of the third part of the Fatima secret in 2000 the Pope sent two Vatican representatives to Sr. Lucia. She took that opportunity to tell them that she
had written a book. She requested permission of the Pope to have it published. That book is described as having a catechetical dimension and in fact is a Catechism of Fatima in both senses of the word. In English it is titled, CALLS FROM THE MESSAGE OF FATIMA. In the preface we read: “The entire message of Fatima is a great call to holiness for the Church of our time..

“Lucia sees this callm to holiness in some of the details of the apparition. The presence of St. Joseph in one of apparitions is a pressing invitation to the sanctification of the family, a key theme throughout Lucia’s book, and also one of the essential currents and main preconditions of the magisterium of John Paul II.”

Sr. Lucia entitles the 18th chapter of her book, The Call to the Sanctification of the Family.  Fatima is or Faith, Hope, Love. Fatima is for the Family to live in holiness professing the totality of true faith.

My own meditation on Fatima for many years brought me to the realization years ago that Fatima is a special message of holiness for the family while its message embraces all of Catholicism. Popes have said “Fatima reaffirms the Gospels.”
Sr. Lucia wrote much on the family in her book: Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words—Volume II—5th and 6^th Memoirs, released in April 1999. She did the same and more profoundly,
quoting much Sacred Scripture, in her more recent book, Calls from the Message of Fatima, released in 2000, recently being translated into the various languages.

In her last book, Sr. Lucia writes: “In times such as the present, when the family often seems misun – derstood in the form in which it was established by God, and is assailed by doctrines that are
erroneous and contrary to the purposes for which the divine Creator instituted it, surely God wished to address to us a reminder of the purpose for which He established the family in the world. . . .”

Sr. Lucia continues: “In the Message of Fatima, God calls on us to turn our eyes to the Holy Family of Nazareth, into which He chose to be born, and to grow in grace and stature, in order to present to us a model to imitate, as our footsteps tread the path of our pilgrimage to Heaven.”

These are noble thoughts from Lucia who was left in the world for years to spread devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. What is meant by the Immaculate Heart devotion embraces our living the totality of Catholic faith and practicing the Christian virtues as Mary lived them. In the June apparition Our Lady announced that Lucia was to be left in the world for many years as God “wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.”

In Lucia’s  final years of her life she focused especially on the holiness which should be that of every family.
Message More Relevant for Today Than Ever

The family today is under constant attack throughout the world.  The message of Fatima is more relevant today because of these attacks on the family.  We struggle with the roles of   husbands and wives in the home and the formation of children.  At Fatima we learned so many great devotions to our Lady that can help us with our spiritual formation within the home.

First Saturday devotion is a great way to get involved in the Fatima message and receive an abundance of grace.  There are four requirements to making the first Saturday devotion:

1. Make a good Sacramental Confession

2. Receive Our Lord in Holy Communion while
in the state of grace.

3. Recite five decades of the rosary

4. Keep Mary Company for at least 15
minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the rosary.

All four of these should be offered in reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
In the family it is ideal to make a consecration to the Immaculate Heart in front of an image or statue of Our Lady.  This should be done monthly with the entire family and creates a great love for Our Lady among the children that they will keep in their hearts as they grow to adulthood.

Praying the family Rosary together each night is a wonderful practice and creates a family bonding that will last a lifetime.  I am a strong believer in the old saying that, “the family that prays together stays together.”

As a family we must appreciate and not underestimate the power of the Fatima message and the spiritual benefits.  The call that the Mother of God imposed on the Church was not directed simply at the Pope and Bishops.  It is a call to all of us, whatever our state of life is. With this said, it is a call to families to live the faith in the example of the holy family.  In order for peace to come and happiness among the families to come we have to hear and answer Our Lady’s call at Fatima. This is a call to holiness.

Fatima within the Family

The family is the beating heart of our world.  When the family is weak our society becomes weak.  This is the challenge that we face today.  In our families we lack devotion, Fatima promotes devotion.  In our families we lack purity and in the Fatima message we practice penance and penance helps one to adhere to purity.  Today our families are lacking in prayer, Fatima promotes prayer through the request of Our Lady to say the rosary daily.   If you are part of a family then you realize that it is a sacrifice and the message of Fatima promotes sacrifice.

On October 13, Saint Joseph appeared to the crowd of 70,000, blessing  the people and holding the child Jesus.  The Holy Family appeared at Fatima to us all as an example of holiness that can be attained within the family.  Each member of the family has a role, father as head of the home and Mother as the beating heart and children as loving obedient members.

The Mission of the Fatima family Apostolate

We are all called to spread the message of Fatima.  As the Director of the Fatima Family Apostolate It is my point to spread the message throughout the world.  This can only be done if Catholics are made aware of what Our Lady is requesting.  We promote the message with our materials available on our website, www.fatimafamily.org.  We have booklets that will teach you about Fatima and the First Saturday Devotion.
At the Fatima Family Apostolate we currently have volunteers in several states in the U.S. and in several countries to distribute the information about Our Lady.  The messages of Our Lady should be known in every parish throughout the world, but many do not know the message of Our Lady of Fatima.

Our mission is to spread the message of Fatima, one family at a time.  This is a difficult task because many Catholics do not even know the basics of the faith.  This is why our founder Father Robert J. Fox wrote many books on catechetics, he saw the need for Catholics to learn the faith. Once they deepen their faith they will be able to understand the message of Fatima.

If we want true peace and protection we must submit to the will of Our Lady.  If we submit then we must learn the message, live the message and spread the message to the world one family at a time.

Sister Lucia, the third of the Little Shepherds of Fatima, who lived until the 13th of February of 2005 as a Carmelite Nun in Coimbra, Portugal, and who wrote the famous MEMOIRS containing the Message of Fatima brought by Our Blessed Mother to the world, may have performed a sensational cure of a child four years old at the moment of the miracle at Salta, Argentina.

Rosario André was hospitalized for ten days with hemolytic-uremic syndrome, having a very serious infection that needed desperately antibiotics but at the same time could not receive them due to renal failure caused by her rare sickness, that affects blood, the central nervous system and the kidneys. She was close to die when her mother, Alexandra Maria took the book by Sister Lucia, MEMOIRS, and placed it in her child’s breast, and embracing her, both prayed to Sister Lucia to cure little Rosario.

Immediately, the symptoms of fever, diarrhea and vomiting disappeared. Next day, the lab exams showed no infection as the bacteria was killed without antibiotics. The miraculous cure happened on the same day of Sister Lucia’s death! Rosario was healthy again! And she has remained healthy afterwards. Medical evidence was forwarded to Church authorities.

Cycle B                                                                                     2012

Pope John Paul II proclaimed this Sunday to be Divine Mercy Sunday, a day on which a plenary indulgence can be obtained for all those, who repent of their sins, and then  make a good confession

Acts 4:32-35; Psalm 11: 2-4, 13-1-15; 22-24;  1 John 5:1-6;  John 20:19-31

Divine Mercy

All the readings, in some way, refer to the Divine Mercy of our God starting with the Opening Prayer,  in the Psalm Response and the Gospel: So let us celebrate this Feast of Divine Mercy with joy and gladness.  Let us pray for all  those who need to come home to the Church by making a good confession and receiving absolution from sin, from the priestly power breathed on the Apostles in today’s Gospel.

One of the most amusing confessions I ever heard came from a young child who began by saying. ‘Bless me Father for I have sinned, this is my last confession.’ When asked why it was his last confession, he quickly responded, ‘Because the other one was my first one.’ As amusing as this story is, it is a serious matter that there are literally millions who can’t remember when their last confession was. On this Divine Mercy Sunday, the Church invites them, and us, to come home if we have strayed. Those of us who are older can remember the long lines at the Confessionals every Saturday Evening and even during the Sunday Masses where there were extra priests to hear them. Now, there are no longer long lines even on Saturdays. Where have all the sinners gone? How often do we take advantage of His Divine Mercy?

Sin is a serious offence against the God who loves us with an infinite love because it harms us and destroys our relationship with him and each other. When we remain in a sinful state, we are not at peace and we feel the guilt of our sins within us. Jesus died for of our sins on the cross, where each and every one of them has been  nailed. He has already paid the price for all of our sins because of His Divine Mercy, and infinite love, for even the greatest sinner. If our sins be scarlet they shall become whiter than snow. As far as the East is from the West so shall our sins be taken from us. Let us give them to Him this Divine Mercy Sunday by making a good Sacramental confession if we are not in a State of Grace. In today’s Gospel Jesus initiated this Sacrament when He breathed the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and gave them the power take away sins. It was the first Charismatic Gift given to His Church.

This Sunday, the Church is reaching out to the lost sheep and all those of us who are aware of our own sinfulness to invite Jesus into our hearts to be filled with His love as we receive His DivineMercy. Remember your last confession and how you felt after you received that absolution now resolve to come home today to receive……..

His  Divine Mercy  again

My wife does an excellent job of preparing the home before I arrive from work.  It is a great joy to come through those doors to see the little ones.  When I enter, they always say, “Welcome home daddy”.  Who wouldn’t want to come home to this?  Our home life should always be as joyful as possible.  My wife and I are expecting our sixth child and I realize that some days seem like they are full of problems.  You may have a child crying, the phone ringing and changing a dirty diaper all at the same time and of course it is hard to find joy in this.  When things become challenging in the home we must always relate back to our goal and purpose and that is to form our children in the faith so they can reach the ultimate goal of Heaven.   So when you are down on your knees bathing a child and another banging on the door, “Mommy, Mommy”, stay focused on the goal and it will help you to overcome the trials in everyday family life.  Make your home a place of happiness and when you leave the home to go shopping or out to eat, strangers will look at you and your family and see a home full of joy and love.

This should help all realize the power of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She is Mother of the Church and she cares about all her children.
Below is a summary of significant dates to  the Fatima Family Apostolate of only some of the events of recent years.  They will serve as signs of Marian interventions in Church and world history.  These events remind us Mary does not forget her children.

May 13 to October 13, 1917 – The Mother of God appears to three little shepherd children near
Fatima, Portugal on the 13th of six consecutive months. Our Lady gives a message
of hope and warning of dangers to humanity and the faith of people of the
Church. She comes as Our Lady of Light and of the Holy Eucharist. She speaks of
the errors of Russia to spread to all nations. She tells of great persecutions
to the Church, the Holy Father, the danger of souls falling into hell.

She appears holding her Immaculate Heart in her hand
and says: God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.
… I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart,
and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays.

If my wishes are fulfilled, Russia will be converted
and there will be peace. If not, Russia will spread her errors throughout the
world, promoting wars, and persecution of the Church. The good will be martyred,
the Holy Father will have much to suffer …. Our Lady says that Francisco and
Jacinta will die soon and go to heaven but Lucia must remain many years in the
world to promote devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Sr. Lucia is still
living at the end of the second millennium.

During the same six months, Our Lady is appearing in
Portugal. Lenin is in Russia organizing the Bolshevik Revolution which takes
over the government of Russia with the goal of conquering the world for
atheism.

December 10, 1925 -
Our Lady of Fatima appears to Sr. Lucia now in the convent in Pontevedra, Spain
and asks for sacramental reparation of Confession and Holy Communion on First
Saturdays, plus praying the Rosary with meditation on its mysteries.

First Saturdays are associated with the spiritual
welfare of Russia. A spiritual bonus is promised to individuals of Marys
intercession to assist at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for
salvation all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, perform the acts of reparation requested. Reparation
on every first Saturday however is encouraged for the good of
mankind.
June 13, 1929 -
Sister Lucia in the Convent at Tuy, Spain receives an appearance of Our Lady of
Fatima to ask the Pope and bishops of the world for the Consecration of Russia
to her Immaculate Heart, promising by this means to prevent the spreading of its
errors and to bring about its conversion.
June 13, 1929 onward to March 25, 1984
- Sister Lucia prays and sacrifices, seeking
practical ways to get the Pope to have the bishops of the world join him in
consecrating the world and Russia in particular to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary.
December 20, 1940 -
Sister Lucia is permitted for the first time to write to the Holy Father, Pope
Pius XII, asking for this Consecration of Russia. Pope Pius XII in subsequent
years consecrates the world and later Russia but does so alone, not with the
worlds bishops as required by Our Lady of Fatima.
October 31, 1942 -
Pope Pius XII consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary
May 13, 1946 - Pius
XII through a legate crowns the image of Our Lady of Fatima and proclaims her
Queen of the World. Popes begin calling Fatima Altar of the
World.
October 13, 1951 -
Closing ceremonies for the Holy Year of the universal Church is held at
Fatima.
July 7, 1952 - Pius
XII consecrates the Russian people to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
November 21, 1964 -
Pope Paul VI renews Pius XII’s consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart,
speaking to the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council but still does it alone.
Sister Lucia insists it should be collegial.
May 13, 1965 - Pope
Paul VI sends a Golden Rose to Fatima, confiding the entire Church to our Ladys
protection and gives official Church recognition of Fatimas significance for the
universal Church.
May 13, 1967 - Pope
Paul VI goes to Fatima, as the first Pope to go there as a pilgrim. There he
calls for renewed consecration to the Immaculate Heart.
May 13, 1981 - Pope
John Paul II is shot in St. Peters Square on May 13, anniversary of the first
apparition at Fatima. During the long months of suffering and recuperation in
Gemelli Hospital, the Holy Father requests and studies more deeply documents
relating to Fatima. His determination to consecrate Russia with bishops of the
world grows stronger. In leaving the clinic he remarks: I have come to
understand that the only way to save the world from war, to save it from
atheism, is the conversion of Russia according to the message of
Fatima.
May 12-13, 1982 -
The Pope visits Fatima to thank Our Lady for sparing his life and says: In the
plans of Divine Providence I also saw an appeal and, who knows, a reminder of
the message which came from here 65 years ago. … He conducted a consecration
of the world and Russia at that time but many bishops did not receive the
request to join him in time and Sister Lucia said it did not fulfill all the
requirements.
March 25, 1984 -
Pope John Paul II having sent invitations already in December 1983 to the worlds
bishops, including Orthodox, to join him on March 25, 1984, he had Bishop Amaral
of Fatima bring the Miraculous statue from the Cova da Iria at Fatima to the
Vatican for the Collegial Consecration of the world and Russia to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary. He was joined by a moral totality of the worlds bishops in the
Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart. The words of the cons-ecration make
clear it is a collegial act with worlds bishops and also renews Pius XIIs acts
of 1942 (world) and 1952 (Russia) and the consecration is for all time. [See our
book Documents of Fatima for details on Consecration].
Shortly thereafter, Sister Lucia told the Papal Nuncio
of Lisbon the Collegial Consecration for the conversion of Russia has been
accomplished and God will keep His word. The Nuncio answers, Now we await the
miracle. On the following day, Patriarch Dimitrios of Constantinople, honorary
primate of the Orthodox Churches, writes a letter to the Vatican praising the
consecration as a contribution to the creation of communion between the Catholic
and Orthodox Churches.
May 13, 1984 - The
Holy Father speaks to 50,000 pilgrims in St. Peters Square of his affection and
beatitude for Our Lady of Fatima in protecting him from the bullets three years
earlier. On the same day, the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima announces that the Pope
had given to the Fatima Shrine the bullet which had struck him.
February 1985 -
Pontifical Council of the Laity writes and encourages Fr. Robert J. Fox, who
years previously founded a Fatima Youth Apostolate, now to go independent with a
Fatima Apostolate which becomes the Fatima Family Apostolate and the
Messenger magazine was born, first called Messenger of Our Lady then
Fatima Family Messenger and finally Immaculate Heart Messenger.
March 25, 1987 -
Pope John Paul II issued an encyclical letter, Redemptoris Mater, in
anticipation of the forthcoming Marian Year. In the encyclical, the Pope refers
to the common love shared by Orthodox and Catholics for the Mother of God and
the devotion shown her icons.
June 7, 1987 - The
Marian Year of fourteen months began on this date, Pentecost Sunday, and
extended to the Feast of the Assumption, August 15, 1988. The timing of the
Marian Year exactly spans the two important religious celebrations in the Soviet
Union, the 600th anniversary of the baptism of Lithuania and the 1000
anniversary of the baptism of St. Vladimir. Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz
said the noticeable easing of persecutions against religion in the Soviet Union
and granting of greater religious freedoms began with the Marian Year.
September 20, 1987 -
Approximately 100,000 persons, many carrying Solidarity banners, attend the
annual workers pilgrimage to Our Lady of Czestochowa shrine in Poland. Lech
Walesa, during his years as Solidarity leader, goes repeatedly to Zakopane,
Polands major Fatima Shrine, dedicated to praying for Pope John Paul II. There
he consecrates the Solidarity movement to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pope John Paul II in his Encyclical,
Centesimus Annus, credits the Solidarity movement growing and spreading out from Poland with the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.

July 1989 - Sister
Lucia this month began to go public in stating that the Consecration
is accomplished. Previously she talked only to select persons such as the
Papal Nuncio, bishop of Fatima. Now she is anxious to get her word out publicly.
The Messenger is asked to publicize what Sister Lucia is saying about the
Consecration.

November 9, 1989 -
the Berlin Wall came down. President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union then meets
with the Pope at the Vatican and promised religious freedom.
October 13, 1989 -
President Gorbachev received the Nobel Peace Award – Anniversary date of
Fatima.
December 1, 1989 -
Gorbachev travels to the Vatican and meets with Pope John Paul II in the Popes
private library. The historic meeting, which lasts 70 minutes, is the first
meeting between a Pope and a head of the Soviet state. Departing from his
prepared text, Gorbachev invites the Pope to visit the Soviet Union. The two
immediately experience a sense of mutual affection. The Pope later reported that
Gorbachev expressed gratitude for my prayers and said prayers symbolized the
spiritual order and values which he greatly needed.
December 1991 -
Gorbachev meets the Pope in the Vatican a second time; diplomatic relations were
opened between the Vatican and Russia and Latin-rite churches were
opened.
May 1, 1991 - Feast
of St. Joseph, the Worker – 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIIIs famous
Encyclical Rerum Novarum, On the Condition of Human Labor. May Day ends
as a Communist Holiday for demonstrations to show Soviet might and to win the
working man away from religion.
May 13, 1990 - An
attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II at the Vatican as his message to
pilgrims at Fatima is read. He attributes the sparing of his life to Our
Lady.
August 19, 1991
- 74th Anniversary of Our Ladys fourth apparition
at Fatima – Communist coup attempts overthrow of Gorbachev who contributed
largely to dismantling of Soviet Empire.
August 22, 1991 -
Feast of the Queenship of Mary – the attempt of Communist coup to return to hard
Communism is defeated.
October 12 – 13, 1991 - Fatima Anniversary. Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Roman
Catholic Archbishop from Moscow leads first Russian pilgrimage group to Fatima.
It is televised in Russia on 150 stations and 350 radio stations. Director of
Fatima Family Apostolate is asked to be present in Fatima with the Russian
group.
December 8th, 1991 – Feast of the Immaculate Conception. There begins the Commonwealth of
Republics, the end of the USSR. Twelve days later Yeltsin of Russia met with the
Pope at the Vatican.
December 25, 1991 -
the Communist flag is taken down for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow.
Gorbachev resigned and sent a letter to Pope John Paul II. Fifteen republics
were freed from Communism.
December 30, 1991 -
Sister Lucia is reported saying that the defeat of Communism was through Marys
intercession.
March 8, 1992 -
Mikhail Gorbachev wrote a syndicated column that appears in major newspapers
throughout the world giving a perspective on the Vatican and the freeing of
Eastern Europe. He said that Pope John Paul made the change possible. Much of
what the Pope said was in harmony with the Soviet Unions new political thinking,
with perestroika.
March 14, 1992 -
Pravda, the Communist major newspaper ended.
October 8 – 12, 1992 - the Fatima Sanctuary and the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima in Portugal
hosts together with the Pontifical Council of the Laity the first International
Pastoral Symposium of all recognized major Fatima Apostolates in the world. Fr.
Fox from USA is asked to represent at Fatima the Fatima Family Apostolate in
speaking to delegates from many countries. The Apostolate then becomes known
beyond the USA and quickly spreads to Poland, Australia, etc.
December 25, 1992 -
Communism was declared illegal in Russia.
June 18-20, 1993 – Archbishop Kondrusiewicz came from Moscow to Mid-Americas Fatima
Family Shrine in Alexandria, SD and announces he hopes he can have such a Shrine
to Our Lady of Fatima in Russia some day. Subsequently he authorized the Fatima
Family Apostolate to raise funds for this and the priest director
agrees with the
Archbishop that the Shrine should be located at St. Catherine of Alexandria
Church, once known as the heart and Mother Church of Catholicism in
Russia.
October 13, 1997 -
For the 80th anniversary of the miracle of the sun at Fatima, the Holy Father
wrote to the bishop of Leiria-Fatima a letter in which he referred to Fatima as
one of the greatest signs of the times in this twentieth
century.
October 11, 1998 -
The first Fatima Shrine in Russia is dedicated by Archbishop Tadeusz
Kondrusiewicz. The Shrine is located only a few block from Palace Square where
the Bolshevik Revolution began in 1917 with its goal of world domination for
atheism.

A half block from the new Fatima Shrine is the Kazan Cathedral which the
Bolsheviks had converted into their headquarters for militant atheism. Funds for
the Shrine were raised by the Fatima Family Apostolate. Both Sister Lucia and
Pope John Paul II take note of the dedication of the Shrine with Sister Lucia
having venerated the statue for the Shrine in her Carmelite Monastery before it
was taken to Russia.
During the dedication ceremony, Archbishop
Kondrusiewicz stated that he was presenting the Russian Fatima Shrine as a gift
to Pope John Paul II on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his pontificate.
The Archbishop was wearing a chasuble with an image of Our Lady of Czestochowa
during the dedication Mass.