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ABOUT US
“Father, to you I offer praise; for what you
have kept hidden from the learned and the clever you have
revealed to the merest children” (Mt 11:25).
Fatima’s Children of the
Eucharist - Consolers of the Hidden Jesus,
under the patronage of Blessed Francisco, the Little Shepherd
of Fatima, is the National Children and Youth
Program of the World Apostolate of Fatima, USA.
It is a Public International Association of the Faithful,
under the Pontifical Council for Laity, which has been given
the mission of guarding the purity of the message of Fatima
and propagating it to all corners of the earth, together
with the Gospel, the teachings of the Holy Faith, and encouraging
personal sanctification by adherence to the message of Fatima.
Fatima’s Children of the Eucharist is a
response to Our Lady’s requests in Fatima, for all
the children of the world and their families. We promote
three programs: The Annual Worldwide Children’s
Holy Hour, the School of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and
Children’s Eucharistic Adoration.
The Annual Worldwide Children’s Holy
Hour
- Gather the Children of the World,
- Before the Tabernacles of the World,
- For the Families of the World!
The mission of the Annual "Worldwide Children’s
Holy Hour” is to gather the schoolchildren
and all the children of the world before the Most Blessed
Sacrament in their own diocesean cathedrals, parish churches
and chapels, on the First Friday of October each year to
console the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. The children pray
the prayers the “Angel of Peace” taught the
Little Shepherds of Fatima. While praying the World Mission
Rosary inspired by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, with its
five different colored decades representing the Five Continents
of the world, the children will be praying with Our Lady
for their own families, for all the families of the world,
and for peace in the world.
Pope Benedict XV asked the children of Rome to pray to
God for an end to World War I, telling them that "the
prayers of children are irresistible". Just days later,
Our Lady appeared in Fatima to three little shepherd children
to say that "Soon the War will end." Pope John
Paul II placed the Crisis of the Family in our time, in
the hands of the prayers of children. And this year we have
received the Apostolic Blessing from Pope Benedict XVI for
all those who participate in any way in the Worldwide Children's
Holy Hour.
The School of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The School of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
is the school of the saints. At Fatima, Our
Lady said: “God wishes to establish devotion to my
Immaculate Heart in the world … it is by this means
He wishes to save it.”
In this School, children and their families, if they wish
to enroll, are spiritually formed, through their devotional
life to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is a Universal
Call by Our Blessed Mother to the children of the world,
no different than Her call to the three Little Shepherds
of Fatima, asking them to:
- Adore and console Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament
- Pray the Rosary
- Pray the Morning Offering – Offering the joys
and sufferings of their day to Jesus through Mary
- Entrust themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
- Observe the 5 First Saturdays Devotion
Children’s Eucharistic Adoration
Another fruit of the Annual Worldwide Children’s
Holy Hour is promotion of Children’s
Eucharistic Adoration in our parishes, schools,
and families. Clergy, parents, and teachers are encouraged
to frequently gather the children before Jesus in the Blessed
Sacrament in prayerful adoration, as they are encouraged
to follow the way of the little shepherd, Blessed Francisco,
who loved to console the “Hidden Jesus” in the
Tabernacle of his own parish church. Other than Holy Hours,
children can be brought before Our Lord for Holy Visits
of shorter amounts of time. They come to learn to live their
lives with Jesus, stopping frequently to console Him, to
tell Him about their own experiences, to pray for the intentions
of their own families and the families of the world, and
to pray for peace in the world. If we teach our children
the Eucharistic prayers to console Jesus, as the Angel of
Peace taught the three Little Shepherds, this prayerful
adoration will transform them into little saints, in the
same way it did for the Little Shepherds of Fatima.
At the beatification of Blessed Francisco and Blessed Jacinta,
Pope John Paul II made two suggestions to the children who
were present, “Dear boys and girls … Our
Lady needs all of you to console Jesus, who is sad because
of all the sin in the world; He needs your prayers and your
sacrifices for sinners …” He also said,
“Ask your parents and teachers to enroll you in the
School of Our Lady so that she can teach you to be like
the Little Shepherds, who tried to do whatever She asked
them.”
Through these programs, as we unite the prayers of millions
of children throughout the world, and they begin to echo
the prayer, “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope
and I love you, and I beg pardon for those who do not believe,
do not adore, do not hope and do not love you,”
Jesus will be consoled. He will hear their prayers of reparation
and see their little sacrifices done out of great love.
As this gentle roar of love is heard in heaven, the world
will begin to witness a deep conversion in its families.
Our children, through their sacrifices and prayers of adoration
before Our Lord, will thus help us initiate the long awaited:
NEW SPRINGTIME IN THE CHURCH
AND WORLD
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