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Ridgewood NJ, America Needs Fatima (ANF) is a special campaign to spread the message of Fatima in the United States. The goal of America Needs Fatima is to win the heart and soul of America for Mary by spreading Our Lady’s Fatima message and promoting devotion to Her Immaculate Heart.
On Saturday October 14th at 12 noon at Van Neste Square across from Raymond’s in Ridgewood the group will hold a prayer vigil as part of the Holy Rosary Crusade to pray for peace in the Ukraine and peace on earth.
Our Lady of Fátima; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto.
How beautiful.
Yes, we must pray, pray, pray to combat all the evil that is trying to inflict “itself” upon us. There is an “unseen” spiritual war going on right now between good and evil. Good (G_d) wins with all of our prayers.
And if God doesn’t receive enough prayers from us? Well, I guess He’ll just let everything burn and take a vacation. Because even if you’re omnipotent, all-powerful and omnipresent and you endow your creations with free will, and yet they still choose evil given everything they’ve seen, that’s still a big L for the big G. He’s good at plants though. Maybe He could just stick to plants.
I appreciate you respectfully spelling God with a capital “G” even if you don’t believe.
All are invited saturday to pray for peace in Ukraine and Israel.
Israel’s geopolitical policy is one of constant expansion — peace is not on the table.
And given that Zelenskyy has spoken of turning Ukraine into a “big Israel,” peace isn’t in the cards there either.
If Sir Ronald Storrs, the first British governor of Jerusalem is to be believed, the establishment of Israel was to serve as a little Jewish Ulster in a sea of hostile Arabs.
So pray all you want, but it’s doubtful the world’s power brokers will be listening to God. At least, not *your* God.