World Apostolate of Fatima - Worldwide Day of Prayer

Worldwide Day of Prayer,
Sunday 8th October 2006

Through its members present in over 50 nations, the international office of our Apostolate is organising the second Worldwide Day of Prayer on Sunday 8th October. The prayer intention remains the same: To uphold the Sacredness of Human Life, from conception until natural death, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “Mother of the Life Within”.

The opening campaign last year was a great success. Almost 22 million worldwide prayer registrations were recorded, and despite very limited last-minute publicity, almost 299,000 prayer registrations were received direct from England by the International Secretariat in Fatima. It is estimated that the total actual prayers offered up amounted to some 100 million. This year, we invite you to help us increase that figure to one Billion prayers !

The invitation to join in this worldwide prayer chain for Life, is extended to everyone who believes that each human being is of infinite value, being made in the image and likeness of God. To make participation as simple and easy as possible, each person can choose when and where they wish to pray on the 8th October, and either pray the Rosary or pro-life prayers of their own preference. All that the WAF asks is: Please join with us in praying – there is nothing else to join or pay !

Hence the only commitment requested is to make and fulfil a promise to pray for this intention on Sunday 8th October, and if possible, so that a count can be made, to register the promise with the International Secretariat of the World Apostolate at Fatima, on their website:
http://www.worldfatima.com/english/home.html

or by email at: forms@worldfatima.com,

or by Fax on: 00 351 249 539 864.

Alternatively, promises to pray may be registered at the office of the WAF in Exeter, whose address is at the end of this message.

The WAF has produced an A4 poster and some A5 flyers, depicting the beautiful recently-sculpted statue of the “Mother of the Life Within”, with the Blessed Virgin and the infant Jesus on her lap. You can print and download them from the following links - but to avoid problems, you might need to open your Adobe Reader program before downloading the poster and flyer. If you don’t have this program, download it first from: www.adobe.com.

www.theotokos.org.uk/pages/fatima/wafpray06.pdf for the A4 poster, and

www.theotokos.org.uk/pages/fatima/A5wafprayer06.pdf for the A5 flyer

Please note that if you wish to display the poster or the flyer on a parish Notice Board, we request that you observe the policy of this Apostolate and refrain from doing so until you have first shown them to the Parish Priest and obtained his permission.

If you cannot produce your own copies, you can request them from the WAF Exeter office, enclosing SAE and an appropriate donation (postage stamps are acceptable). Thank you for whatever support you can give to this prayer campaign, including, of course, your prayers.

Please copy and circulate this notice

Tim Tindal-Robertson
WAF National President, England & Wales
30 Aldrin Road, EXETER, Devon EX4 5DN
Tel/Fax: 01392 433256
E-mail: timt-robertson@clara.co.uk

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May Our Lady raise up an army of souls throughout the world, united in the heart-felt conviction that when enough people join in, she will answer our prayers and overcome the ever-advancing “culture of death”, in the same way that the godless tyranny of the former Soviet Union eventually dissolved itself, peacefully and from within, following Pope John Paul II’s consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on 25th March 1984. Ave Maria !