Today we celebrated an International mass in Fatima. It was amazing. Father Peter, Bing and James took part and Bishop Jarrett was also a part of the celebration. Damian carried the Australian flag in through the procession and it was wondeful that we had so many take part in such a beautiful ceremony. It was very hot and it went for about 3 hours. We then had a free afternoon, which we explored both Bascillicas, and the homes of the children that saw the apparition.
What a wonderful day and it was topped off by a beautiful candle light prayer of the rosary and procession of Mary.
The number of people together in one area is an amazing sight. It was wonderful to see the whole square nearly completely filled with people. The local people all walked in for the offertory procession with bags of grain some carrying it on their heads. Communion was well organised with probably 50 priests or more all walking through the crowd with a person holding an unbrella for them for shade. What a sight to witness and be a part of, we are very lucky.
We were given some statistics at mass this morning. Population of Spain 46,073000 of whom 92.2% are catholic and a total of 1,461,899 students attend centres of catholic education. I hope they can fit you all in Madrid and it is not too hot - it is freezing here tonight we have the fire going!!
ReplyDeleteIt is so good to look at this blog each day - Thank you so much Love Earl & Denise
the more i read the more envious i am you are so lucky it would be a dream come true for me
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Wow! Carrying the Aussie flag, Damian. That is such an honor. Well done.
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