2024 Worldwide Crusade in Honour of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
About
At Fatima, Our Lady encouraged us to pray the Holy Rosary and gave us the practice of the Five First Saturdays as an effective spiritual means to obtain special divine favors.
In the face of the tremendous crisis now afflicting the Catholic Church, the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima is launching a worldwide spiritual crusade consisting in the daily prayer of the Holy Rosary and the practice of the Five First Saturdays to implore, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, God’s help and intervention, particularly for the Holy See in Rome.
This spiritual crusade will begin on the first Saturday of January 2024 (January 6) and conclude on the first Saturday of December 2024 (December 7).
Worldwide Crusade in Honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to Implore Divine Intervention for the Crisis of the Church
At Fatima, Our Lady gave us the prayer of the Rosary and the practice of the Five First Saturdays as an effective spiritual means to obtain special divine favors.
The practice of the First Five Saturdays consists in the following: on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, to receive the sacrament of Confession and Holy Communion, pray the
Rosary, and meditate for fifteen minutes on at least one of the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary,
with the intention of making reparation for the sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
In the face of the tremendous crisis now afflicting the Catholic Church, the Confraternity of Our
Lady of Fatima is launching a worldwide spiritual crusade consisting in the daily prayer of the Holy Rosary and practice of the Five First Saturdays, to implore, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, God’s help and intervention, particularly for the Holy See in Rome.
This spiritual crusade will begin on the first Saturday of January 2024 (January 6) and conclude
on the first Saturday of December 2024 (December 7).
December 8th, 2023, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Christopher P. Wendt, International Director of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima
+ Athanasius Schneider, Spiritual Assistant of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima, Auxiliary
Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
Lay Faithful
This is a movement that will unify the Universal Church in a Crusade to beg God to intervene in history, and as a member of the Lay Faithful, you can become an instrument of intercession, praying to God for your Mother Church to be saved from the enemies within that seek to destroy Her.
You can also make a pivotal impact by sharing this Crusade with your family, friends, and your parish.
Note: Even if you have already completed the Five First Saturdays, please do it again in 2024.
Crusade Captains
If you would like to lead others at this moment in history of asking God to intervene for His Church, consider becoming a Captain of a group that will commit to Five consecutive First Saturdays for this intention.
We were made to be in communion with one another which is why we encourage you to complete this devotion together, supporting one another as Catholics all over the world pray to God to save our Mother Church from the enemies within.
Priests
This devotion needs authentically Catholic priests who can make the Sacraments available every first Saturday throughout the year of 2024.
If you are a Catholic priest who can offer Confession and Holy Mass every first Saturday throughout the year or already do, please let us know.
We are in desperate need of holy Shepherds who have given their lives to administer the Holy Sacraments to the sheep.
Apostolate Partners
We need founders and leaders of Catholic organizations to form an alliance with the Confraternity for the crusade to be truly global.
We want every Catholic to have a chance to join in this Crusade to ask God to intervene.
Reach out here and set up a meeting to discuss the possibility of an alliance.
FAQ
What is a spiritual crusade?
The word ‘crusade’ comes from a historical event when Christian soldiers went to free the Holy Land, the holy places where our Lord lived and died for us – to free them from the occupation of the unbelievers so that Christians could have legitimate access to pray freely and unimpededly at the holy places in the Holy Land. This was the original aim of the historical crusade.
Now, we are doing a spiritual crusade which means it is an effort of Christians to do a spiritual liberation of some places occupied by spiritual enemies of our faith. This is the infiltration of unbelief, liberalism, and modernism within the life of the Catholic Church since the last decades which has arrived at some height in our day. In this crusade (spiritual crusade), we have no weapons, but we do have a spiritual weapon and this is the Holy Rosary. Our chief commander is not a soldier or an officer, it is Our Lady. We have chosen Her as the spiritual commander of this spiritual crusade.
Why now?
It is evident because no one can deny that the crisis within the Catholic Church, especially also with the crisis of the Holy See in Rome, has reached unprecedented heights.
Here, we have no other means but to implore extraordinary divine help and divine intervention since the Church is not in our hands but in the hands of God ultimately.
What is different about this crusade compared to other similar efforts?
This is the aim: that we, united together all over the world with deep faith and trust (supernatural trust) in the divine help and obeying the call of Our Lady of Fatima to religiously practice the First Five Saturdays and pray the Rosary as an efficacious means, which God has given us for our time.
This gives us trust, hope, and the belief that the Lord will help His Church and that His Church is in His hands with Our Lady. She is the Mother of the Church.