Devotions in Honour of Our Lady of Fatima

Today, the first Saturday of October, the month dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary, has begun with a beautiful evening of devotions, all in honour of Our Lady of Fatima, Queen of the Holy Rosary.

Fr Gerard led the congregation in a prayerful recitation of the rosary in union with OurLady’s intentions. October 5th also happens to be the feast of Blessed Bartolo Longo, who is sometimes known as the ‘Apostle of the Rosary’ due to his great devotion to this prayer and its role in his wonderful conversion after a life drenched in the demonic. Hence, Fr Ninian preached on this holy man and the power of the rosary in converting hardened hearts and overcoming powers of darkness.

A candlelit procession in the vicinity of the church followed, with Marian hymns filling our end of the Cowgate. The evening concluded with a brief period of Adoration and then Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Our Lady of Fatima, ora pro nobis.