Our Lady of Fatima Parish

This is a beautiful church.wheneverI visit I feel welcome. It makes me feel cozy and I can feel the peace iit

You can enjoy being close to God in a church that professes the Catholic faith. Every Sunday there are two masses celebrated in Portuguese.9p.m. and 12p.m.

I love the experience from the time I walk through the doors. The people are very friendly and nice. The Priest is extremely welcoming. I really feel like it is God there saying welcome to my home. Please come in and sit down. No matter who you are, everyone is welcome. God Bless you all.

I really enjoy the service hear . They are keeping all the Covid protocols. The church is spacious and not many people comes . They have beautiful glass windows with all the mother Mary apparitions on it. It's a nice place to worship..They have service in Portuguese and English

A solemn place to worship.

This church has an amazing moving set of Christmas decor. Love it

This is a Portuguese church and most services are in Portuguese but they also have services in english. The church is gorgeous and very clean. They have a hall there as well that is very spacious and can accommodate large parties. There is also a kitchen attached to the hall. I've attended regular services here, weddings, funerals, confirmations, communion ceremonies, and baptisms as well.

Charming, friendly, and welcoming parish. Visited with the family for holiday masses but have continued to go over the past few weeks because of the environment

Lovely ❣️

The Church celebrates the centenary of the apparitions of Our Lady to the three children in Fatima, Portugal. According to the witnesses in 1917, Our Lady appeared to Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia on the 13th of each month, from May to October of the same year, except in August when she appeared on August 19. The Fatima Apparitions are special in that their universal message of salvation is strongly connected to the Gospel. The message of Our Lady of Fatima calls us to prayer, reparation, penance and sacrifice.In his Introduction to The Message of Fatima published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI Emeritus) points out, “These manifestations can never contradict the content of faith, and must therefore have their focus in the core of Christ’s proclamation: the Father’s love which leads men and women to conversion and bestows the grace required to abandon oneself to him with filial devotion. This too is the message of Fatima which, with its urgent call to conversion and penance, draws us to the heart of the Gospel.” Cardinal Ratzinger also said that, “Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions.”By decree of the Bishop of Calgary and in honour of the Centennial Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima, the faithful who visit Our Lady of Fatima Church in Calgary and who devotedly pray before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima.By decree of Pope Francis, a plenary indulgence is also available to the faithful who meet the ordinary conditions — go to Confession and Communion, be interiorly detached from sin and in a state of grace, and pray for the intentions of the Holy Father — and “who visit with devotion an image of Our Lady of Fatima solemnly displayed for public veneration in any temple.The Church of Our Lady of Fatima will hold a mass and rosary the 13th day of each month at 6:30 p.m. After the mass and rosary, the chapel will be open for those desiring to further fulfill the conditions of the plenary indulgence.An indulgence is a remission of sin before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven. According to Saint John Paul II, through an indulgence, God grants the prayer of the Church that the temporal penalty for sin be remitted. By God’s grace, participation in a prayer or action that has an indulgence attached to it brings about restoration and reparation with God. “The Church has a treasury, then, which is ‘dispensed’ as it were through indulgences. This ‘distribution’ should not be understood as a sort of automatic transfer, as if we were speaking of ‘things’. It is instead the expression of the Church’s full confidence of being heard by the Father when, in view of Christ’s merits and, by his gift, she asks him to mitigate or cancel the painful aspect of punishment by fostering its medicinal aspect through other channels of Grace” [ St. John Paul II, General Audience, Wednesday, 29 September 1999.By celebrating the Centennial year of Fatima, we give thanks to God for all the blessings He spread over us. Our Lady of Fatima parish had its genesis in 1970.