The Immaculate Heart Messenger is the quarterly publication of the Fatima Family Apostolate. This 52-page magazine in full color is produced by an apostolate that has been endorsed repeatedly by the Cardinal Prefect of the Pontifical Council of the Family.

It offers you the most timely and colorful magazine available today, which is in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God wants such devotion spread throughout the world, as announced at Fatima. At the same time this magazine covers the whole range of Catholic faith and its practice as each Pope has said, "Fatima is a reaffirmation of the Gospels."

Father Robert J. Fox, editor of the Immaculate Heart Messenger, offers the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass daily at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament built by Mother Angelica, the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network, (EWTN). The Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Angels and this Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament - where Father offers daily Mass - is located near Hanceville, Alabama. Readers of the Immaculate Heart Messenger will be included in Father Fox's prayers for members of the Fatima Family Apostolate.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FFA - The World Over Edition

• Shrine for Children to Feature Jesus with Children and St. Michael the Archangel * Meaning of Fatima in Light of the Third Secret and Sanctification of the Family * FFA Marian Congress 2002 * Mary, Help of Christians * The Message of Fatima Becomes Ever More Relevant Today * Christians and Muslims * FFA Theme Song * Children's Fatima Family Apostolate - "Mary's White League" - Alive, Well and Growing * Mass at Marian Valley, September 8, 2001 - Australia * What Do You Want of Me? * John M. Haffert, Blue Army Leader, Dies * Golden Arch of Mary's Triumph and a Life Support * Editorial - Our Lady Speaks from Muslim Land * Fatima Family Forum
  
• Fr. Paul Marx's Corner

Editorial - Our Lady Speaks from Muslim Land

I was traveling from Australia to Syria when the acts of terrorism broke out in the United States. I spent the next week in the home of Nicolas and Myrna Nazzour of Damascus. Sometimes their home is called the Virgin's home of Soufanieh. I was going to an ideal community of Christian love formed by Our Lady of Soufanieh in the heart of a Muslim land. Arriving in Damascus I learned of the terrorists' attack in the USA.

The experience of Soufanieh, which is the call for UNITY in the family as a domestic Church and UNITY in the universal Church, was indeed an experience never to be forgotten. I was to witness a miracle of Soufanieh my last evening there, just as I had completed the Sacrifice of the Mass at the very site where Our Lady appeared.

Time is needed for me to digest the great messages and heaven's call coming out of Soufanieh in Damascus. It is happening in the very area where St. Paul was converted and Christianity began to take deep roots as it would spread to the nations. I went to Damascus to do research for a book on Soufanieh. The reception I received in my research from Patriarchs, both Catholic and Orthodox, the Papal Nuncio, the priests directly involved, and Orthodox Archbishop, as well as the Soufanieh Christian community, was beyond my expectations.

I want to present Soufanieh correctly. i ask your prayers in writing the book on Soufanieh. Such is my task during these winter months. I'll keep you informed through the Immaculate Heart Messenger.