Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and a Call for Prayer & Fasting for Peace

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

Tomorrow is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Pope Leo has called for Prayer and Fasting for Peace. May we turn to the Fatima message that also calls for Prayer and Fasting (sacrifices) for Peace. I wish he specifically called for the Rosary which Our Lady has time and time again asked for....to bring peace to the world.

There is an article on LifeSite News explaining this request of the Pope and I copy some of it here for you to read....(entire article in link below)

Taken from LifeSite News dated Aug 20, 2025...

'I invite all the faithful to live the day of August 22 in fasting and prayer,' Pope Leo said at the close of his Wednesday audience.

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo called for Catholics to join in prayer and fasting on August 22, a feast of Our Lady, for the intention of peace.

Closing his general audience today at the Vatican, Leo XIV urged all the Catholic faithful to join in a spiritual campaign this Friday for peace in the world. August 22 is the feast of the Queenship of Mary, according to the Novus Ordo liturgical calendar, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the traditional calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

Addressing the crowd, Leo said:
Mary is the Mother of believers here on earth and is also invoked as Queen of Peace. As our earth continues to be wounded by wars in the Holy Land, in Ukraine, and in many other regions of the world, I invite all the faithful to live the day of August 22 in fasting and prayer, imploring the Lord to grant us peace and justice and to dry the tears of those who suffer because of ongoing armed conflicts.

“May Mary, Queen of Peace, intercede so that peoples may find the way to peace,” he closed."

Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us.

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Entire Article Found on LifeSite News