Please Note Time Change!
12:00pm - Rosary/Procession with the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima
12:30pm - Speaker | 1:00pm - Holy Mass followed by Benediction and the Fatima Farewell

Thursday, June 13th - Second Apparition

Main Celebrant & Speaker: Reverend Matthew Mauriello

Father Matt was ordained in 1988. He attended Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, CT, as a belated vocation. He served as Chaplain of the Catholic University in the Diocese of Ponce, Puerto Rico. In 2005, Fr. Matt earned his Licentiate Degree (S.T.L.) in the Theology of Mary at the International Marian Research Institute (S.T.L.), located at the University of Dayton, a branch of the Pontifical Marianum University in Rome, Italy. He is Pastor of St. Roch’s Church in Greenwich, CT.

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Please Note: Schedule, times and guests are subject to change.

Saturday, July 13th - Third Apparition

Main Celebrant: Most Reverend Paul Gregory Bootkoski

Most Reverend Paul Gregory Bootkoski was named Bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen by Pope John Paul II on January 4, 2002. Bishop Bootkoski is also the Episcopal Advisor to the World Apostolate of Fatima, USA. At the first Worldwide Fatima Sanctity of Life Day, he dedicated the powerfully moving sanctity of life statue, Mary, Mother of the Life Within, on the grounds of the Shrine in Washington, NJ.


Speaker: Regis Martin

Dr. Regis Martin is a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.

Tuesday, August 13th - Fourth Apparition

Main Celebrant: Most Reverend Frank J. Caggiano

Most Reverend Caggiano was born in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn March 29, 1959, the second of two children of Arnaldo and Gennarina Caggiano, both of whom came to this country in 1958 from the town of Caggiano in the province of Salerno, Italy. The bishop studied at SS. Simon and Jude School in Gravesend; Regis High School in Manhattan; Cathedral College, Douglaston, and Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, L.I. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Francis J. Mugavero May 16, 1987.

Speaker: Reverend Clement Machado

Reverend Clement Machado was born in British Columbia, Canada. He is involved with Vatican Radio and has presented a series of television programs on EWTN based on St. Pio of Pietrelcina and Purgatory. Father promotes healing of the whole person, body, mind, heart and soul through intercessory prayer and the ministry of Sacramentals, the Sacraments and particularly the Sacraments of Holy Eucharist and Confession where he exercises diligently the spiritual discernment of souls. He is a powerful and spiritually dynamic preacher. He is currently based in Rome, Italy.

Friday, September 13th - Fifth Apparition

Main Celebrant: Reverend Peter Gillen

Father Peter Gillen is one of thirteen children of Edward and Patricia Mills of St. Virgilius Parish in Broad Channel, New York. Father Peter was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn by Bishop Francis Mugavero on February 11, 1978, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, at SS. Simon and Jude Church in Gravesend, NY. He has served in a number of parishes around the diocese and was pastor of St. Rose of Lima Parish in Rockaway Beach from 1993 until 2007. He served as pastor of Corpus Christi Parish in Woodside from 2007 through 2011. In both parishes he established Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Eucharist and founded the Confraternity of the Holy Eucharist. Currently he is a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Dyker Heights and the director of the Diocesan Apostolate of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This summer he will serve as spiritual director of his third pilgrimage to Fatima.

Sunday, October 13th - Sixth Apparition

Main Celebrant: Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio

Bishop DiMarzio was named to lead the Brooklyn Diocese Aug. 1, 2003, after four years as the Bishop of the Diocese of Camden, Bishop DiMarzio was installed in his new See at a ceremony and Mass both solemn and joyous at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Brooklyn Oct. 3, 2003. 

Speaker: Reverend Ronan Murphy

Rev. Ronan Murphy hails from Dublin, Ireland and is a priest of the Camden Diocese. Ordained on the feast of our Lady of Fatima, May 13 in the Jubilee Year 2000, Father has served as Parochial Vicar at St. Mary’s Parish, Gloucester City and St. Peter’s in Merchantville. He also served at All Saints, Perth City in Australia for two years and has given missions and conferences in many countries. He has returned to the United States and is presently stationed in Holy Child Parish in Runnemede, New Jersey.