Feast of Our Lady of Fatima 2025
Our Lady of Fatima High School Rivona commemorated the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima and celebrated the feast in a simplified way, during the assembly through a prayer service on 13 October 2025. The students of our School did the prayer service with reading of the scriptural passage, giving of scriptural message, saying general prayers, singing of a hymn, and so on, under the guidance of Tr. Jienel Fernandes. The students and teachers showed a keen interest in the prayer and also did a beautiful decoration of the grotto of mother Mary in front of the School. Tr. Felix Oliveira gave a reflective message saying that 'God is love and every one experiences that love of God through a mother. So, God made mothers and through a mother's love, we experience the love of Mama Mary and God'. The programme was concluded with the giving of a cake piece to each student.
Our Lady of Fatima apparitions occurred from May to October 1917, when the three shepherd children saw the reported six visions of Our Lady Virgin Mary in the village of Fatima, Portugal. Mary's messages urged prayer, penance, and the daily recitation of the Rosary for peace and the conversion of sinners. The apparitions concluded with the "Miracle of the Sun" on October 13, 1917, witnessed by a large crowd, which led the Catholic Church to officially recognize the events as "worthy of belief" in 1930. So also, Mother Mary is the patron of Our Lady of Fatima High School Rivona.