October is a month of celebration in the parish of Our Lady of Fatima, but the aggravation of the epidemiological panorama in Macau has drawn a veil of uncertainty over the parish festivities. The celebrations should reach their peak on October 13th, with an abridged version of the procession of Our Lady of Fatima.
A basketball tournament for parents and children, activities, games and other sort of initiatives conceived with families in mind. The 2021 Parish Family Day takes place on October 23rd, in Ilha Verde. The event enjoys an enhanced importance, after Pope Francis declared this year as the Year of the Family Amoris Laetitia.
Since the Macau Government declared, last Saturday, the state of immediate prevention, Caritas Macau shelters welcomed more than half a thousand registrations. Zhuhai’s decision to impose mandatory quarantine on anyone who has been to Macau has left hundreds of non-resident workers in limbo. There are also local residents among the affected.
In the month of October, the Church celebrates the month of the Holy Rosary, a prayer loved by many saints throughout history and disseminated by St Dominic de Guzman at the request of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Catholic Church celebrates today, the 1st of October, St Thérèse of Lisieux.