CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ, May 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- SOUL magazine, the official voice of the World Apostolate of Fatima - Blue Army, has just released their review of the first biography of John Haffert - a man many consider a saint.
John Haffert was co-founder of the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima, a Marian Society with millions of members worldwide. They promote the urgent requests made by the Blessed Virgin Mary in six apparitions to three little shepherds at Fatima, Portugal in 1917, which apparitions were approved by the Catholic Church.
Pope Benedict XVI, who is scheduled to make a Papal visit to the Shrine in Fatima on May 13, 2010, wrote a Theological Commentary on the meaning of the Fatima messages. The Pope explains that these private revelations: "Help us to understand the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and to respond to them rightly in faith." He points out that the children's vision of an Angel with a flaming sword corresponds to a similar image in the Book of Revelation and that the flaming sword: "represents the threat of judgment which looms over the world. Today the prospect that the world might be reduced to ashes by a sea of fire no longer seems pure fantasy: man himself, with his inventions, has forged the flaming sword."
Canonization of the layman who founded the World Apostolate of Fatima is seen as an important step in highlighting the continued urgency and seriousness of Our Lady of Fatima's messages.
According to SOUL magazine John's biography is "an amazing life story about a man, who never quit, who did so much to spread Our Lady of Fatima's messages throughout the world."
Dr. Thomas Petroski, best selling author of the "Fatima Prophecies," wrote to author McGrew: "Congratulations on the publishing of your pivotal work on the life of John Haffert. May the Holy Spirit use it to further advance John's inevitable canonization in harmony with Mary's inevitable Triumph."
To read excerpts from the biography go to: www.EdnaMcGrew.com.
The Haffert biography may be purchased from the Gift Shop at the National Blue Army Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, USA: 1-866-513-1917. It is also available from BuyBooksontheWeb.com and Amazon.com.
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