As this Friday in the fourth week of Easter and the Church celebrates Our Lady of Fatima, we reproduce an early pamphlet on Las Lecciones de Fátima (The Lessons of Fatima) by agrupado Dr. Raul A. Arango, one of dozens of writings on dogma, apologetics and morals put out by the ACU Bureau of Information and Outreach (BIP, by its acronym in Spanish). And we present another homily of Fr. Llorente, this one from a different liturgical period and year (Oct. 1991), but touching upon the subject of this apparition of our Mother, entitled The Rosary and Our Lady of Fatima, where he updates the Fatima event and even manages to work in a bit of history on the rosary concerning Cuban doctor of Belén Carlos Finlay, recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted by mosquitoes. Enjoy!

On this May, month of Mary, we anticipate the celebration of Our Lady of Fatima next Friday, May 13, fourth week of Easter. We have digitized, so far, four separate Fr. Llorente homilies on Our Lady of Fatima and here’s the last one of them, dated May 20, 1998. Sister Lucia of Fatima was still alive at the time. On this recording one can sense how much Fr. Llorente loved talking about our Mother and our Church. All other homilies of Fr. Llorente will eventually appear in The ACU App. Please download it onto your smartphone, whether Apple iOS or Android devices. We were just informed that all audio cassettes in our possession have now been digitized and look forward to having them reviewed, categorized and released to the world. If you would like to be of assistance on that project, please contact ACUSaints@estovir.org.

This weekday of Easter, we share Fr. Llorente’s homily, “Los de Emaús” from April 1991.

One of Fr. Llorente’s homilies on the Resurrection (year 1995 . Interestingly, amidst the usually excellent preaching, he shares his personal intuition that all mothers go to heaven.

For Holy Week here’s Fr. Llorente’s homily, LAS TRES PASIONES DE CRISTO, from April 1, 1998. Side note of interest: When asked about the reading of the Bible, Fr. Llorente would counsel that the reader start with a biography of our Lord Jesus Christ. Over time he mentioned two works, 1) Bishop Fulton Sheen’s Life of Christ, written in English (~200 pgs.) and translated into Spanish (the latter out of print) and most recently, as he did in this homily, he recommended the work by fellow Jesuit Fr. José Luis Martín Descalzo, Vida y Misterio de Jesús de Nazaret (~1,000 pgs.).

This week, we share another Homily from Fr. Amando Llorente, SJ on the topic of Temptation. Enjoy!

Following last week’s 1990 homily, Fr, Llorente chose to preach “Sin no more,” with the intent on having us progress toward a more Christian life through Exercises, penitence, sacrifice, religious reading, prayer, assistance of neighbor, etc. Enjoy.

Fr. Llorente's “Conversion” homily for Lent, from the 1990 liturgical year. Among other teachings, Fr. Llorente covers forgiveness in the Old vs. the New Testament (including an anecdote regarding a great sinner we are all familiar with), as well as the three grades of conversion. Don’t miss it.

Fr. Llorente’s Advent homily on the value of pain and sacrifice, from 1989.