A Few Words About Our Blessed Mother on the 106th Anniversary of Her Appearance at Fatima
Two years ago, I began writing articles for Catholic365 and since then, they have been kind enough to post over 100 of my articles on the Catholic faith. Over the last several weeks, I have compiled these articles into a book and self-published it through Kindle Direct Publishing, a subsidiary of Amazon. Entitled Be a Light for Christ, my book is now available from Amazon at
For ease of reading, I organized the articles in the book thematically instead of chronologically. There are chapters on The Trinitarian God, the Blessed Mary, Saints, Popes, the Church in the Modern World, the Holy Rosary, and Church History. I write about people such as our new Pope Leo XIV, our dearly departed Pope Francis, Saint Bernadette, Blessed (now Saint) Carlo Acutis, and Venerable Fulton J. Sheen. I write about the Synod on Synodality, Pope Saint John Paul II’s Gospel of Life and his Crossing the Threshold of Hope, and Our Blessed Mother’s appearances at Fatima, Garabandal and Akita. I write about Jesus’s salvific life, death and Resurrection. These articles were originally posted on Catholic365 and can still be found there.
We live in a world of increasing darkness but there is hope because “the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5). We can help bring Christ’s light to this dark world. We can be a Light for Christ!
Bryan J. Dickerson is an author and historian specializing in military and naval history, and Catholicism. He earned his BA in History from Rowan University (NJ), MA in American History from Monmouth University (NJ) and a graduate Certificate in Archival Studies from Louisiana State University. His writings have appeared online and in print in such publications as Columbia (the magazine of the Knights of Columbus) and Celebrate Life (the magazine of the American Life League). He is a 4th Degree member of the Knights of Columbus and a Past Grand Knight of a council in New Jersey. His book The Liberators of Pilsen: the U.S. 16th Armored Division in World War II Czechoslovakia was published by McFarland Books in 2018 and his book Dive Bomber Down: James A. Nist Naval Aviator in the Pacific War is now available from McFarland Books. He has also self-published sixeen books, including In the Name of COVID: The Assault on Religious Freedom in 2020. A former U.S. Navy Reserve Religious Program Specialist 1st Class (Fleet Marine Force), he mobilized and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom twice. He and his wife Lisa have four children and live in southern New Jersey.
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