We celebrate daily mass on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and First Saturdays at 9am. Few Fatima parishioners remember the days when there was no neighborhood church. Margaret's Parish on Queen Anne Hill. As the numbers grew, the little church became so overcrowded that Magnolia Catholics often drove elsewhere to Mass. It was to this scattered flock, in 1952, Archbishop Connolly entrusted the task of
forming a new parish. Father Emery(Doc) Blanchard was the first pastor. Building a parish from scratch is not an overnight project. In the Winter of that year, Our Lady of Fatima was still a parish without a home. The first Mass on January 27, 1952 was offered in the neighborhood American Legion Hall on 32nd and West Barrett. The first parish organization, the Men's Club, met in a rented room adjacent to a plumber's office. By March of 1952, the congregation had already outgrown its quarters and moved to what was then the Magnolia Theatre. Sunday Masses were offered there on a portable altar. For over a year, parishioners on Sunday knelt in the aisles. A parish drive brought in pledges for construction of a temporary church, a school and convent. The rectory was one of the neighborhood houses. The building site was a muddy peat bog. Construction began in May of 1953. Finally, on Christmas Eve of 1953, the first Mass was celebrated in a real church sung by a real choir. With the opening of the school in January 1954, Our Lady of Fatima had a parish center of its own. Time has brought many changes to Our Lady of Fatima Parish. None were more dramatic than the building of the splendid church where we now worship. The dedication of the new church and rectory was a dream come true. The parish has grown from a small group to a parish of almost 1200 families. The social needs of our parish were answered with the opening of the new Parish Center in February of 1986. An influx of families have become a part of Fatima over the last 15 years. As a result, our School has gone through a three phase expansion culminating in the building of our new gymnasium in 2005.
