Aug. 4 - First Saturday

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Today is the First Friday of August and tomorrow will be the First Saturday. How very closely these two devotions are, since they enable us to offer our love and reparation to Jesus and Mary whose hearts were both pierced for us!

I cannot ponder the suffering Heart of Jesus without also remembering His sorrowful Mother at the foot of His Cross. I cannot ponder His tears over Jerusalem without thinking of her as a Mother crying over her children.

The apparition of Jesus and Mary to Sister Lucia requesting devotion to Mary's Immaculate Heart, and the First Saturday devotions in particular, are so touching:
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Eight years after the Fatima events, when Sister Lucy was living in a convent in Pontevedra, Spain, she experienced another apparition of Our Lady. On the 10th of December 1925 Our Blessed Lady appeared to her in Pontevedra, with Her Child in a cloud of light. The Child said: "have mercy on the heart of your Blessed Mother, it is surrounded with thorns with which the ungrateful people still continue to pierce it. Continually piercing Her heart with nobody removing the thorns by acts of restitution". Then Our Blessed Lady said: "My daughter, see My heart surrounded by thorns with which the ungrateful people pierce it with their blasphemous language and ungratefulness.Will you try to comfort me and to make it known, that all who have attended Mass on the first Saturday for five consecutive months, been to confession and received Holy Communion, prayed the rosary and kept Me company for fifteen minutes whilst contemplating the mysteries of the rosary I shall grant them the mercy which they will need in their hour of death".
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May our hearts be “pierced with sorrow” over our sins and the sins of the world. Today and tomorrow may we offer our hearts with greater love and affection to Jesus and Mary.
 
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Dear animalis,

The First Saturday devotions have become more and more important to me in the last few years. I’m not always able to get to Mass and Holy Communion, nor to Confession as frequently as I’d like, but I try to pray my Rosary as fervently as I can, and spend those 15 minutes consoling our Mother. How her Heart beats in union with Her Son! How I long to be one with them, by the power of the Holy Spirit for the Glory of Our Father!

Thanks for your reply.
 
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