Devotion to Immaculate Heart of Mary

[abinjoy]

Is there any ways to do reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary other than the first five saturday devotion? I looking for an simple short prayer or something like that.
I don’t think I am ready to do the first five saturday devotion yet

 

[Della]

A simple daily Hail Mary is a good place to start. IOW, don’t overload yourself with devotional practices. They’re meant to be aids to faith not obligations to be met. If any devotion isn’t helpful to you, you don’t need to do it, no matter how much others like it or try to get you to do it, too.

 

[JurisPrudens]

Is there any ways to do reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary other than the first five saturday devotion? I looking for an simple short prayer or something like that.
I don’t think I am ready to do the first five saturday devotion yet

Try either the Novena to the Immaculate Heart or the Servite Rosary (Seven Sorrows).

 

[friardchips]

Is there any ways to do reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary other than the first five saturday devotion? I looking for an simple short prayer or something like that.
I don’t think I am ready to do the first five saturday devotion yet

The First Five Saturdays consists of a fair bit - Confession, Communion, fifteen minutes Rosary plus fifteen minutes keeping Our Blessed Lady company in Rosary meditation, plus a votive offering (such as a candle). This is a fair bit. You could take up a Sacramental - Brown Scapular and/or the Miraculous Medal. Neither of these take up much extra time, with only a simple prayer to be said, each day.

As another poster said, the Seven Sorrows, Seven Joys, and of course, the Rosary itself, are all keeping Our Lady company.

You could consecrate yourself to the Holy Mother by way of St. Louis’ Treatise. And this is a once-a-year happening, with a month or so, prep. before the ‘day of consecration’.

You also have the Little Office, and various prayers to her, and too, devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which also bring joy to Our Lady.

You can attend Mass on the Marian feast days and join in with the Prayers of the Church, as set out in the LOTH, on those days throughout the year.

 

[abinjoy]

A simple daily Hail Mary is a good place to start. IOW, don’t overload yourself with devotional practices. They’re meant to be aids to faith not obligations to be met. If any devotion isn’t helpful to you, you don’t need to do it, no matter how much others like it or try to get you to do it, too.

Devotion to Immaculate Heart was one of Mary’s express wish at Fatima in 1917!

 

[Della]

Devotion to Immaculate Heart was one of Mary’s express wish at Fatima in 1917!

True, but it’s not mandatory. Firstly because devotion to Mary, as in prayers to her, are not required as Catholics, and secondly because nothing that comes from any apparition is a part of the deposit of faith. We are free to believe in such apparitions, but we are not obliged to do anything based on them.

Having said that, I fully believe in Fatima and Guadalupe and Lourdes and any other approved apparitions, still, that doesn’t mean I must abide by anything said by the seers involved.

A good book on the topic of apparitions and what they mean to us is: A Still Small Voice by Fr. Benedict Groeshel.

 

[friardchips]

Devotion to Immaculate Heart was one of Mary’s express wish at Fatima in 1917!

HI. This is what the Church guards as truth concerning the Virgin Mary and devotion to her and you will find what is said concerning apparitions in other areas. We are advised to take notice of certain apparitions, though we are not obliged to believe, but devotion is a more rounded subject - taken from the Catechism:

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’ II. DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN

971 **“All generations will call me blessed”: "The Church’s devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship."515 The Church rightly honors "the Blessed Virgin with special devotion. **From the most ancient times the Blessed Virgin has been honored with the title of ‘Mother of God,’ to whose protection the faithful fly in all their dangers and needs. . . . This very special devotion . . . differs essentially from the adoration which is given to the incarnate Word and equally to the Father and the Holy Spirit, and greatly fosters this adoration."516 **The liturgical feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, an “epitome of the whole Gospel,” express this devotion to the Virgin Mary.*517’

It is also important to state, that while individuals might not pray to Our Lady devotedly, because the Church rightly honours Our Lady with special devotion, as she continues her work in Heaven, for us, the graces from such prayers of the Church as a whole, including the reality of individuals praying for one another, would make up for the shortfall, to some degree, on behalf of those that don’t pray to her.