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GRANDMA_LOIS
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What can you tell me about the significance of First Friday’s?
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mercygate
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Here’s a link. Google around a bit; there’s lots of information out there, and this does not appear to be the best site in the world.
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Hesychios
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Apparently, Jesus likes it.
The practice started with the visionary Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque who claimed that for those who faithfully follow the First Friday devotional practice, Jesus Christ promised these things:
*]I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.
*]I will establish peace in their families.
*]I will console them in all their troubles.
*]They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of their death.
*]I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings.
*]Sinners shall find in My Heart the source of an infinite ocean of mercy.
*]Tepid souls shall become fervent.
*]Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.
*]I will bless the homes where an image of My Heart shall be exposed and honored.
*]I will give to priests the power of touching the most hardened hearts.
*]Those who propagate this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be effaced.
*]The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under my displeasure, nor without receiving their Sacraments; My heart shall be their assured refuge at that last hour.
Note promise number twelve. This has a strong appeal to people who are looking for assurance of salvation. If one is not a Protestant who is allowed to believe in OSAS, this is about as good as it gets.
Michael
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mercygate
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Apparently, Jesus likes it.
The practice started with the visionary Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque who claimed that for those who faithfully follow the First Friday devotional practice, Jesus Christ promised these things:
*]I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.
*]I will establish peace in their families.
*]I will console them in all their troubles.
*]They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of their death.
*]I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings.
*]Sinners shall find in My Heart the source of an infinite ocean of mercy.
*]Tepid souls shall become fervent.
*]Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.
*]I will bless the homes where an image of My Heart shall be exposed and honored.
*]I will give to priests the power of touching the most hardened hearts.
*]Those who propagate this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be effaced.
*]The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under my displeasure, nor without receiving their Sacraments; My heart shall be their assured refuge at that last hour.
Note promise number twelve. This has a strong appeal to people who are looking for assurance of salvation. If one is not a Protestant who is allowed to believe in OSAS, this is about as good as it gets.
Michael
I am very responsive to the Sacred Heart First Friday devotion, but do not see #12 as an alternative to OSAS. I see it as the hope of dying in the peace of Christ. Even someone who is OSAS might pray for that, since all kinds of pain and madness could take away the peace of one’s final hour.
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Hesychios
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Hello Mercy, (I like writing that )
Can we imagine Jesus Christ Our Lord promising a peaceful death in His arms just before he drops us into hell?
Of course not, this is a promise of a transition to that heavenly peace, salvation. It is Jesus Christ’s promise to give us a pass. It is a positive predestination to heaven once one fulfills the requirements laid out here, essentially for going to Mass nine times. This puts it on par with the Protestant notion of Once Saved Always Saved which comes with being slain in the Spirit.
These are just two aspects of the same fundamental idea. We want a guarantee.
Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque said “good news, here it is”. :extrahappy:
)Which means what exactly?
Can we imagine Jesus Christ Our Lord promising a peaceful death in His arms just before he drops us into hell?
Of course not, this is a promise of a transition to that heavenly peace, salvation. It is Jesus Christ’s promise to give us a pass. It is a positive predestination to heaven once one fulfills the requirements laid out here, essentially for going to Mass nine times. This puts it on par with the Protestant notion of Once Saved Always Saved which comes with being slain in the Spirit.
These are just two aspects of the same fundamental idea. We want a guarantee.
Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque said “good news, here it is”. :extrahappy:
Undoubtedly so.
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NeedImprovement
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I personally think there could plausibly be real circumstances where (using the quoted example) we might insert the word Purgatory in the place of hell.
Of course (according to what I’ve read) Jesus wouldn’t have to drop us there; we would automatically jump into the purifying fire of Purgatory ourselves because we would be conscious of our need for it… of our remaining imperfection.
It would still be a peaceful death because we would still have the promise of heaven.
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ProVobis
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For most, even devout Catholics, this isn’t as easy as it seems. However, it is easier now as they distribute communion on Good Friday. Before, you would have to select a series of Fridays sometime in your life where you were assured proper continuation in order to attain this promise.
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AJV
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I’m not speaking as to the practise, in which you’d have more experience that me, but theoretically, all authorities on it stated that the series was not interrupted by Good Friday - that is, it didn’t ‘count’ against the 9 Fridays and the next Friday the devotion could be resumed.
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hoop0826
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I intend to start the First Friday’s devotion of nine consecutive Friday’s ASAP. Just as a little encouragement, I completed the Five First Saturday’s Devotion in March. At the time I was deciding to start the deovotion I was clueless what direction to go in life - what God wanted me to do - at the fifth First Saturday our bishop blessed the opening of our new chapel building in a ceremony and shortly thereafter I was enrolled in the Association of Mary Queen of All Hearts.
God Bless
God Bless
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ConstantineTG
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If you think about it, to be always properly disposed to receive Communion every First Friday, one must be in a state of grace at least the first week of every month. If that doesn’t condition one to be a better Christian, I don’t know what will.Hello Mercy, (I like writing that
Which means what exactly?
Can we imagine Jesus Christ Our Lord promising a peaceful death in His arms just before he drops us into hell?
Of course not, this is a promise of a transition to that heavenly peace, salvation. It is Jesus Christ’s promise to give us a pass. It is a positive predestination to heaven once one fulfills the requirements laid out here, essentially for going to Mass nine times. This puts it on par with the Protestant notion of Once Saved Always Saved which comes with being slain in the Spirit.
These are just two aspects of the same fundamental idea. We want a guarantee.
Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque said “good news, here it is”. :extrahappy:
Undoubtedly so.
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laszlo
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If you started in May, you had no problem with nine in sequence. There was problem with the so called ‘great novena’ (9 consecutive series of 9 consecutive first Friday confession and communion) but my memory also says, that if Good Friday was first Friday than that month was allowed to skip.Now you tell me.
But that’s ok, I did 18 in a row when I was in grade school just to make sure. I was lucky in two ways, one that the entire Catholic school got time off to attend Mass on First Fridays and we didn’t hit a Good First Friday all that time.
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