First Saturday Devotions - The Fatima Chaplet

[Arimor]

Could someone please advise whether, as well as observing the usual First Saturday Devotions, e.g. receiving communion, praying the rosary, meditating upon the mysteries, attending mass and keeping our Lady company, whether praying the Fatima chaplet counts as a reparation ?

Many thanks and God bless.

 

[Divine3]

Our Lady loves when her children come back to Jesus. You are in her constant care, she keeps her promise.
I don’t know all the ins and outs of the first Saturday, but it sounds like you do. You’re on the right track. Just keep trusting and staying close to the sacraments. What a powerful desire to make reparation and even the desire must surly be blessed. There is a great reading by St. Augustine in the daily mass scriptures of the Magnificat on God’s merciful forgiveness of our sins. Will see if I can find it.

 

[Arimor]

Thank you very much for replying and for the information re St. Augustine, much appreciated.

 

[Justin_Mary]

Could someone please advise whether, as well as observing the usual First Saturday Devotions, e.g. receiving communion, praying the rosary, meditating upon the mysteries, attending mass and keeping our Lady company, whether praying the Fatima chaplet counts as a reparation

I don’t think that’s one of the prescribed reparations, but if you do it with that intention I’m sure it counts. You can even fast for the intention of making reparations for offenses to the Immaculate heart of Mary.

Keep in mind I am no expert, but I believe you do have to go to reconciliation.

 

[Arimor]

Thank you Justin_Mary, fasting makes absolute sense, and completely forgot to mention reconciliation. I know I performed an act of reparation by doing The Holy Face devotion, however I think that was for the first Friday devotion.

Many thanks and God bless.

 

[Divine3]

“Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love, and the future to God’s providence.”
St. Augustine
Regrets I could not find the section quoted in the Magnificat by Augustine for today. It didn’t state in the book where they took the writing from. Left a quote .

 

[adgloriam]

the usual First Saturday Devotions

The First Saturdays Devotion was wanted by Our Lady and confided to the Fátima seer sister Lúcia with the aim of reparation.

In my own experience: the First Saturday Devotion is extremely powerful, one needs only to consider the promise that is associated with it. That Our Lady come and get you herself, her devoted servant, should you come to need it, on that First Saturday.

As for reparation, looking at the example of saints Jacinta and Francisco Marto, any sacrifice made during the day can be dedicated to reparation of sins, offenses, and salvation of sinners.

The “Fátima chaplet” is independent of the “First Saturdays Devotion”. My personal advice would be: concentrate on completing the First Saturdays Devotion!! That should be reparation enough, that is what Our Lady wanted. (It is not easy! If done right, the devil will be at every corner trying to stop and derail you.)

It is perhaps, the closest thing to experience the Portuguese discoveries, embarking on a 5 month spiritual journey, isolated, heading into the unknown, in God’s hands, with heightened awareness of the stakes and risks, the potential catastrophic loss from the slightest mistake and slip, longing for that day of arrival in safety, when finally the ships chaplain -for that small crew, moved by sheer faith- confesses you, celebrates mass, and shares in the meditation, prayer of the rosary, devoted to Our Lady. Porto seguro, por fim.

One final thought: First Saturdays Devotion is bound to be practiced in a specific church on the day itself with confessions being offered before the rosary and mass starts. If possible, that is in my experience, the ideal/optimal setting to conduct the devotion, because prayer of the devotion, and meditation, is lead for the assembly with the priest and experienced laity or religious present.