First Saturday in August, today!

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

For those unfamiliar with the First Saturday Devotion, please see HERE

How important it is to guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus, as Mary did on this earth! As we observe First Saturday, how we need to look to The Pierced Heartsof Jesus and Mary! How cold the hearts of many have become! Have our own hearts grown cold?

I’m posting these words to remind myself as well as others: how much Jesus and Mary love us and how much we owe love in return:

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 and ungratefulness. to make it known that all minutes whilst contemplating the mysteries of the rosary and do this has restitution I shall grant them the mercy which they will need in their hour of death”. (underlining is mine for emphasis)

 

[Mark121359]

That’s funny you mention this. I’m getting ready to do just that! I’m going to St. Alphonsus Shrine for confession and Mass! And then a little later to pray the rosary and keep Mom company meditating on the mysteries. As Blessed Pope John Paul ll observed; The Fatima message is more relevant today than it was in 1917…and I truly in my heart of hearts believe this! A great post as always! I always love the way you consistently point to Mary’s important role in our salvation. She is special indeed! God Bless You MariaChristi!

Peace, Mark

 

[Mark121359]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

For those unfamiliar with the First Saturday Devotion, please see HERE

How important it is to guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus, as Mary did on this earth! As we observe First Saturday, how we need to look to The Pierced Heartsof Jesus and Mary! How cold the hearts of many have become! Have our own hearts grown cold?

I’m posting these words to remind myself as well as others: how much Jesus and Mary love us and how much we owe love in return:

That’s funny that you should mention this. I’m getting ready to do just that! I’m going to St. Alphonsus Shrine for confession and Mass! And then a little later to pray the rosary and keep Mom company meditating on the mysteries. As Blessed Pope John Paul ll observed; The Fatima message is more relevant today than it was in 1917…and I truly in my heart of hearts believe this! And you’re so right on MariaChristi, our hearts have grown cold. I know that speaking for myself, that this is how I had become. And it’s a daily struggle still, to stay focused on Our Lady’s message in this modern world of countless distractions. I’m not at all ashamed to say that I run to Mary often for her sheltering, loving protection!..**Refuge of sinners! ** A great post as always! I always love the way that you consistently point to Mary’s important role in our salvation. She is very, very special indeed! God Bless You Always MariaChristi!

Peace, Mark

 

[MariaChristi]

That’s funny that you should mention this. I’m getting ready to do just that! I’m going to St. Alphonsus Shrine for confession and Mass! And then a little later to pray the rosary and keep Mom company meditating on the mysteries. As Blessed Pope John Paul ll observed; The Fatima message is more relevant today than it was in 1917…and I truly in my heart of hearts believe this! And you’re so right on MariaChristi, our hearts have grown cold. I know that speaking for myself, that this is how I had become. And it’s a daily struggle still, to stay focused on Our Lady’s message in this modern world of countless distractions. I’m not at all ashamed to say that I run to Mary often for her sheltering, loving protection!..Refuge of sinners! A great post as always! I always love the way that you consistently point to Mary’s important role in our salvation. She is very, very special indeed! God Bless You Always MariaChristi!

Peace, Mark

Dear Mark,

Thanks for your reply. May our Mother Mary’s Immaculate Heart always be our refuge, for she will hold us close to her Son. How I love to recall her words to St. Juan Diego: "Am I not your Mother? Are you not in the crossing of my arms?

Thanks for your blessings and blessings to you too!