First Saturday "reminder" - Jan.7

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The First Saturday Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was first mentioned by Our Lady of Fatima on July 13, 1917. After showing the three children a vision of hell she said, “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace… I shall come to ask for… the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays…”

Eight years later, on December 10, 1925, Mary and the Child Jesus appeared to Lucia, the sole surviving Fatima visionary, at a convent in Pontevedra, Spain. Our Lady rested her hand on Lucia's shoulder, revealing a heart encircled by thorns.

The Child Jesus said: "Have compassion on the heart of your most holy Mother, covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation...

Our Lady spoke next, saying: "Look, my daughter, at my heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."

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[Philotheatoo]

Thank you, Maria, for the reminder.

 

[MariaChristi]

Thank you, Maria, for the reminder.

Dear Philotheaton,

You are very welcome. It is a blessing to know you appreciated the “reminder”. Thanks for letting me know.

Devotion to Mary is “intrinsic” to Christian worship, as the CCC 971 states clearly, yet so many, even among Catholics, seem to have grown rather “cold” toward devotion to Mary. I sometimes wonder if the poor catechesis after Vatican II has not yet been overcome, so that generations have yet to know the depths of beauty in our Mariology.

May we, as Blessed John Paul II wrote, learn to gaze on the Face of Christ with Mary. As we offer reparation to His Heart on First Fridays, may we also offer reparation to her Immaculate Heart on First Saturdays. Thanks again for your reply.