First Saturday, tomorrow, Feb. 3 - Reparation to the Immaculate Heart

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Jesus and Mary appeared to Sr. Lucia in her convent in Spain, Dec. 10, 1925 helping us to understand the need for Reparation to the Immaculate Heart. (Sister was the oldest of the tree children who received the Messages of Fatima, in 1917, and was last of them to die.) Just as Jesus revealed the need for Reparation to His Heart, to St. Margaret Mary previously, so He came again to ask also for Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at a time closer to our own:

Lucia was a postulant in the Convent of St. Dorothy in Pontevedra, Spain when she had the apparition of our Blessed Mother. She was standing over a cloud of light with the Child Jesus at her side. The Blessed Virgin put one hand on Lucia’s shoulder, while her other hand sustained her Immaculate Heart that was surrounded with thorns. The Child Jesus said: "Have compassion on the Heart of your Blessed Mother. It is surrounded with thorns that ungrateful men pierce each moment, and there is no one that is willing to offer an act of reparation to take the thorns away."

Our Lady immediately said to Lucia: "Look, my daughter. My Heart is surrounded with thorns that ungrateful men pierce unceasingly with their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console me and announce that for all those, who for five consecutive first Saturdays, confess, receive Holy Communion, pray the Holy Rosary and accompany me for 15 minutes by meditating the mysteries of the Holy Rosary with the intention to do reparation, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with the graces needed for salvation."

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