Help with meditation on a first Saturday!

[Catolico]

Today I started doing the devotion of the 5 first Saturdays for the first time.
I had a lot of trouble during the 15 minute meditation. After maybe 5 minutes my mind went completely blank and I just spend the rest of the time pretty much just repeating the same thing over and over.
I know our Blessed Mother probably does only care about the intention and is happy that we at least try, but I would really like to do a better job at it. I guess it should not surprise me I had such trouble being the first time I try this, but hopefully I can improve for the next time.
Would you share some ideas on how to make the most of this meditation? What do you think about during those 15 minutes?
Thank you for letting me pick your brain on this.

 

[Fergal]

The 15 mins meditation must be seperate from your recitation of the Holy Rosary.

You may decide to take one mystery a month and give it time by reading the corresponding passage from Holy Scriptures and then meditate in silence on it for the 15 mins. If you do this then it will take you almost 2 years to meditate on all the mysteries of the Rosary! There are 20 mysteries now you know.

“Keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.”
The question is often asked: Does the meditation while reciting the Rosary fulfill this condition, or is there required an additional fifteen minutes of meditation? That an additional 15 minutes of meditation is required was recently confirmed by Sr. Lucia of Fatima. It is clear too from a statement by the first Bishop of Fatima.

The last entry in the chronology of Fatima, published in the official Calendar of the Sanctuary for the year of 1940, and signed by Dom Jose Correia da Silva, the first Bishop of Fatima, gave a summary of Our Lady’s requests concerning the Five First Saturdays. From that official statement in the Calendar of the Sanctuary, we read the Bishop’s enumeration of the various items that pertain to the devotion of the five Saturdays:

“It consists in going to Confession, receiving Communion, reciting five decades of the Rosary and meditating for a quarter of an hour on the mysteries of the Rosary on the first Saturday of five consecutive months. The Confession may be made during the eight days preceding or following the first Saturday of each month, provided that Holy Communion be received in the state of grace. Should one forget to form the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, it may be formed at the next Confession, occasion to go to confession being taken at the first opportunity.

“The meditation embraces one or more mysteries; it may even include all, taken together or separately, according to individual attraction or devotion; but it is preferable to meditate on one mystery each month.”

Speaking of the requirement of “keeping me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary,” the Bishop’s comment that “it is preferable to meditate on one mystery each month” could apply only to an extra fifteen minutes, for each decade of the Rosary must have its own particular meditation. This is clear from the definition of the Rosary given in the official document of the Church on indulgences, the ENCHIRIDION OF INDULGENCES published by Pope Paul VI in 1968. It describes the Rosary as follows:

“The Rosary is a certain formula of prayer, which is made up of fifteen decades of HAIL MARYS with an OUR FATHER before each decade, and in which the recitation of each decade is accompanied by pious meditation on a particular mystery of our Redemption.” (n. 48)