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Can anyone tell me about the nine first fridays requirements for this devotion? If one misses a consecutive friday because of vacation, can the devotion be resumed and remain “valid”? thanks…
 
coda said:
Can anyone tell me about the nine first fridays requirements for this devotion? If one misses a consecutive friday because of vacation, can the devotion be resumed and remain “valid”? thanks…
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Here is a link to the devotion: catholictradition.org/Two-Hearts/devotion12.htm

I would doubt it as far as validity goes, especially since it is not a good reason. Is there a church near where you will be? Go to masstimes.org and find one!
 
I’m considering entering this devotion, but I found that part of it envolves “enthronement” of Christ in a household by a symbolic act of placing an image of Jesus on a chair in the living room, and then the parents of the household lead the devotion.

My difficulty is I live in a Protestant household and no one would accept this. What do I do?
 
Lief_Erikson said:
I’m considering entering this devotion, but I found that part of it envolves “enthronement” of Christ in a household by a symbolic act of placing an image of Jesus on a chair in the living room, and then the parents of the household lead the devotion.

My difficulty is I live in a Protestant household and no one would accept this. What do I do?
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The enthronement is not a necessary part of devotion to the Sacred Heart at all, though it is a good idea for Catholic households.

Certainly one can do the nine First Fridays without the enthronement. One can also do other things - the Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart, praying prayers such as the Litany of the Sacred Heart, Chaplet of the Sacred Heart, or other prayers (plenty of them to be found on the internet, just say the ones that appeal to you.)
 
I just found out today that June is the month of the year particularly devoted to the Sacred Heart. It was just two days ago that I started desiring to enter the devotion of the Sacred Heart- the first day of the month! The instant this month’s devotion began, my heart responded with a sudden, new focus and on the Sacred Heart, even though I didn’t have any idea that June has a special connection to the Sacred Heart! I feel like God rushed across time and space to meet me where my heart was a couple days ago, bypassing my mind’s processes to pour himself out into me. Of all the days of the year, that on that day beginning of the special devotion to the Sacred Heart, I should come to desire such devotion, I find far too “coincidental” to be coincidence. I just found out that June is devoted to the Sacred Heart today (the third).

I’ve been praying to come more fully into Christ’s love for years, and as I was a Protestant until a month ago, I didn’t know anything about the devotion to the Sacred Heart. The fact that the timing matches up so perfectly makes me feel that God’s Heart bypassed my brain to rush into my heart in an all new answer to my years of yearning and praying for deeper intimacy with God’s love, and my coming into Catholicism opened the floodgates of this expressive overflow of God’s love for me.

It’s like a reaction, really! I came to His Church, the Body of Christ, in spite of dear friends telling me that I was probably following demons or the spirit of the anti-christ. It was painful and yet I came to Christ . . . so now that I’ve come, God charges into me in response to my faith! My love for God is met by the overwhelming abundance of God’s love for me, my moving forward toward the house of God like a Prodigal Son is met with the joyous response of God’s running out to meet me and catching me up in his strong arms. My love is answered in his love, and mine will soon be consumed in Christ’s love in this passion of His Sacred Heart.
 
LilyM said:
The enthronement is not a necessary part of devotion to the Sacred Heart at all, though it is a good idea for Catholic households.

Certainly one can do the nine First Fridays without the enthronement. One can also do other things - the Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart, praying prayers such as the Litany of the Sacred Heart, Chaplet of the Sacred Heart, or other prayers (plenty of them to be found on the internet, just say the ones that appeal to you.)
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I’ll do the enthronement as soon as I have a house to offer. I actually did that with a website I co-authored once already, a few years ago. I was the primary creator of the website and the person in charge of all its day to day activities, so I consecrated it to God, that his will might be done in it, and that he might have complete power over it. Then I wrote insults against the Catholic Church into the other messages of the site, so I expect the site’s subsequent failure was a result. People left the site in droves because of the distractions of daily life and I too became heavily distracted because of school work and other projects and so stopped attending, and my disappearance collapsed what existed for the handful of people that remained. I had put my beloved Lord in charge, so he took the appropriate action when it became necessary.

I have one other question. Are the Nine Consecutive Fridays supposed to be the First Fridays of 9 months of every year of my life, or only the First Fridays of 9 months of the year I begin the devotion?
 
Lief_Erikson said:
I’ll do the enthronement as soon as I have a house to offer. I actually did that with a website I co-authored once already, a few years ago. I was the primary creator of the website and the person in charge of all its day to day activities, so I consecrated it to God, that his will might be done in it, and that he might have complete power over it. Then I wrote insults against the Catholic Church into the other messages of the site, so I expect the site’s subsequent failure was a result. People left the site in droves because of the distractions of daily life and I too became heavily distracted because of school work and other projects and so stopped attending, and my disappearance collapsed what existed for the handful of people that remained. I had put my beloved Lord in charge, so he took the appropriate action when it became necessary.

I have one other question. Are the Nine Consecutive Fridays supposed to be the First Fridays of 9 months of every year of my life, or only the First Fridays of 9 months of the year I begin the devotion?
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Of course it only has to be ONE set of nine consecutive months in which you do the First Fridays, you don’t have to do it every year. Although I must say I haven’t made it to nine in a row yet, so I just try to do as many First Fridays as I can and hope God understands. And if I ever make it to nine in a row I doubt I’m just going to stop and give up then and there.

Remember this coming Friday is a First Friday, of course.
 
Okay. Is there any initiation practice or prayer that should preceed my participation in the First Fridays?

I don’t really think I could do the enthronement in my bedroom. It’s shared with my two Protestant brothers. I could ask, though.
 
Lief_Erikson said:
Okay. Is there any initiation practice or prayer that should preceed my participation in the First Fridays?

I don’t really think I could do the enthronement in my bedroom. It’s shared with my two Protestant brothers. I could ask, though.
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It’s not necessary to say any prayers in conjunction with the Nine First Fridays. The Nine First Fridays, as per the promises to St Margaret Mary, simply consists in making communion worthily (ie in a state of grace) on the First Friday of nine consecutive months with the intention of making reparations to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. You may, of course, wish to pray additional prayers such as the Litany of the Sacred Heart, or pray a form of Consecration to the Sacred Heart, on these days.
 
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