This coming Saturday 1st. March - FIRST SATURDAY (Marian Fatima Devotion)

[BarbaraTherese]

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5 First Saturdays
Given by Our Lady of Fatima
and the Infant Jesus to Sister Lucia

a devotion to the

Immaculate Heart
of the Blessed Virgin
in reparation for the
** sins against her Heart.**

What is the Practice of the Devotion
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary?

Most often the First Friday (7th. March) will occur before the First Saturday, but this month again, the First Saturday comes first.

The devotion involves the following practices on five consecutive first Saturdays of the month, with the specific intention of making reparation for the five gravest offenses of man against the Blessed Virgin.

1. Go to Confession (within 8 days before or after the first Saturday)
2. Receive the Holy Eucharist
3. Pray five decades of the Rosary

4.“Keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.”

Why Five Saturdays?
Christians have always honored the Blessed Virgin on Saturday because of her constant faith in Jesus on that first Holy Saturday before the Resurrection. Five first Saturdays of reparation were requested to atone for the five ways in which people offend the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

1. Attacks upon Mary’s Immaculate Conception
2. Attacks against Mary’s Perpetual Virginity
3. Attacks upon her Divine Maternity and the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all mankind
4. Those who try to publicly implant in children’s hearts indifference, comtempt and even hatred of this Immaculate Mother
5. Those who insult her directly by profaning her sacred images.

Are There Promises in Return for This Devotion?
The Infant Christ and His Blessed Mother made these immense and almost unbelievable promises to those who observe and promote the Five First Saturday Devotion:

1. The Virgin Mary’s assistance at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation.
2. Salvation of souls and peace as a result of promoting of the Devotion to the Immaculate Heart.

Full information on this devotion here