72 First Saturday Devotions Our Lady explained those Five First Saturdays to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries, on Dec. 10, 1925, in the following way: See, my daughter, my Heart encircled by thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Do you, at least, strive to console me. Tell them that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the … mysteries of the Rosary. So I call on everyone who loves Mary to start making the Five First Saturdays a regular part of their prayer life. For anyone who visits the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on the First Saturday of each month, it’s easy! Pilgrims can go to Confession, pray the Rosary for Life, and attend Mass with the intention of making reparation to Our Lady - as she requested. To fulfill the requirement to meditate for 15 minutes on the Mysteries of the Rosary, you can prayerfully walk the Stations of the Cross on Eden Hill for at least 15 minutes, remaining aware of keeping Our Lady company in spirit throughout her Son’s Passion and Death. Let’s make reparation together to the Immaculate Heart by being faithful to the Five First Saturdays, and help Our Lady spread grace, peace, and healing throughout all the world. Excerpt from: Five First Saturdays In Reparation to the Heart of Mary by Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC : https://www.marian.org/13th/firstsaturday.php Image from : https://shopmercy.org/immaculate-heart-of-mary-10-x-18-canvas-print.html First Friday Devotions Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time January 30, 2022 According to the popes of the last 100 years, there is no devotion more important to the life of the Church than devotion to the Heart of Jesus. The greatest impetus toward the spread of this devotion came from the apparitions of our Lord Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 1670s, whose feast we celebrate on Oct. 16. The glorified Jesus unveiled His tender, burning love for souls to her and asked for the establishment of the annual liturgical feast of the Sacred Heart (celebrated 19 days after Pentecost), as well as devotional practices such as the First Friday Communions and veneration of the image of His loving Heart. By these means, our Lord intended to rekindle the fire of love in the hearts of the faithful in a modern world in which the hearts of many were growing cold. I promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart that My all-powerful love will grant to those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die inMy disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments.My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment. However, the "Great Promise" was not meant to provide an automatic ticket to heaven! Christ promises to pour out the grace of final perseverance on those who perform this devotion with the proper dispositions of faith and love - but the soul must still cooperate with that grace at the time of death, for God's grace will never compel anyone to surrender to His love. So take advantage of the extraordinary generosity of Jesus, and console His Heart by receiving the tremendous graces of the First Fridays devotion. Excerpt from The First Fridays Devotion: an Invitation from the Heart of Jesus by Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/first-fridays-devotion-invitation-heart-jesus Image from: What is the First Friday Devotion? : www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/what-first-fridays-devotion
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