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First Saturday Challenge | #100by100 We challenge all Catholics to unite to fulfill Our Lady’s request for the practice of the First Saturday Devotion. We want to offer Our Lady a spiritual bouquet of 100,000 First Saturdays * for the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s request (December 10, 2025).…
How to Observe First Fridays and First Saturdays
“... Our Hearts We want to mirror the heart and mind of God. We want to see people, the world, and every situation with God’s eyes. We want to love as He loves. We want a heart like His. If we have such a heart, we will begin to love as God loves; yet we will also begin to know how much God is offended by the sins of the world. Then, with such love joined to such a horror of sin, we will want to make reparation for our sins and the sins of others.This is the way that Jesus and Mary loved: by offering their lives to atone for the failings of others.As we meditate on the hearts of Jesus and Mary, we see the great love they have, even for sinners, and we see how God continues to reach out in love and forgiveness. But we also see how poorly people respond to this loving invitation to life and relationship with God. Some go so far as to actively reject God. We begin to obtain a glimpse of the injustice of habitual sin, which rejects God and abuses His mercy.The suffering and rejection of the cross continues, but the mercy and grace of God continue to flow to men and women in our time.Jesus and Mary, make our hearts like yours!
“PRAYERS:
To Be United with the Heart of Jesus O Heart all lovable and all loving of my Savior, be the Heart of my heart, the soul of my soul, the spirit of my spirit, the life of my life and the sole principle of all my thoughts, words, and actions, of all the faculties of my soul, and of all my senses, both interior and exterior. Amen. — St. John Eudes
A Prayer of Adoration From the depth of my nothingness, I prostrate myself before You, O Most Sacred, Divine, and Adorable Heart of Jesus, to pay to You all the homage of love, praise, and adoration in my power. Amen. — St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Collect for the Feast of the Sacred Heart Clothe us, Lord God, with the virtues of the Heart of your Son and set us aflame with his love, that, conformed to his image, we may merit a share in eternal redemption. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
To the Immaculate Heart of Mary O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and Queen of the World, rule over us, to- gether with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, Our King. Save us from the spreading flood of modern paganism; kindle in our hearts and homes the love of purity, the practice of a virtuous life, an ardent zeal for souls, and a desire to pray the Rosary more faithfully.”
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Explaining the Faith - First Fridays and First Saturdays WATCH FOR THE FIRSY FRIDAY DEVOTION ON NOV. 5TH & THE FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION ON NOV. 6TH ON YOUTUBE AT https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=National+Shrine+of+The+Divine+Mercy%2C+Stockbridge%2C+MA&sp=EiG4AQHCARtDaElKVzhCOUlNaGQ1NGtSdTZrYUExUy1yLVk%253D Join Fr. Chris Alar as he discusses the importance of First Fridays and First Saturdays, especially during our current times. Explained is exactly what to do to receive the graces promised by Jesus and Mary and how to fulfill their request regarding these devotions.
Our Universal Mother - Part 34
First Saturday Devotions to Our Lady of Fatima
Our Lady of Fatima, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us.
Devotion of the Five First Saturdays
The following is an explanation of the conditions contained in Our Lady’s request regarding the Communion of reparation on any five consecutive First Saturdays of the Month throughout the year.
1. CONFESS AND RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION: On February 15, 1926 the Child Jesus alone came to visit Sr. Lucia and asked if the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was being propagated. Sr. Lucia spoke of a difficulty some people have in confessing on the first Saturday, and asked if they might be allowed eight days in order to fulfill Our Lady’s requests. Jesus answered “Yes, even more time still, as long as they receive Me in the state of grace and have the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
2. RECITE THE ROSARY: Five decades of the Rosary may be recited at any time or place; yet, since one will be attending Mass in order to receive Holy Communion, a very desirable time and place would be before or after Mass in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Meditation on the mysteries according to one’s capacity is an essential condition for praying the Rosary. Yet, involuntary distractions do no take from the Rosary it’s fruit, if one is doing the best he can.
3. " 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 confirmed by Sr. Lucia of Fatima. It is clear too from a statement by the first Bishop of Fatima.
4. WITH THE INTENTION OF MAKING REPARATION: All of the conditions mentioned above—in numbers 1-3—should be fulfilled with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On the occasion of the visit of the Child Jesus to Sr. Lucia (Feb. 16, 1926), she asked : "My Jesus, what about those who forget to make the intention?" Jesus answered: "They can do so at their next confession, taking advantage of their first opportunity to go to Confession."
WHY FIVE SATURDAYS????
It is sometimes asked why Our Lady asked for Communions of reparation on five consecutive first Saturdays, instead of some other number. Our Blessed Lord answered that question when He appeared to Sr. Lucia May 29, 1930. He explained that it was because of five kinds of offenses and blasphemies against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, namely: blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception, against her perpetual virginity, against the divine and spiritual maternity of Mary, blasphemies involving the rejection and dishonoring of her images, and the neglect of implanting in the hearts of children a knowledge and love of this Immaculate Mother.
An Act of Consecration to Our Lady
Mary, O myMother, I am yours, I, (recite your name) a wretched sinner, today renew and ratify in thy hands, my Immaculate Mother, the vows made for me at baptism by my sponsors.
I renounce forever Satan and all his pomps and works. I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, to carry my cross after Him and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before. I contemplate Him in His agony, and realize that it was to save me from Hell, to deliver me from the cruel slavery of the devil, that He suffered this indescribable agony.
I offer myself to your Immaculate Heart, which suffered so acutely for me at the foot of the Cross. I wish to honor that sorrowful Heart, which does so justly merit the love, the reverence, the gratitude of all mankind.
My dear Mother, my loving advocate with Jesus, I deliver and consecrate to thee, as thy slave, my body and soul, my goods, my talents, my time, and even the value of all my good actions. I leave to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to your pleasure, for the greater glory of God in time and in eternity. - Amen.
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF FATIMA
O most holy Virgin Mary, Queen of the most holy Rosary, You were pleased to appear to the children of Fatima and reveal that glorious message. We implore you, inspire in our hearts a fervent love for the recitation of the Rosary. By meditating on the mysteries of the redemption that are recalled, may we obtain the graces and virtues that we ask, through the merits of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Redeemer. - Amen.
TO JESUS THROUGH MARY
Lest there should be any misconception about the place of devotion to Mary in Catholic piety, we honor in a special way the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of Jesus, i.e., the person of Mary in her eminent sanctity and glorification by God, because it is the wish of her Son—as Our Lady revealed in her second apparition at Fatima. Jesus knows well that true devotion to His Mother leads souls to Him.
As Our Lady assured Lucia, June 13, 1917: " I will never abandon you, my child, My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."
The Church sees Mary, then, not as the goal, but as the guide, who always leads souls who honor her with true devotion—to her Son, especially to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. When we pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for help in time of need, she in turn points to the Tabernacle, to Him who is " the Way, the Truth, and the Life." and has a way of conveying to us what she said to the steward at Cana: " Do whatever He tells you." (Jn.2:5)
" In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph."
