The First Saturday Devotion
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The story of Our Lady of Fatima begins before 1917 when the Angel of Portugal appeared to three Fatima children.Then between May and October 1917, Our Lady appeared six times to the children in a field called the Cova de Iria, near the Fatima. They were Lucia dos Santos and her two younger cousins Francisco and Jacinta. They played while they tended the families' sheep and would frequently pray the Rosary, sometimes in a careless and childlike way.
In all her appearances at Fatima, the Blessed Mother repeatedly emphasized the necessity of praying the Rosary daily, of wearing the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel and of performing acts of reparation and sacrifice later she asked for the First Saturday devotion.On the day of the final apparition, October 13, 1917, she identified herself as "Our Lady of the Rosary" and the Fatima Miracle, the Miracle of the Sun, confirmed what the children had been saying. Again, 70,000 people saw the miracle. The sun seemed to rush toward the earth in swirling brilliant colors. The people fell to their knees to pray for mercy. The rain that had drenched the fields and the pilgrims had entirely dried when the sun resumed its place.
In all her appearances at Fatima, the Blessed Mother repeatedly emphasized the necessity of praying the Rosary daily, of wearing the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel and of performing acts of reparation and sacrifice. To prevent the terrible chastisement at the hands of Russia and to convert "that poor nation", Our Lady requested the solemn public Consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart by the Pope and all the Catholic bishops of the world. She also asked that Catholics practice devotion of reparation on the first Saturday of five consecutive months to her Immaculate Heart ("The Five First Saturdays").
"If My requests are not granted, Russia will spread its errors throughout the world, raising up wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will suffer much and various nations will be annihilated." The First Saturday devotion is a large part of the answer to this evil.
The First Saturday Devotion
We can see with some of our website tools that not many of us are looking for the First Saturday devotion. Of course, we understand that this is no place to be looking for devotions, yet it can be a good place to find references to sources for the First Saturday devotion. All of the Fatima prophecy has happened and in many ways we still see the many errors of Russia even down to the Pavlovian behavior psychology being used in our institutions of the military, health, and education. In the course of the next thirty years, Our Lady and Our Lord appeared to Sr. Lucia several times.On the evening of Thursday, December 10, 1925, after supper, when Sr. Lucy was a postulant in the Dorothean house at Pontevedra, Spain received a visit by the Child Jesus and the Virgin Mary in her convent cell. They showed her a heart surrounded by thorns and Our Lady gave her the terms of the First Saturday devotion:
"See, my daughter, my heart surrounded by thorns which ungrateful men pierce at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude... Say to all those who, for five months, on the first Saturday, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, in a spirit of reparation, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for the salvation of their souls."
These are the requirements of the First Saturday Devotion and this is the Fatima promise:
"If My requests are granted ... there will be peace."Please, please, please make these devotions and encourage your family and friends to do the same. We offer a free monthly Catholic Holy Days Of Obligation Reminder which also lists the dates for the First Saturday Devotion.
Fatima Prayers
The Angel of Peace, Our Lady Herself, and at a later time, Jesus taught the three Fatima children several prayers that embellish the First Saturday devotion.
Angel of Peace Fatima Prayers
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I beg pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You!
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I adore You profoundly and I offer You the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the earth, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferences by which He Himself is offended. And by the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners.
Our Lady Of Fatima Asked For These Prayers
When making sacrifices: O my Jesus, it is for Your Love, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
July 13, 1917O my Jesus, forgive us. Deliver us from the fire of Hell. Draw the souls of all to Heaven, especially those in greatest need.
Sources:Mother of Christ Crusade booklet, Imprimatur 1947.
New Marian Missal, 1947.
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