The Feast of the Immaculate Conception/The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

Tomorrow is the First Saturday of December, Monday is Dec. 8th, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and also within this month (Dec. 10th) marks the 100th anniversary of when Sr. Lucia received the message for all of us to practice the Five First Saturdays in reparation to Her Immaculate Heart.

How very very sad that this message has been thwarted for the 100 years that it has existed. How amazing the world would look if our Church leaders had asked all of us to offer the Five First Saturdays...not just once but always. I challenge all priests who are in charge of a parish to start if they have not already done so...to offer the Five First Saturdays along with time for confessions, Rosary and time to meditate before the Blessed Sacrament as Our Blessed Mother had asked.

In a huge way, Fatima is the message of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In the first apparition of Our Lady, She had asked for reparation for all the blasphemies and offences against Her Immaculate Heart. At the second apparition, Our Lady told Sr. Lucia, "You must remain longer on earth. Jesus wishes to use you in making me known and loved. He wishes to spread in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart. I promise salvation to those who embrace this devotion. Their souls will be loved by God with a love of predilection, like flowers placed by Me before His throne!" When Lucia appeared sad about being left here on earth longer than Francesco and Jacinta, Our Lady said to her, "I shall never abandon you, My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."

In the third apparition....Our Lady showed the three children hell and said this...." You have just seen hell where poor sinners go. To save them, the Lord wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace.  The war is coming to an end.. But if men do not cease offending the Lord, a worse war will begin in the reign of Pope Pius XI." She added....."I shall ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, as well as communion of reparation on the first Saturday of the month. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. Otherwise, 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 have much to suffer, and several nations will be annihilated.

The above news is very grim and is one of the reasons why Rome has held it from the Church .....but the consoling words of Our Lady are..."My Immaculate Heart will finally triumph. Russia will be converted and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world; Portugal will keep the faith."

How amazing the world would look if we kept to what Our Lady had asked of us and took Her message seriously. Rome does not want doom and gloom (nor anyone else). If we keep our heads in the sand and ignore the sins around us maybe it will all go away. This thinking is unbelievable....we are on the brink of a major chastisement because we have not fulfilled the requests of Our Good Mother and Queen Who is only trying to help us avert the dangers that lie ahead.

Well, we can come to the conclusion that we are not only going to be chastised for sin and disobedience but also we have learned a beautiful message.... the message of Fatima (and Lourdes) reveal that Our Lady WAS conceived Immaculate....free from all sin....free from the bondage of Satan.....free to be truly united to the Will of God at all times. We can be certain of this!

May we practice the Five First Saturday in reparation of the sins commited against Her Immaculate Heart not only committed in the world but now in Rome itself (which should alarm all of us that a chastisement is close at hand!) We still have time....not sure how much but each day is a blessing and we can offer the reparation prayers taught at Fatima daily and we can honor Our Mother's Immaculate Heart and beg Her to show us the way to Her Son's Most Sacred Heart!

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee!

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Five First Saturday Devotion

Reparation