The Five First Saturdays - A Means of Needed Reparation!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

Happy August, the month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tomorrow is First Saturday and a great month to refresh our memories of the need for the Five First Saturdays. As we all know, we need Reparation like we have never needed it before. Everywhere we look....everywhere....screams the need for Reparation. We can not overlook the need. One of the main messages of Fatima was the need for Reparation. As soon as the children were visited by the Angel (before Our Lady appeared to them), he asked the children for prayers of Reparation which is part of our Rule and for the children to make sacrifices.

The message of the Five First Saturdays began in December 1925, almost 100 years ago; when Our Lady and the Child Jesus appeared to Sister Lucia, who had become a Dorothean sister living in a convent at Pontevedra and requested the institution of the First Saturdays Devotion. She showed Her Heart to Sister Lucia encircled with thorns. The Christ Child said: 

“Look My daughter, at My Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce Me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console Me, and announce in My Name that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep Me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to Me.”


Our Lord later revealed to Sr. Lucia that the reason for the five first Saturdays is because of the five types of offenses and blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary: 

1. Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception.
2. Blasphemies against Her Perpetual Virginity.
3. Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, refusing at the same time recognize Her as the Mother of men.
4. The blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of children indifference or scorn, or even hatred of the Immaculate Mother. 
5. The offenses of those who outrage Her directly in Her holy images.
 
Here My daughter, is the reason why the Immaculate Heart of Mary inspired Me to ask for this little act of reparation…and in consideration of it, to move My mercy to pardon souls who have had the misfortune of offending Her. As for you, always seek by your prayers and sacrifices to move My mercy to pity for these poor souls.”

 The Blessed Mother promised to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all who, as an act of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the first five Saturdays of consecutive months:

1. Go to confession
2. Receive Holy Communion
3. Say five decades of the rosary
4. Keep Mary company for fifteen minutes meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the rosary

The life of Reparation is the life of a Traditional Lay Carmelite of Fatima. We are to breathe Reparation. May we memorize ALL the prayers of Fatima and say them THROUGHOUT all of our days. May we add, "Jesus, Mary, I love You, save souls." for all those souls who are now perishing in the present chastisements and all those souls who will be perishing in the coming chastisements. May Our Lord draw back a curtain on our Judgement Day to show us all the souls we helped save with our prayers and all the pain mitigated from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary with our prayers of Reparation. WHAT A LIFE! Even if we were to be arrested and put in prison for life, we can live this life of prayer and it will be so fruitful!

May we glorify God for this gift of our vocation and may we live in the hope of mitigating the sufferings from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and may we win for them MANY MANY souls.

May we pray for the TRIUMPH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY! May we live in joy and thanksgiving as we pray our prayers of Reparation during these cold and dark times we are living in!

Blessed be the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!

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