First Saturday is a special day for us at the CNY Marian Center. We seek to honor Our Lady's request at Fatima and Our Lord's request later to Lucia to make Five First Saturdays Devotion.
The Motives for the Devotion
Later, while Sister Lucia was in the chapel with Our Lord during part of the night of May 29-30, 1930, He explained the motivation for the devotion. This explanation answered the question posed by her confessor about why the number should be 5 Saturdays and not 9 to correspond with the 9 First Fridays, or 7 to correspond with Our Lady’s 7 sorrows.
The Motives for the Devotion
Later, while Sister Lucia was in the chapel with Our Lord during part of the night of May 29-30, 1930, He explained the motivation for the devotion. This explanation answered the question posed by her confessor about why the number should be 5 Saturdays and not 9 to correspond with the 9 First Fridays, or 7 to correspond with Our Lady’s 7 sorrows.
First Saturday Fatima Prayer Cell, 10:00AM with the CNY Marian Center and the Catholic Shop
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Our Lord responded that there are 5 ways that people offend and blaspheme against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
1. Offences or blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception – its denial and/or ridicule
2. Against her perpetual virginity
3. Against her divine maternity, refusing to accept her as the Mother of God and mother of all mankind
4. Those who implant in children’s hearts, indifference, contempt and even hate against our Immaculate Mother
5. Insults directed against her sacred images –displays of indifference or ridicule, and the infliction of damage to them.
The essential elements of the practice of First Saturday Communions of Reparation
With the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart for these five offenses, we are asked to:
1. Go to confession
2. Receive Holy Communion worthily
3. Pray five decades of the Rosary
4. Keep Our Lady company for 15 minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosar
This includes confession, Communion, praying one mystery (five decades) of the Rosary and spending 15 minutes in contemplation of one of the other mysteries of the Rosary. For more information on First Saturday Devotion follow this link to a personal booklet from the World Apostolate of Fatima.
1. Offences or blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception – its denial and/or ridicule
2. Against her perpetual virginity
3. Against her divine maternity, refusing to accept her as the Mother of God and mother of all mankind
4. Those who implant in children’s hearts, indifference, contempt and even hate against our Immaculate Mother
5. Insults directed against her sacred images –displays of indifference or ridicule, and the infliction of damage to them.
The essential elements of the practice of First Saturday Communions of Reparation
With the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart for these five offenses, we are asked to:
1. Go to confession
2. Receive Holy Communion worthily
3. Pray five decades of the Rosary
4. Keep Our Lady company for 15 minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosar
This includes confession, Communion, praying one mystery (five decades) of the Rosary and spending 15 minutes in contemplation of one of the other mysteries of the Rosary. For more information on First Saturday Devotion follow this link to a personal booklet from the World Apostolate of Fatima.