Originally published at Churchpop
Do you know how to practice Our Lady of Fatima’s Five First Saturdays Devotion?
In 1917, Our Lady of Fatima appeared six times to the three shepherd children–Lucia dos Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto.
Our Lady said during the July 1917 apparition: “I shall come to ask… that on the First Saturday of every month, Communions of reparation be made in atonement for the sins of the world.”
On Dec. 10, 1925, Our Lady returned to Sister Lucia dos Santos at the Dorothean Sisters’ convent in Pontevedra, Spain.
She appeared with the Infant Jesus standing on a cloud, requesting acts of reparation for the blasphemies and ingratitude committed against her Immaculate Heart.
Jesus said:“Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce It at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them.”Then Our Lady 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 moment of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all
