Tomorrow is First Saturday (Nov. 1st). If you have not made your First Saturdays - please begin tomorrow. If you have made them - please make them again. Below is from EWTN's website - please read. If your Parish does not have Mass on First Saturday (ours doesn't), please ask your Pastor to do so. If he says "no" (as ours did), pray for him and go to another Parish that has Mass on Saturdays (that's what we had to do). Remember that it is our Mother who is asking this of us - be obedient! God bless you. Our Lady Requested First Saturday Devotions – EWTN Makes It Easy! By Michelle Laque Johnson The world is becoming increasingly de-Christianized. Abortion, now known as “womens’ rights.” Euthanasia, now known as “mercy killing.” Same-sex “marriage,” now considered a “civil right.” Violence, sexual perversity, body mutilation, seeking altered states of consciousness, the occult. What is a Christian to do? The answer was given to us in 1917 by Our Lady at a little known place known as Fatima. She requested what are now known as the First Saturday Devotions to make reparation for blasphemies and offenses against her Immaculate Heart and for world peace. To help you fulfill the requests made by Our Lady of Fatima, the Network will begin broadcasting “EWTN Family First Saturday Devotions” at 9 a.m. ET, Saturday, May 4. “Many consider the First Five Saturdays to be a forgotten part of the Fatima message, and very few people observe them,” said EWTN Chaplain Father Joseph Mary. “This is to help inspire people to observe the five first Saturdays.” “This devotion has four parts – all four should be made in a spirit of reparation for blasphemy and ingratitude and for peace in the world,” Fr. Joseph continued. “First, one should go to confession, generally eight days before or after the First Saturday of the month; Second, one should receive Holy Communion on the First Saturday of the month; Third, recite five decades of the Rosary; and fourth, meditate for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary.” There are great benefits for those who comply with this request. Our Lady told Sister Lucia she would “assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months confess, receive Holy Communion, pray a rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour meditating on the 15 mysteries with the intention of offering reparation.” Many ask why Our Lady asked her children to observe FIVE first Saturdays. Our Lady told Sister Lucia the five Saturdays are to make reparation for the five kinds of offenses and blasphemies uttered against her Immaculate Heart. The offenses are 1.) against her Immaculate Conception, 2.) against her virginity, 3.) against her Divine maternity, 4.) by those who openly seek to foster in the hearts of children indifference, or even hatred, for this Immaculate Mother, and 5.) by those who directly outrage her holy images. What if you’ve already made the Five First Saturdays? Should you do it again? Said Father Joseph: “There is always a need for reparation. Although we can trust in the promises of Our Lady that we have satisfied her desires for ourselves personally, nonetheless, it will still be beneficial for us in making reparation for sins which continue against her Immaculate Heart and for obtaining world peace.”
Please practice the devotion Our Lady of Fatima requested; the First Five Saturdays, without that for certain we will face:July 13th, 1917: "If what I ask is done, many souls will be saved." "If not, she will spread her errors (communism=the Culture of Death)throughout the world. There will be much to suffer, wars, persecutions of the Church. the Holy Father will have much to suffer. The Good will be martyred,various nations will be annihilated. In the end my Immaculate Heart will Triumph". Her heart will triumph either way, we can either assist her to save souls by way of the Devotion, or we can just sit back, do nothing and watch martyrs die and much suffering increase. Please practice "The Communion of Reparations", or other wise known as the "First Five Saturdays Devotion". - See more at: http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2...r-humanity-has-been.html#sthash.zK5Clhdy.dpuf
Russia and the importance of First 5 Saturdays, http://theheavenlygaze.blogspot.com.es/2013_05_01_archive.html Satan's pride compelled him to reveal his hand in the destruction of Holy Russia from the start of the revolution. In 1905 when Catherine de Hueck Doherty was a nine year old girl living comfortably with her family in rural Russia, it was customary for pilgrims to walk long distances to pray at its many shrines. One evening a single old woman pilgrim sought shelter at the farm of Catherine's family and the family and servants eagerly gathered by kerosene lamps around a crackling fireplace to hear tell of her pious adventures. Well into the evening, after relating many blessings received at the holy shrines, the woman told of passing through a thick forest with a growing sense of an evil presence that even set the forest creatures on edge. Around a bend another road joined hers and a single man walking in her direction joined her. Although she sensed some evil about him he behaved well. He didn't use a Christian greeting, just calling her Granny. When she told him of her holy pilgrimage he laughed about religion being superstition fed to peasants by priests to pacify them to accept the many injustices that afflicted them. He was eloquent and persuasive and she soon began to believe him. Then he began mocking the Blessed Mother and calling the virgin birth fiction and devotion to Mary idolatry. She quietly took a small bottle of holy water and sprinkled him with it in the name of Jesus and the Holy Trinity. He screamed, fell twisting to the ground an before vanishing cried out: "You old fool!All Russia will be covered with rivers of blood over the things I've said. Millions will think like I do. There will be moaning and groaning and tears all over this land. I am out to win it and win it I will. And neither your God nor your Blessed Virgin will be able to save it." The old woman fainted in terror. Awakening, she continued walking cautiously. Suddenly, there was a very great light on the road, and a young woman, dressed just like me in a pilgrim's garb, with an icon on her breast, came up gently to my side. 'Fear not, Grandma, ' she said, 'it is true what the man said, but he as not a man. These things will come to pass so that Holy Russia may hang on the cross with my Son to redeem the world. The only way the world can be redeemed is through suffering with my Son. Fear not. There will come a day when, under the sign of my Son, I will lead Russia to show my Son's face to the world.' Then she vanished too, and I saw the lights of the village. Like the blasphemy Goliath hurled against God, Satan's blasphemy against Christ echoes through our times waiting for a modern David to crush him to uphold the honor of God. Young David had only five smooth stones and his skill with his sling. Yet his faith and his courage vanquished Goliath because God was with him! As we shall see, our Pontiffs have the promise of Jesus' Holy Mother Mary that when the Pope together with his Bishops solemnly consecrates Russia to her Immaculate Heart, and leads the Church in First Saturday reparatory devotions to her Immaculate Heart, and leads the Church in First Saturday reparatory devotions to her Immaculate heart, she will convert Russia and a period of peace will be granted to the world. Is that not the"day when, under the sign of my Son, I will lead Russia to show my Son's face to the world" prophesied by Mary to the pilgrim in Catherine Doherty's story? Is not this leadership of the Blessed Mother in the Church's war against Satan prophesied in Genesis 3:15-16 and Revelation 11:19-12:6, 13-17? By 1917 WWI had been killing the youth of Europe for three years. On 5 May Pope Benedict XV penned a letter in which he turned to our Blessed Mother in prayer for peace in the midst of the terror and darkness that had raged since August, 1914. Benedict was an experienced, well connected diplomat, but all his Vatican diplomacy had failed to bring peace. Now he turned to Mary: He wrote: Our earnestly pleading voice, invoking the end of the vast conflict, the suicide of civilized Europe, was then and has remained ever since unheard. Indeed it seemed that the dark tide of hatred grew higher and wider among the belligerent nations, and drew other countries into its frightful sweep, multiplying ruin and massacre. Nevertheless Our confidence was not lessened...Since all graces which the Author of all good deigns to grant to the poor children of Adam, by a loving design of His Divine Providence are dispensed through the hands of the most holy Virgin, we wish that the petition of Her most afflicted children, more than ever in this terrible hour, may turn with lively confidence to the august Mother of God. A week later, on 13 May and again on 13 June 1917, our Blessed Mother responded to Benedict's prayer in the first two of six visitations to three young seers, Jacinta and her brother Francisco Marto, and their cousin Lucia dos Santos, at the village of Fatima in central Portugal...
