The Five First Saturdays Devotion

Our Lady of Fatima Promises all the Graces Necessary for Heaven
if a Catholic Finishes the Five First Saturdays Devotion

"Whether the world has war or peace depends on the practice of this devotion, along with the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is why I desire its propagation so ardently, especially because this is also the will of our dear Mother in Heaven." -Sr. Lucy (March 19, 1939)

During her July apparition at Fatima, Our Lady said to Lucia, “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.” Although she made no further mention of this devotion at Fatima, on December 10, 1925, our Blessed Mother again appeared to Lucia at Pentevedra, Spain, where the seer had been sent to the Dorothean Sisters to learn to read and write. It was there Our Lady completed her request for the Five First Saturdays and gave her great promise.Appearing with the Queen of Heaven in that apparition was the Infant Jesus, Who said to Lucia: “Have pity on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother. It is covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to remove them with an act of reparation.”Our Lady then spoke: “See, my daughter, my Heart encircled by thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Do you, at least, strive to console me. Tell them that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, go to confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.”The elements of this devotion, therefore, consist in the following four points, all of which must be offered in reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One should make this intention before carrying out Our Lady’s requests. A renewal of the actual intention at the time is best; however, if such an intention is made now, it will fulfill the requirements if, for instance, the actual intention is forgotten at the time of confession.

1. Confession: This confession can be made before the First Saturday or afterward, provided that Holy Communion be received in the state of grace. In 1926, Christ in a vision explained to Lucia that this confession could be made a week before or even more, and that it should be offered in reparation.
2. Holy Communion: Before receiving Holy Communion, it is likewise necessary to offer it in reparation to Our Lady. Our Lord told Lucia in 1930, “This Communion will be accepted on the following Sunday for just reasons, if my priests allow it so.” So if work or school, sickness, or another just reason prevents the Communion on a First Saturday, with this permission it may be received the following Sunday. If Communion is transferred, any or all of the other acts of the devotion may also be performed on Sunday if the person so desires.
3. Rosary: The Rosary is a vocal prayer said while meditating upon the mysteries of Our Lord’s life and Passion and Our Lady’s life. To comply with the request of our Blessed Mother, it must be offered in reparation and said properly while meditating.
4. 15-minute meditation: Also offered in reparation, the meditation may embrace one or more mysteries; it may include all, taken together or separately. This meditation should be the richest of any meditation, because Our Lady promised to be present when she said “...those who keep me company....”

To those who faithfully follow Our Lady’s requests for the Five First Saturdays, she has made a wonderful promise which she, as Mediatrix of All Graces, will certainly fulfill: “I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation.” This means that our Blessed Mother will be present at the hour of death with the actual grace of final perseverance, (which after the gift/grace of Faith), is the most important grace.After completing the Five First Saturdays, one may continue the devotion simply to console the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady. A tender love of our Blessed Mother will lead one to do all he can to make reparation for the sins which pierce her Immaculate Heart. Let us remember, too, that although Our Lady made this promise to those who would observe five such First Saturdays in succession, in her July apparition she asked simply that Communions of reparation be made on every First Saturday to atone for the sins of the world.

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"The Seven Prayers of the Children of Fatima"

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Taken from: http://www.themostholyrosary.com/appendix2.htm

Wallace Johnson, Fatima, the Flood

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Fatima

 

 

Whilst we greatly admired the writings and lectures of Wal, and his knack for being able to show how Our Lady had intervened throughout modern history to forestall some new diabolical revolution (e.g. Our Lady of Fatima in 1917 against Bolshevik Communism), we did consider that his one-time pre-occupation with conspiracies and the Illuminati could tend to deflate, rather than to uplift, the faithful. This prompted Frits Albers once to exclaim: “For God’s sake, Wal, give people some hope!”

We, as Fatima people, appreciated that (13^th July, 1917) whilst ‘the outlook [is indeed] … gloomy …. Many will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer; several nations will be wiped out’, however ‘there is a ray of hope: my Immaculate Heart will finally triumph.' We knew that, despite everything, we were on the winning aside, that the head of our infernal foe had already been irrevocably crushed (Genesis 3:15).

And apparently it is quite hard to function properly with a crushed head!

Whether from AMAIC promptings, or otherwise, Wal, latterly, did become more positive.

 

The Genesis Flood

 

 

 

Uniquely, Wallace, a global floodist, had - unlike other ‘Creationists’ of the same biblical interpretation - allowed for a verifiable antediluvian archaeology to co-exist alongside the presumed global Flood. He had appreciated (rightly, we think) that Mesopotamian archaeology, for instance, was divided by the Flood into antediluvian and postdiluvian phases. But he still, despite this, upheld (wrongly, we think) a global Genesis Flood.     

Russia: From Error to Conversion

 

Losing the Battle - but Winning the War

We lost this battle: ‘To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace …’.

Hence we reaped this bitter harvest: ‘if not, [Russia] will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church …’.

 

The fault was our own.

With this in mind, we would have to agree with George Weigel, who, when writing this month that “US court decision to give same-sex marriage equality with traditional marriage puts it at odds with the Constitution, reason and biblical religion”, proceeds to make this intriguing comment – {that we would expand to include the Catholic Church in Australia} (“Ruling says it all: the law is an ass”):

 

The Catholic Church in the US bears its share of responsibility for this incoherence. It was clear 60 years ago that the old mainline Protestant cultural hegemony was fading, that an alternative cultural foundation for American democracy was necessary, and that a new cadre of citizen-leaders, capable of articulating the moral truths on which the American democratic experiment rests, had to be raised up – and the prime candidate for doing all that was the Catholic Church. It might have happened. But too much of the Church’s clerical and lay leadership lost its nerve after Humanae Vitae; the window of opportunity closed amidst the maelstrom of the 60s and the decadence of the 70s; and the forces of incoherence won the day.

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Saint Augustine warned us that the Devil is like an angry, furious dog on a chain.  If we keep him at bay and remain distant we are safe, but never provoke this furious beast. If we foolishly stray into his ambit, then we can expect to suffer a dire mauling.

Weigel continues: “…. The New Normal will not leave the Catholic Church alone”.

 

The upside to struggle, though, is that it builds character, even fosters genius:

 

So the Church must learn, fast, how to play good defence, defending the right of our people and our institutions to be themselves; it will do a service to America in the process. (A good primer for thinking through these issues is the recent pastoral letter by Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, Being Catholic Today: Catholic Identity in an Age of Challenge.)

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We need to become as persistently annoying to the proponents of what Weigel has labelled the “New Normal” as they have become to us. But, owing to that former loss of nerve, the battle to win the war has now become much harder. Weigel again: “Like everyone else who contests the New Normal’s ideology of Anything Goes, the Catholic Church will be aggressively attacked for daring to oppose that ideology”. That furious Dog is biting savagely.

 

The Enigma that is Russia

 

Not only could Russia potentially spread her errors (Our Lady at Fatima, 1917), but she actually began to do so, according to Sister Lucia, after World War II (1945). Pandora’s Box, containing all the evils of the world, was now opened.

It was only in 1984, with the collegial Consecration finally done - but some six agonising decades late - that a ‘mechanism’ was set in place to stem the flow. Soon the Soviet Union began to collapse.

Sadly, ‘Russia’s errors’ had by now become ‘the world’s errors’, so that it was no longer sufficient simply to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And so Pope John Paul II, in the afternoon of March 25, 1984, inside the Vatican Basilica and before the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima, consecrated (or entrusted) the fate of the entire World to Her:

 

So today we have wanted to entrust the fate of the world, of individuals, of peoples, to your Immaculate Heart in order to arrive at the very center of the mystery of Redemption, the mystery that is stronger than all the sins of man and of the world, the mystery in which one can conquer sin in its various forms, in which one can begin, can inaugurate, a new world.

 

Whilst error must ever be refuted, the tone of the Church at present - with error now so rampant - seems to be more emphatically to promote the Truth.

 

Today, unpredictable Russia, once the cause of so much human misery, appears to be slowly but surely shifting in the right direction. Gabrielle Kuby writes of this dramatic new outlook (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/from-russia-the-a):

 

Twenty-five years ago, when the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was still holding its conventions in the Kremlin under the iconic hammer and sickle, no one would have dreamed what would happen there on September 10 and 11, 2014: Inside the Kremlin, the heart of Russia, a two-day international conference was held with the title “Large Families and the Future of Humanity” — pro-life, pro-family, aiming to protect the moral foundation of family and society. ….

The people in the hall certainly don’t agree on Putin’s behavior in the Ukraine conflict. They do agree, however, that we are in a global anthropological crisis that is attacking the nature and identity of the human person, and they share the same determination to rise against it.

The topic here was not simply the family, but large families, because they can reverse the demographic crisis that threatens the future of Russia, not to mention that of most countries in the West. However, here the problem and its causes were put out in the open: U. S. journalist Donald Feder, advisor to the World Congress of Families and a wise, practicing Jew, said, a false perception of sexuality is the cause of the demographic crisis, specifically the idea that sexuality is for enjoyment only and must have no consequences.

On the contrary, sexuality’s foremost purpose is the creation of human life in the bond of love between man and woman. Because pills and condoms cannot always obstruct this creative force, we kill 50 million unborn children around the world every year. And we continue to do so despite the obviously menacing consequences, because we have a false concept not only of sexuality, but also of freedom. This false freedom knows nothing but the autonomous, commitment-free, self-defined individual, fed by gender ideology that denies God and nature.

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A consequence of the intensification of their efforts by the purveyors of world error will be that those who reject this New Normal ‘civilisation’ of queerdom must begin to put aside what divides them and more earnestly seek to unite. This must eventually lead to a reunion of East and West, enabling the Catholic Church again to “breathe with two lungs” -- East and West alike -- rather than with only one Western, or Latin, lung (John Paul II). Interesting, then, to read (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/historic-meeting-between-):

 

An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is "getting closer every day," a senior Orthodox prelate has said.

The unprecedented meeting would be a significant step towards healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, which split in the Great Schism of 1054.

"Now such a meeting is getting closer every day but it must be well prepared," Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church's foreign relations department, said in an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.

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Satan with a crushed head versus a Church breathing with its two lungs?

No contest.

Another step in the right direction towards unification would be to correct what Pope Francis has called the ‘scandal of the disunity’ of the date for Easter, thus signalling his openness to changing the date so that all Christians around the world could celebrate the feast of Easter on the same day. The Pope on June 12 said “we have to come to an agreement” for a common date on Easter.

Whilst all these developments might take time to accomplish, Our Lady of Cana, who hastened the Lord’s “hour”, can speed up grindingly slow human processes.