News: The requests of Our Lady of Fatima for the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays is still not well known. On July 13, 1917, Our Lady promised to the seers at Fatima, “I shall come to ask for the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays.” This was fulfilled in December 1925, when Sister Lucia by then a Dorothean sister in the convent at Pontevedra, Spain told us what happened:
“On December 10, 1925, the Most Holy Virgin appeared to me, and by Her side, elevated on a luminous cloud, was the Child Jesus. The most Holy Virgin rested Her hand on my shoulder, and as She did so, She showed me a heart encircled by thorns, which She was holding in Her other hand. At the same time, the Child 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 the Most Holy Virgin 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 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 meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to Me.”
“My daughter, the reason for the Five First Saturdays is simple. There are five of blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
- Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception.
- Blasphemies against Her perpetual virginity.
- Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, in refusing at the same time to recognize Her as the Mother of men.
- Blasphemies of those who seek to sow in the hearts of children indifference, and hatred of the Mother of God.
- The offenses of those who outrage Her directly in Her holy images.
(see link below on how to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the First Saturday)
https://www.shopfatima.com/fsp-first-saturday-passport.html
December 5th: First Friday Mass at 7:00 pm. Followed by all night Eucharistic Adoration. The sorrowful mysteries, chaplet of divine mercy, confession and more. Rev. Joseph Akilo will say the Mass.
December 6th: First Saturday Devotion at the shrine, starting at 10:00a.m with Holy Mass, Rosary, Confessions. Followed by a feast, come and enjoy. Rev. Augustin Anda will preside. (see flyer included)
December 20th: The Pro-life Mass at 10:30 am. Following Mass there will be a pro-life rosary
