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to the Immaculate Heart of Mary |
| The observance of
the first
Saturday in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is intended to make
reparation
to it for the sins of mankind. This devotion was revealed by the
Blessed
Virgin to three children, Francisco, Jacinta and Lucia to whom she
appeared
at Fatima,
Portugal, in 1917. On June 13, 1917, Our Lady specifically
stated
in speaking to Lucia: "Jesus wants to make use of you to make me known
and loved. He wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate
Heart. Our Lady repeated this in the July 13th apparition when, after the vision of Hell that was granted to the three children, she said: "You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace." Our Lady asks for reparation. "There are so many souls whom the Justice of God condemns for sins committed against me, that I have come to ask reparation." "O my Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. (Sacrifice Prayer) The following First Saturday devotions are efficacious in honoring the Immaculate Heart of Mary: 1. The
Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass "I promise to help at the hour of death, with the graces needed for salvation, whoever on the First Saturday of five consecutive months shall: 1. Confess and Receive Holy Communion. Consider a 1st Saturday
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