1925 to 2025 Five First Saturday- Urgent
100 years of asking and have you responded and indeed made this known to family and friends?The devotion of 5 consecutive First Saturday’s is a “signal grace,(what is a signal grace? A 'signal grace' is a free gift from God (grace) that is extraordinary in nature and evident in some manner (signal) and in this instance - “the assurance of receiving at the moment of death «all the graces necessary for salvation». A more wonderful promise could hardly be conceived, for it concerns success or failure in «the most important business, our only business: the great affair of our eternal salvation»”.392
At the end I will present you with a gift to ensure your obligation is fulfilled for January 2026.
PONTEVEDRA (Spain): THE APPARITIONS AND THE MESSAGE376
DECEMBER 10, 1925: THE APPARITION OF THE CHILD JESUS AND OUR LADY
On the evening of Thursday, December 10, after supper, the young postulant Lucy – who was only eighteen years old – returned to her cell. There she was visited by Our Lady and the Child Jesus. Let us listen to her account (written in the third person):377
«On December 10, 1925, the Most Holy Virgin appeared to her, and by Her side, elevated on a luminous cloud, was the Child Jesus. The Most Holy Virgin rested Her hand on her shoulder, and as She did so, Sheshowed her 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 moment of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation,
all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months,
shall confess,
receive Holy Communion,
recite five decades of the Rosary,
and keep Me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary,
with the intention of making reparation to Me.”»378
What a touching scene, and yet so simple, described with the sobriety of the Gospel itself! What a charming dialogue, in which the Child Jesus and His Mother take turns speaking – He to plead Her cause, while She makes Her requests... to lead us back to Him.
A subsequent apparition before and after the request as related above, stressed the urgency of Heavens request and occurred when Sister Lucia was in the garden where she meet a little boy.
(Before,) (NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER, 1925)
Entering the Convent garden « a few months before, I had encountered a child, whom I asked if he knew the Hail Mary. He had answered “Yes”, and I had asked him to say it to me, to hear him say it. At the end of three Hail Marys, I asked him to say it alone. Since he kept silence and seemed unable to say it alone, I asked him if he knew the church of Saint Mary. He said yes. Then I told him to go there every day and say this prayer: “O my Heavenly Mother, give me Your Child Jesus!” I taught him this prayer, and I went away.»
After the Heavenly visitation and the requests left unheeded
On FEBRUARY 15, 1926: A NEW APPARITION OF THE CHILD JESUS
Sr. Lucy’s moving account, which we are quoting at length, continues:
«So, on February 15, coming back as usual (to empty a garbage can outside the garden), I found a child there who seemed to be the same one as before, and I asked him: “Did you ask our Heavenly Mother for the Child Jesus?” The child turned to me and said: “And you, have you revealed to the world what the Heavenly Mother asked you?” And, having said that, he turned into a resplendent child.
«Then recognizing that it was Jesus, I said to Him:
– “My Jesus! You know what my confessor said to me in the letter I read You. He said that this vision had to be repeated, there had to be facts permitting us to believe it, and that the Mother Superior alone could not spread this devotion.”
– “It is true that the Mother Superior alone can do nothing, but with My grace, she can do anything. It is enough that your confessor gives you permission, and that your superior announce this for it to be believed by the people, even if they do not know who it was revealed to.”
– “But my confessor said in his letter that this devotion already exists in the world, because many souls receive You every first Saturday of the month, in honour of Our Lady and the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.”
– “It is true, My daughter, that many souls begin, but few persevere to the very end, and those who persevere do it to receive the graces promised. The souls who make the five First Saturdays with fervour and to make reparation to the Heart of your Heavenly Mother, please Me more than those who make fifteen, but are lukewarm and indifferent.”
– “My Jesus! Many souls find it difficult to confess on Saturday. Will You allow a confession within eight days to be valid?”
– “Yes. It can even be made later on, provided that the souls are in the state of grace when they receive Me on the first Saturday, and that they had the intention of making reparation to the Sacred Heart of Mary.”
– “My Jesus! And those who forget to form this intention?”
– “They can form it at the next confession, taking advantage of their first opportunity to go to confession.”
«Right after that He disappeared, without me finding out anything more about Heaven’s desires, up to the present.»384
The Boy Jesus with real concern for His Mother a path that only leads to Him. Stressed our purpose to love and
“make reparation to the Heart of your Heavenly Mother” and perseverance in this reparation, in completing the 5 First Saturdays of reparation.
The Communion of reparation, of course, is the most important act of the devotion of reparation. All the other acts centre around it. To understand its meaning and significance, it must be considered in relation with the miraculous Communion of autumn 1916; already this communion was completely oriented to the idea of reparation,394 thanks to the words of the Angel.
To provide you with the generosity of Holy Mother Church. Now as your Priest permission is given to me to exonerate you for yesterdaysFirst Saturday obligation which has now passed.
“Our Lord gave the answer to Sister Lucy during the night of May 29-30, 1930: «The practice of this devotion will be equally acceptable on the Sunday following the first Saturday when My priests, for a just cause, allow it to souls.» Thus not only the Communion, but also the recitation of the Rosary and meditation on the mysteries can be transferred to Sunday, for just motives of which priests are left the judges. It is easy to ask for this permission in confession. Note once again the Catholic, ecclesial character of the message of Fatima. It is to His priests, and not to the individual conscience, that Jesus gives the responsibility of granting this additional concession."
In conclusion.
Sr. Lucia - speaking to Our Lord about questions four and five, I suddenly felt myself more intimately possessed by the Divine Presence and, if I am not mistaken405, this is what was revealed to me:
«My daughter, the reason is simple. There are five types of offences and blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
1. Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception.
2. Blasphemies against Her Virginity.
3. Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, in refusing at the same time to recognize Her as the Mother of men.
4. The blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of children indifference or scorn, or even hatred of this Immaculate Mother.
5. The offences of those who outrage Her directly in Her holy images.
«Here, My daughter, is the reason why the Immaculate Heart of Mary inspired Me to ask for this little act of reparation...»406
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