CATHOLIC ARROWS

DEVOTION OF REPARATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

This devotion is one of reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and comes from Our Lady of Fatima during her third apparition to the 3 Fatima visionaries on July 13th 1917.

Our Lady showed them a terrifying glimpse of hell and 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… I shall come to ask for the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays of the month”.

Sr Lucia later wrote:

“On December 10, 1925, the Most Holy Virgin appeared to Lucia, and by Her side, elevated on a luminous cloud, was the Child Jesus…She [that is Mary] showed her [Lucia] a Heart encircled by thorns.” 

Our Lady then said:

“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 … mysteries of the Rosary.”

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“

Jesus Himself later revealed to Sister Lucia the reason for their being five Saturdays of reparation:

“My daughter, the reason is simple. There are five types of offenses and blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary: 

1: Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception. 

2: Blasphemies against Her Perpetual 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 offenses 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“.

THE 4 REQUIREMENTS

On the first Saturday of 5 consecutive months:

1. Receive communion on that Saturday.

(Jesus told Sister Lucy, in answer to the question concerning those who did not have Mass in their parish on Saturdays: “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.”)

2. Go to confession on that Saturday.

(Although this can be done either 8 days before or afterwards. If for some reason this is not possible you can go to confession even beyond those 8 days, but you should go as soon as possible. Jesus, told her that confession could be made beyond this time frame as long as souls were in a state of grace when receiving Him in communion on the First Saturday, and that they had the intention of making Reparation to His Mother’s Immaculate Heart)

3. Recite 5 decades of the Holy Rosary.

(In addition, you could pray the Seven Sorrows Rosary)

4.  Console Our Lady by meditating for 15 minutes on one or more mysteries of the Rosary.

(this time is in addition to praying the actual Rosary prayers).

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