Just Another Day in Paradise!

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. There are different devotions to our Blessed Mother of Fatima and one of them is the First Saturday Devotion.

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)

"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. Go to Confession (8 days before or after, better before, but with this intention)
2. Receive Communion in a state of grace
3. Say a five-decade rosary
4. Meditate on the 15 mysteries for 15 minutes

"The reason for five 1st Saturdays is the five blasphemies

1. against Her Immaculate Conception ,
2. against Her perpetual virginity,
3. against Her divine maternity of God and mankind,
4. involving instilling in the hearts of children indifference, contempt or hate against this Immaculate Mother
5. against Her sacred Images."