All are invited to participate in the First Saturday Devotion in honor of Our Holy Mother Mary on the first Saturday of each month. This devotion was requested by Our Lady of Fatima.
The devotions consists of attending Reconciliation (7:15 am), followed by praying the rosary (7:45 am), receiving Holy Communion at Mass (at 8:15 am), and spending 15 minutes meditating on the mysteries of the rosary. This should be done for five consecutive "First Saturdays" all with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
What are the Five First Saturdays?
Our Lady explained those Five First Saturdays to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries, on Dec. 10, 1925, in the following way:
"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."
Why five First Saturdays in particular?
Jesus explained this to Sr. Lucia on May 29-30, 1930, saying, “Daughter, the motive is simple: There are five kinds of offenses and blasphemies spoken against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” First: blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception, Second: against her Virginity, Third: against the Divine Maternity, refusing, at the same time, to receive her as the Mother of mankind Fourth: those who seek publicly to implant, in the hearts of children, indifference, disrespect, and even hate for this Immaculate Mother, and Fifth: those who revile her directly in her sacred images.