​“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 hour of death, with all graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep Me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to Me.”
-Our Lady to Sr. Lucia

About the Devotion
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The Five First Saturdays devotion is one of the principal points of the Fatima message. It centers on the urgent need for mankind to offer reparation and expiate for the many injuries that the Immaculate Heart of Mary suffers from the hands of both impious and indifferent men.

What Our Lady Asks
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On the First Saturday during 5 Consecutive Months,
the Devotion consists of:

1. Going to Confession

2. Receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion

3. Saying five decades of the Rosary

4. Meditating for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary
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All this offered in reparation for the sins of blasphemy and ingratitude committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Can you gain a plenary indulgence for reciting the rosary?
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The Enchiridion (Handbook) of Indulgences states that “a plenary indulgence is granted when the rosary is recited in a church or oratory or when it is recited in a family, a religious community, or a pious association. A partial indulgence is granted for its recitation in all other circumstances.”

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: Those who deny Our Lady’s Virginity

Third: Those who deny 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 hatred for this Immaculate Mother

Fifth: Those who revile her directly in her sacred images

Here, dear daughter, is the motive that led the Immaculate Heart of Mary to petition Me to ask for this small act of reparation. And, out of regard for her, to move My mercy to pardon those souls who have had the misfortune to offend her. As for you, seek endlessly, with your prayers and sacrifices, to move Me to mercy in regard to these poor souls."

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Prayers Taught by the Angel of Peace

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee! I ask pardon for those who
do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee.

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Most Holy Trinity—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—I adore Thee profoundly.
I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ,
present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges,
and indifferences whereby He is offended.
And through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.
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Prayers Taught by Our Lady at Fatima
 
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.
 
 
O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell,
​lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy.
 
 
Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
 

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​2024 First Saturday Dates

                   □January 6                      □July 6

                   □February 3                   □August 3

                   □March 2                         □September 7

                   □April 6                             □October 5

                   □May 4                              □November 2
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                   □June 1                             □December 7

Listen to the talks given by our Chaplain, Fr. Ted Trinko during our lenten retreat: "​The Sequel to Our Lady of Fatima:
The Five First Saturdays Devotion