On the first Saturday of each month at 8:15 in the morning the people of our parish gather in our church to pray the Rosary as part of the First Saturday Devotion. After the Rosary, Mass is held at 9:00 a.m.
In the town of Fátima, Portugal, starting on May 13th of 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary began to appear to three children over a period of six months. She became known as Our Lady of Fátima.
The Blessed Mother, in the Fátima revelations among others, recommended the ‘First Saturday Devotion.’
“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...”
Some time later, the Blessed Mother appeared to Sister Lúcia years later in her convent at Ponteverdra, Spain:
“Look, my daughter, at my heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with 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 fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.”
