Requested by Our Lady at Fatima
The Communion of reparation on five First Saturdays of the month: what Our Lady asked for, what she promised, and how to live it.
In short
For five consecutive First Saturdays, with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
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On the first Saturday of five consecutive months.
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Close to the First Saturday, so as to be in the state of grace.
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Receive Holy Communion in reparation.
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Pray five decades of the Holy Rosary.
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Keep Our Lady company, meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.
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The heart of it all: do everything to console the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The promise: to assist at the hour of death “with the graces necessary for salvation.”
July 13, 1917
In the third apparition at Fatima, after showing the children the secret, Our Lady said:
“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 consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays.”
The Message of Fatima, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2000.
December 10, 1925
Our Lady kept her word. On December 10, 1925, Lucia, then an 18-year-old postulant with the Dorothean Sisters in Pontevedra, Spain, saw the Blessed Virgin with the Child Jesus beside her on a luminous cloud. Our Lady showed her a heart encircled by thorns. The Child Jesus 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 Blessed 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 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 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries of the rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.”
Sister Lucia’s Memoirs, as published by the Shrine of Fatima.
Practical notes
Confession does not have to be on the Saturday itself; it can be made in the days before or after, as long as you receive Communion in the state of grace.
The 15 minutes of meditation are in addition to the Rosary. You may meditate on one or several mysteries; you do not need to cover all of them each month.
The intention is what gives meaning to everything else: to console Our Lady and make reparation for the offenses against her Immaculate Heart, also for the conversion of sinners.
Live the First Saturdays with us
Every first Saturday of the month at 6:30 a.m., we pray the Holy Rosary in procession and take part in Holy Mass with the Communion of reparation.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
