First Fridays and First Saturdays Devotions

[Shin]

Just a reminder we have a first Friday and a first Saturday ahead.

First Friday Promise of the Sacred Heart
from Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary

The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under My displeasure, nor without receiving their Sacraments; My Heart shall be their assured refuge at the last hour.

First Saturday Reparation
from Our Lady to Sister Lucy of Fatima

The Blessed Mother said: "My daughter, look at my heart surrounded by the 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 all the graces necessary for salvation all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, go to Confession and receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to me."

* Confession
* Communion
* 5 decades of the Rosary
* Keep Mary company by meditation for fifteen minutes on the Rosary mysteries.
* All this done with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

[Shin]

The Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary

1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.
2. I will give peace in their families.
3. I will console them in all their troubles.
4. They shall find in My heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of death.
5. I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings.
6. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Tepid souls shall become fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.
9. I will bless the homes in which the image of My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and honoured.
10. I will give to priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts.
11. Those who propagate this devotion shall have their name written in My Heart, and it shall never be effaced.
12. The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under My displeasure, nor without receiving their Sacraments; My Heart shall be their assured refuge at the last hour.

“And He showed me that it was His great desire of being loved by men and of withdrawing them from the path of ruin into which Satan hurls such crowds of them, that made Him form the design of manifesting His Heart to men, with all the treasures of love, of mercy, of grace, of sanctification and salvation which It contains, in order that those who desire to render Him and procure for Him all the honour and love possible, might themselves be abundantly enriched with those divine treasures of which this Heart is the source. He should be honoured under the figure of this Heart of flesh, and Its image should be exposed . . . He promised me that wherever this image should be expose with a view towards showing It special honour, He would pour forth His blessings and graces. This devotion was the last effort of His love that He would grant to men in these latter ages, in order to withdraw them from the empire of Satan which He desired to destroy, and thus to introduce them into the sweet liberty of the rule of His love, which He wished to restore in the hearts of all those who should embrace this devotion.”

– St. Margaret Mary

AN ACT OF REPARATION FOR THE FIRST SATURDAYS OF THE MONTH

O Most Holy Virgin,
and Our Mother,
we listen with grief to the complaints
of your Immaculate Heart
surrounded with the thorns placed therein
at every moment by the blasphemies
and ingratitude of ungrateful humanity.
We are moved by the ardent desire
of loving you as Our Mother
and of promising a true devotion
to Your Immaculate Heart.

We therefore kneel before You
to manifest the sorrow we feel
for the grievances that people cause You,
and to atone by our prayers
and sacrifices for the offenses
with which they return your love.
Obtain for them
and for us the pardon of so many sins.
Hasten the conversion of sinners
that they may love Jesus Christ
and cease to offend the Lord,
already so much offended.
Turn you eyes of mercy toward us,
that we may love God
with all our heart on earth
and enjoy Him forever in Heaven.

Amen.

[martin]

I love the devotions that have promises attached. It's as if Our Lord were encouraging us even more to practice them. 

[Brigid]

I feel that devotions to His Mother are a 'twofer' since I'm sure He is very pleased with devotion to His Mother!