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Our Lady of Fatima and the promise of the first five Saturdays
In the secret of July, Our Lady said:
- "I will come to ask consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart
and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. "
The message of Fatima was not, therefore, permanently closed
the cycle of apparitions at the Cova da Iria in 1917.
On December 10, 1925, the Blessed ***,
along with the infant Jesus on a cloud of light,
appeared to Sister Lucy in her cell, in the House of the Religious Dorothean in Pontevedra.
Putting her hand on his shoulder, showed him a heart surrounded by thorns, which was on the other hand.
The baby Jesus pointed to the heart and urged the seer with the following words:
"Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother,
that is covered with thorns which ungrateful men at all times pierce him,
with no one to make an act of reparation to remove them. "
The Blessed *** added:
"Look, my daughter, my heart encircled by thorns
to which ungrateful men pierce Me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude.
You, at least, I see the console, and says that all those who
for five months on the first Saturday,
if they confess, receive Holy Communion,
I pray a rosary and do fifteen minutes of company
meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary in order to desagravarem Me,
I promise to assist them in the hour of death with all the graces necessary for the salvation of souls. "
On February 15, 1926, the Child Jesus makes to appear to Sister Lucia,
Pontevedra in the courtyard that opens onto the street in the same house of the Sisters Dorothean
and asked him if he had disclosed his devotion to the Blessed Mother
The seer explained to him the difficulties presented by the confessor,
and explained that the Mother Superior was ready to spread it,
but that the priest had said nothing that she only could. Jesus replied:
- "It is true that your Superior alone nothing can, but with my grace can do anything."
Sister Lucy explained the difficulty some people confess on Saturday,
and asked to be valid confession eight days. Jesus replied:
- "Yes, it may be many more days still, provided that, when they receive Me,
are in favor and have the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. "
Sister Lucia also asked those who forget to form the intention to confess,
to what our Lord said:
- "They can do it in another confession follows, taking the first opportunity they have to confess."
In the wake of 29 to 30 May 1930,
Our Lord spoke to Sister Lucy inside.
At that time, decided to yet another difficulty:
"It will also accept the practice of this devotion on Sunday following the first Saturday when my Priests
for good reasons, so granted to souls. "
(The Book of the apparitions of Fatima in manuscscritos of Sister Lucia,
Antonio Augusto Borelli Machado, pp. 71 and 72)