Cardinals Burke and Sarah Back Global Push for First Saturday Devotion at 100 Years
At the centenary of Our Lady’s 1925 request at Pontevedra, Spain, Cardinals Raymond Burke and Robert Sarah highlight the need for reparation to her Immaculate Heart.
Cardinals Raymond Burke and Robert Sarah are among senior prelates urging greater participation in the First Saturday Devotion and are backing an initiative that originated in France, aimed at encouraging the faithful to take part.
The Marian devotion, which is centered on making reparation for offenses and blasphemies against Mary’s Immaculate Heart that include denying her perpetual virginity or the Immaculate Conception, promises two immense graces for those who participate with true devotion and repentance: Our Lady’s assistance at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation, and peace on earth.
The 100th anniversary of the devotion is Dec. 10. To mark its centenary, the “Alliance of the First Saturdays of Fatima” — a French-based global federation of Catholic groups whose mission is to promote and spread the devotion — launched the “First Saturdays of Fatima Jubilee 2025” on Jan. 4.
The initiative’s objective is first to make people aware of Our Lady’s request to carry out the devotion, and second, to obtain the conversion of the world, resulting in peace that will come through the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
“Let us show God that we know how to unite ourselves for once in order to obey this essential request of Our Lady,” said Régis de Lassus, chief coordinator of Salve-Corde, the umbrella organization overseeing the initiative.
The alliance, which is inviting individuals to carry out the devotion independently or to join or create a “First Saturday Group,” is featuring a map on its website, showing nearby groups, although as of writing this appears limited to France, and if there isn’t a group in the vicinity, tools to help create one. Meditations are also provided each month.
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They speak when it's safe to speak. God will judge them for their silence when Catholics were struggle to get a Holy Mass because TLM parishes or Masses were unjustly shut down. At that time, they will not be able to hide behind the first Saturday devotion precisely because Catholics need to attend Mass to fulfill this devotion and tradition loving Catholics cannot fulfill this if they don't have a TLM to go to.
So no way Burke and Sarah are doing anything for us, even if they appear to do so.
Here is a compilation of what we at one Our Lady of Fatima parish did for our First Saturday Devotions. Along with Benediction and a Holy Hour, it makes for a powerful First Saturday.
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*****First Saturday Devotions to the Immaculate Heart of Mary*****
From the angel of Portugal 1916:
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee; And I beg pardon for those who do not
believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love Thee.
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee; And I beg pardon for those who do not
believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love Thee.
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee; And I beg pardon for those who do not
believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love Thee.
From the angel of Portugal 1916:
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee
the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in tabernacles
throughout the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference, by which
He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in union with the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.
From Our Lady of the Rosary to the three children July 13, 1917:
“Sacrifice yourself for sinners, and say many times, especially when you make the sacrifice:
O my Jesus, it is for love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the
Immaculate Heart of Mary and for the conversion of poor sinners.
Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth, and tender Mother of
men, in accordance with thy ardent wish made known at Fatima, I consecrate to thy
Immaculate Heart myself, my brethren, my country and the whole human race. Reign over
us, Most Holy Mother of God, and teach us how to make the Heart of Thy Son, Our Lord
Jesus Christ reign and triumph in us even as It has reigned and triumphed in thee.
Reign over us, dearest Mother, that we may be thine in prosperity and in adversity;
in joy and in sorrow; in health and in sickness; in life and in death.
O most compassionate Heart of Mary, Queen of Virgins, watch over our minds and
our hearts and preserve them from the deluge of impurity which thou didst lament so
sorrowfully at Fatima. We want to be pure like thee. We want to atone for the many sins
committed against Jesus and thee. We want to call down upon our country and the whole
world the peace of God in justice and charity.
Therefore, we now promise to imitate thy virtues by the practice of a Christian life
without regard to human respect. We resolve to receive Holy Communion on the First
Saturday of every month and to offer thee five decades of the rosary each day together with
our sacrifices in a spirit of reparation and penance. Amen.
Act of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Most Holy Virgin and our beloved Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of
the Immaculate Heart, surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at
every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Moved by the ardent desire of loving
thee as our Mother and of promoting a true devotion to thy Immaculate Heart, we
prostrate ourselves at thy feet to prove the sorrow we feel for the grief that men cause thee
and to atone by means of our prayers and sacrifices for the offenses with which men return
thy tender love.
Obtain for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. A word from thee will obtain
grace and forgiveness for all. Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners that they may love
Jesus and cease to offend God, already so much offended, and thus avoid eternal
punishment. Turn thine eyes of mercy towards us so that henceforth we may love God
with all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever in Heaven. Amen.
Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray for our dear country.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Sanctify our clergy.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Make our Catholics more fervent.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Guide and inspire those who govern us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cure the sick who confide in thee.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Console the sorrowful who trust in thee.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Help those who invoke thine aid.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Deliver us from all dangers.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Help us to resist temptation.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Obtain for us all we lovingly ask of thee.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Make our family life holy.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Help those who are dear to us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Bring back to the right road our erring brothers.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Give us back our ancient fervor.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Obtain for us pardon of our manifold sins and offenses.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Bring all men to the feet of thy Divine Child.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Obtain peace for the world.
Let us pray
O God of infinite goodness and mercy, fill our hearts with a great confidence in Thy
most holy Mother, whom we invoke under the title of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and
grant us by her most powerful intercession all the graces, spiritual and temporal, which we
need. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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HYMN to be sung: "Dear Lady of Fatima"
1. Dear Lady of Fatima,
We come on bended knee,
To beg your intercession
For peace and unity.
Dear Mary, won't you show us
The right and shining way?
We pledge our love and offer you
A Rosary each day.
2. You promised at Fatima
Each time that you appeared,
To help us if we pray to you
To banish war and fear.
Dear Lady, on First Saturdays
We ask your guiding hand,
For grace and guidance here on earth,
And protection for our land.
Promises of the Five First Saturdays
Then the most Holy 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 announce in My name that I promise to assist, at the moment of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all those who:
1. on the first Saturday of five consecutive months,
2. shall confess,
3. receive Holy Communion,
4. recite five decades of the Rosary,
5. keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries of the Rosary,
and
6. with the intention of making reparation to Me.
Why Five First Saturdays:.
Our Lord Himself gave the answer to Sister Lucia:
My daughter, the reason is simple. There are five types of offenses and blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
1. Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception;
2. Blasphemies against Her Virginity;
3. Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, in refusing at the same time to recognize
Her as the Mother of men;
4. The blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of children,
indifference or scorn, or even hatred of this Immaculate Mother;
5. The offenses of those who outrage Her directly in Her holy images.
Here, my daughter, is the reason why the Immaculate Heart of Mary inspired Me to ask for this little act of reparation. (May 29, 1930)!4