Five First Saturdays

	When Jesus Showed Mary's Heart to Lucia in Fatima On December 10, 1925, the Most Holy Virgin appeared to Lucia of Fatima, and beside her, borne by a luminous cloud, the Child Jesus. The Blessed Virgin put her hand on Lucia’s shoulder and showed her, at the same time, a Heart surrounded by thorns that she held in her other hand. At that same moment, the Child Jesus said to her: "Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, surrounded 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 Most Holy Virgin said: "Behold, my daughter, 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, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months shall receive the sacrament of Confession, 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." MDM Team