Posted on 05/09/2009 10:34:32 AM PDT by Salvation
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Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the first Saturdays of five successive months, as part of the revelations of the Blessed Virgin at Fátima, Portugal (1917). The faithful are to go to confession and on each of the five successive first Saturdays are to receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and meditate on the mysteries for at least fifteen minutes.
NO, this is not the First Saturday -- that was last week, 05-02-09.
(And I forgot to post this since I was saving it for a First Saturday!)
Catholic Devotions: First Saturday Devotion to Our Lady [Catholic Caucus]
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Why do we honor Our Lady on Saturdays?
Hint: It has to do with faithfulness.
From one of the threads above:
**This is a devotion of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, done to honour Our Lady’s sorrows ...**
Of course, part of Friday, Saturday, and part of Sunday were the days that Christ was in the tomb.
And from another one of the threads linked above:
**It may come as some surprise that this devotion requested by Heaven was not absolutely new. It fit precisely into the long tradition of Catholic piety that, having devoted Fridays to the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus Christ and to honoring His Sacred Heart, found it very natural to devote Saturdays to His Most Holy Mother.**
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