Prayers of Reparation (Catholic Devotional/Caucus)

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[Pyro7480]

From How Do I Start the First Saturdays?

Why are there five First Saturdays and not seven, or nine? Lucia once asked this question of Our Lord and received as an answer: “My daughter, the motive is simple, there are five kinds of offences and blasphemies uttered against the Immaculate Heart of Mary: (1) blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception (2) blasphemies against Her Virginity (3) blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity (4) blasphemies in the hearts of those who openly seek to foster in the hearts of children indifference or even hatred for this Immaculate Mother (5) the offences of those who directly outrage Her in Her Holy Images."

From the above, it is easy to see that each of the Five Saturdays can correspond to a specific offence. By offering the graces received during each First Saturday as reparation for the offence being prayed for, the participant can hope to help remove the thorns from Our Lady’s Heart....

...The spirit of Reparation: All these acts have to be done with the intention of offering reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the offences committed against Her. Everyone who offends Her commits, so to speak, a two-fold offence, for these sins also offend her Divine Son, Christ, and so endanger our salvation. They give a bad example to others and weaken the strength of society to withstand immoral onslaughts. Such devotions therefore make us consider not only the enormity of the offence against God, but also the effects of sin on human society as well as the need for undoing these social effects even when the offender repents and is converted. Further, this reparation emphasises our responsibility toward sinners who, themselves, will not pray and make reparation for their sins.

From Fatima Angel's Prayer

Oh Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.

Reparation for Blasphemy and Insults

Most glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, Saint Joseph, her most Chaste Spouse, and Infant Jesus, turn thine eyes of pity upon us, miserable sinners; we are sore afflicted by the many evils that surround us in this life, but especially do we feel our hearts break within us upon hearing the dreadful insults and blasphemies uttered against Thee, O Virgin Immaculate and Queen of the Clergy, St. Joseph, ever chaste and patron of the Church and dearest Sweet Savior, O how these impious sayings offend the infinite Majesty of God and Thee, His only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ! How they provoke His indignation and give us cause to fear the terrible effects of His vengeance! Would that the sacrifice of our lives might avail to put an end to such outrages and blasphemies; were it so, how gladly we should make it, for we desire, O most holy Mother, holy foster-father of Jesus and Divine Infant, to love Thee and to honor Thee with all our hearts, since this is the will of God. And just because we love Thee, we will do all that is in our power to make Thee honored and loved by all men. In the meantime do Thou, our merciful Holy Family, the supreme comforter of the afflicted, accept this our act of reparation which we offer Thee for ourselves and for all our families, as well as for all who impiously blaspheme Thee, not knowing what they say. Do Thou obtain for them from Almighty God the grace of conversion, and thus render more manifest and more glorious Thy kindness, Thy power and Thy great mercy and tenderness for sinners who cry out to Thee. May they join with us in proclaiming Thee blessed among women, the Immaculate Virgin and most compassionate Mother of God, thy Purity and Chastity, O Blessed St. Joseph, and Thy reign over men, O Lord, Jesus Christ, Our Savior and King!

Hail Mary three times.

Source: Based on Prayers from The Raccolta, 1950

[Pyro7480]

Remember St. John Bosco's vision, and keep in mind that the fact that these two are pillars are the reason that they are subject to so much attack.

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

Please keep the intention of reparation in your daily prayers, and if you feel so called, make your prayers of reparation on this thread.

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[big'ol_freeper]

Thank you so much for posting this. Besides prayers of reparation it is good reminder of the vision of St. John Bosco.

[stfassisi]

Thank you for posting this ,Dear Pyro.

It's ironic that I was just recently listening to a teaching on Saint John Bosco’s vision along with the Fatima vision.

Through humility, Our Blessed Mother who is a “type” of the Church will crush the head of the serpent.

I wish you a Blessed evening!

[stfassisi]

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[AnAmericanMother]

Have you read this book?

Pretty amazing.

[BaBaStooey]

I have a newer Raccolta with the following prayer of reparation for blasphemies against the B.V.M.

Most glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, turn thine eyes in pity upon us, miserable sinners; we are sore afflicted by the many evils that surround us in this life, but especially do we feel our hearts break within us upon hearing the dreadful insults and blasphemies uttered against thee, O Virgin Immaculate. O how these impious sayings offend the infinite Majesty of God and of His only-begotten son, Jesus Christ! How they provoke his indignation and give us cause to fear the terrible effects of His vengance! Would that the sacrifice of our lives might avail to put an end to such outrages and blasphemies; were it so, how gladly we should make it, for we desire, O most holy Mother, to love thee and to honor thee with all our hearts, since this is the will of God. And just because we love thee, we will do all that is in our power to make thee honored and loved by all men. In the meantime do thou, our merciful Mother, the supreme comforter of the afflicted, accept this our act of reparation which we offer thee for ourselves and for all our families, as well as for all who impiously blaspheme thee, not knowing what they say. Do thou obtain for them from Almighty God the grace of conversion, and this render more manifest and more glorious thy kindness, thy power, and thy great mercy. May they join with us in proclaiming thee blessed among women, the Immaculate Virgin and most compassionate Mother of God.

Then, say the Hail Mary three times.

[fortunecookie]

Bookmarking! Thanks for posting.

[blackpacific]

Blasphemy can only be committed against God. And the Blessed Virgin would never sign up to promoting falsehoods about the First Five Saturdays. Certainly we can make acts of reparation against sacrileges committed against our sweet mother Mary, but since we can only offer hyperdulia to her, reserving latria for God alone, it does not make any sense to talk about blasphemy unless you are talking about the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Who is God and man. I looked on numerous websites and that same list you posted is printed, but someone twisted and embellished the original purpose of the First Saturdays. Remember, Mary is Christo-centric, she is always presenting Jesus to us, the Immaculate Conception is always focused on the Incarnate Word. She would not have it any other way.

[Pyro7480]

The list of five item is from Sister Lucia herself. See The 5 Sins Against the Immaculate Heart of Mary From what you've heard, what is the purpose of the First Saturdays?

Also, see the definition of blasphemy here.

It is said to be against God, though this may be only mediately, as when the contumelious word is spoken of the saints or of sacred things, because of the relationship they sustain to God and His service.... The question has been raised whether blasphemy against the saints differs in kind from that uttered immediately against God. While De Lugo thinks that such a difference obtains (De Poenit., disp. xvi, n. 178 sqq.) the opposite opinion of St. Alphonsus seems more tenable, for as the latter theologian observes, the saints, ordinarily speaking, are not blasphemed because of their own excellence but because of their close relationship to God (Theol. Moral., lib. IV, n. 132).

[blackpacific]

Thanks for the kind reply. Furtunately, as Catholics, we do not rely upon private revelation as a rule of Faith. The EWTN website does not list those 5 supposed blasphemys so starkly. The 5 first saturdays are to make reparation, namely holy communions of reparation, for the sins of mankind. Insofar as the Immaculata is united in purpose and innocence with the Sacred Heart, I suppose blasphemies against her might be possible, but she is in reality the highest of creatures by grace. I completed the first five saturdays once, and on the last one, the priest did not show. It kind of blew the consecutive requirement. Then a priest from Nigeria, who had just stepped of a plane at Los Angeles International Airport, showed up from out of nowhere to help us complete the devotion. It was quite remarkable.