First Saturday Devotions

Join us for our First Saturday Devotion as we seek the intercession of our Blessed Mother as we pray for the salvation of the world. 

7:30 AM | Confession
8:00 AM | Recitation of the Rosary
8:30 AM | Mass
9:00 AM | Fifteen minutes of silent meditation on the mysteries of the Rosary

About The Five First Saturdays
(from catholic.com)

The Five First Saturdays Devotion is a request made by Our Lady of Fatima. The Blessed Mother promised to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all who, as an act of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the first five Saturdays of consecutive months:

1. Go to confession
2. Receive Holy Communion
3. Say five decades of the rosary
4. Keep Mary company for fifteen minutes meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the rosary

The sacramental confession can be received within twenty days either before or after the reception of Communion, as the Holy See’s Apostolic Penitentiary has decreed, provided the communicant is in a state of grace for Communion.

Reception of Holy Communion must take place within twenty-four hours of the first Saturday. The reception of Communion need not be part of participating in a Mass.

The fifteen minutes of meditation are in addition to the recitation of the Rosary.
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(From sicutincaelo.org)

One of the requests made by Our Lady of Fatima (early 20th century) was the "Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays."  This devotion is given to us specifically as a means of making reparation to her Immaculate Heart.  It has a notable correlation with the devotion of the Nine First Fridays in reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  The First Fridays were asked for by Our Lord through St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in Paray-le-Monial, France in the 17th century.  As Cardinal Cerejeira, Patriarch Archbishop of Lisbon, once expressed:

Fatima will be for the cult of the Heart of Mary what Paray-le-Monial was for the cult of the Heart of Jesus.  Fatima is, in a certain sense, the continuation, or rather the conclusion, of Paray-le-Monial: Fatima reunites those two Hearts, which God Himself united in the divine work of Redemption.

During the apparition in which Heaven asked us to make the devotion of the First Saturdays, Our Divine Lord pleaded to Sr. Lucy (one of the seers at Fatima): "Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered 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."

Our Lady stated that by fulfilling her requests "many souls will be saved and there will be peace [i.e. world peace]."  We will not have this peace by any other means, for she also stated: "Only I can help you."  Furthermore, she promises "to assist at the moment of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all those who" will make the First Saturdays.

To learn more about the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima and the important events surrounding them, visit: fatima.org.