First Saturdays Devotion

Short description: Set of Catholic devotions

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The First Saturdays Devotion, also called the Act of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Catholic devotion which, according to Sister Lúcia of Fátima, was requested by the Virgin Mary in an apparition at Pontevedra, Spain , in December 1925.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Pontevedra
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

A religious statue depicting the Immaculate Heart of Mary as it was revealed in the 1917 Marian apparitions which occurred at Fátima, Portugal.

The pious practice of honoring the Blessed Mother on Saturday is an ancient custom largely attributed to the Benedictine monk Alcuin (735-804), "Minister of Education" at the court of Charlemagne, who composed a Votive Mass formulary for each day of the week. Alcuin assigned two formularies to Saturday in honor of Mary. The practice was quickly adopted by both clergy and laity.[1]

The practice of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the First Saturday was initiated in Rovigo, Italy, by Maria Dolores Inglese, a Servite tertiary in 1889. She started among her friends the pious practice of "Communion in Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary". The practice was endorsed by Bishop Antonio Polin of the Diocese of Adria and was taken up by sodalities throughout Italy and elsewhere.[1] On July 1, 1905, Pope Pius X approved and granted indulgences for the practice of the First Saturdays of twelve consecutive months in honor of the Immaculate Conception. This practice greatly resembled the reported request of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Pontevedra apparitions.

Inglese wished to establish a religious congregation dedicated to the apostolate of Marian reparation. Bishop Tommaso Pio Boggiani recommended that she join the Servite sisters, known for their devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows. She joined the Servites as Sister Maria Dolores in 1911. She and foundress Mother Mary Elisa Andreoli revised the rule, making propagation of Communion of Reparation on the First Saturday of each month the congregation's main apostolate. They also changed the name of the group from "Servants of Mary" to "Servants of Mary of Reparation". The sisters also published a monthly magazine that helped spread the devotion throughout Europe.[2]

## Pontevedra

Dorothean convent in Pontevedra, now known as the Sanctuary of the Apparitions, in which Sister Lúcia lived and received Marian apparitions.

At the age of 14, Lúcia dos Santos, one of the purported Portuguese seers of Our Lady of Fátima when she was ten, was admitted as a boarder to the school of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy in Vilar, near the city of Porto. On October 24, 1925, she entered the Institute of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy as a postulant in the convent in Tui, Spain, just across the northern Portuguese border.

Sister Lúcia later reported that on December 10, 1925, the Virgin Mary appeared to her at the Dorothean convent in Pontevedra, and by her side on a luminous cloud was the Child Jesus. According to Lúcia, Mary requested the institution of the Devotion of the Five First Saturdays in reparation to her Immaculate Heart:

Look, my daughter, at my Heart encircled by these thorns with which men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, strive to console me, and so I announce: I promise to assist at the hour of death with the grace necessary for salvation all those who, with the intention of making reparation to me, will, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, go to confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the beads, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.

Devotees of Fátima believe that the First Saturdays help to console the sorrows of God, Jesus, and the Virgin Mary for the sins against her Immaculate Heart.

## See also

* Acts of Reparation to the Virgin Mary
* First Thursdays Devotion
* First Fridays Devotion
* Immaculate Heart of Mary
* Our Lady of Fátima
* Sanctuary of the Apparitions

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Saturday Devotions : University of Dayton, Ohio". https://udayton.edu/imri/mary/s/saturday-devotions.php.
2. ↑ Queen of the Missions, October 1954]

## External links

* "Devotion of the Five First Saturdays" by the Dominican Fathers of The Rosary Center
* Communal First Saturdays Apostolate (CFSA)

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Private revelation in the Catholic Church

Revelations|

* Apparitional experience
* Christian mysticism
* Locution
* interior
* Marian apparition
* Religious ecstasy
* Vision (spirituality)
* Visions of Jesus and Mary

Miracles|

* Bilocation
* Charism
* Gift of miracles
* Gifts of healing
* Glossolalia
* Interpretation of tongues
* Prophecy
* Word of Knowledge
* Word of wisdom
* Eucharistic miracle
* Miracle of Lanciano
* Levitation
* Lourdes water
* Miracle of the Sun
* Odour of sanctity
* Stigmata
* Tabor Light
* Thaumaturgy
* Weeping statue

Discernment|

* Documents
* Code of canon law
* Haurietis aquas
* Normae Congregationis
* Tribus circiter
* Magisterium
* Rule of Faith
* Sensus fidei
* Theology
* Bridal theology
* Christology
* Mariology
* Mystical theology

Popular piety|

* Acts of reparation
* Immaculate Heart of Mary
* Consecration
* First Saturdays Devotion
* Miraculous Medal
* Seven Dolors
* Pilgrimage
* Rosary
* Rosary of the Holy Wounds
* Sacred Heart
* Divine Mercy
* Chaplet of the Divine Mercy
* Divine Mercy novena
* Eucharistic adoration
* First Friday Devotion
* Holy Hour
* Saint Michael
* Chaplet of Saint Michael
* Prayer to Saint Michael
* Scapular

Shrines|

| Marian shrines|

* Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
* Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar
* Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
* Knock Shrine
* Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima
* Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
* Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
* Sanctuary of Our Lady of Graces of Onuva
* Shrine of Our Lady of the Hens
* Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei
* Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás

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Others|

* Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy
* Sanctuary of Christ the King
* Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
* Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo

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