Immaculate-Heart-Mary

What is the Practice of the Devotion to the

Immaculate Heart of Mary?

The devotion involves the following practices on five consecutive first Saturdays of the month, with the specific intention of making reparation for the five gravest offenses of the human race against the Blessed Virgin.

	1. Go to Confession (within 8 days before or after the first Saturday.
	2. Receive the Holy Eucharist
	3. Pray five decades of the Rosary .
	4."Keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on twenty mysteries of the Rosary." This is separate from praying the Rosary as mentioned above, and is preferably done in the presence of the Lord in the Tabernacle or at Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament where available.

WHY FIVE SATURDAYS ?

Christians have always honored the Blessed Virgin on Saturday because of her constant faith in Jesus on that first Holy Saturday before the Resurrection. Five first Saturdays of reparation were requested to atone for the five ways in which people offend the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

	1. Attacks upon Mary's Immaculate Conception.
	2. Attacks against Mary's Perpetual Virginity.
	3. Attacks upon her Divine Maternity and the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all mankind.
	4. Those who try to publicly implant in children's hearts indifference, contempt and even hatred of this Immaculate Mother.
	5. Those who insult her directly by profaning her sacred images.

ARE THERE PROMISES IN RETURN

FOR THIS DEVOTION.?

The Infant Christ and His Blessed Mother made these immense and almost unbelievable promises to those who observe and promote the Five First Saturday Devotion:

	1. The Virgin Mary's assistance at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation.
	2. Salvation of souls and peace as a result of promoting of the Devotion to the Immaculate Heart.

Dear Blessed Mother, we are comforted in knowing that your heart is ever open to those who ask for your prayer. We trust to your gentle care and intercession, those whom we love and who are sick or lonely or hurting. Help all of us, Holy Mother, to bear our burdens in this life until we may share eternal life and peace with God forever. Amen.