The Marian Missionaries of St. Ann Parish invite families to sign up to take the Our Lady of Fatima statue to place within their homes for a week and pray as a family. Families will receive a statue in a carrying case along with many resources about Our Lady of Fatima and additional material on prayer.
Sign up in the vestibule and pick up Our Lady in the office on Saturday or Sunday of the week you reserve.
Five First Saturdays In Reparation To The Immaculate Heart Of Mary
Join us at St. Mary, Kalamazoo on the First Saturday of each month to fulfill the requirements made by Our Lady to Sister Lucia, one of the Fatima seers. Mass (1962 version) begins at 7:30 am followed by the First Saturday devotions and led Rosary with meditation time. Confessions are offered during the Rosary.
Our Lady asked for specific things at Fatima. If we listened to her and did what she asked, there would be peace in the world. Among her requests:
What are the Five First Saturdays?
Our Lady explained those Five First Saturdays to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries, on December 10, 1925, in the following way:
See, my daughter, my Heart encircled by thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Do you, at least, strive to console me. Tell them that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the . . . mysteries of the Rosary.
A lot of people have forgotten about the Five First Saturdays devotion, but we need them today more than ever. After all, we are in a total moral decline and wars are still going on.
We still haven’t seen the fulfillment of Our Lady’s promise that, “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.” Russia has been consecrated and yet there is still no peace in the world. Perhaps not enough of us have fulfilled Our Lady’s request for the First Saturdays of Reparation.
We call on everyone who loves Mary to start making the Five First Saturdays a regular part of their prayer life.
You will be so glad you did.