Dedication of the Five First Saturdays to Our Lady

Rule of the Five First Saturdays

The consecration of the Mother of God of the first five Saturdays of five consecutive months is a prayerful and Eucharistic practice that was proposed by the Mother of God in order to help Her atone for the sins of people who offend Her.

What is the rule

In an apparition on December 10, 1925, the Blessed Virgin said to Lucia: “Look, my daughter, at my Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months,
1) shall confess,
2) receive Holy Communion,
3) recite five decades of the Rosary,
4) and keep me company for fifteen minutes
5) while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary,
6) with the intention of making reparation to me.”

The Mother of God asked Lucia to declare on Her behalf that to all who thus seek to compensate Her: “I promise to assist them at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for the salvation of their souls.”

Rule of the Five First Saturdays.
Questions from Gonçalves and answers from Lucia

In May 1930, Father Jose Bernardo Goncalves asked the nun Lucia to answer in writing several questions concerning the Dedication of the Five First Saturdays to Our Lady:

See also

• Fatima. Apparition of Our Lady. 13 July 1917
• Fatima. Apparitions at Pontevedra
• Fatima. First Saturdays. Heaven speaks

Links

• Wikipedia: First Saturday Devotions (англ.)
• Wikipedia: Pontevedra apparitions (англ.)
• The Five First Saturdays (англ.)

Bibliography

• Frere Michel de la Sainte Trinite, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Vol.I, Vol.II, Vol.III.
• "First Saturdays" Fatima on Google Books