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COMMENTARY: As the Church marks a century since Our Lady first asked for the Five First Saturdays, Catholic leaders urge the faithful to renew a devotion tied to peace, reparation, and conversion.
Senior prelates, including Cardinals Raymond Burke and Robert Sarah, have been fully supporting this year’s Jubilee initiative, aimed at encouraging the faithful across the world to take part this year and beyond.
At the centenary of Our Lady’s 1925 request at Pontevedra, Spain, Cardinals Raymond Burke and Robert Sarah highlight the need for reparation to her Immaculate Heart.
That’s the difference between falling and failing: one letter, and a world of difference.
It’s helpful when pastors take the lead in promoting this devotion, but proponents stress that the key is for grassroots Catholics to commit themselves to carrying out this ‘unfulfilled’ part of Mary’s Fatima message.
When Mary asked for Russia’s consecration and the practice of the First Saturdays devotion, she promised that there would be certain fruits if her requests were fulfilled.
Christians have always honored the Blessed Virgin on Saturdays because of her constant faith in Jesus on that first Holy Saturday before the Resurrection.
“I shall ask that on the First Saturday of every month,” said Our Lady, “Communions of reparation be made in atonement for the sins of the world.”
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