This Is Our Time to Make Reparation & Pray for Peace!
In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph!
I write to you on the birthday of John the Baptist, which happens to be my birthday, as well. It was on my 23rd birthday that I had a one day call to the priesthood, which was June 24, 1981. I realized, years later, that was the day Our Lady first appeared in Medjugorje. 40 years later, to the day, Roe v. Wade went down. Incredibly, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus “happened” to land on this date, June 24, 2022. God is AMAZING!
I’m finally making a pilgrimage to Medjugorje next May, 2025, with my very good friend, Fr. Donald Calloway (See Here).
I call on you with a very special appeal. Call it my “birthday appeal.” This is an appeal for PEACE. I believe the following call from Our Lady is a kind of “missing link” that most of us have been remiss in committing ourselves. Let me explain.
Are you sick as I am of turning on the news and seeing nothing but violence and mayhem? We seem to be on a fast track to more of this mayhem, if we do not call out, with great fervency, for Our Lady’s powerful intercession.
Our Lady has been clear in what we can do to bring peace to our world, but we seem deaf to her call. I believe this particular devotion, below, demonstrates to Our Lady our willingness to make that “extra effort.” This extra effort is when the river of grace breaks open.
FIVE FIRST SATURDAYS: JULY 6 – NOVEMBER 2
Our Lady of Fatima Promises all the Graces Necessary for Heaven if a Catholic Finishes the Five First Saturdays Devotion:
“Whether the world has war or peace depends on the practice of this devotion, along with the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is why I desire its propagation so ardently, especially because this is also the will of our dear Mother in Heaven.” -Sr. Lucy (March 19, 1939)
During her July apparition at Fatima, Our Lady said to Lucia, “I shall come to ask… that on the First Saturday of every month, Communions of reparation be made in atonement for the sins of the world.”
I think someone needs to be living in a cave, if they are not aware of the chaos, turmoil and threat of war in our country and the world. Many are in the school of thought that I am, in that much of this is due to the barbaric murder of billions of aborted babies, worldwide, in just the past 50 years. This is, by far, the greatest of our many sins which pierce the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady!
Why Prayer & Reparation Now?
By starting these First Saturdays on July 6, we end up on November 2, which is the Feast of All Souls, and 3 days before a monumental election. LET’S CALL ON ALL OF THESE POOR UNBORN BABIES TO PRAY WITH US!!!
On December 10, 1925, our Blessed Mother again appeared to Lucia at Pentevedra, Spain. It was there Our Lady completed her request for the Five First Saturdays and gave her great promise.
Let’s Remove Our Lady’s Thorns!
Appearing with the Queen of Heaven in that apparition was the Infant Jesus, Who said to Lucia:
“Have pity on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother. It is covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to remove them with an act of reparation.”
Our Lady then spoke:
“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 fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.”
The elements of this devotion, therefore, consist in the following four points, all of which must be offered in reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One should make this intention before carrying out Our Lady’s requests. A renewal of the actual intention at the time is best; however, if such an intention is made now, it will fulfill the requirements if, for instance, the actual intention is forgotten at the time of confession.
Confession: This confession can be made before the First Saturday or afterward, provided that Holy Communion be received in the state of grace. In 1926, Christ in a vision explained to Lucia that this confession could be made a week before or even more, and that it should be offered in reparation.
Holy Communion: Before receiving Holy Communion, it is likewise necessary to offer it in reparation to Our Lady. Our Lord told Lucia in 1930, “This Communion will be accepted on the following Sunday for just reasons, if my priests allow it so.” So if work or school, sickness, or another just reason prevents the Communion on a First Saturday, with this permission it may be received the following Sunday. If Communion is transferred, any or all of the other acts of the devotion may also be performed on Sunday if the person so desires.
Rosary: The Rosary is a vocal prayer said while meditating upon the mysteries of Our Lord’s life and Passion and Our Lady’s life. To comply with the request of our Blessed Mother, it must be offered in reparation and said properly while meditating.
15-minute meditation: Also offered in reparation, the meditation may embrace one or more mysteries; it may include all, taken together or separately. This meditation should be the richest of any meditation, because Our Lady promised to be present when she said “…those who keep me company….”
While this is not required, I am planning to add the Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
The Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God,
Have mercy on us.
Heart of Mary, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, according to the heart of God, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, united to the Heart of Jesus, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, organ of the Holy Spirit, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, sanctuary of the Divine Trinity, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, tabernacle of God Incarnate, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, immaculate in your conception, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, full of grace, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, blessed among all hearts, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, throne of glory, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, most humble, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, holocaust of Divine Love, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, fastened to the Cross with Jesus Crucified, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, comfort of the afflicted, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, refuge of sinners, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, hope of the agonizing, pray for us.
Heart of Mary, seat of wisdom, pray for us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, meek and humble of Heart,
Make our hearts according to the Heart of Jesus.
Let us pray:
O most merciful God, who for the salvation of sinners and the refuge of the wretched, has made the Immaculate Heart of Mary most like in tenderness and pity to the Heart of Jesus, grant that we, who now commemorate her most sweet and loving heart, may by her merits and intercession, ever live in the fellowship of the hearts of both Mother and Son, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
