Our Lady of Fatima - First Saturdays of Reparation This devotion was first revealed during the visions at Fatima to the 3 young Portuguese children to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to back in 1917 – Lucia Santos and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto. Our Lady asked that the First Saturday of every month become a day of prayers for the repa-ration of sin. The exact nature of the devotion she specified in another vision in 1925. The devotion can be practiced by dong the following on the First Saturday of each month for 5 consecutive months, offering all for the conversion of sinners and the reparation of offenses to the Immaculate Heart of Mary: • Receive the Sacrament of Penance (available every Saturday 3:30-4:15) • Receive Holy Communion • Pray a full Rosary • Spend 15 minutes keeping Mary company while meditating on the Mysteries of the Rosary Please join us at 8:00 AM morning Mass on the First Saturday of each month, starting 10/7, and let’s pray the Rosary after Mass as a Parish family, in order that we may honor this devotion as requested by Our Lady. (*Certain St. Joseph and St. Stanislaus Living Rosary and Holy Name Society members have offered to lead our Rosary as we begin this devotion; anyone else is welcome to do so but should not feel obligated to lead. ALL are strongly encouraged to attend, and be assured what a difference our prayers can and will make.)