“Do not be discouraged. I will never leave you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the path that will lead you to God. “(Memoirs of Sister Lucy, 175) This was the promise of Our Lady to Lucia in the apparition of June, after stating that she would soon take her cousins Francis and Jacinta to Heaven. In the person of little Lucia, Our Lady, promises to each of us in a particular way, her maternal breath, her presence and protection in all moments of our life, especially in the more difficult. Therefore, as beloved children, we need to establish a deep relationship with our Heavenly Mother, resorting to her in joys and sorrows, so that she may be our refuge and the path that leads us to God, as she promised.
While promising Her presence and protection, Our Lady showed for the first time to the three little shepherds in this apparition of June, Her Immaculate Heart surrounded by thorns, and Lucia, in recounting this apparition, said: “We understand that She was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, outraged by the sins of humanity, who wanted reparation. “(Memoirs of Sister Lucy, pp. 175-176)
The Blessed Virgin introduced Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta in the spirituality of reparation, and also wants to grant us this grace, as long as we are docile, and accept it as the way that leads us to her Son Jesus, because everything in her is relative to Christ.
She is Immaculate, for she was predestined by God to be the Mother of His only begotten Son; was constituted as His most perfect creature, so that the hypostatic union of Jesus – God and Man – may be born in her mother’s womb. She is therefore our Queen of heaven and earth, as the magisterium of the Church affirms: “In this way, the augustly Mother of God, associated with Jesus Christ in an unfathomable manner from all eternity ‘with a single decree of predestination, immaculate in her conception, ever virgin, in her divine maternity, generous companion of the divine Redeemer, who obtained complete triumph over as a supreme crown of his privileges, to be preserved from the corruption of the tomb, and that, in the likeness of his divine Son, when death had been conquered he should be carried body and soul into heaven, where he shines forth as Queen to the right of her Son, the immortal King of the ages “(Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, 40)
The time of the reparation.
As children of such a sublime Queen, we are called to unite with Her in reparation to her Immaculate Heart. Mary Most Holy inaugurated the time of reparation in the history of humanity, with her generous Yes to God in the presence of the Angel, and Jesus the great Reparator, became incarnate in her womb. It continues to work so that the reparation offered to God, through her Immaculate Heart, is a reality assumed by each one of us with love and courage.
After the apparitions of Fatima in 1917, Mary appeared eight years later in Pontevedra-Spain to Sr. Lúcia, to show how she wanted the reparation to be done by each one of us, concretely.
Let us see the narration of this apparition:
“On 10-12-1925, the [Virgin] appeared to her. Virgin and next to her, suspended in a luminous cloud, a Boy. The SS. Virgin, placing her hand on her shoulder and showing at the same time a heart in her other hand, surrounded by thorns.
At the same time, the Child said:
“On 10-12-1925, the [Virgin] appeared to her. Virgin and next to her, suspended in a luminous cloud, a Boy. The SS. Virgin, placing her hand on her shoulder and showing at the same time a heart in her other hand, surrounded by thorns.
At the same time, the Child said:
“Pity the Heart of your Most Holy Mother who is covered with thorns that the ungrateful men at all times nail Him without anyone doing an act of reparation to take them.
Then the Most Holy Virgin:
“Look, my daughter, My Heart surrounded by thorns, which ungrateful men at every moment, pierced with blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, see Me consoling and says that all those who for 5 months, on the 1st Saturday, confess, receiving Holy Communion, pray a Rosary and give Me 15 minutes of company, meditating on the 15 mysteries of the Rosary , with the purpose of redressing Me, I promise to assist them, at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for the salvation of these souls “(Memoirs of Sister Lucy, 192)
Participate in restorative devotion in the Shrine!
The Shrine of the Father of the Mercies (Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil) invites you to experience the Repairing Devotion of the Five First Saturdays, as the Virgin Mary asked us to do. Starting at 10am as usual. We will pray the Holy Rosary, have a Catechesis on the Message of Fatima, and the fifteen minutes of meditation on the Word. We will close this Marian moment with the Holy Mass votive to Our Lady, at noon.
Our Lady asked us for four reparative acts: Confession, Communion, Holy Rosary and Meditation of the Word, and we will live them in this moment of Reparatory Devotion in the Sanctuary, only Confession is lacking. The pilgrim can go to our confessionals to confess at 8:30 a.m. It is worth remembering that the Confession was the first reparative act that Our Lady asked, therefore, that we should repair her Immaculate Heart in a state of grace.
Every first Saturday, the Virgin Mary introduces us to the spirituality of reparation, which consists essentially in loving God, his Immaculate Heart and his neighbor. May She help us to reach Heaven in this way.
Aurea Maria,
Community Canção Nova