Intended intention: To offer this first Saturday to repair the blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
In 1854, Pius IX issued the Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus: “The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.”
The main reason put forward by Pope Pius IX was that the Word Incarnate, who came to earth to destroy the work of the devil, by His passion and death on the Cross, could not have had a Mother who was, even for a moment, subject to Satan.
The Immaculate Conception is therefore the greatest work of the grace and divine mercy of Jesus for Himself. While he was on the cross, He entrusted His Mother to us – Woman, here is your son – so that we could also take part, by our consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in His sanctifying action and thus be cured of the wounds of our souls that are caused by sin.
Mary, the Immaculate Virgin, is the model of the most perfect purity that all men must imitate in order to please God. The Immaculate Conception is the model of the graces that the mercy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus wants to pour on us. But He wants these graces to be granted to us through Mary’s hands. When She appeared in the Rue du Bac in Paris, in 1830, the Immaculate Virgin told us that we must pray in order to receive divine graces.
Saint Catherine Labouré tells us about her vision. Our Lady was holding a small globe in Her hands. This globe was surmounted by a golden cross. She was offering it to God in supplication. Suddenly, Her fingers wore rings with diamonds and the diamonds were shedding rays everywhere. She then said :
«This is the image of the graces I give to the people who ask them of Me ». And to explain why certain diamonds were not shedding rays, She said : «This is the image of the graces that people forget to ask Me ». At that moment, an oval band appeared around Our Lady, and Saint Catherine could read the invocation written in golden letters : « O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee ».
This devotion to Mary is intimately linked to the devotion to the Sacred Heart that Jesus, in the 17th Century, asked Saint Marguerite-Marie to spread throughout the world.
In our world, which is in great need of Peace and Love, Jesus wants to establish the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, according to what Our Lady revealed to us in Fatima on 13th June 1917.
Mary’s love for us leads us to God through Jesus. « My Immaculate Heart will be the way which will lead you to God », she said to Sister Lucia. God began our redemption in Her Immaculate Heart. When she pronounced Her « fiat », She gave Her blood to Jesus for the salvation of souls. Co-redeemer by Her union in the passion and death of Jesus on the cross, She continues Her mission as Mother of souls by giving us all graces. In Fatima, She asked us to put our little drop of water into the work of Redemption and reparation for the sins that gravely offend God, in the work of the salvation of souls. If we accept, She will help us to do this. When we pray the rosary, she gives us the fruits of Her life and the fruits of the life of Christ.
God asked us, through the voice of Sister Lucia, for the devotion of reparation of the five first Saturdays of the month. When Jesus appeared to Sister Lucia in December 1930, He gave her the reasons for that devotion.
See:https://www.rosaryontheborders.be/2019/04/16/the-devotion-of-the-five-first-saturdays-of-the-month/
Let us therefore offer the first Saturday of the month of June, 1st June, especially for the reparation for the blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
Here is a fact that shows that the requests of Our Lord are not baseless; we are experiencing this unfortunately more and more today.
In the monthly magazine « Voz de Fatima » of 13th December 1961, the official publication of the Fatima sanctuary, which has been published on the 13th of each month since 13th October 1922, the following information was published :
An impious association was, one day, created in a certain country. The members of this association promised to utter blasphemies against the Blessed Virgin. This association especially recruited its members among children, encouraging them to repeat endless litanies of insults against the Mother of God. How far can the malice of some souls go… So, it is the duty of every good Christian, who sees the honour of His mother outraged, to repair for those awful crimes. One of the most instant requests of Our Lady in Fatima was precisely the REPARATION for the offences towards Her Immaculate Heart. She even taught the little shepherds a short prayer to be said before making any sacrifice : « O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in REPARATION for the offences towards the Immaculate Heart of Mary and for the conversion of poor sinners. »
These offences are really true, and we especially ask you to make reparation for them on the first Saturday of the month of June. Bishop Joao Venancio, bishop of Leiria-Fatima, was very struck by this information and he wrote a special prayer of reparation for such blasphemies :
O Mary, my very Holy Mother, I want to make reparation for the offences against Your Immaculate Heart, especially for the blasphemies against You. I offer you these humble praises in order to console You for all Your ungrateful children who do not love You and to console the very Holy Heart of Jesus who suffers so much when people insult You.
Please accept, O tender Mother, my humble and poor tribute. I want to love You more and make more sacrifices every day, and I ask You to look upon those poor sinners with merciful eyes, so that they may rapidly convert and find refuge in Your maternal womb. Amen.
O Sacred Virgin, please accept my praise.
Give me strength against your enemies.
Blessed be God.
Blessed be the August Mother of God, the Most Holy Virgin Mary.
Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her Glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the Name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.
Blessed be her Virginal Purity.
Blessed be her Divine Maternity.
Blessed be her Universal Mediation.
Blessed be Her Tears and Sorrows
Blessed be God’s Graces that made Her Queen of Heaven and Earth.
Glory be to the most Holy Virgin Mary, beloved Daughter of the Father.
Glory to the most Holy Virgin Mary, Immaculate Mother of the Son.
Glory to the most Holy Virgin Mary, Virginal Spouse of the Holy Spirit.
O most holy Virgin, my good and tender Mother, I love You for all those who don’t love You; I praise You for all those who swear against You; I give myself entirely to You for those who do not want to see You as their Mother.
Hail Mary …
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, be our salvation.
Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of Mary, pray for us who have recourse to Thee.
Imprimatur : We grant a partial indulgence to those who will devoutely pray this act of atonement.
Leiria, 13th April 1961.
Joao, Bishop of Leiria-Fatima.