A Day with Mary

A DAY WITH MARY
20TH NOVEMBER 2021
The Heart of Mary Saturdays and the
Saturday Rosary.
“In the message of Fatima, especially in the
apparitions of June 13 and July 13,1917,
Mary drew attention to the custom of devoting Saturdays to
her and praying the rosary in reparation. Lucia, the eldest of
the three children heard the following on June 13:
‘My child, behold my heart surrounded with thorns which
ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their
blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console
me, and tell them that I promise to help, at the hour of
death, with the graces needed for salvation, whoever, on
the First Saturday of five consecutive months, shall
confess and receive Holy Communion, recite five
decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen
minutes while meditating on the fifteen Mysteries of the
Rosary with the intention of making reparation to me’.
On July 13, the children were again admonished to say the
rosary. At this time, the Blessed Mother asked for the
consecration of the world to her Immaculate Heart, and for
communion of reparation on the first Saturday of each
month.
These messages were accompanied by an appeal and a
promise – an appeal for prayer and reparation by the people
for their transgressions against the divine law; a promise of
peace and love in this life and eternal happiness in the next
on the twofold condition of prayer and amendment.
In 1925, Lucia vouched for this message, saying that Mary
would assist us at the hour of death if the first Saturdays of
five consecutive months were sanctified with confession,
communion, praying the rosary and meditation.
This practice refreshed the custom known as the Rosary
Saturdays, popular since the seventeenth century and
continued to the present at places of pilgrimage. Both Pope
Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII fostered this custom. Grignion
de Montfort also fostered the rosary in connection with
his missions, which often encompassed Saturdays”.
Saturday Devotions in Honour of Our Lady – M Jean Frisk,
S.S.M. – Marian Library, Dayton University.
Our parish holds Day With Mary (“DWM”) devotions on
the 3rd Saturday of each month. You are invited and
welcome to join us at our next DWM event on 20th
November 2021 from 9.30am to 1.30pm, for the whole
event or for just part of it.