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The First Friday Devotion
The Nine First Fridays
This devotion consists in attendingHoly
Mass and receiving Holy Communion in reparation for those who do not receive
Our Lord, who do not love Him and who wound Him by their sinful
lives.
"I promise you, in the excessive mercy of My
Heart, that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who communicate
on the First Friday of nine consecutive months, the grace of final penitence;
they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving their Sacraments,
My Divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment." Our
Lord to St. Margaret Mary
The Twelve Great Promises of Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary for those devoted
to His Sacred Heart:
1. I will give them all
the graces necessary
for
their state in life.
2. I will establish peace
in their families.
3. I will console them
in all their troubles.
4. They shall find in
My Heart an assured
refuge
during life and especially at the
hour
of death.
5. I will pour abundant
blessings on all their
undertakings.
6. Sinners shall find
in My Heart the source
of
an infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Tepid souls shall
become fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall
speedily rise to great
perfection.
9. I will bless the homes
in which an image
of
My Heart shall be exposed and
honored.
10. I will give to priests the power
of
touching
the most hardened hearts.
11. Those who propagate this devotion
shall
have their names written in My Heart,
never to be effaced.
12. The all-powerful love of My Heart will
grant to all those
who shall receive
Communion on the First
Friday of nine
consecutive months
the grace of final
repentance; they shall
not die under My
displeasure, not without
receiving their
Sacraments; My Heart
shall be their
assured refuge at
that last hour.
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The First Saturdays Devotion
The Five First Saturdays of Reparation
The Blessed Virgin appeared to Sr. Lucia in her convent
at Pontevedra, Spain on December 10, 1925. The Most Holy Virgin said:"...I
promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation,
all those who,on
the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, 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."Our
Lord told Sr. Lucia that the Confession may be made any time during the
eight days before or the eight days after the First Saturday. Moreover,
He said, "It could be longer still, provided
that, when they receive Me, they are in the state of grace and have the
intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary."
The observance of first Saturday in honor of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is intended to console her Immaculate Heart
and to make reparation to it for all the blasphemies and ingratitude of
men.
Act of Reparation to be Recited on the First
Saturdays.
O Most Holy Virgin and Our Mother,
we listen to grief to the complaints of your Immaculate Heart surrounded
with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment, by
their desire of loving you as our Mother, and of promoting a true devotion
to your Immaculate Heart. We prostrate ourselves at your feet, to
prove the sorrow we feel for the grievances that men cause you, and to
atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices, for the offenses with which
men return your tender love. Obtain for them and for us, the pardon
of so many sins. A word from you will obtain grace and amendment
for us all. Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners, that they may love
Jesus and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended, and will
not fall into Hell. Turn your eyes of mercy toward us, that henceforth,
we may love God will all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever
in Heaven. Amen.
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Double Great Novena
Nihil Obstat:
Monsignor Jose C. Abriol,P. A
Vicar General & Censor |
Imprimatur:
+Jaime L. Cardinal Sin
Archbishop of Manila |
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Jesus Asks For Nine First Fridays And Nine First Saturdays.
The Double Great Novena consists
in fulfilling the conditions of the First
Saturday and First Friday Devotions
for nine consecutive months.
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In a Message of Jesus Christ to Sister Natalia in
Hungary, He requests all to pray the Double Great Novena to the Hearts
of Jesus and Mary for nine consecutive First Fridays and First Saturdays.
All know about the devotion of the nine consecutive
First Fridays. Few know about the Five consecutive First Saturdays. And
very few now know about the nine consecutive First Fridays and First Saturdays.
As in Paray-le-Monial, France, and Fatima, a private
revelation to Sister Natalia received the imprimatur from the local bishop
in Hungary.
Jesus: " As the Father entrusted all things to
Me, so I give My victorious power over the world and sin to the immaculate
Heart to My Mother."
"Through My daughter (Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque),
I gave the world great promises, but because of My Infinite Goodness, now,
I give much more. If people wish to gain the benifits of My promises, they
must love and venerate the Immaculate Heart of My Mother. The greatest
sign of this veneration will be to receive Holy Communion on Nine Consecutive
First Saturdays, and in the same way, on Nine Consecutive First Frdays,
after a preparation and a true repentance. Their intentions must be to
console MY Heart and, at the same time, the Immaculate Heart of My Mother."
Sister Natalia: "When Our Lord told me the time
about these First Saturdays, I did not realize that the Blessed Virgin
at Fatima asked for only Five First Saturdays, in comparison with the Nine
First Saturdays mentioned in the Messages I received. Consequently, the
authorities of the Church wanted me to ask the Savior why He asked for
nine, while Mary asked for only five. The divine Savior replied: 'The request
of My Mother for Five Saturdays is a sign of Her humility and consequently,
She did not consider Herself worthy of receiving a devotion that is equal
to Mine. My request is a sign of My love, I cannot bear the idea of demanding
more for Me than for My Mother who is united with Me in love.'
"Hence, I understood that Jesus would have us
make reparation for Nine Saturdays because He had demanded for Himself,
to Saint Margaret Mary, Nine First Fridays." |
| To make a good Novena, follow
these suggestions:
1. Prepare yourself with true repentance, if possible
go to
confession.
2. Receive Holy Communion on both days (First
Friday and
First Saturday).
The intention of the Novena must be 'to console
My Heart and, at the same time, the Immaculate Heart of My Mother. |
| The Thirty-Three Promises
of Jesus, for those who will complete theDouble Great Novena given through
Sister Natalia.
1. All that they ask of Me through the Heart of
My Mother - I
will grant during the novena.
2. They will experience in every circumstance,
the
extraordinary help of My Mother,
together with her
blessings.
3. Peace, harmony, and love will reign in their
souls and in
the souls of the members of
their families.
4. I will protect their families from scandals,
disappointments, and
injustice.
5. Married couples will stay together, and if
one has already
left, he or she will return.
6. The members of their families will understand
each other,
and preserve the faith.
7. Expectant mothers will experience My Mother's
special
protection and will receive
what they ask for themselves,
as well as, for their
children.
8. The poor will receive room and board.
9. I will lead them to love, prayer and
suffering. They will
learn to love God and
their fellow man.
10.Sinners will be converted without special difficulty,
even
if someone else
completes the novena for them.
11.Sinners will not fall back into their previous
state. Not
only will they
receive forgiveness for their sins, but
through perfect contrition
and love, they will regain
baptismal innocence.
12.Those who complete this novena in their baptismal
innocence (especially
children) will not offend My Heart
with serious sins through
the time of their deaths.
13.Sinners who sincerely repent, will escape not
only hell,
but even Purgatory.
14.Lukewarm believers will becomes fervent believers,
and
they will persevere
and reach perfection and saintliness
in a short time.
15.If parents or other members of a family complete
this
novena, nobody from
that family will be condemned to
Hell.
16.Many young people will receive the calling
to religious
life, including the
priesthood.
17.Unbelievers will become believers, and those
who
wander without direction
(fallen-away Catholics) will
return to the
Church.
18.Priests and religious will remain faithful
to their
vocations. The unfaithful
will receive the grace of
sincere contrition,
and the possibility of return.
19. Parents and leaders will receive help in both
spiritual
and material needs.
20.The body will be freed from temptations of
the World
and of satan.
21.The proud and the arrogant will become humble;
the hot
tempered will
become loving.
22.Fervent souls will experience the sweetness
of prayer
and sacrifice; they
will never be tormented by uneasiness
or doubt.
23.Dying persons will depart without agony and
without the
attacks of satan.
They will escape sudden, unexpected
death.
24.They dying will experience tremendous longing
for
eternal life; thus they
will surrender to My Will, and will
depart from life
in the arms of My Mother.
25.They will experience the extraordinary protection
of My
Mother at
the Last Judgment.
26.They will receive the grace to have compassion
and love
toward My suffering
and that of My Mother.
27.Those who strive to be perfect, will obtain
as a privilege,
the main virtues
of My Mother: Humility, Love and
Purity.
28.They will be accompanied with certain external
and
internal joy
and peace, through- out their lives, be they
sick or healthy.
29. Priests will receive the grace to live in
the presence of
My Mother without
any hardship.
30.Those who advance in unity with Me, will receive
the
grace to experience
this unity. They will know what it
means: not that they
live any more, but that I will live in
them. That is:
I will love with their hearts, Iwill pray
with their souls, I
will speak with their tongues, I will
serve with their whole
beings. They will experience that
what is good, beautiful,
holy, humble, meek, obedient,
valuable, and ad- mirable
in them is Me. I, the
Omnipotent, the infinite,
the only Lord, the only God, the
only love.
31.The souls of those who complete this novena
will be
radiant like white lilies
around the Heart of My Mother in
eternity.
32. I, the Divine Lamb of God, united with My
Father and
the Holy Ghost,
will rejoice forever seeing these souls
who, through the
Im- maculate Heart of My Mother, will
gain the glory
of eternity.
33. Priestly souls will always advance in faith
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The greatest promise of Mary:
"The gates of Hell will be closed on the First
Saturdays of each month.
Nobody will go to Hell on those days. However,
the gates of Purgatory
will be open. So, many souls will be able to
reach Heaven. It is the result of the merciful Love of My Son - it is the
reward of these souls who venerate My Immaculate Heart."
Imprimatur from the local bishop in Hungary.
(Taken from the 'Revue du Coer Immacule Reine
de la Paix, Vol. 1 No. 4)
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All First Fridays Prayer
Sacred Heart of Jesus, let your gift of love for
us flow through the immaculate Heart of Mary. Oh Holy Hearts of Jesus and
Mary, inflame our hearts with love for our parents.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, we offer you our unworthy hearts. O Holy Hearts of Jesus
and Mary, inflame us with love for your Two Hearts wounded by our sins
and sins of the world. |
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All First Saturdays Prayer
Immaculate Heart of Mary, may we love the Sacred
Heart of Jesus with the same love you had for Him. O Holy Hearts of Jesus
and Mary, inflame our hearts with love for all children.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, fill us with the divine
love of the Heart of Jesus. O Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, inflame our
hearts with your everlasting love. |
Novena Prayer
O Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Your Holy Hearts do I come to beg for the infinite merits and graces that
only God can give. Jesus, Your Sacred Heart is burning with love for me.
I know that You love all of us so much. How often have we hurt You by our
sin. How often have I put thorns into Your Holy Heart, by my sins. I am
sorry O Sacred Heart of Jesus. Mary, your Immaculate Heart, loves each
one of us as a child. Your Heart too is wounded by the sin of the people.
What people do by sin to the Heart of Jesus, they do to you too. Your holy
heart is so sad because people are indiffferent to the love and mercy offered
by Jesus. With your Immaculate Heart, O Mary, and with Your Sacred Heart,
Lord Jesus, I offer your love with the prayer to our heavenly Father, and
through your Holy Hearts humbly request.....
(petitions)
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaqculate Heart
of Mary, I shall never be able to thank you enough for loving me so much.
I offer my love in return and hope that Your
Holy Hearts will find some joy in my poor unworthy heart. Amen. |
Consecration
Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary,
I consecrate my entire self to the most Holy Love of Your two Hearts. I
wish to make reparation for all the sins of the world, including my own.
I offer these things for the love of the hearts of Jesus and Mary I will
keep my mind on beauty and turn my thoughts from evil things. I will hold
my temper and bear the mistakes of others with love and a forgiving heart.
I will admit when I am wrong and ask others to forgive me. I will not show
off, but remain humble. I will offer up all my sufferings, sickness and
hurts. I will seek God's will, not my own. I will show appreciation for
the kindness, the blessings, that I receive, and thank God for all things.
I will do everything in my life for love of God. And, I will love others
, as God has loved me. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the intercession
of the Imma-
culate Hearts of Mary, receive the offering and
consecration. I now make of myself to You. Keep me faithful uno death.
Bring me one day to that happy home in Heaven. I desire to live for-
ever with God the Father and the most Holy Spirit
and you my Jesus, together with Your most Immaculate Mother.....Amen |
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, make
my heart one with Thine.
(N.B: If you wish to make the Double Great Novena,
the Sunset Mass
is NOT counted as the First Saturdays.)
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