In these final weeks of the First Saturday Jubilee, the Virgin Mary is waiting more than ever for our response to Her call: on December 10, it will be exactly 100 years to the day since She asked for this simple yet powerful act.
It will be thanks to you…
Given the Church’s slowness in officially promulgating it, Sister Lucia, the visionary of Fatima, said that it would be thanks to the assiduous practice of this devotion by the people that the Church would eventually recognize it. But if, on the contrary, the people, and therefore the Church, did not respond to this crucial request for world peace, the consequences would be terrible for humanity…
A Magnificent Prayer
Cardinal Burke, who is very devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, has composed a magnificent prayer that he invites all believers to recite every day until December 10, so that “the Church may offer this act of love, coming from humble and contrite hearts, in sincere reparation for the sins committed.” Let us pray that the Pope will decide to officially promote this devotion.
We are therefore invited to recite Cardinal Burke’s prayer now, and to spread the word about this initiative, which is so important for world peace and our own salvation!
All with One Heart in Fatima!
The Jubilee will close in Fatima on the first Saturday of December; we will be there with many other worshippers, and you are cordially invited to come and join us in this blessed place!
For those who are unable to come, you can join us in prayer by making the journey near your home. And rest assured that we will present your intentions to Our Lady of Fatima.
Daily Prayer, until December 10, 2025
O Virgin Mother of God and my dearest Mother, Our Lady of Fatima and of the Most Holy Rosary, I gaze upon your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart pierced with so many thorns by the ingratitude and grievous sins of your children. I am deeply and forever sorry for how my sins have offended your Divine Son and you, His Sinless Mother. With a humble and contrite heart, I wish to make reparation for the offenses – great and small – given to your Heart by the sins of your children.
In your maternal love, you have taught me, through your daughter, the Venerable Servant of God Lucia dos Santos, the way to make reparation for sins by the First Saturdays Devotion. On the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of your apparition, together with the Infant Jesus, to the Venerable Servant of God, on December 10, 1925, I pledge to observe the First Saturday of the month in heartfelt reparation for sins by the sacramental confession of my sins, by the worthy reception of Holy Communion, by the recitation of five decades of the Holy Rosary, and by keeping company with you for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.
Please intercede for me that my practice of the First Saturdays Devotion may redound to the salvation of many souls and to peace in the world.
Help me also to bring your message of the First Saturdays Devotion of Reparation to others. In obedience to your maternal counsel, may the Church throughout the world offer to you this loving act of humble and contrite hearts in sincere reparation for sins committed.
I give my heart completely to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart and, with you, I rest my heart forever in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. With all my heart, I offer this prayer in Him Who alone is my salvation. Amen.
Raymond Leo Cardinal BURKE