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first Saturday ... TRUE DEVOTION

The first Saturday of each month
requested by the Blessed Virgin Fatima

The voice of the Holy Father in 1912

During our research we found in an ancient tome of the Messenger of the Sacred Heart, a very interesting article on the devotion of the first Saturday of the month.
This finding confirmed our close cooperation and convergence between the Virgin and her first favorite son, Pope. In this case, it is of Pius X, that the Church has placed on the altars of Christendom.
Under the title: A new decree from Rome, the author of the article, Father Claude Verley, a Jesuit, wrote:
"It is told in the revelations of St. Gertrude, having once asked our Lord: "- What shall I do to please you more?" - My Mother, "was the reply, Strive to her worthily. "
This dialogue is renewed. But the confidante of the Sacred Heart is not only favored. Many souls have taken over the role of apostles wonderful Heart of Jesus, after answering the divine desire for the fervent celebration of the first Fridays of the month, asked in turn: - What shall we do more? "And by his Vicar, Jesus replied," My Mother, she also had the pierced Heart, so it is daily insulted and blasphemed. Try to repair with dignity. "
Reasons and means are clearly indicated in the papal document, we begin by quoting in full. This decree was approved in the hearing on June 13, 1912, and published in Acta Apostolicæ Sedis, 30 September.
"Our Most Holy Father, Pope Pius X, to increase the devotion of the faithful to the most glorious and immaculate Mother of God, and to encourage filial desire to repair, which was found among the Christians themselves, and which leads them to offer some atonement for the heinous blasphemies uttered by wicked men against the most August name and eminent dignity of the Blessed Virgin, has deigned to grant himself, to all those who, on first Saturday of each month, having confessed and approached the holy table, will perform in a spirit of reparation, some specific acts of piety in honor of the Blessed Virgin Immaculate, and pray for the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff, a plenary indulgence, applicable to the deceased. "
First - Father continues Verley - give us good account of what is in this decree. Four things to note: 1 °
The Pope wants to increase the people in Christian devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
2 ° He blesses and encourages a special event this devotion, for which Christians today [1] seem to have a real attraction, namely the spirit of reparation for impiety, blasphemy and sacrilege that attack the name or the cult of Mary.
3 ° is of itself, that is to say of his own initiative, or at least willingly, with joy and enthusiasm marked the Pope recommends and supports the authority of this form News of filial piety towards our Heavenly Mother. To complete
4 ° to show the extent of its approval, it opens wide - Plenary - the treasure of the Church and as richly endowed as he can practice early Saturday, the three conditions that the faithful Communion, will make some pious exercise of repair, and pray for the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff.
That the word of the Pope. In this respect alone, it should already be welcome. It is easy to see how it matches with the big words coming from Rome in recent years and how happy she brings them further.
Faith is in danger. Pastor vigilant threw the alarm. He defeated, by preventing the opponent's underhand. What remains to be done if not more urgently than resorting to She who triumphed over all heresies?
The supernatural life languishes and withers, due to unhealthy environments, promiscuity dangerous. And the slogan came: "Tighten up, you support each other!" But where better to shake that around the Mother through whom we came to this life, and that it flourishes?
Communion is too little honor. Eucharistic Jesus complains of not being able to give more. And his attorney told us repeatedly calls his Heart. What better way to respond than going to ask her who was the first home of Jesus in this world how it receives and how it is treated?
Finally, it is the Catholic spirit that we are guests, we have to restore order in us and around us. But what does the Catholic spirit, if not a filial spirit? And where do you learn best only from a mother to behave like son?
For all these reasons, is it not natural that Pope Pius X, holy reigning heart has to increase the devotion of the faithful to the most glorious and immaculate Mother of God?
The first thing to do - always pursues the Father Verley - is to enter thinking of the Pope. The above considerations we have helped, by showing us the providential opportunity to act. The light will be more satisfying even if we question our own experience and our heart.
Yes, there is much to repair for those who love the Blessed Virgin. The Passion of Jesus ever again: and why even the Passion of Mary never stops. Always
it intends to deal with criminal and condemned to death. Still she sees him strip, rip shots, cover with spit and pillory. And it is no longer the mother of a man nothing. Virginity is a fable; her Immaculate Design, a legend, her sublime dignity, a usurpation.
Protestants do not know. Modernists dishonor. Governments empty convents and threaten its sanctuaries. The thinkers deride his rosary and miraculous medals. The mob mutilated the statues ... And what is worse, Christians have an affection for her warm, little confidence, a devotional routine.
There is much to repair the past to the present. Elite souls have understood before. Need I remind the chivalrous indignation of Ignatius of Loyola, when, following his conversion, after riding the path of Montserrat, and hearing a disbeliever blaspheme the Holy Virgin, he was about to pounce on him? But his horse took a different path, thus saving the Providence stake Chevalier overzealous and enabling them to avoid bloody sword he would donate to the altar of Notre Dame. Others, more evangelical weapons, fought for the honor of Mary, the eloquent voices of scholarly feathers have avenged his privileges. Should include Newman and his victorious response to Protestant attacks Pusey; Cardinal Pie and his homilies so full of science and heart in honor of the Immaculate; converted all of these years, who speak so freely of their Mother of mercy, as the novelist of a poet who said: Like all converts, he was spoiled by the Virgin, wrapped in swaddling clothes of affection?
avenge Mary by the controversy by teaching through poetry, is not for everyone. But repaired by prayer, communion, a redoubling of filial affection, which could legitimately avoid it? It is right that we consoled a bit: she has both comforted. " [2]

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[1] In 1912-1913, of course.
[2] Messenger of the Sacred Heart. 1913.

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- PART I - 2

If we look closely at the rest of the life of Jesus Christ, we see that he wanted to start his miracles through Mary: it has sanctified St. John in the womb holy Elizabeth, by the word of Mary, as soon as she had spoken, John was sanctified, and it was his first and greatest miracle of grace. He changed, the wedding at Cana, the water into wine, to his humble prayer, and this is his first miracle of nature [1] . He began and continued his miracles through Mary, and he will continue until the end of time by Marie [2] .
God the Holy Spirit is sterile in God, that is to say, producing no other divine person, became fruitful through Mary whom he married [3] : it is with her, she and her, he produced his masterpiece which is a God made man, and that the product every day until the end of the world [4] . The predestined are members of the body of this adorable chef, so the more he finds Mary, his beloved and inseparable spouse, in a soul, and it becomes more active and powerful to produce Jesus Christ in that soul and that soul in Jesus Christ [5] .
It's not that we want to say that the Blessed Virgin gives the Holy Spirit in fertility, as if he had not: because, being God, he's fertility or the ability to produce as the Father and the Son, though he does not reduce the act, producing no other divine person. But we mean that the Holy Spirit, through the Blessed Virgin, which wants to use although he has not absolutely necessary, reduce its fertility to the act, producing in her and through her Jesus Christ and its members: the mystery of grace unknown even to the most learned and spiritual of Christians [6] . Driving
that the three persons of the Most Holy Trinity were held in the incarnation and the first coming of Jesus Christ, they keep it every day in a way unseen in the holy Church, and keep up the consummation of the world in the last advent of Christ.
God the Father has gathered all the waters, he called the Sea: it has gathered all his charms, he called Mary [7] .
This great God has a treasure or a rich store, where he shut everything he has beautiful, bright, rare and precious to his own Son [8] ; and this is another great treasure that Mary, the saints call the Lord's treasure, the fullness of which men are rich.
God the Son has sent his mother everything he has gained through his life and his death, his infinite merits and his virtues, admirable, and he made the treasurer of all that his Father gave him in Inheritance ; by it he applies his merits to his members, he communicates his virtues and distributes his graces its channel is mysterious is his aqueduct, through which he passed his mercies gently and thoroughly.
God the Holy Spirit was sent to Mary, his faithful wife, his ineffable gifts, and he has chosen for the giver of everything he owns, so it distributes to whomever she wants as much as she wants as she wants and when she wants, all his gifts and graces, and he gives himself no heavenly gift to men it does not pass through her virginal hands [9] , for such was the will of God, who willed that we have while Mary and will be enriched, high and honored with the Most High that has impoverished, humiliated and hidden depths of nothingness by his deep humility throughout his life: that is the feelings of the Church Fathers and saints.

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[1] Miracle of grace, that is to say, in the order of the invisible sanctification of souls, miracle of nature, ie ie, in the order of physical phenomena and sensitive.
[2] Mary urges them to her Son Jesus and we grant its request.
[3] As a spiritual and mystical, the preeminent sanctification of Mary that combines and unites very closely to the adorable Trinity.
[4] production of the sacred humanity of Christ, union with the person's eternal Word, through the production and hence the similarity and presence of Jesus Christ in us, are works really common to the divine Trinity, but they are usually specially assigned, appropriate to the Holy Spirit, Spirit of love and perfection.
[5] It is very important to establish what is meant by the presence of Jesus and Mary in the souls, for our blessed returns there frequently as one of the fundamental ideas of his treatise. 1 It is not the eucharistic presence of Jesus in us, that presence is very real, but only transient, depending on the length of Sacred species in our chest. 2 It is not a real presence of his humanity, his soul, his body, all persons belonging to the sanctifying grace that kind of presence, not only has no basis in Catholic doctrine, but could lead to serious errors. 3 ° It is therefore not a real presence of the soul or the body of Mary in the soul and the body of the faithful, the same reasons prevented and with even greater force. But this is simply 1 of the moral presence of Jesus in us and in him by our mutual understanding and our mutual love through sanctification by his grace and gives us the resemblance it gives us with him by his divine constantly on us, and his perpetual intercession for us, and finally by the action that sometimes his sacred humanity itself can exercise in our favor, either directly or indirectly the repression of our enemies. This is simply 2 of the moral presence of Mary in us and we in it, through our mutual understanding and our mutual love, the grace that unites us and we likening his Son unites us and makes us like to her, by her continual intercession for us, and finally by the supernatural action that God wants it carries here and there about us or against our enemies. - Any other explanation would force and distort the thought of Bl. Readers please remember constantly reading his book.
[6] Remember there can be no question here of a work appropriate and not own or attributed to the Holy Spirit. Unknown to the time when Christians Montfort wrote this doctrine in its true sense, is well known theologians of all time. It boils down to this: 1 Mary is the instrument God used to give the world a year and a redemptive sanctifying. 2 ° The Holy Spirit is and can be the principle of any person divine principle is with the Father and the Son, one and indivisible principle, the Incarnation of the Word and the divine Motherhood of Mary. Thus, fertility, the ability to produce, he has in that it has the divine nature is wonderfully reduced to the act, as stated Montfort, that is to say, actually fertile, actually producing the work's most sublime that can be imagined after the generation of the Word and the procession of the Holy Spirit himself.
[7] In Latin seas call themselves married, this year looks like the Latin name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our ingenious author alludes to this analogy.
[8] Even his own son.
[9] is the suppliant omnipotence are talking about holy doctors. Besides the will of Mary is in everything and always perfectly subject to the will of God, following the inspiration and the designs which, as we shall see, it performs its function of intervention.