Why is it urgent that the First Saturdays be done publicly?

Public and communal prayer:

• Is powerful.
• As an analogy, a bundle of sticks is harder to break than one stick.¹
• Is necessary to establish devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as God wants. To establish a devotion in the Church, it must have canonical and liturgical Church approval. The Communal First Saturdays®, with its inseparable Communal First Saturdays Devotional book, has this approval. Private practice of the First Saturdays does not establish this devotion.
•  Gives visible witness that the First Saturdays devotion is being practiced.
•  Is necessary to make it possible for people to know, when the times comes, that Our Lady, through the First Saturdays, brought about world peace. If not public and communal, Our Lady would not be given credit for the triumph. This would be an injustice against her Heart, an obstacle to peace. 
• Is the “Most efficacious kind of prayer for gaining the divine protection…”²
• Can have a greater power to obtain an answer from God.
• Can have a greater reparatory value.
• Sr. Lucia said: “This is the penance and prayer that the Lord now asks and demands: prayer and penance, public and collective, together with abstaining from sins.” ³
• Sr. Lucia also said that public and collective prayer brings about peace.³
• The First Saturdays is the ultimate prayer and penance of the Fatima Message and should be done publicly and collectively (communally).

The Communal First Saturdays® is the first canonically approved public First Saturdays devotion accompanying the Liturgy with a standardized text in various languages. It can be established in any parish. The devotional materials are Church-approved.

The Communal First Saturdays is the first canonically approved public First Saturdays Devotion accompanying the Liturgy. To learn more, click here.

It’s up to you.

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