Public and communal prayer:
- Is powerful.
- As an analogy, a bundle of sticks is harder to break than one stick.1
- Gives visible witness that the First Saturdays devotion is being practiced.
- Otherwise, without a public and communal form, when the time comes, it will be very difficult to connect the First Saturdays with the fulfillment of Our Lady’s promise of 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. To learn more, click here.
It’s up to you.
Click here to start the public and collective Communal First Saturdays.
- cf. St. Louis de Montfort.
- cf. Pope St. John XXXIII
- Sr. Lucia in “A Pathway under the Gaze of Mary,” p. 247).