"If you have made the Five First Saturdays and have offered them up for Sins against Mary, do them again and again and again"
by Rick Salbato
Lets reconsider Fatima. Go back to December 10, 1925
Lucia, the eldest of the three children and now Sister Lucia of St.
Dorothy, was kneeling in prayer in the convent chapel when the Virgin
Mary and Christ Child appeared to her. The Christ Child said to Lucia:
"Have pity on the heart of your Most Holy Mother, which is covered with
thorns that ungrateful men drive into it every instant, while there is
no one who does an act of reparation to withdraw them from Her."
Lucia saw the crown of thorns around the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Then Our Lady spoke to her, saying:
"Look, my daughter, at my Heart encircled with thorns, with which
ungrateful men wound it every moment by their blasphemies and
ingratitude. Give me consolation, you, at least; and announce for me
that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary
for salvation, all who on the first Saturday of five consecutive
months, go to confession, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of
the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the
mysteries of the Rosary, WITH THE INTENTION OF MAKING REPARATION TO ME."
Now I would like to ask some questions. What is the reason you made the
Five First Saturdays? How can we blaspheme against the Mother of God?
How can we shown Her ingratitude. Have we been ungrateful toward Her?
How might I have sinned against my Mother by putting thorns into Her Immaculate Heart?
At first, you might think that any sin is a sin against Her Son and,
therefore, very painful to Her. However, this does not hold true against
the two words, "Blaspheme and Ingratitude". With some pride we
Catholics say we are not like Protestants who totally disregard the
Mother of God and thus assume we are not guilty of sins against Her. But
She cannot be speaking to or about Protestants. Her words would be
useless to their deaf ears. She is speaking to Catholics, who think by
honoring Her, they are incapable of sinning against Her.
After painful reflection, I believe there are many ways in which I have
sinned against Mary. I was one of the ungrateful men who placed thorns
into Her Immaculate Heart.
I Placed these thorns by my failure to defend Her against the attacks of
those who don't understand Her place in the master plan of God.
I placed thorns into the Immaculate Heart of Mary by my failure to learn all that can be learned about Her.
I placed thorns into Her Heart by my failure to understand the
relationship of the Holy Spirit to Mary as is revealed in Holy Scripture
and logic.
I failed to learn that it is Our Lady that the Holy Spirit is speaking about in Chapter 12 of Apocalypse.
I had failed to understand how to read Holy Scriptures and therefore did
not know the extent of the relationship of the Holy Spirit to Mary; and
how that relationship mirrors the perfection of the relationship of
Christ to his Church.
From the saints I learned that Chapter 21 of Apocalypse "the Heavenly
Jerusalem coming down out of heaven is the bride of the Holy Spirit,
Mary; and it is also the bride of Christ, the Church. It is the Holy
Spirit speaking of Mary and I is Christ speaking of His Church.
From the saints I learned that Psalm 44 is the Holy Spirit speaking of
his spouse, Mary; and it is Christ speaking of his spouse, the Church.
I learned that the Song of Song (Canticle of Canticles) is the Holy
Spirit singing of His Bride, Mary; and it is Christ singing of his
bride, the Church.
I learned that it would be Mary who would crush the head of Satan from
Genesis 3:15 and that I am one of Her children if I keep the
commandments of Her Son from Apocalypse 12:17.
I learned that it was Mary and the Christ child seen in a vision by the
angles as a test before the world was created in Apocalypse 12 and that
Satan and his followers were cast out of heaven for not accepting Her in
Apocalypse 12:9 and that there has been a battle between Satan and Mary
every since in Apocalypse 12:17.
I learned from St. Maximillian Kolbe that, "What God has put together
let no man put asunder", and God has put together the Holy Spirit and
Mary so completely as to become one body.
God has put together Christ and the Church so completely as to become one body.
The Holy Spirit dwells in Mary so fully that you cannot find Him without
Her help. From Kolbe and Catherine Laboure (the Miraculous Medal) I now
see how all grace, all the gifts of the Holy Spirit come through Mary
and in no other way.
I knew everything about the Bible and could quote from every chapter; and yet I knew nothing.
I know now that God first thought of a perfect creation, Mary; and that
all other creations put together would not equal Her perfection because
She would become the first Child of the Father, the bride of the Holy
Spirit and the Mother from whom God would enter the world.
Today I can defend my Mother against the attacks from liberal Catholics,
Protestants, Moslems, and atheists; and to not do so is to sin against
my Mother.
Even to not know how to is to sin against the Spirit of Truth, Her Spouse.
How many times have I sinned against Mary by my ingratitude.
Every grace that ever came to me - came from Her Hands, and I failed to thank Her.
Every time Satan attacked me, She defended me, and I failed to thank Her.
How many times thought out history has She appeased the wrath of God and
saved mankind from chastisement and I have failed to thank her.
Even now, She converted Russia and overthrew communism in more than forty countries, and how many of us have thanked Her.
How many of us have written to Lucia of Fatima and said, "Thank our Lady of Fatima for me, for the conversion of Russia."
In 1943 Christ appeared to Lucia and said,
"I want all my children to recognize that the consecration of Russia to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary is the reason for the conversion of
Russia."
Have we recognized this? Or are we guilty of ingratitude.
When Mary offered the Five First Saturdays, it was a promise and a
prophesy. A promise to assist us at the hour of our death, and a prophesy that
millions of Catholics would blaspheme the Holy Mother of God.
What greater blaspheme can there be than to pray to and honor a false Mary?
What greater blaspheme can there be than to pray rosaries to Satan
disguised as Mary. Someday there will be an anti-Christ pretending to be
Christ. Good Catholics will pray to him.
These prayers will be from the heart and from a clear conscience, but
they will receive no grace from them and their conscience will not save
them from the wrath of God (Veritatis Splendor).
In the same way these rosaries to false Mary's will not produce grace
and will not save them from the wrath of God, who sees the blaspheme
against His Mother by people attributing to Mary the words of demons ,
psychotics, and frauds.
To believe that the loving sweet Mother of God could say of us, "my cohort"
(which means evil spirits of darkness or a Roman division of warriors) is
blaspheme.
To believe that Our Sweet Mother could say that Pope Paul VI, who wrote
Humani Vite , Marialis Cultus, and Signum Magnum, was a false Pope is to
blaspheme Our Mother.
To believe that Our Sweet Mother could say that all religions are equal
in the eyes of God or even that all religions are God's religions is to
blaspheme Our Lady.
To believe that the most obedient human in history could advocate
disobedience to a bishop is the greatest of all blasphemies against our
Sweet Mother.
Christ said to Lucia in 1925, " Have compassion on the heart of your Most
Holy Mother, which is covered with thorns that ungrateful men drive into it every instant, ----"
Make absolutely sure it is not you who are driving thorns into the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, For God cannot forgive an unrepentant sin
against the bride of Truth.
If you have made the Five First Saturdays and have offered them up for sins against Mary, do them again and again and again.