For the average person this sounds like a dream requiring billions of dollars, billboards, radio and TV commercials, alongside an army of missionaries and volunteers going from house to house knocking on doors. A full-scale propaganda campaign.
Nothing is further from the truth. It appears impossible to man, but nothing is impossible for God. No money is necessary, only the good will of Catholics.
On July 13th, 1917 at the third apparition in Fatima, the Blessed Virgin Mary announced the requirements for conversion:
“If people do what I ask, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war [WW I] is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another, even worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. To prevent it, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If people attend to my requests, Russia will be converted and the world will have peace.”
Skeptics will say that Our Lady was talking about Russia only, but the recent legislation passed through the Minnesota Congress and signed into law by our Governor proves that the Communist agenda has found a home in our state. Since the Blessed Virgin Mary was addressing the spreading errors of Communism, Her remedy is also applicable to Minnesota. If done the way Our lady has asked, the conversion of Minnesota to Catholicism will happen.
To start the process, devoted Catholics must raise the alarm among fellow parishioners about the evil aspects of the newly passed laws, and convince their pastor to establish a devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary to obtain special graces for conversion from the Communion of Reparation of First Saturdays.
On the 13th of June, 1912, five years before the great manifestation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Fatima, Pope St. Pius X granted indulgences to the faithful who, on the First Saturday of each month, perform some special exercise of devotion in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate to make atonement for blasphemies. Since the devotion of First Saturdays is not new in the Catholic Church, there should be no problem with resurrecting it. Regrettably, this devotion was renamed as The Five First Saturdays due to a promise Our Lady made that all those who fulfill the requested conditions on the First Saturday of five consecutive months will receive Her assistance and the graces necessary for salvation at the hour of their death. This promise of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the ticket to Heaven for all who will join us in the effort. The issue with the new name is that the Blessed Virgin Mary didn’t ask for merely devotion of five First Saturdays. She asked for Reparation on First Saturdays.
To Practice this Devotion:
1. Go to confession: This can be done one week earlier, however, the intention of reparation to the Immaculate Heart must be in one’s mind and heart prior and during confession.
2. Attend Saturday Mass.
3. Receive the Eucharist with the necessity of offering it in reparation to Our Lady, and finally,
4. Pray five decades of the Rosary,
5. Keep Our Lady company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.
All of these steps must be done in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to console and make reparation to It for the blasphemies and ingratitude of man.
When this is done, the only remaining goal will be to persuade the Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and other Bishops of diocese in Minnesota to consecrate our state to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
During the Fatima apparition on July 13th, 1917, a vision of hell was mentioned. At the request of the Bishop of Leiria, Lucia described the vision this way:
“As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands once more, as she had done during the two previous months. The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke now falling back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. (It must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me). The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. Terrified and as if to plead for succor, we looked up at Our Lady, who said to us, so kindly and so sadly: You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.”
For many years St. John Vianney, guided by fear of the God, would recite the words: “My God, make me suffer whatsoever you wish to inflict on me, but grant that I may not fall into hell.”
St. Anthony Mary Claret, founder of the Claretian Fathers, at the age of five was already thinking about eternal life. He later wrote “my little heart trembled at the thought of hell, and I said to myself: Will those who fall into hell never stop suffering? No, never. Will they always suffer? Yes, always. This thought remained profoundly engraved in my mind, and I can say that it is ever present to me. That is what has animated me to work for the conversion of sinners.”
This may be something to think about for those lukewarm Catholics who don’t want to join us in this effort to give God an excuse to make Minnesota Catholic.
Many of them will say; I am not lukewarm, I love God.
The commandment of love says;” Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind and Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
If you love God, lukewarm one, why is it that every time you recite The Lord’s Preyer and say, “thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” you don’t follow it up with actions?
Why is your own will above God’s will? You can’t find an extra hour each month to practice the First Saturdays Devotion? Meanwhile you waste numerous hours every week watching TV, news, sports, and browsing the internet.
You love your neighbor but you are not willing to fulfill Our Lady’s request leading to their conversion.
Does anybody need more examples?
“I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. (Revelation 3;15-17)
Lukewarm Catholics don’t go to Heaven!
Our Father in heaven, Our God, is the best father and like every good father, when his children go astray he will discipline them. But if they continue to disobey and disrespect Him there will come real punishment, the punishment of eternal damnation, unless somebody else will pay ransom for them. This ransom is the First Saturdays devotion.
Just do it!
Pictures courtesy of:
http://brigadeofstambrose.com/2017/02/11/the-first-five-saturdays-devotion/