Monthly Devotion: Immaculate Heart of Mary

“I will never leave you.
My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge
and the way that will lead you to God.”
- Our Lady of Fatima to Lucia

In our faith, Saturdays have always been devoted to our Blessed Mother. How much more beautiful that this month - dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary - begins on the first Saturday of the month.

Devotion and reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the first Saturday of every month was requested by Our Lady in the third apparition of Our Lady of Fatima: 

“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. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI ... To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturday ... my Immaculate Heart will triumph."

Let us have recourse to the heart of Our Mother - so pure, tender, and sweet - asking that her Immaculate Heart will triumph in our lives and throughout the world. 

Prayers to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

O Immaculate Heart of Mary,
full of goodness, show your love towards us.
Let the flame of your heart,
O Mary, descend on all people.
We love you immensely.
Impress true love in our hearts
so that we have a continuous desire for you.
O Mary, gentle and humble of heart, remember us when we are in sin.
You know that all men sin.
Give us, by means of your Immaculate Heart, spiritual health.
Let us always see the goodness of your motherly heart and may we be converted by means of the flame of your heart.
Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary,
full of love for God and mankind,
and of compassion for sinners,
I consecrate myself to you.
I entrust to you the salvation of my soul.
May my heart be ever united with yours,
so that I may hate sin, love God and my neighbor, and reach eternal life with those whom I love.
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May I experience the kindness of your motherly heart and the power of your intercession with Jesus during my life and at the hour of my death.
Amen.