Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

When we think of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we call to mind the Blessed Virgin Mary’s interior life. Her heart exudes such love for humanity, while at the hands of humanity she has suffered so much. She is the source by which the gift of grace is given to us by God, yet her Immaculate Heart has experienced such blasphemies and offences committed against it, that “God is already too much offended.” (Our Lady’s words to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.)

In 1925, Our Lady of Fatima appeared to Sister Lucia in her convent in Pontevedra, Spain, asking for the devotion of the First Saturdays of five consecutive months to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On these Five First Saturdays, we must go to confession, receive Holy Communion, recite the Holy Rosary, and meditate for 15 minutes  on its mysteries, with the intention of making reparation to Blessed Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Heart.

So numerous are the souls which the justice of God condemns for sins committed against Mary’s heart, that she came to ask for reparation.

The Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is August 22nd.