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Did you know May 4 is the feast of the Shroud of Turin?

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Did you know May 4 is the feast of the Shroud of Turin?

The Shroud of Turin has its own liturgical celebration, though it is typically only celebrated in a few places in the world, such as a few cities in Italy.

Why Five First Saturdays

God in His goodness asks us only for five First Saturdays to obtain Our Lady’s promised graces but emphasizes that we must offer the Devotion with fervor and the intention of making reparation. Our Lord explained to Lucia (seer of Fatima) why He seeks five Saturdays of reparation.

“There are five types of blasphemies and offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

1. Blasphemies against Her Immaculate Conception
2. Blasphemies against Her Perpetual Virginity
3. Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, in refusing at the same time to recognize Her as the Mother of men
4. Blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of children indifference or scorn, or even hatred of this Immaculate Mother
5. Offenses of those who outrage Her directly in Her holy images.”

Lucia summed up why we must attach such great importance to this devotion:

“Our Good Lord in His infinite Mercy asked me … to make reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and to implore pardon and mercy in favor of souls who blaspheme against Her, because the Divine Mercy does not pardon these souls without reparation.”

Five Elements of the First Saturday Devotion
Every First Saturday, we should:

- Make a good Confession (within 8 or so days before or after the First Saturday);
- Receive Holy Communion;
- Pray five decades of the Holy Rosary;
- Keep Our Lady company for fifteen additional minutes while meditating on the Mysteries of the Rosary; and
- Offer each of the above acts in reparation for the blasphemies and offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

"Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire."

~ St. Catherine of Siena

"Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no man shall see God."

- Hebrews 12:14
Douay-Rheims bible

Without holiness noone will ever see God.
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Lenten Fasting Jar

A Family Activity Throughout Lent
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Dear Lord

Help us serve others with compassion that comes from You.

Help us be Your hands 👐
and heart. ❣️

Amen.
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Prayers for the Holy Father
(to be said after the Rosary)

V. Let us pray for our Pontiff, Pope Francis.
R. The Lord preserve him, and give him life, and make him to be blessed upon the earth, and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies (Roman Breviary).

Our Father. Hail Mary.

(From the old Raccolta: A plenary indulgence on the usual conditions, when this prayer has been devoutly said every day for a month (S.C. Ind., Nov. 26, 1876; S. P. Ap., Oct 12, 1931).

Let us pray.

Almighty and everlasting God, have mercy upon Thy servant, Francis, our Supreme Pontiff, and direct him, according to Thy loving-kindness, in the way of eternal salvation; that, of thy gift, he may ever desire that which is pleasing unto thee and may accomplish it with all his might. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen (Roman Ritual).

(From the old Raccolta: An indulgence of three years, a plenary indulgence once a month on the usual conditions, for the daily devout recitation of this prayer. S. P. Ap., March 10, 1935).