First Saturday and August

The month of August is dedicated to The Immaculate Heart of Mary. The entire month falls within the liturgical season of Ordinary Time, which is represented by the liturgical color green. This symbol of hope is the color of the sprouting seed and arouses in the faithful the hope of reaping the eternal harvest of heaven, especially the hope of a glorious resurrection. It is used in the offices and Masses of Ordinary Time.
                

 Today also happens to be the First Saturday.The First Saturday Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was first mentioned by Our Lady of Fatima on July 13, 1917. After showing the three children a vision of hell she said, "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... I shall come to ask for... the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays..."
So How do you put this devotion into practice, well heres how, The Blessed Mother, appearing to Sister Lucia, the sole surviving visionary from Fatima, spoke to her one day saying: "Look, my daughter, at my heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."

So lets recap

1) It has to be on the First Saturday of the month for 5 consecutive months

2)You have to go to confession (within eight days of that first Saturday)

3) You must receive Holy Communion(In  the state of Grace I would like to add)

4)Recite 5 decades of the Rosary and keep Mary comapny for 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries of the rosary (There actually 20 now with the luminous mystery)

and all these must be done with the intention of making reparation to Mary and her Immaculate Heart <3

Five first Saturdays of reparation were requested to atone for the five ways in which people offend the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

1. attacks upon Mary's Immaculate Conception
2. attacks against her Perpetual Virginity
3. attacks upon her Divine Maternity and the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all mankind
4. for those who try to publicly implant in children's hearts indifference, comtempt and even hatred of this Immaculate Mother
5. for those who insult her directly in her sacred images.

 “This is to help inspire people to observe the five first Saturdays.” tell your friends about it!