First Saturday
Sirach, Chapter
17, Verse 8-10
8 He put fear of him into their hearts to show
them the grandeur of his works, 9
that they might describe the wonders of his deeds 10 and praise his holy
name.
Get out and see the wonders of his work.
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Glorious
Walking and Delicious Repasts. The Lake
District Lancashire and Cumbria, England Long and narrow, Windermere is a
ribbon lake. The poet William Wordsworth described England’s Lake District as
“the loveliest spot that man has ever known.”
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Grandeur
transcends any language. It is the primary attraction of Denali National Park, but it’s not the only draw. Visitors return
from the 6-million-acre park with tales of grizzlies, moose, and golden eagles;
of sweeping vistas of subarctic tundra, glaciers, and the massive peaks of the
Alaska Mountain Range.
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Mount Desert Island Maine is a place of craggy grandeur.
Visitors will find extraordinary Oceanside drives, surf-battered bluffs,
off-island whale-watching, and lobster shacks with a view. Some of the nation’s
loveliest walking and bicycling paths (they become cross-country ski trails
offseason) join 120 miles of moderate hiking trails, all offering great views.
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The
West’s Most Scenic Mountains: Grand Teton
National Park Wyoming, U.S.A. Craggy, glacier-chiseled, and rising to
7,000-plus feet above the floor of Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Valley (itself more
than 6,000 feet above sea level), the dramatic peaks of Grand Teton National
Park win America’s topographical beauty pageant. With no foothills to mar the
view, the oft-photographed Tetons dominate the skyline with a grandeur that’s
starkly primeval.
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The
White Continent Antarctica:
Antarctica’s large icebergs form when glacier pieces break off into the ocean.
Antarctica— Terra Australis Incognita, “the unknown land of the south”— is the
surreal seventh continent at the bottom of the world, a place of ethereal
beauty and unequivocal grandeur that inspired the great explorers of old and
captures the hearts of adventurers today. The limitless landscape of ice, sea,
and sky comes in a million shades of blue, and jagged, snowy mountain peaks and
glistening glaciers dwarf anything ever made by man. It is the ultimate,
end-of-the-earth expedition, the world’s most inaccessible continent.
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West Fork Oak Creek Sedona,
Arizona: West Fork
Oak Creek is a popular trail. There is a pleasant little stream that ripples
along the canyon floor as you hike it where you can look up at the dizzying
cliffs that tower above it.[2]
Five consecutive Saturdays in reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The practice of the First Saturday devotion was requested by Our Lady of Fatima, who appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, multiple times starting in 1917. She said to Lucia, the oldest of the three children: “I shall come to ask . . . that on the First Saturday of every month, Communions of reparation be made in atonement for the sins of the world.” Years later she repeated her request to Sr. Lucia, the only one still living of the three young Fatima seers, while she was a postulant sister living in a convent in Spain: “Look, my daughter, at my Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me at very 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 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries of the rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.”
Conditions to Fulfill the First Saturday Devotion
There are five requirements to obtain this promise from the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On five consecutive first Saturdays of the month, one should:
1. Have the intention of consoling the Immaculate Heart in a spirit of reparation.
2. Go to confession (within eight days before or after the first Saturday).
3. Receive Holy Communion.
4. Say five decades of the Holy Rosary.
5. Meditate for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary with the goal of keeping Our Lady company (for example, while in church or before an image or statue of Our Lady).
Read How to Make Your First Saturday Rosary Meditation According to Sr. Lucia
Why Five Saturdays?
1. Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception
2. Blasphemies against Our Lady’s 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 their Immaculate Mother
5. Offenses of those who outrage Our Lady directly in her holy images
Never think that Jesus is indifferent to whether or not His mother is honored!
Reflect today on what it took to
make Christ the gentle shepherd of our souls!
NOVENA TO THE HOLY
FACE
DAILY
PREPARATORY PRAYER
We now implore all the Angels and Saints to intercede for us as we pray this Holy Novena to the Most Holy Face of Jesus and for the glory of the most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Seventh
Day
Psalm 51, 14-15.
Give me again the joy of your help, with a spirit of fervor sustain me, that I may teach transgressors your ways and sinners may return to you.
Give me again the joy of your help, with a spirit of fervor sustain me, that I may teach transgressors your ways and sinners may return to you.
Through the merits of your precious blood and your Holy Face, O Jesus, grant us our petition, Pardon and Mercy.
Prayer in Honor of Mary
Hail Mary, Daughter of God the Father! Hail Mary, Mother of God the Son! Hail Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit! Hail Mary, Temple of the Most Holy Trinity! Hail Mary, our mistress, our wealth, our mystic rose, Queen of our hearts, our Mother, our life, our sweetness and our dearest hope! We are all Thine, and all we have is Thine. O Virgin blessed above all things, may Thy soul be in us to magnify the Lord; may Thy spirit be in us to rejoice in God. Place Thyself, O faithful Virgin, as a seal upon our hearts, that in Thee and through Thee we may be found faithful to God. Grant, most gracious Virgin, that we may be numbered among those whom Thou art pleased to love, to teach and to guide, to favor and to protect as Thy children. Grant that with the help of Thy love, we may despise all earthly consolation and cling to heavenly things, until through the Holy Spirit, Thy faithful spouse, and through Thee, His faithful spouse, Jesus Christ, Thy Son, be formed within us for the glory of the Father. Amen. (St. Grignon de Montfort)
Pray one (1) Our Father, (3) Hail Mary’s, (1) Glory Be.
O Bleeding Face, O Face Divine, be every adoration Thine. (Three times)
"Read
these counsels slowly. Pause to meditate on these thoughts. They are things
that I whisper in your ear-confiding them-as a friend, as a brother, as a
father. And they are being heard by God. I won't tell you anything new. I will
only stir your memory, so that some thought will arise and strike you; and so
you will better your life and set out along ways of prayer and of Love. And in
the end you will be a more worthy soul."
Looking back on the past. To bewail it? No: that would be useless.
— To learn: that is fruitful
Daily Devotions
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Hike and Meditate on the Divine
Mercy Novena Day 6 and pray for the souls of the meek and humble and of
children especially those who are to be born.
[1]Schultz, Patricia. 1,000 Places to See
Before You Die
[4]http://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-1.htm
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