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Thus it is not unusual that a person might require more than five Saturdays to complete the
devotion, but the acts of reparation which Our Lady asks of us are not burdensome, so having to
start over  possibly even more than once is nothing to fret about.

(To be completely precise about this point, we should mention that in remote parishes where there
is no Mass on Saturdays, a priest may allow the faithful to make their First Saturday devotions on
the Sunday following the First Saturday. Our Lord told Sister Lucy in the above mentioned
revelation of May 29, 1930, "The practice of this devotion will be equally acceptable on the Sunday
following the first Saturday when My priests, for a just cause, allow it to souls." But this
concession which requires the permission of a priest!  is only for when circumstances prevent us
from being able to perform the devotion on the First Saturday, and not because we forgot to form
the intention of reparation.)

Finally, we must not make the mistake of thinking that we are finished with Our Lady's request
after we have made the Five First Saturdays. It was Sister Lucy's practice to make consecutive
Five First Saturday devotions, one after another, throughout her life. "As for myself," she said,
"I avow that I am never so happy as when the first Saturday arrives." And regarding our own part
in embracing this devotion, she added: "The greatest joy that I experience is to see the
Immaculate Heart of our most tender Mother known, loved, and consoled by means of this devotion."

At the very least, we should always continue to make a fervent Communion of Reparation each
month on the First Saturday! And we must seriously encourage our fellow Catholics to do so, too.,

We simply cannot do enough to promote this beautiful devotion, which is so consoling to Our
Heavenly Mother and so necessary for our preservation. Frere Michel, the foremost living expert on
the Fatima apparitions, writes:

"To save souls, all souls, 'especially those who are most in need,' to snatch them all from the
fire of hell which threatens them, is then, in the final analysis, the principal intention of the
practice of the first Saturdays of the month, just as it was already the same intention Our Lady
indicated on August 19, 1917, urgently inviting the three shepherds to pray and make sacrifices:
'Pray, pray much and make