silent plea. What follows is spoken to each of us.

The Child Jesus spoke first, imploring:

"Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns, with which ungrateful
men pierce It at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them."

Then Our Lady added:

"Look, My daughter, at My Heart, surrounded with thorns with
which ungrateful men pierce Me at every moment by their blasphemies

 

and ingratitude. Do you, at least, try to console Me, and announce in
My name that I promise to assist at the moment of death, with all 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 the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to Me."

At that time, there already existed indulgenced devotions to Our Lady of the Rosary consisting of
15 consecutive Saturdays, or 12 consecutive first Saturdays, or even eight consecutive first
Saturdays. Lucy's confessor wanted to know why Our Lady sought a new devotion of five first
Saturdays.

So in an apparition on February 15, 1926, Our Lord explained to Lucy that while many souls begin
those longer devotions, few actually complete them, and many of those who do complete them do so
for their own advantage, motivated chiefly by the plenary indulgence attached to those devotions.
Our Lord seeks instead that we bring to the Five First Saturdays devotion a fervent spirit of love
and reparation toward the Immaculate Heart:

"It is true, My daughter, that many souls begin, but few persevere to the very end, and those who
persevere do it to receive the graces promised. The souls who make the five First Saturdays with
fervor and to make reparation to the Heart of your Heavenly Mother, please Me more than those who
make fifteen, but are lukewarm and indifferent."

Several years later, in a revelation of May 29, 1930, Our Lord also explained His reason for
specifying five days of reparation:

"My daughter, the reason is simple. There are five types of offenses and blasphemies committed
against the Immaculate Heart o{Marv:
1. Blasphemies against Her Immaculate Conception.

2. Blasphemies against Her Virginity.

3. Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, refusing at the same
time to recognize Her as the Mother of men.

4. The blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of
children indifference or scorn, or even hatred of this Immaculate