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running down her cheeks, she added: 'I would like at least to see my mother.' 'Don't you want,
then, to offer this sacrifice for the conversion of sinners?' 'I do want to, I do!' With her face
bathed in tears, she joined her hands, raised her eyes to Heaven and made her offering: 'O my
Jesus This is for the love of Thee for the conversion of sinners, for the Holy Father, and in
reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary!"

Is it necessary to explicitly formulate our intention of reparation to the Immaculate Heart in
performing the First Saturday devotions? Yes! But I'm afraid many Catholics mistakenly think that
the general intention of "making the First Saturdays" suffices. On the contrary, as Our Lady said,
each of the four requested acts (Confession, Holy Communion, praying five decades of the Rosary,
and meditating for
15 minutes on the 15 mysteries of the Rosary) is to be performed
"with the intention of making reparation to Me."

It is also clear from Our Lord's own words that the thought of making reparation to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary must be present in each of the acts. In the course of the February 15,1926 apparition
mentioned above, Lucy asked Our Lord about making the Confession on a day other than the First
Saturday, and then she went on to ask specifically about whether it was necessary that this express
intention be formed in conjunction with the acts:

"My Jesus! Many souls find it difficult to confess on Saturday. Will You allow a confession within
eight days to be valid?"

"Yes. It can even be made later on, provided that the souls are
in the state of grace when they receive Me on the first Saturday,and
that [when making their Confession] they had the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary."

"My Jesus! and those who forget to form this intention?''

"They can form it at the next Confession, taking advantage of their first opportunity to go to
confession."

In other words, they needed to go to Confession again - not in order to have their sins forgiven,
but in order to fulfill the conditions of the Five First Saturdays promise.

Lucy is obviously asking about people who have purposely