Devotion to the great promise of the Madonna

the Most Holy Virgin added: “Look, my daughter, my Heart surrounded by thorns that ungrateful men continually inflict with blasphemies and ingratitudes. Console me at least you and let me know this: To all those who for five months, on the first Saturday, will confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the Mysteries, with the intention of offering me reparations, I promise to assist them in the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation ”.

This is the great Promise of the Heart of Mary which is placed side by side with that of the Heart of Jesus. To obtain the promise of the Heart of Mary the following conditions are required:

1 - Confession - made within the previous eight days, with the intention of repairing the offenses made to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. If one in the confession forgets to make that intention, he can formulate it in the following confession.

2 - Communion - made in God's grace with the same intention of confession.

3 - Communion must be made on the first Saturday of the month.

4 - Confession and Communion must be repeated for five consecutive months, without interruption, otherwise it must be started again.

5 - Recite the crown of the Rosary, at least the third part, with the same intention of confession.

6 - Meditation - for a quarter of an hour to keep company with the Blessed Virgin meditating on the mysteries of the rosary.

A confessor from Lucia asked her the reason for the number five. She asked Jesus, who replied: "It is a question of repairing the five offenses directed to the Immaculate Heart of Mary"

1 - The blasphemies against his Immaculate Conception.

2 - Against his virginity.

3 - Against her divine motherhood and the refusal to recognize her as the mother of men.

4 - The work of those who publicly infuse indifference, contempt and even hatred against this Immaculate Mother into the hearts of the little ones.

5 - The work of those who offend her directly in her sacred images.