THE GREAT PROMISE OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

Our Lady appearing in Fatima on June 13, 1917, among other things, said to Lucia:

“Jesus wants to use you to make me known and loved. He wants to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world ”.

Then, in that apparition, he showed the three seers his Heart crowned with thorns: the Immaculate Heart of the Mother embittered by the sins of the children and by their eternal damnation!

Lucia recounts: “On December 10, 1925, the Most Holy Virgin appeared to me in the room and beside her a Child, as if suspended on a cloud. Our Lady held her hand on his shoulders and, at the same time, in the other hand she held a Heart surrounded by thorns. At that moment the Child said: "Have compassion on the Heart of Your Most Holy Mother wrapped in the thorns that ungrateful men continually confiscate from him, while there is no one who does acts of reparation to snatch from Her."

And immediately the Blessed Virgin added: “Look, my daughter, my Heart surrounded by thorns that ungrateful men continually inflict with blasphemies and ingratitudes. At least console me and let this be known:

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 repairs, 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 forgets to make such an intention in confession, 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 repeat for five consecutive months, without interruption, otherwise one must start 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 keep company to the Most Holy Virgin meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.

A confessor of Lucia asked her why the number five. She asked Jesus, who replied: “It is a matter 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.