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What Is an Indulltem:E1 Listen to the Words of the Priest, and Especially Note the Penance He Gives You What is an Indulltem:e1 Listen to the words of the priest, and especially note the penance he gives you. Make sure you do the penance after the confession. When invited, express "My daughter, look at my Heart surrounded with the thorns which me Indulgences are an expression of the Father's love and forgiveness which as a your own prayer of sorrow or Act of Contrition such as below: ungrateful men pierce constantly through blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console me, and tell men that 1promise loving mother, the Church longs to pour out from her store of grace and prayers An Act of Contrition to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation for her children as they work through the consequences of their sin. They can be all those who, on thefirst Saturday offive consecutive months, go to applied either to oneself or to the souls of the deceased, but cannot be applied Oh my God, I am sorry for all my sins because You are so good, and with confession, receive Holy Communion, pray the Rosary, and keep me to other persons living on earth. Your help, I will not sin again. Amen. company for a quarter of an hour meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of offering me reparation." Indulgences are two kinds: partial and plenary. The Plenary Indulgence removes At the end of Confession listen to the words of absolution, the sacramental all temporal punishment due for sin. Forgiveness of a sin through sacramental forgiveness of the Church through the ordained priest. As you listen to the Once some initial difficulties were resolved, Church authorities gave it their confession is separate from punishment for the sin. This punishment may words of forgiveness you may make the sign of the cross with the priest. approval. Gradually the devotion spread throughout the universal Church and has since become known as the First Saturdays Devotion. come either in this life, in the form of various sufferings, or in the next life, in If the priest closes by saying, "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good" answer, purgatory. "For His mercy endures forever." If you are not already practicing this devotion, you are invited to do so. You will not only have Our Lady's great promise of all the graces necessary for AFTER CONFESSION/ RECONCIUATION A Guide For (onfession / Retontilialion salvation at the hour of your death, but you will also receive many other graces If you are not sure how to go to confession, ask the priest to guide you. Do Give thanks to God for forgiving you again. throughout your life by carrying out this devotion. Eternal Father! I thank You for Your goodness and mercy. You have had not be afraid to tell the priest if you are not sure about something. Just be WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO? honest, keep it simple and ask for advice. compassion on me, although in my folly I had wandered far away from You and offended You most grievously. With fatherly love, You have received me anew To make our reparation truly pleasing to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and to BEFORECONFESSION/ RECONCILIATION after so many relapses into sin and forgiven me my offenses through the Holy benefit from the great promise attached to the First Saturdays Devotion, it is Ask the Holy Spirit to help discover your sins and to help you make a good Sacrament of Reconciliation. Blessed be Your Infinite Mercy! Never again will important to carefully carry out all of the following requirements that Our Lady confession. Be truly sorry for your sins. The essential act of Penance, on the part I offended You.All that I am, and all that I have, shall be consecrated to Your asked for: of the penitent, is contrition, a clear and decisive rejection of the sin committed. service and Your glory. Amen. 1. Go to the Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation); • 2. Receive Holy Communion (in the state of grace); It is a sorrow for your sins and a firm resolution to avoid the near occasions Do your assigned Penance. of sins and amend your life in the future, out of the love one has for God and 3. Recite five decades of the Rosary; which is reborn with repentance. If you recall some serious sin you forgot to tell, rest assured that it has been 4. Keep Our Lady company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the forgiven with the others, but be sure to confess it in your next Confession. mysteries of the Rosary; Come,O Holy Spirit, enlighten my mind and soften my heart, so that I can know Resolve to return to the Sacrament of Reconciliation often. The Sacrament is a 5. Do all of these with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate my sins and be truly sorry for them, to confess them sincerely and to amend my great blessing and as the ordinary way for us to have our sins forgiven it gives Heart of Mary; life. 0 Blessed Virgin, Mother of my Redeemer, mirror of innocence and sanctity, us the grace to rid ourselves of our weaknesses, grow in holiness, and lead a 6. Do all of the above every first Saturday for five consecutive months. and refuge of penitent sinners, intercede for me through the Passion of Your balanced and virtuous life. Son, that I may obtain the grace to make a good confession. • If you cannot go to Confession on the first Saturday itself, you may go anytime up to eight days before or after the first Saturday. Sister Lucia obtained this Examine of Conscience: Make a review of your life since your last sacramental ~ concession from Our Lord on the 15 February 1926 after presenting the confession. Think of the areas in your life where you have not been loving in problems that this requirement posed for some people. the way you know you should be, towards God or people in your life, or how you Five First saturdays Devotion treat yourself. A helpful pattern for examination of conscience is to review the To console the Immaculate Heart of Mary WHY FIVE SATURDAYS? Commandments of God and the Precepts of the Church. Two great devotional practices are associated with the apparitions of Our Our Lord answered this question when He appeared to Sister Lucia in May 1930. He explained that there are five principle offenses committed against the DURING CONFESSION/ RECONCILIATION Lady of Fatima. One is the Holy Rosary. The second is what has come to be Immaculate Heart of Mary which require reparation. These are: known as the Five First Saturdays Devotion. After examining your conscience, go into the confessional. You may kneel at the 1. Blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception; screen or sit to talk face-to-face with the priest. The Rosary is an ancient tradition that Our Lady repeatedly asked to be prayed 2. Blasphemies against her Perpetual Virginity; in all of the six apparitions at Fatima. But the Five First Saturdays is only 3. Blasphemies against her Divine Maternity; Begin your confession with the sign of the cross, mentioned by Our Lady during the July apparition as a new practice she would 4. Blasphemies by those who openly encourage indifference or even In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. My last later "come to ask for." The request was finally made to Lucia, the oldest of the contempt in the hearts of children towards His Immaculate Mother, and confession was .....weeks (months, years) ago. I want to tell God that I am sorry three Fatima children, eight years after the famous apparitions. At the time 5. The dishonoring of her Sacred Images. for the things that I have done and ask God to forgive me. My sins are ..... she was living in a convent in Spain where she hoped to be received soon as a Saythe sins that you remember. Start with the one(s) that is most difficult to nun. "Have pity on the Heart of your Blessed Mother, which is pierced and say. (In order to make a good confession the faithful must confess all serious It was 10 December 1925 when the Child Jesus and the Virgin Mary appeared covered with thorns by ungrateful men at every moment." sins, according to kind and number.) After confessing all the sins you remember to her in her convent cell. Enraptured by this extraordinary vision, Lucia was (The Child Jesus to Sr. Lucy, December 1925) since your last good confession, you may conclude by saying, For these and all shown the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady surrounded by thorns. Our Lady then the sins that I have committed during my life, I am deeply sorry. said to her: TODraw [loSe To Mary Is To Draw [lose To Jesus Fatima Prayers The prayers taught to the children at Fatima are simple in structure and As the earliest Christian witnesses often taught, Mary was open to receiving profound in depth. To a world poor and needy in faith and charity, these prayers· Jesus in her mind and in her heart before she gave birth to him-in her flesh. For stress ancient truths of our Holy Catholic Church...especially concerning the this reason, she is the first of all the disciples of the Lord as she is the most Holy Eucharist and Mary, the Immaculate Mother of God. faithful of all the Lord's followers. On the cross, Jesus gave her to the disciple as our mother.
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