THREE goals of devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Les trois buts de cette dévotion aux Coeurs de Jésus et Marie sont parfaitement conformes à l’enseignement de l’Eglise catholique et respectent l’ordre de la Charité :
Honoring God (1st commandment), Helping others (2nd commandment given by Christ), Securing your salvation (purpose of life on earth)
1 - Reparation for offenses against Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary
To love someone is also to want to make amends for offenses done to them. This dimension is essential.
At Paray-le-Monial and Fatima, Christ and the Blessed Virgin insisted on our duty to make reparation for the offences committed against them. how to do it through the restorative communion of first Fridays and Saturdays of the month.
After the first apparitions at Fatima, Christ himself explained to Sister Lucia the 5 types of offence against the Blessed Virgin that we must repair as a priority today:
- Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception
- Blasphemies against her Virginity
- Blasphemies against her divine Maternity
- The offenses of those who seek to put indifference, contempt or hatred for this Immaculate Mother into the hearts of children.
- The offenses of those who outrage him directly in his holy images.
To make reparation for these offences, God now requires a special means : 1st Saturday of each month.
2 - CHARITY TO SINNERS AND ALL PEOPLE
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is then aimed at Charity towards others on two levels:
1/ Working for the conversion of the world and peace
2/ S’occuper the salvation of sinners' souls car, elle explique , que “beaucoup de pécheurs n’ont personne qui prie pour eux.” et qu’ils vont en enfer.
En particulier n’oublions pas que le deuxième commandement apporté par le Christ dans l’Evangile « tu aimeras ton prochain comme toi-même » (Marc 12,31) évoque une charité which is not limited to material concerns but also includes spiritual charity so important.
Isn't the greatest service you can render a person, to be concerned about his or her eternal life and help him get to Heaven, sparing him the never-ending suffering of Hell? In his life, Christ never ceased to concern himself with the salvation of souls, especially those of sinners. At Fatima, we are asked to do the same: work to save the souls of sinners.
During the apparitions at La Salette, the Blessed Virgin wept while saying these words:
"Souls fall in Hell like leaves in autumn."
At Fatima, she went so far as to show Hell to the three little visionaries, to make them aware of the importance of our duty of spiritual charity:
"You've seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wants to establish in the mwave devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If we do what I'm about to tell you many souls will be saved and we'll have peace." Our Lady at Fatima, July 13, 1917
"Sacrifice–you for the sinners who will en Hell and have no one to pray for them. "
Our Lady, Pontevedra December 10, 1925
3- Obtain your own salvation
If many souls go to Hell for eternity, what about us? In these times of perversion, of permanent temptation, when everything is done to turn us away from God, who can affirm that they will remain faithful to Christ's teachings all their life and go to Heaven? Let's not forget that even Pope Saint Pius X and many other saints feared Hell.
But to help us face the times of trial we are living through, the Hearts of Jesus and Mary have brought us an exceptional promise if we follow their requests: the guarantee of our Salvation. Here are the very precise words of Christ and the Blessed Virgin:
" I promise, in the excess of My Heart's mercy, that My all-powerful love will grant all those who take Communion on First Fridays, nine times in a row, the grace of final penance, that they will not die in My disgrace, nor without receiving the sacraments, and that My Divine Heart will make itself their assured refuge at this last hour."
Christ in Paray-le-Monial
"All those who, for 5 months, on the first Saturday, will confess, receive Holy Communion, recite a rosary and keep me company for fifteen minutes on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, in the spirit of reparation, I promises to assist them at the hour of death with alls the graces necessary for the salvation of their souls.
Our Lady, Pontevedra December 10, 1925
