Editing First Saturdays Devotion (section)

== Devotion ==

=== Practice of the five First Saturdays ===
The First Saturdays Devotion consists of a series of practices that must be performed on five consecutive first Saturdays of the month. Each one of these practices should be done with the intention of making reparation for sins against the [[Immaculate Heart of Mary]].<ref name=":3" />

# Go to [[Sacrament of Penance|Sacramental confession]]. The confession can be made up to eight days before or after the first Saturday, but the individual must be in a state of grace to receive Communion.<ref name=":1" /> The confession should be made with the intention of reparation, and if this intention is forgotten, it can be formed at the next confession.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2017-02-09 |title=The Apparitions at Pontevedra (1925-1926) {{!}} The Fatima Center |url=https://fatima.org/the-apparitions-at-pontevedra/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |language=en-US}}</ref>
# Receive [[Eucharist|Holy Communion]]. It can be received at a Saturday daily mass or at a Saturday evening anticipatory Mass.<ref name=":2" />
# Pray five decades of the [[Rosary]].
# Keep Mary company while meditating on one or more of the [[mysteries of the Rosary]] for 15 minutes, in addition to the recitation of the Rosary.

According to Lúcia dos Santos, a promise of assistance at the hour of death and all the graces necessary for salvation was made by the Virgin Mary during the Pontevedra apparition on 10 December 1925.<ref name=":5" />

=== Sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary ===
On May 30, 1930, in the convent of [[Tui, Pontevedra|Tui]], Spain, Lúcia dos Santos, in response to a written inquiry from her [[confessor]], prayed to Jesus asking about the significance of the five First Saturdays. According to Lúcia, Jesus revealed that the five First Saturdays are linked to five specific offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

# Blasphemies against the [[Immaculate Conception]].
# Blasphemies against her [[Perpetual virginity of Mary|perpetual virginity]].
# Blasphemies against her [[Theotokos|divine maternity]], while refusing at the same time to recognize her as [[New Eve|Mother of men]].
# The blasphemies of those who publicly seek to implant in the hearts of children indifference or contempt, or even hatred towards the Immaculate Mother.
# The offenses of those who outrage her directly in her [[Marian art in the Catholic Church|holy images]].