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MEMBERSHIP
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1. The minimum requirement for membership of the Apostolate is the making of a pledge promising to offer up each day the sacrifices demanded by (a) one's daily duty and (b) the faithful observance of God's law. 2. To pray five decades of the Rosary devoutly daily, while meditating on the mysteries. 3. To wear the brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel as a sign and reminder of personal consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. 4. On the first Saturday of five consecutive months, with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, confess and receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary and keep company with Our Lady for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary. ( The signed portion of the pledge form is taken to Fatima and buried near the site of the apparitions.) |
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THE
FIVE FIRST SATURDAYS OF REPARATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
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At the apparition on July
13th, 1917, Our Lady said that she would come again to ask for the reparatory
Communion of the First Saturdays. |
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THE
CONDITIONS
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The confession
can be made eight days before or after the First Saturday.
Why Five consecutive months? Our Lady revealed to Lucia that there are five types of blasphemy against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
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