December 10

Transition of the Holy House of Loreto (Italy, 1294)

Our Lord and Lady to Lucia of Fatima (1925) Five First Saturdays

Immaculate Heart of Mary

On the evening of Thursday, December 10, after supper, the young postulant Lucua — who was only eighteen years old — returned to her cell. There she was visited by Our Lady and the Child Jesus. Our Lord spelled out to Sister Lucia what form the reparation should be. The Child Jesus stood at His Mother's side enthroned in a cloud of light, displaying His Sacred Heart saying;

"Have pity on the heart of your most Holy Mother. It is covered with thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment and there is no one to remove them by an act of reparation."

Our Lady then held out her thorn-wreathed Heart and said;

"See, my daughter, my heart, surrounded by thorns with which ungrateful men wound it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Do you at least console me and announce that I promise to assist at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation, to all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite 5 decades of the rosary, and keep me company for 15 minutes while mediating on the mysteries of the rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."

Ave Maria!