It’s helpful when pastors take the lead in promoting this devotion, but proponents stress that the key is for grassroots Catholics to commit themselves to carrying out this ‘unfulfilled’ part of ...

Cardinals Raymond Burke and Robert Sarah are among senior prelates urging greater participation in the First Saturday Devotion and are backing an initiative that originated in France, aimed at ...

A traditional Catholic devotion to the infant Jesus in the Philippines. (Credit: Dondi Tawatao.) In the devotional life of the Church, this weekend was the First Friday of the month and the First ...

Our Lady of Fatima revealed to Sr. Lucia the following aspects of the First Saturday devotion. All of these actions should be done with the intention to make reparation for the offenses committed ...

The First Saturday Devotion is based on the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to Sister Lucia dos Santos on December 10, 1925. Venerable Lucia of Fatima witnessed another vision of the Virgin Mary ...

“About three in the afternoon, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”) (Matthew 27:46, NIV). It’s early Saturday ...

ASHLAND – The tradition of observing the First Friday and First Saturday devotions is returning today at St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church and will continue until the end of the year. The Rev ...