First Saturday Devotion Promises: Our Lady has promised to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall:
1. Go to Confession.
2. Receive Holy Communion.
3. Recite Five decades of the Rosary.
4. "and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."
Background of the Promise
In December 1925, Our Lady with the Christ Child appeared to Lucia, a nun in a convent at Pontevedra, Spain, who was one of the three young pheasant children of Fatima, Portugal who saw the Blessed Mother in 1917. The Christ Child spoke first, "Have compassion on the heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them." Our Lady then said, "Look, my daughter, at my Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console me and announce for me that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."
First Friday Devtion Promises: Jesus gave the following promises to Saint Margaret Mary for souls devoted to His Most Sacred Heart:
1. I will give them all the graces necessary in their state in life.
2. I will establish peace in their homes.
3. I will comfort them in their afflictions.
4. I will be their secure refuge in life and above all in death.
5. I will bestow abundant blessings on all their undertakings.
6. Sinners shall find in My heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Tepid souls shall become fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection.
9. I will bless every place where a picture of My heart shall be exposed and honored..
10. I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts.
11. Those who shall promote this devotion shall have their names written in My heart, never to be blotted out.
12. I promise you, in the excessive mercy of My heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Friday for 9 consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die in My disgrace nor without receiving the sacraments; My Divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in that last moment.