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(FYI I'm a confirmed, happily life-long-lapsed catholic as a legal adult, so ban me if you want, but this isn't just some rando agnostic rant. I'm not the type to make a habit of trolling. it's just, your organization sucks, and it's sad there's so many of you, and it's sad you choose to clog up our limited server space with your junk, but hey, do your thing, I'm not here to say you shouldn't be here, I'm just saddened that you catholics exist at all anymore!)

I mean, I don't really care to have an answer as to why they care- that's not really the point of my post. if you know why they care and you agree, then, wow! it's ok you and your generation will all be dead eventually, and the window will shift slowly but surely away from your nonsense as it has for a while now

i wonder how much more time you would have for living like jesus- how much more time you could and would spend helping feed the hungry and housing the homeless, comforting the sick-

i wonder how much more time you would spend doing what you claim is the most important thing in life if you didn't spend so much time worrying about if other people are being good catholics, and dictating with legislation if other people have to act like good catholics, rather than living by example which - i'm pretty sure - is how you're supposed to act as a catholic, not by dictating to others that they MUST do the right thing or else they're a criminal

yikes

anyway, happy solstice, transphobes! your bishops could be like 'make sure you spend extra time this cold holiday season helping the less fortunate among you who need food and shelter, and instead their organization is using its voice to... i dunno, you tell me if spending your holidays gathering signatures for a ballot initiative that dictates biological gender standards for children's sports competitions sound like radical, unconditional love

does it sound like jesus to teach children to worry about who is better than the others at arbitrary competition? i'll go ahead- nope, sure doesn't! sure sounds like that's just a whole lot of completely inconsequential bullshit compared to oh i dunno people starving, or hey how about starving children? sorry starving children of washington state! these awesome catholics chose to spend some time worrying about dictating who you compete against in shit that totally doesnt matter, instead of using the might and obscene wealth of their organization to systematically make sure every single one of you was well fed. theyre out here latching onto (the wrong side if you consider what they claim to believe) a political wedge issue (as if it benefits them when the population is divided), using their platform as champions of love to help some republican party hacks steal elections with manufactured outrage

y'all are just so embarrassing and somehow you go along like you don't even know it

also to the 'oh but im not transphobic-' nope, shut up. you give this organization money? the catholic church? you're part of the problem, you're supporting them. and if you're not actively changing their stance, then you're condoning it, plain and simple!

('peace and grace' my ass, you rabble rouser)

EVERYONE ENJOY THE LONGER DAYS!

Your mother would like a word about some unfinished business — your Blessed Mother, that is, who in 1925 asked the faithful to fulfill the First Saturdays devotion.

It’s a request that — on its Dec. 10 centennial — is often referred to as “forgotten” among the supernatural events surrounding Fatima. But following the better known 1917 apparitions, Sister Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos — one of three Fatima visionaries, who later became a Carmelite nun — revealed Mary returned to her twice while she was boarding at a convent in Pontevedra, Spain, and specifically requested the practice.

Catholics worldwide were asked to dedicate the first Saturday of the month — for five consecutive months, thus “Five First Saturdays” — to confession, reception of holy Communion, and the rosary and meditation on its mysteries.

“I think 100 year anniversaries are significant because it helps remind a new generation of these devotions that don’t die off,” Barbara Ernster, communications manager and editor for the World Apostolate of Fatima USA, told OSV News.

While no canonical inquiry was made, the First Saturdays devotion was approved by the bishop of Leiria, Portugal, on Sept. 13, 1939.

“Our Lady asked us to do this, and the Fatima message is timeless,” said Ernster, “because it is the Gospel message. It’s never going to be outdated.”

Speaking from Fatima — where she was participating in a centenary program and conference as part of the World Apostolate — Ernster reinforced the message of peace.

“One of the things that Lúcia had said so often, is that it could help stave off wars and help contribute to the peace of the world. And we see ourselves in situations now where we hear of a third world war — anything could spark it. Even in our own country, there’s so much division … And so,” Ernster concluded, “we do this so that we can help bring about peace — peace to our families, to our nations, to our church.”

St. Carlo Acutis shared that, in a dream after Sister Lúcia’s death, she told him, “The practice of the five First Saturdays of the month could change the destiny of the world.”

Cardinal Raymond L. Burke — former prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Tribunal and archbishop of St. Louis from 2004-2008, has urged greater participation in the First Saturdays devotion, backing a French-led initiative known as the “Alliance of the First Saturdays of Fatima,” which also launched the “First Saturdays of Fatima Jubilee 2025” on Jan. 4.

“The approaching centennial of the apparition of the infant Jesus and his Most Holy Mother to Sister Lucia at Pontevedra on Dec. 10, 1925, invites the faithful to renew, with deeper faith and greater fervor, their practice of the First Saturdays Devotion of Reparation,” Cardinal Burke said in a message sent to OSV News.

“This devotion, insistently requested by Our Lady herself as an act of loving reparation to her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, remains of enduring importance for the salvation of souls and for peace in the world,” added the prelate, who, as bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, (1995-2004), founded the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe there.

On Dec. 10, the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe will celebrate Mass to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Pontevedra.

“I encourage all to persevere in this devotion,” invited Cardinal Burke, “with Our Lady’s confidence in God’s fidelity to his promises of victory over sin and the victory of eternal life.”

Father Edward Looney, secretary of the Mariological Society of America, also said the faithful should heed Mary’s petition.

“When it comes to Fatima, we all strive to pray the rosary every day as she requested. The diehards observe the First Saturday devotion,” he shared. “If all practicing Catholics kept to this request, as a priest, I would be very busy with confessions.”

Noting that First Saturdays are also meant to be in reparation for offenses against Our Lady, Father Looney added, “We’ve seen statues that have been vandalized and people speaking ill of Mary. The First Saturdays call us to renew our love for Mary and to spread it so that her immaculate heart will triumph!”

For those who can’t make a trip to Fatima or Pontevedra, the World Apostolate of Fatima USA is offering a virtual First Saturday Pilgrimage to 12 sacred sites related to Fatima and the three visionaries. Short videos filmed on location will include a reflection on the events and the devotion.

“The biggest thing is that this was the part that we were supposed to do, that was given to us,” Ernster emphasized. “The church was given its part at Fatima, but the laypeople were given their part — and so we do this to help respond to the message that Our Lady brought to us.”

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Information about future events can be found here: https://1family.us/.