Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

"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 nine 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."


1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state in life.

2. I will give peace in their families.

3. I will console them in all their troubles.

4. They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of death.

5. I will pour 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 speedily rise to great perfection.

9. I will bless the homes in which the image of My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and honoured.
10. I will give to priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts.

11. Those who propagate this devotion shall have their name written in My Heart, and it shall never be effaced.

12. The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under My displeasure, nor without receiving their Sacraments; My Heart shall be their assured refuge at the last hour.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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I remember reading the above promises many years ago and immediately thinking of all the promises. I think I had ulterior motives. I want to go to heaven. I want to be fervent. I want to have peace in my family. I want to have my home always blessed.

Yes, ulterior motives on my part. But it was one of the first steps to falling deeply in love with Jesus!

Continuing on my journey of faith I was then led to read about the promises made by Our Lady to Sister Lucy of the Fatima apparitions.

Our Lady said to Sister Lucy:

Our Lady then spoke: “See, my daughter, my Heart encircled by thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Do you, at least, strive to console me. Tell them that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, go to confession, receive HOLY COMMUNION say five decades of the ROSARY and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.”

The elements of this devotion, therefore, consist in the following four points, all of which must be offered in reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One should make this intention before carrying out Our Lady’s requests. A renewal of the actual intention at the time is best; however, if such an intention is made now, it will fulfill the requirements if, for instance, the actual intention is forgotten at the time of confession.

1. Confession: This confession can be made before the First Saturday or afterward, provided that Holy Communion be received in the state of grace. In 1926, Christ in a vision explained to Lucia that this confession could be made a week before or even more, and that it should be offered in reparation.

2. Holy Communion: Before receiving Holy Communion, it is likewise necessary to offer it in reparation to Our Lady. Our Lord told Lucia in 1930, “This Communion will be accepted on the following Sunday for just reasons, if my priests allow it so.” So if work or school, sickness, or another just reason prevents the Communion on a First Saturday, with this permission it may be received the following Sunday. If Communion is transferred, any or all of the other acts of the devotion may also be performed on Sunday if the person so desires.

3. Rosary: The Rosary is a vocal prayer said while meditating upon the mysteries of Our Lord’s life and Passion and Our Lady’s life. To comply with the request of our Blessed Mother, it must be offered in reparation and said properly while meditating.

4. 15-minute meditation: Also offered in reparation, the meditation may embrace one or more mysteries; it may include all, taken together or separately. This meditation should be the richest of any meditation, because Our Lady promised to be present when she said “...those who keep me company....”

To those who faithfully follow Our Lady’s requests for the Five First Saturdays, she has made a wonderful promise which she, as Mediatrix of All Graces, will certainly fulfill: “I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation.” This means that our Blessed Mother will be present at the hour of death with the actual grace of final perseverance, (which after the gift/grace of Faith), is the most important grace.

After completing the Five First Saturdays, one may continue the devotion simply to console the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady. A tender love of our Blessed Mother will lead one to do all he can to make reparation for the sins which pierce her Immaculate Heart. Let us remember, too, that although Our Lady made this promise to those who would observe five such First Saturdays in succession, in her July apparition she asked simply that Communions of reparation be made on every First Saturday to atone for the sins of the world.

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With the feasts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary around the corner, I thought it would be good to remind us all of these promises once again. I am sure they will not mind if we have "ulterior motives"......those motives being, to console the Two Hearts, to Love the Two Hearts, and then to have a holy death so we can go to heaven!

Sunday, May 31, 2009 I had the blessing to attend Holy Mass at Thomas Aquinas' new chapel, Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity. As a member of the third order of the Trinitarians, I could not help but marvel at the Divine Providence of God.

My children were little and I was younger when I first attended Thomas Aquinas College chapel. I felt like I had just stepped into another world. I vaguely remembered what I was hearing in the Mass. I knew it was Latin and that was about it.

Well I ran out and bought a Daily Roman Missal to be able to follow along and it was not long before I had memorized the prayers of the Mass and responses. Nothing compares to the feeling that I get when I attend a sung Mass there....I feel like my soul wants to fly out of my body when I hear the beautiful Gregorian Chant sung by the outstanding choir.

I had the blessing to attend daily mass there for about six years. When I moved two hours away I could no longer attend daily Mass. However I continued to go back as often as I could and always attended the beautiful vigil Masses for Easter and Christmas.

I learned so very much during those years and I thank and praise God for that opportunity. It was such a blessing to me.

So now we are into that wonderful month of JUNE and in it will come the Feasts of The Most Holy Trinity, June 7th, The Feast of The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ, June 14th, The Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 19th, the Feast of The Immaculate Heart of Mary, June 20th. There are the feasts of saints too, but I am honing in on the feasts that pertain to Jesus and Mary.

For we know that the quickest way to Jesus is through Mary. When we consecrate ourselves to Mary, we become her property. She obtains from the Most Holy Trinity the graces we need to be what GOD desires us to be IF we surrender our human will. These are some of the thoughts I had in Holy Mass, Pentecost Sunday. Throughout the ages, Our Lady has shed tears for the state of the priesthood, the church and the world. Let us console her by holding up the priests in a special way this month, and perhaps it will become a prayer habit.....we must ALWAYS pray for our priests.

And a wonderful year it will be for us starting June 19th, FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS, for it is then that we can obtain a plenary indulgence when we do the following:

The means to obtain the indulgence are as follows:

(taken from CNA News Agency article)

Holy Father to grant plenary indulgences for the Year of Priests

(A) All truly penitent priests who, on any day, devotedly pray Lauds or Vespers before the Blessed Sacrament exposed to public adoration or in the tabernacle, and ... offer themselves with a ready and generous heart for the celebration of the Sacraments, especially the Sacrament of Penance, will be granted a Plenary Indulgence, which they can also apply to their deceased confreres, if in accordance with current norms they take Sacramental Confession and the Eucharist and pray in accordance with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. Priests are furthermore granted a Partial Indulgence, also applicable to deceased confreres, every time they devotedly recite the prayers duly approved to lead a saintly life and to carry out the duties entrusted to them.

(B) All truly penitent Christian faithful who, in church or oratory, devotedly attend Holy Mass and offer prayers to Jesus Christ, supreme and eternal Priest, for the priests of the Church, or perform any good work to sanctify and mold them to His Heart, are granted a Plenary Indulgence, on the condition that they have expiated their sins through Sacramental Confession and prayed in accordance with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. This may be done on the opening and closing days of the Year of Priests, on the 150th anniversary of the death of St. Jean Marie Vianney, on the first Thursday of the month, or on any other day established by the ordinaries of particular places for the good of the faithful.

The elderly, the sick and all those who for any legitimate reason are unable to leave their homes, may still obtain a plenary indulgence if, with the soul completely removed from attachment to any form of sin and with the intention of observing, as soon as they can, the usual three conditions, "on the days concerned, they pray for the sanctification of priests and offer their sickness and suffering to God through Mary, Queen of the Apostles."

Additionally, a partial indulgence will be offered to the faithful each time they pray five “Our Father,” “Hail Mary” and “Glory Be,” or any other duly approved prayer "in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to ask that priests maintain purity and sanctity of life."

We know that the Eucharist is the epitome of our faith, without the priest we can have no Eucharist. No Eucharist, no Jesus. Period. No Jesus, well, we see the world trying to live without Him, and what a state it is in!

Let us pray for our beloved priests, sons of Mary, brothers of Jesus. I had already posted a prayer taken from a prayer card on this blog. But whatever prayer you use, I am sure it will be a beautiful gift to the Most Holy Trinity, and Our Lady.

Beautiful Hands of a Priest

We need them in life's early morning,
We need them again at its close;
We feel their warm clasp of true friendship,
We seek it while tasting life's woes.

When we come to this world we are sinful,
The greatest as well as the least.
And the hands that make us pure as angels
Are the beautiful hands of a priest.

At the altar each day we behold them,
And the hands of a king on his throne
Are not equal to them in their greatness
Their dignity stands alone.

For there in the stillness of morning
Ere the sun has emerged from the east,
There God rests between the pure fingers
Of the beautiful hands of a priest.

When we are tempted and wander
To pathways of shame and sin
'Tis the hand of a priest that absolve us.
Not once but again and again.

And when we are taking life's partner
Other hands may prepare us a feast
But the hands that will bless and unite us,
Are the beautiful hands of a priest.

God bless them and keep them all holy,
For the Host which their fingers caress,
What can a poor sinner do better
Than to ask Him who chose them to bless

When the death dews on our lids are falling,
May our courage and strength be increased
By seeing raised o'er us in blessing
The beautiful hands of a priest.

Welcome to My Heart!