{"id":5038,"date":"2017-05-06T05:35:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T03:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/?p=5038\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T05:22:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:22:45","slug":"today-is-first-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/today-is-first-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is First Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is First Saturday of May. Saturdays are traditionally dedicated to Our Lady. Since the beginning of Christianity, the Church has considered Saturdays to be dedicated to intensifying our devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our mother. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5039\" src=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Inmaculado-Coraz\u00f3n-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Inmaculado-Coraz\u00f3n-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Inmaculado-Coraz\u00f3n.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/>Many people consecrated the first Saturday of the month to Mary for this intention and in reparation for the blasphemies and sacrileges against her from sinners and false teachings.<br \/>\nOn June 13, 1912, St. Pius X granted new indulgences to practices: \u201cTo promote the piety of the Faithful towards Immaculate Mary, Mother of God, and to make Reparation for the outrages done to her holy Name and her privileges by impious men, St. Pius X granted, for the first Saturday of each month, a plenary indulgence, applicable to the souls in purgatory.Conditions: confession, communion, prayers for the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff and pious practices in the spirit of Reparation in honour of the Immaculate Virgin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, on June 13, 1917, there took place at Fatima the great manifestation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.<br \/>\nDuring the next apparition (July 13, 1917) the Blessed Virgin requested the Five First Saturdays of Reparation. The Blessed Virgin said: \u201cTo prevent the war, I will come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and communion in reparation on the first Saturdays of five months.\u201d Our Lady promised Lucia on July 13th, 1917 that a future manifestation would occur in relation to the practice of the first five Saturdays of the month. This was fulfilled on December 10th, 1925.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/militia-immaculatae.asia\/english\/info791.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here is meditation about First Glorious Mystery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is First Saturday of May. Saturdays are traditionally dedicated to Our Lady. Since the beginning of Christianity, the Church has considered Saturdays to be dedicated to intensifying our devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our mother.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/today-is-first-saturday\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions\/5856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}