AUGUST IS DEDICATED TO to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This devotion highlights Mary's love for her son Jesus. It also serves as the measure of our own love for Jesus, for Mary is above all the greatest disciple of Christ and the model of discipleship. 

During this month, we ask our Lady to intercede for us with her Son. Let us ask him to purify our hearts, making them free of any stain or attachment to sin. Then we will be free to serve him perfectly. 

Devotion to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart has received new emphasis in this century from the visions given to Lucy Dos Santos, oldest of the visionaries of Fatima, in her convent in Tuy, in Spain, in 1925 and 1926. In the visions Our Lady asked for the practice of the Five First Saturdays to help make amends for the offenses committed against her heart by the blasphemies and ingratitude of men. The practice parallels the devotion of the Nine First Fridays in honor of the Sacred Heart.

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