This is taking place directly after 8:30 morning Mass. All are invited to join this faithful group at St. Raphael that participate in this devotion each month.

Pope, Francis said “Mercy is the best thing we can feel; it changes the world.” In this regard, Pope Francis is following the path of Jonah, asking us all to repent, repair our lives and do penance. Like the Ninevites, all nations need to contemplate the mystery of mercy so that we may become a more effective sign of the Father’s action in our lives.

Join us in this expression of Mercy, Repentance, and Devotion

First explained to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries, on December 10 of 1925, Our Lady came and asked for specific things at Fatima. Among her requests were: pray the Rosary every day for peace in the world, consecration of Russia and each of us individually to Mary’s Immaculate Heart, to do our daily duties out of love, dedicating everything to God, and make reparation for sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary by observing the Five First Saturdays. This devotion is still relevant today – wars are still going on. You are invited to make the Five First Saturdays a regular part of your prayer life. Our Lady said to St. Lucia “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.”