First Friday/First Saturday Vigils of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary

When asked to summarize the Fatima message, Bishop John Venancio, former bishop of the Diocese of Leiria-Fatima, said: “Fatima is reparation, reparation, reparation, and especially Eucharistic reparation.”

Reparation is atonement to God for our sins and the sins of others. The angel of peace taught us how to make reparation when he told the children during his second apparition, “Offer up prayers and sacrifices to the Most High. Make everything you do a sacrifice and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended and in supplication for the conversion of sinners.”

The Vigils of Reparation begin at 7 PM with the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, followed by the Mass of the Sacred Heart at 7:30 PM. Throughout the night we pray in reparation before the Blessed Sacrament, including the Luminous and Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy and other prayers between times of quiet adoration. We conclude with Benediction, Midnight Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, ending at 1 AM. Confession is available before the Friday evening Mass.

The Vigils of Reparation fulfil the First Friday/First Saturday Devotion requirements. We do not hold vigils in March due to our Annual Marian Congress held on the first Saturday, during Lent, nor in October when the annual Candlelight Rosary Procession takes place on first Friday. When First Friday and First Saturday do not fall on the same weekend, we do not hold a vigil.

We invite you to attend our Vigil of Reparations (see link to schedule of locations), and to schedule a vigil in your own parish. 

2012 Schedule of Vigils

To schedule a Vigil of Reparation in your parish,

call Kathleen O'Hern, 651-426-9401