Have Compassion on the Heart of Your Most Holy Mother

On February 15, 1926, returning from the garden after doing her chores, Sister Lucia saw the Child Jesus who asked her, "Have you showed the world what the Mother of Heaven has asked?" Lucia acknowledged that no, she had not. Then Jesus said, "It's true that many people already receive me every first Saturday, in honor of Our Lady and the 15 mysteries of the Rosary, but unfortunately few of them go all the way, and those who do persevere only to receive the pardons that are promised. I love the souls who practise the first 5 Saturdays fervently in order to repair the heart of the Mother of Heaven, rather than those who make 15 Saturdays with indifference." Eight years later, on December 10, 1925, Mary and the Child Jesus appeared to Lucia, the sole surviving Fatima visionary, at a convent in Pontevedra, Spain. Our Lady rested her hand on Lucia's shoulder, revealing a heart encircled by thorns. The Child Jesus said: "Have compassion on the heart of your most holy Mother, covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation..."