Since this is first Saturday, I'm going to add this sequence taken from the Cluny missal. Let us have recourse to Mary, the 'Refuge of Sinners':
Hail Mary, full of grace! dear Mother of Jesus, and hope of the world!
O gate of heaven! O temple of God! O haven of the sea, where sinners confidently seek shelter and repose.
Thou art the worthy bride of the great King, and, by thy powerful prayers, thou art kind and loving to all.
Thou art light to the blind, and a sure path to such as are lame. Thou art, by thy loving affection, both Martha and Mary to the needy.
Thou wast the flower among the thorns; the flower that, by its rich graces, bloomed to the divine Flower, thy Jesus.
Thou didst speak thy word, and then conceivest the Word; thou didst give birth to the King of kings, thou that wast a Virgin.
Thou wast ever faithful to this King, thy Child; and, using a mother's privilege, thou didst feed him at thy breast.
Now, thou art united with Him, and in reward for thy merits, thou art made the Queen of heaven and earth.
Then pray for us, O Queen, to Him that is our King, beseeching Him to pardon us poor fallen sinners.
Show us thy wonted clemency, and, having obtained us the new life of remission of our sins, bring us to the kingdom, there to reign for ever. Amen.
ACT OF REPARATION TO BE RECITED ON FIRST SATURDAYS
O
most holy Virgin and our Mother, we listen with grief to the
complaints
of your Immaculate Heart surrounded with the thorns
which
ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their
blasphemies
and ingratitude. Moved by the ardent desire of
loving
you as our Mother and of promoting a true devotion to
your
Immaculate Heart, we prostrate ourselves at your feet to
prove
the sorrow we feel for the grievances that men cause you,
and
to atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices, for the
offenses
with which men return your tender love.
Obtain
for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. A word
from
you will obtain grace and amendment for us all.
Hasten,
O Lady, the conversion of sinners, that they may love
Jesus
and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended,
and
will not fall into hell.
Turn
your eyes of mercy toward us, that henceforth we may love
God
with all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever
in
heaven, Amen.
Confession during the week, preceding the first Friday, will suffice for the first Saturday, or conversely when Saturday is the first day of the month. The Rosary may be recited at any convenient time of the day, and the fifteen minute meditation may be made at any time during the day on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. A sermon for the occasion may be substituted for the meditation.
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