2024 Worldwide Crusade in Honour of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
About
At Fatima, Our Lady gave us the prayer of the Rosary and the practice of the Five First Saturdays as an effective spiritual means to obtain special divine favors.
The practice of the First Five Saturdays consists of the following: on the First Saturday of Five consecutive months, to receive the sacrament of Confession and Holy Communion, pray the Rosary, and meditate for 15 minutes on at least one of the 15 Mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation for the sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
In the face of the tremendous crisis now afflicting the Catholic Church, the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima is launching a worldwide spiritual crusade consisting in the daily prayer of the Holy Rosary and the practice of the five first Saturdays to implore through the Immaculate Heart of Mary God’s help and intervention, particularly for the Holy See in Rome.
This spiritual crusade will begin on the first Saturday of January 2024 (January 6) and conclude on the first Saturday of December 2024 (December 7).
Christopher Wendt, international director of the Confraternity of Our Lady and Fatima, and myself, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the spiritual assistant of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Worldwide Crusade in Honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Imploring a Divine Intervention for the Crisis of the Church
Our Lady in Fatima gave us, for our time, the efficient spiritual means to obtain special Divine favors, the prayer of the Rosary and the practice of the First Five Saturdays.
The practice of the First Five Saturdays consists in the following: for five months, on the first Saturday, to receive the sacrament of confession, Holy Communion, to pray a rosary and meditate for fifteen minutes about the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary (does not need necessarily to meditate all the fifteen mysteries) in order to make reparation for the sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
In consideration of the enormous current crisis within the Church the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima would like to express the invitation for a worldwide spiritual crusade of a daily prayer of the Holy Rosary and the practice of the Five First Saturdays to implore through the Immaculate Heart of Mary the help of God and His intervention in view of the extraordinary difficulties which the Church in our day and particularly the Holy See in Rome are going through.
This spiritual crusade will go from the first Saturday of 2024, January 6th, 2024 to the last first Saturday of the same year December 7th 2024.
December 8th, 2023, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Christopher P. Wendt, International Director of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima.
+ Athanasius Schneider, Spiritual Assistant of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima,
Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
Lay Faithful
This is a movement that will unify the Universal Church in a crusade to save the Tradition that has captured the hearts of Catholics for over 2,000 years, and as a Lay Faithful, you can become an instrument of intercession, praying to God for your Mother Church to be saved from the enemies within that seek to destroy Her. You can also make a pivotal impact by sharing this crusade with your community so that more and more Catholics can learn about this crucial movement.
*I am a Lay Faithful and I commit to the Five First Saturdays Devotion in the year of 2024*
**please note: even if you are already completing the Five First Saturdays, please fill out the form. We want to make sure you are counted in this crusade for the Church!
Crusade Captains
If you feel God stirring in your heart a burning desire to lead others at this moment in history of asking God to intervene for His Church, consider becoming a Captain of a group that will commit to five consecutive first Saturdays for this intention. We were made to be in communion with one another which is why we urge a group of 2+ to complete this devotion together, encouraging and supporting one another as Catholics all over the world pray to God to save our Mother Church from the enemies within.
*I am a Catholic and I commit to leading a group in the Five First Saturday Devotions in the year of 2024*
Priests
This devotion needs Catholic priests who can make the Sacraments available every first Saturday throughout the year of 2024l. If you are a Catholic priest who can offer Confession and Holy Mass every first Saturday throughout the year or already do, please fill out the form below. We are in desperate need of holy Shepherds who have given their lives to administer the Holy Sacraments to the sheep. Thank you for all you do & please keep this crusade in your prayers and offerings at Holy Mass.
*I am a priest and I commit to making Confession & Holy Mass available every first Saturday in the year of 2024*
Apostolate Partners
We need leaders of other Catholic Apostolates to partner with in order to send this message out to the ends of the world so that every Catholic has a chance to join in this Crusade to ask God to intervene. We need Catholic men and women who founded Catholic organizations to form an alliance with the Confraternity to put this Crusade out there. If you lead an organization and want to share the power of this Crusade with the world, this is your role in this fight to save our Mother Church from the enemies within.
*I am a leader of a Catholic Apostolate and want to partner with the Confraternity to share the news of this powerful Crusade with the world.*
FAQ
What is a crusade?
The word ‘crusade’ comes from a historical event when Christian soldiers went to free the Holy Land, the holy places where our Lord lived and died for us – to free them from the occupation of the unbelievers so that Christians can have legitimate access to pray freely and unimpededly at the holy places in the Holy Land. This was the original aim of the historical crusade.
Now, we are doing a spiritual crusade which means it is an effort of Christians to do a spiritual liberation of some places occupied by spiritual enemies of our faith. This is the infiltration of unbelief, liberalism, and modernism within the life of the Catholic Church since the last decades which has arrived at some height in our day. In this crusade (spiritual crusade), we have no weapons but we do have a spiritual weapon and this is the Holy Rosary. Our chief commander is not a soldier or an officer, it is Our Lady. We have chosen her as the spiritual commander of the spiritual crusade.