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  2. First Fridays Devotion - Wikipedia

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    The Devotion of the Nine First Fridays is based on revelations from Jesus Christ reportedly received by Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation nun, between 1673 and 1675 in Paray-Le-Monial, France. This devotion was revealed to Margaret Mary in the form of a promise of final penance granted to those who accomplish this practice, also known as the ...

  3. Margaret Mary Alacoque - Wikipedia

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    Between 1674 and 1675, other apparitions followed and revealed practices for the devotion to the Sacred Heart. The First Fridays Devotion, which is the reception of Holy Communion on nine first Fridays of each month as an act of reparation, was asked to Margaret Mary and a "Great Promise" was given to those who accomplish it: "I promise you in ...

  4. Catholic devotions to Jesus - Wikipedia

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    However, the most significant source for the devotion to the Sacred Heart in its present form was Visitandine Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690), who claimed to have received a series of private revelations from 1673 to 1675. From this developed the First Friday Devotion. The devotion consists of several practices that are performed on ...

  5. Sacred Heart - Wikipedia

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    The First Fridays Devotion is a devotion to offer reparations for sins to the Eucharist and in honor of the Sacred Heart, which had its origin in the apparitions of Christ reported by Margaret Mary Alacoque. This devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was fully approved by the Catholic Church [33] and a "Great Promise" of final penance was made ...

  6. Holy Hour - Wikipedia

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    They are more traditionally done on a Thursday night, from 11:00 pm to midnight, usually on the eve of the first Fridays of the month, day of another devotion that came from the same private revelations of Margaret Mary Alacoque. As an example, the prayers of Margaret Mary intended to make reparations for the abandonment Jesus had felt from his ...

  7. List of private revelations approved by the Catholic Church

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    The three apparitions of Our Lady of Champion to Adele Brise were approved by Bishop David Ricken.. It remains to me now, the Twelfth Bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay and the lowliest of the servants of Mary, to declare with moral certainty and in accord with the norms of the Church that the events, apparitions and locutions given to Adele Brise in October of 1859 do exhibit the substance of ...

  8. Acts of reparation - Wikipedia

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    Receiving Holy Communion as part of the first Fridays devotion is a Catholic devotion to offer reparations for sin. In the visions of Christ reported by Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 17th century, several promises were made to those people that practiced the first Friday devotions, one of which included final perseverance.

  9. Month of the Sacred Heart - Wikipedia

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    The June devotions to the Sacred Heart expanded through the 19th century, and it culminated in popular devotion on 16 June 1875, when the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Guibert laid the first stone of the basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre, honouring after two hundred years the fourth request reported by Margaret Mary Alacoque from 16 ...