First Saturday Devotion Saturday, October 7th — 8:30am Mass In 1917 at Fatima the Blessed Mother said "I promise to help at the hour of death, with the graces needed for salvation, whoever on the 1st Saturday of 5 consecutive months shall: 1. Confess* (can be the week before) & receive Holy Communion 2. Recite 5 Decades of the Rosary 3. Keep me company for 15 minutes while 4. Meditating on one of the mysteries of the Rosary 5. Meditate with the intention of making reparation to me.