On December 10, 1925, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Sister Lucia in Pontevedra and requested the practice of the Five First Saturdays of the month, promising to assist us at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for the salvation of our souls.

A prayer in which the principal mysteries of Christ's life are contemplated through the eyes of Mary. The prayer most requested by the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

And, as a most precious legacy, he left us Our Lady of the Encounter with God as our Mother and Patroness. A title that was born in the Father's heart many years before her image came into being, because the Father knew that Mary is the one who leads us to the Encounter with God.

Have compassion on the Heart of Your Most Holy Mother, which is covered with thorns that ungrateful men continually drive into it, with no one making an act of reparation to remove them.

To know and love Mary in order to invoke her, imitate her, radiate her presence, and defend her through word and life, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, Tradition, and the Magisterium of the Church.

To consecrate oneself to Mary is to entrust oneself to the Blessed Virgin in order to belong entirely to Jesus Christ through Mary. Through Marian consecration, I choose the best means to achieve this total renunciation of self and complete gift of myself to God.