Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary

Consercate YOURSELF to her Immaculate Heart to answer the Virgin's call.

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Receive for 7 days, texts to consecrate yourself to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, to ask reperation for our sins and those of the world and thus join ourselves to the prayer of our Holy Father and to answer the message of Our Lady at Fatima.

The story

In 1917, in a small village in Portugal, called Fatima, the Blessed Virgin appeared several times to three young shepherds. To prevent a war worse than the one raging at the time, Our Lady made a very special request:

To prevent this war, I will come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and for reparative communion on First Saturdays. If my requests are accepted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions against the Church.

On the 25th of March 2023, Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

On 25 March, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, I intend to carry out a solemn Act of Consecration of humanity, and Russia and Ukraine in particular, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, performed the act of consecration at Fatima as the envoy of the Pope.

Bishops, religious congregations and Catholics all around the world joined them in this consecration.

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Father Alonso, a specialist in the apparitions of Fatima said :

The consecration of Russia will only come about as the fruit of the widespread and intense consecration of all the members and communities of the Church. For this reason (...) it is necessary to exhort the faithful to realize their personal consecration and to live it intensely. This is the best way to hasten the hour of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth.

This echoes a preaching by Luisella Scrosati, Doctor of Theology:

While we hope for peace, we must also be very careful not to consider the consecration to Our Lady as a magical act, by which we obtain what we want. It would be defying God to ask for peace and prosperity, without wanting to put an end to sin, without wanting to abandon a way of life, in private and in public, that offends God. Penance is absolutely necessary, as is reparation.

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Reparation

You are probably wondering what the reparative communion requested by Our Lady of Fatima is? Here is Our Lady's answer to Lucia (one of the three little visionaries):

See, my daughter, my Heart surrounded by the thorns that men thrust into me every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console me and say that all those who, for five months, on the first Saturday, go to confession, receive Holy Communion, pray the Rosary and keep me company for fifteen minutes, meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary in a spirit of reparation, I promise to assist them at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for the salvation of their soul.

Next week I will publish, with a partner, a prayer community for the reparations of the first 5 Saturdays.

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The Consecration as seen on the Vatican's website: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2022/03/23/0202/00434.html#en

Prayer from the retreat

Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

O Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, in this time of trial we turn to you. As our Mother, you love us and know us: no concern of our hearts is hidden from you. Mother of mercy, how often we have experienced your watchful care and your peaceful presence! You never cease to guide us to Jesus, the Prince of Peace. Yet we have strayed from that path of peace. We have forgotten the lesson learned from the tragedies of the last century, the sacrifice of the millions who fell in two world wars. We have disregarded the commitments we made as a community of nations. We have betrayed peoples' dreams of peace and the hopes of the young. We grew sick with greed, we thought only of our own nations and their interests, we grew indifferent and caught up in our selfish needs and concerns. We chose to ignore God, to be satisfied with our illusions, to grow arrogant and aggressive, to suppress innocent lives and to stockpile weapons. We stopped being our neighbour's keepers and stewards of our common home. We have ravaged the garden of the earth with war and by our sins we have broken the heart of our heavenly Father, who desires us to be brothers and sisters. We grew indifferent to everyone and everything except ourselves. Now with shame we cry out: Forgive us, Lord! Holy Mother, amid the misery of our sinfulness, amid our struggles and weaknesses, amid the mystery of iniquity that is evil and war, you remind us that God never abandons us, but continues to look upon us with love, ever ready to forgive us and raise us up to new life. He has given you to us and made your Immaculate Heart a refuge for the Church and for all humanity. By God's gracious will, you are ever with us; even in the most troubled moments of our history, you are there to guide us with tender love. We now turn to you and knock at the door of your heart. We are your beloved children. In every age you make yourself known to us, calling us to conversion. At this dark hour, help us and grant us your comfort. Say to us once more: “Am I not here, I who am your Mother?” You are able to untie the knots of our hearts and of our times. In you we place our trust. We are confident that, especially in moments of trial, you will not be deaf to our supplication and will come to our aid. That is what you did at Cana in Galilee, when you interceded with Jesus and he worked the first of his signs. To preserve the joy of the wedding feast, you said to him: “They have no wine” (Jn 2:3). Now, O Mother, repeat those words and that prayer, for in our own day we have run out of the wine of hope, joy has fled, fraternity has faded. We have forgotten our humanity and squandered the gift of peace. We opened our hearts to violence and destructiveness. How greatly we need your maternal help! Therefore, O Mother, hear our prayer. Star of the Sea, do not let us be shipwrecked in the tempest of war. Ark of the New Covenant, inspire projects and paths of reconciliation. Queen of Heaven, restore God's peace to the world. Eliminate hatred and the thirst for revenge, and teach us forgiveness. Free us from war, protect our world from the menace of nuclear weapons. Queen of the Rosary, make us realize our need to pray and to love. Queen of the Human Family, show people the path of fraternity. Queen of Peace, obtain peace for our world. O Mother, may your sorrowful plea stir our hardened hearts. May the tears you shed for us make this valley parched by our hatred blossom anew. Amid the thunder of weapons, may your prayer turn our thoughts to peace. May your maternal touch soothe those who suffer and flee from the rain of bombs. May your motherly embrace comfort those forced to leave their homes and their native land. May your Sorrowful Heart move us to compassion and inspire us to open our doors and to care for our brothers and sisters who are injured and cast aside. Holy Mother of God, as you stood beneath the cross, Jesus, seeing the disciple at your side, said: “Behold your son” (Jn 19:26). In this way he entrusted each of us to you. To the disciple, and to each of us, he said: “Behold, your Mother” (v. 27). Mother Mary, we now desire to welcome you into our lives and our history. At this hour, a weary and distraught humanity stands with you beneath the cross, needing to entrust itself to you and, through you, to consecrate itself to Christ. The people of Ukraine and Russia, who venerate you with great love, now turn to you, even as your heart beats with compassion for them and for all those peoples decimated by war, hunger, injustice and poverty. Therefore, Mother of God and our Mother, to your Immaculate Heart we solemnly entrust and consecrate ourselves, the Church and all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine. Accept this act that we carry out with confidence and love. Grant that war may end and peace spread throughout the world. The “Fiat” that arose from your heart opened the doors of history to the Prince of Peace. We trust that, through your heart, peace will dawn once more. To you we consecrate the future of the whole human family, the needs and expectations of every people, the anxieties and hopes of the world. Through your intercession, may God's mercy be poured out on the earth and the gentle rhythm of peace return to mark our days. Our Lady of the “Fiat”, on whom the Holy Spirit descended, restore among us the harmony that comes from God. May you, our “living fountain of hope”, water the dryness of our hearts. In your womb Jesus took flesh; help us to foster the growth of communion. You once trod the streets of our world; lead us now on the paths of peace. Amen.