Posted on 08/21/2004 6:32:54 PM PDT by Viva Christo Rey
Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Composed by Pope Pius XII in 1942 for his consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to be recited annually on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, August 22nd.
Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, Help of Christians, Refuge of the human race, conqueror in all God’s battles, we humbly prostrate ourselves before thy throne. We are confident of obtaining mercy, grace, and help in the present calamities, not for our own merits to which we make no claim but only because of the great goodness of thy Maternal Heart.
In this tragic hour of human history we confide, entrust, and consecrate to thy Immaculate Heart the Holy Church, Mystical Body of thy son, Jesus, which bleeds now from so many wounds and is so sorely tried. We
consecrate likewise to thy Immaculate Heart the whole world torn as it is by deadly strife, afire with hatred and paying the penalty of its own wickedness.
Be moved to pity by the sight of so much destruction and ruin of souls, by the grief and agony of fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, brothers, sisters, and innocent children. Look with compassion on the lives cut off in the flower of youth, on the bodies mangled in horrible slaughter, on the many torn with anguish, and on all those in danger of being lost forever.
Mother of Mercy, obtain for us peace from God and the grace that is able in an instant to change the heart of man, the grace that brings and fosters peace, and makes it lasting. Queen of Peace, pray for us and give to the warring world that peace for which the nations long, a peace in the truth, in the righteousness, and in the love of Jesus Christ.
Turn their weapons aside and let peace possess their souls so that God’s kingdom may be set up in quiet order. Stretch out a helping hand to the unbeliever and to all who live in the shadow of death. Give them peace and grant that enlightened by the truth they may repeat with us before the one Saviour of the world, ‘Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will.’
Give peace also to the peoples separated from us by error or strife and in particular to those who have professed a special devotion to thee and in whose homes thine ikon was always an object of veneration. It is hidden away now maybe to await the dawn of better days. Bring them back to the one fold of Christ under the one true shepherd. Grant perfect peace and freedom to the holy Church of God. Stem the flood of modern paganism. Let the love of purity increase among the children of God. Make us live as true followers of Christ, as zealous apostles, so that God’s servants may grow in merit and increase in number. And as the whole human race was consecrated to the heart of thy Jesus that through hope in Him He might become for all the sign and pledge of victory and salvation, so we in like manner consecrate ourselves forever to thee and to thy Immaculate Heart, O Mother and Queen of the world. This we do so that thy love and protection may hasten the triumph of God’s kingdom. Thus may all nations at peace with one another and with God proclaim thee blessed, and sing with thee from pole to pole the unending Magnificat of glory, love, and thanksgiving to the Heart of Jesus in which alone they can find truth, life, and peace. Amen.
I have no idea. I'm not into apparitions.
We pray for you
Check out the conversion stories posted by the "reformed." You almost used their words verbatim.
He did. Maybe it's time for Mary to uphold her end of the bargain.
Or, just pray and work for peace yourself.
Maybe we could both work on bringing a bit of harmony to FR.
I'll start by bowing out of this tit-for-tat.
I will stroll right on down to the nearest Reconciliation Room. The only problem is that I need a sworn affidavit, signed by witnesses, stating that I actually sinned before the priest will absolve me.
That doesn't count; ask Cardinal McCarrick, John Kerry's personal defender.
It's at the discretion of the local apostate bishop whether or not infanticide is murder or a mortal sin.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Peace brother!
I thought he did, twice.
And we wonder where the non-Catholics get their ideas...........
The Net Nanny strikes again. I'm surprised she didn't ping the Moderator.
He's right, though. Consider these words of a Doctor of the Church:
Wherefore he that would now enquire of God, or seek any vision or revelation, would not only be acting foolishly, but would be committing an offence against God, by setting his eyes altogether upon Christ, and seeking no new thing or aught beside. And God might answer him after this manner, saying: If I have spoken all things to thee in My Word, Which is My Son, and I have no other word, what answer can I now make to thee, or what can I reveal to thee which is greater than this? Set thine eyes on Him alone, for in Him I have spoken and revealed to thee all things, and in Him thou shalt find yet more than that which thou askest and desirest. For thou askest locutions and revelations, which are the part; but if thou set thine eyes upon Him, thou shalt find the whole; for He is My complete locution and answer, and He is all My vision and all My revelation; so that I have spoken to thee, answered thee, declared to thee and revealed to thee, in giving Him to thee as thy brother, companion and master, as ransom and prize. For since that day when I descended upon Him with My Spirit on Mount Tabor, saying: Hic est filius meus dilectus, in quo mihi bene complacui, ipsum audite [St. Matthew xvii, 5.] (which is to say: This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him), I have left off all these manners of teaching and answering, and I have entrusted this to Him. Hear Him; for I have no more faith to reveal, neither have I any more things to declare. For, if I spake aforetime, it was to promise Christ; and, if they enquired of Me, their enquiries were directed to petitions for Christ and expectancy concerning Him, in Whom they should find every good thing (as is now set forth in all the teaching of the Evangelists and the Apostles); but now, any who would enquire of Me after that manner, and desire Me to speak to him or reveal aught to him, would in a sense be asking Me for Christ again, and asking Me for more faith, and be lacking in faith, which has already been given in Christ; and therefore he would be committing a great offence against My beloved Son, for not only would he be lacking in faith, but he would be obliging Him again first of all to become incarnate and pass through life and death. Thou shalt find naught to ask Me, or to desire of Me, whether revelations or visions; consider this well, for thou shalt find that all has been done for thee and all has been given to thee -- yea, and much more also -- in Him. (St. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mt. Carmel, II, 22)
You and Hermann could provide a rolling Church history, replete with documentation.
That's why I love this place.
How about a letter from Sr. Lucia saying it was done?
OK - so we refuse to ignore the evidence that the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was never done according to our Lady's requests.
We refuse to acknowledge the words of JPII, which say it was not done by him.
And we want a statement from a 96 year old cloistered nun, who has been ordered to be silent by vatican officals regarding Fatima, since the 60s.
You realize of course that the words and writngs of the present Pope have been horribly twisted by everybody in his church from his Curial officials in the Vatican, to local Bishops & priests. And he is the Pope, with authority to speak freely.
Exactly what would lead you to believe that such a statement would not be concocted, or twisted, given the present climate?
Uh - huh.......and let's not go into that little bit of forgery and fraud purportrated on live tv on 5/13/2000.
Mary's appearances at Fatima were approved by the Church. That's all.
Her words and requests are not part of that official sanction.
As in, "It is as it was." (regarding Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ)?
They then claim the Pope never said it, but if he did say it, it wasn't meant for public knowledge. Sounds like something Bill or Hillary would spew, e.g, "it depends on what the definition of "is" is."
In the meantime, the Pope remains silent.
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