Posted on 03/24/2022 5:26:59 AM PDT by EBH
Watch Pope Francis dedicate the countries of Ukraine and Russia to the Blessed Virgin Mary here on Aleteia on Friday March 25. Ceremony begins at 5 pm Rome time (Noon, EST).
Pope Francis will lead the Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, 25 March – the Solemnity of the Annunciation – in St Peter’s Basilica beginning at 5 pm Rome time (Noon, EST). The Act of Consecration will begin at approximately 6:30pm Rome time (1:30pm, EST).
The same act, on the same day, at the same time, will be undertaken by Catholic bishops throughout the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at aleteia.org ...
May the Lord have mercy on us and may this satisfy the Lord.
Our parish secretary sent around a request from our bishop to pray the consecration prayer ourselves. The following text is swiped from the PDF she attached.
Act of Consecration
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Basilica of Saint Peter
25 March 2022
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
” Pope Francis will lead the Consecration of Russia and Ukraine “
It was supposed to be only Russia. This won’t work. Better to have the real pope, Benedict, do it properly.
I don’t expect our heretic pope to get anything right
It is not a (re)consecration merely of Russia and Ukraine, but the whole world. Individuals are invited to participate and so consecrate themselves as well. Although the Fatima consecration was fulfilled, according to visionary Sister Lucia and Pope Saint John Paul II, there is spiritual value in repeating it from time to time. I urge my Protestant friends and all skeptics to join hands with the Woman Clothed With the Sun (Rev 12), as heaven has clearly endorsed her as a chosen instrument of Our LORD and God.
America needs this as much as anywhere!
Too much emphasis on war, not enough on the abominations of limitless abortion and deviancy. This was sculpted by a pope and bishops wanting a certain narrative to continue.
Pope Francis Consecration of Russia Text PUBLISHED! Will this one be VALID? Marshall and Gaspers
Pope Francis will consecrate Humanity, not just Russia… is it valid?
https://youtu.be/sHYlRs-0-eM
And, it will be the first time he has 'invited' all bishops in the world to consecrate simultaneously.
Will it be efficacious?
This is up to our Our Queen and Our King to decide.
IN +CHRISTO REGE
I will be at our parish 11:30 EST to pray the rosary and then the service at 12 EST. God have mercy on us.
Noon, EST
We are in EDT now.
Well, for Protestants we at least got one mention of Jesus.
“ Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.”
- Apostle John, son of Mary by Christ’s decree
Ukraine was part of Russia when that directive was given in 1917.
I'm no fan of Pope Francis, but maybe he's got a better handle on this particular point than most people do.
Consecration of Russia Disinformation
https://fatima.org/consecration-of-russia-disinformation/?msclkid=0010ff3bab7c11ec9580e77ebb2fd3c1
Since Mary is not an "image or representation," not a god/goddess, and is not worshipped in the sense of latria ("worship as due to God") as distinct from "great honor" ... sounds like we're on very safe ground.
Apostle John, son of Mary by Christ’s decree
I always marvel at how Protestants are always completely sure that John 14:26 applies to them, personally, and not only to the Apostles to whom it was addressed, while John 19:27 applies ... only to John. I think I must not have the special Protestant glasses necessary to see that in the text.
Italy doesn’t start daylight savings time until this weekend. Rome is 5 hours ahead of EDT, six hours ahead of CDT, etc. The consecration is at 12 noon EDT, 5 pm in Rome.
Considering it’s Francis doing it, it makes me wonder if somehow it’s going to backfire.
—> Since Mary is not an “image or representation,” not a god/goddess, and is not worshipped in the sense of latria (”worship as due to God”) as distinct from “great honor” ... sounds like we’re on very safe ground.
Maybe you don’t, but plenty do. Maybe you do too… but justify it.
—> I always marvel
Always good to live with a sense of wonder!
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