CONSECRATION TO IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, to your Immaculate Heart we consecrate ourselves, in an act of total entrustment to the Lord.
By You we will be led to Christ. By Him and with Him we will be led to the Father.
We will walk in the light of faith, and we will do everything so that the world may believe that Jesus Christ is the One sent by the Father.
With Him we wish to carry His Love and Salvation to the ends of the earth.
Under the protection of your Immaculate Heart, we will be one People with Christ. We will be witnesses of His Resurrection. By Him we will be led to the Father, for the glory of the Most Holy Trinity, Whom we adore, praise and bless forever. Amen.
The devotion of the Five First Saturdays
On October 1925 Lucy dos Santos joined as a postulant in the Dorothean house at Pontevedra, Spain. Here on December 10, 1925, sister Lucy received an apparition by the Child Jesus and the Virgin Mary in her convent cell. The Holy Virgin shown her a Heart surrounded by thorns, Our Lady said to her:
"See, My daughter, My heart surrounded by thorns which ungrateful men pierce at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude... Say to all those who:
I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necesary for the salvation of their souls."
The confession can be made a few days earlier, and if in this previous confession you have forgotten the (required) intention the following intention can be offered, provided that on the first Saturday one receives Holy Communion in a state of grace, with the intention of repairing for offenses against the Most Holy Virgin and which afflict Her Immaculate Heart.
Five first Saturdays of reparation were requested to atone for the five ways in which people offend the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
1. attacks upon Mary's Immaculate Conception
2. attacks against her Perpetual Virginity
3. attacks upon her Divine Maternity and the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all mankind
4. for those who try to publicly implant in children's hearts indifference, contempt and even hatred of this Immaculate Mother
5. for those who insult her directly in her sacred images.
"The greatest joy is to see the Immaculate Heart of our so tender Mother known, loved and consoled by the means of this devotion." Sister Lucia
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In order that all the faithful every where might be moved to honour the Sacred Heart of Mary, Pope Pius VII at the prayer of many bishops and priests, by Rescripts given from the Segretaria of the Memorials, Aug 18 1807, Feb 1, 1816 and Sept 26, 1817, granted: -
- The indulgence of sixty days, once a day, to all who say devoutly the following prayer with the act of praise to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; and
- The plenary indulgence to those who say it every day for a year, on each of the following three feasts of our Lady: The Nativity, Assumption, and her Immaculate Heart provided that, after Confession and Communion, they visit a church or altar dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and pray there according to the Pope's intention. Lastly, he granted
- The plenary indulgence at the hour of death to all who in life shall not omit to say this prayer.
The Prayer
Heart of Mary, Mother of God, our Mother, Heart most amiable, on which the Adorable Trinity ever looks with complacency, worthy of all the veneration and tenderness of angels and of men; Heart
most like the Heart of Jesus, whose most perfect image thou art; heart full of goodness, ever compassionate towards our miseries, vouchsafe to thaw our icy hearts, that they may be changed
entirely to the likeness of the heart of Jesus. Infuse into them the love of thy virtues, inflame them with that blessed fire with which thou dost ever burn. In thee let the Holy Church find safe
shelter; protect it, and be its sweet asylum, its tower of strength, impregnable against every inroad of its enemies. Be thou the road leading to Jesus; be thou the channel whereby we receive all
graces needful for our salvation. Be thou our help in need, our comfort in trouble, our strength in temptation, our refuge in persecution, our aid in all dangers; but especially in the last
struggle of our life, at the moment of our death, when all hell will be unchained against us to snatch away our souls, in that dread moment, that hour so terrible, whereon our eternity depends,
and, yes, most tender Virgin, do thou then make us feel how great is the sweetness of thy motherly Heart, and the strength of thy power with the Heart of Jesus, by opening for us a safe refuge in
the very fount of mercy itself, whereby we too may one day join with thee in Paradise in praising that same Heart of Jesus for ever and for ever. Amen.
May the Divine Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary be known, praised, blessed, loved, worshiped, and glorified always and in all places. Amen.