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Act of Consecration
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
(For Religious & Laity)
Virgin of Fatima,
Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Refuge of Sinners, we
who belong to the Marian Movement of Priests consecrate ourselves in
a very special way to your Immaculate Heart.
By this act of consecration we intend to live, with you and through
you, all the obligations assumed by our baptismal consecration. We
further pledge to bring about in ourselves that interior conversion
so urgently demanded by the Gospel, a conversion that will free us
of every attachment to ourselves and to easy compromises with the
world so that, like you, we may be available only to do always the
Will of the Father.
And as we resolve to entrust to you, O Mother most sweet and
merciful, our life and vocation as Christians, that you may dispose
of it according to your designs of salvation in this hour of
decision that weighs upon the world, we pledge to live it according
to your desires, especially as it pertains to a renewed spirit of
prayer and penance, the fervent participation in the celebration of
the Eucharist and in the works of the apostolate, the daily
recitation of the holy rosary, and an austere manner of life in
keeping with the Gospel, that shall be to all a good example of the
observance of the Law of God and the practice of the Christian
virtues, especially that of purity.
We further promise you to be united with the Holy Father, with the
hierarchy and with our priests, in order thus to set up a barrier to
the growing confrontation directed against the Magisterium, that
threatens the very foundation of the Church.
Under your protection, we want moreover to be apostles of this
sorely needed unity of prayer and love for the Pope, on whom we
invoke your special protection. And lastly, insofar as is possible,
we promise to lead those souls with whom we come in contact to a
renewed devotion to you.
Mindful that atheism has caused shipwreck in the faith to a great
number of the faithful, that desecration has entered into the holy
temple of God, and that evil and sin are spreading more and more
throughout the world, we make so bold as to lift our eyes trustingly
to you, O Mother of Jesus and our merciful and powerful Mother, and
we invoke again today and await from you the salvation of all your
children, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
(with ecclesiastical approval)
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