Solemn Act of Consecration to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary

Solemn Act of Consecration 
to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary

O  Lord Jesus, Who on Calvary and in the Holy Eucharist hast shown Thyself to us as God of Love and Mercy, kneeling humbly at Thy feet we adore Thee and beg once more for Thy forgiveness and Thy divine pity.  And remembering that by Thine own act on Calvary, the human race, represented by Thy beloved disciple John, gained a Mother in the Virgin of Sorrows, we desire to honour the sufferings and woes of our Mother's Heart by devoting ourselves to it in solemn Consecration.    

It is but just O Mary, that our souls should strive henceforth to venerate thee with special homage under the title of Thy Sorrowful Heart, a title won by sharing in the whole Passion of thy Son and thus co-operating in the work of our redemption - a title due to thee in justice, and dear, we believe, to Jesus and to thine own Heart, torn by the wound in His.

    

We consecrate therefore, O Mary, to they Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart ourselves, our families, our country and those who are fighting for its honour.  Have pity on us; see our tribulations, and the anguish of our hearts in the midst of the mourning and calamities that lay waste the world.  Deign, O Mother of God, to obtain mercy for us that, being  converted and purified by sorrow, and made strong in faith, we may henceforth be devoted servants of Jesus Christ and His Church, for whose triumph we pray.  O Mary Immaculate, we promise to be faithful clients of they Sorrowful Heart.  Intercede for us, we beseech thee, with thy Son that, at the cry of thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, His divine Power may speedily bring to pass the triumph of right and justice.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have pity on us. 

Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us and save us.

by Berthe Petit 

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