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“It is appropriate in our
times, to profoundly understand and have a greater
conscience of the intimate relationship that exists between
the Two Hearts, and of the immense value that an authentic
devotion and consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
have in our lives.”
(Pope John Paul II, November 23, 1987)
Oh Sacred heart of Jesus,
you have loved humanity unto the extent of allowing yourself
to be pierced, becoming for us, a living fountain of
unending graces of salvation and of conversion. It is from
your Pierced Heart, -visible sign of your love and mercy-
that our hearts receive, the Blood and the Water which
purify, transform, vivify and liberate us; and from which
the world receives an ever-flowing torrent of grace, life
and fruitfulness. It is from your Heart opened by the lance,
that the Church -your Spouse and our Mother-, is born, as a
perennial sacrament of your presence and as the realization
of your Kingdom of love on earth. It is also from your
Pierced Heart, that she is nourished and strengthen with
your holiness and fecundity, until the consummation of time.
Today, as __________________, and in communion of hearts
with the faithful entrusted to me, I consecrate to your Most
Sacred heart, our diocesis. With this act of consecration,
we acknowledge our desire to live in communion of love with
your Eucharistic Heart, source and summit of the life of the
Church. We open ourselves to the sanctifying work of the
Holy Spirit, who seeks to transform us and to give us a
heart like Your own. May we enter into the school of your
Heart so as to acquire the virtues of humility and meekness;
of obedience and self-denial; of generosity and sincere
charity. Protect us from all sin, selfishness, error,
confusion and indifference. By living within your Heart and
allowing ourselves to be transformed by your love, may this
diocese be a channel of grace, light, truth, justice, peace,
mercy and charity for a world so in need. Consecrated to
your Heart, we devote ourselves to the fulfillment of your
merciful designs and to build -with sincere holiness of life
and dedicated apostolic work-, the civilization of love and
life which is the Reign of your Heart.
Oh Immaculate Heart of Mary, spiritually pierced at the foot
of the Cross because of your perfect and indissoluble
communion with the Heart of Jesus. Your own Heart was opened
in order to receive, in virtue of your spiritual maternity,
the Church born from the pierced Heart of your Son. Your
Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart, received, in the person of
St. John, the entire Church, so as to exercise your mission
of caring, providing, protecting and accompanying Her, as
you did with your Divine Son. At that moment, the Heart of
Christ, commissioned you, Oh Virgin Mother, to protect,
-with your attentive, maternal Heart-, his Mystical Body,
which journeys through history amidst great dangers as it
proclaims your Word to the nations.
Today, our diocesis, places itself in the person of St. John
and receives,-with profound gratitude-, your maternal
mediation in its entire life and in the life of all of its
members. As a fruit of this consecration to your Immaculate
Heart we ask you to teach us to love the Heart of your Son
without divisions; to listen to Him with complete openness
and docility; to obey Him with diligence and exactness; to
actively and responsibly cooperate in the designs of His
Heart in the historic moment in which we live. Guard us and
defend us in your Immaculate Heart, sure refuge of sinners.
Protect us from all that can separate us from the love of
the Heart of Christ and from His Will. Defend us, with your
maternal care, from all the dangers which threaten both our
earthly and eternal life.
Oh Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Hope of Humanity! Hearts that
are indissolubly united in the work of salvation! Today we
consecrate and entrust ourselves completely to the love of
your Hearts. It is our desire to elevate most highly, the
names of Jesus and Mary, within our Archdiocese, as a
brilliant banner. From our littleness, we desire to
participate in the merciful designs which the Two Hearts are
manifesting in the Church and in humanity. Having been
consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we renew with
greater love, fidelity and zeal, our commitment to the New
Evangelization which is fruit of holiness and coherence of
life and of a faithful and enthusiastic witnessing o f the
truth. May this consecration redound in fruits of holiness,
charity, justice, peace, generosity and mercy in each one of
us. May the Hearts of Jesus and Mary reign in the hearts of
all the priests, religious and lay faithful of this diocese
so that together we may be at the service of the Church to
build a new civilization of love and life for the whole
world. Amen!
This page is the work of the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and
Mary
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