XI
Edition October
2000
Heart to heart
"Papal Consecration of the World to the
Immaculate Heart"
EDITORIAL Mother Adela Galindo,
Foundress, SCTJM
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Dear brothers and sisters:
The papal consecration of the world to the
Immaculate Heart has been a very important event
and was defined by the Central Committee of the
Great Jubilee Year in the Holy See as “a Marian
seal for this Holy Year.” They are referring to
the pilgrimage of the image of the Virgin of
Fatima from Cova de Iria to the Basilica of
Saint Peter. This pilgrimage will conclude with
an Act of Consecration of the world and the
Third Millennium to the Immaculate Heart that
will be done by the Holy Father during the
Celebration of the Holy Mass at the Jubilee of
Bishops.
The beloved image, which reminds us of the
apparition of Our Lady to three shepherds in
1917, arrived in Rome on the 6th of October and
was transported to the Chapel of the Papal
Apartments in the Vatican. What an immense gift
of the Blessed Virgin to the Holy Father, the
Pope of Mary Most Holy, the Pope of the Third
Secret, the Pope of Fatima and of the Immaculate
Heart.
On Saturday the 7th, the feast day of Our Lady
of the Rosary, the image was taken to the
Basilica of Saint Peter where it was placed for
the public veneration of the faithful. This is
most significant because never before has a
particular advocation of Mary been placed for
exposition in the Basilica, much less an
advocation from a Marian apparition.
The Holy Rosary, presided over by the Holy
Father, was extended throughout the entire
world, and it concluded in the Basilica of
Guadalupe here in America. The image was then
transported to the Monastery of the cloistered
sisters in the Convent “Ecclesiae Mater” (Mother
of the Church) in the Vatican. I think it is
most significant that on the Vespers of the
solemn Act of Consecration the image was kept
and accompanied within a convent whose name
represents the maternal mission that Mary has
over the Mystical Body of Christ. She is the
Mother of the Church and whenever the Church is
most in need of Her intercession, of Her
intervention and of Her maternal mediation, she
always entrusts herself to Her. The Church
recognizes Her and proclaims Her as Mother!
As a Mother, She never neglects the
supplications of Her children. As a Mother, She
always receives us when we give ourselves
totally to Her Immaculate Heart. She receives us
in the same way that She received Saint John at
the foot of the Cross.
My brothers and sisters, let us not waste this
immense grace that we have received. In Fatima,
the Blessed Virgin told Lucia: “My Immaculate
Heart will be your refuge and the sure path that
leads you to God.”(June 13, 1917) The Holy
Father has desired to present Mary Most Holy to
us during the Jubilee Year as the “star which
directs our steps towards the Lord.” (TMA, 59)
Seen from this angle, we could say that this Act
of Consecration brings to completion the
merciful designs that the Lord has willed to
bring about during the Jubilee Year. Why do I
say this? Because on the 24th of September, the
Holy Father, at the conclusion of the Marian
Congress, expressed to all those congregated in
the Saint Peter’s Square for the Angelus: “The
Jubilee of the Son is at the same time the
Jubilee of the Mother.” It is my estimation that
this Jubilee Year, being a year of grace in
which the Heart of Jesus has opened itself wide
in order to pour forth abundant graces of mercy
upon humanity, that also in this Holy Year, the
Immaculate Heart has opened itself and will open
itself with great strength, on the day of the
Consecration, in order to mediate for the world
those graces of mercy that Her Son desires to
pour upon the Church, the world and in each
heart. The Two Hearts are also united in these
clear designs of the Jubilee Year. The Jubilee
of the Son is also the Jubilee of the Mother! If
it is a year of grace of the Lord, it is also a
year in which the mediation and maternal
intercession of Mary are most evident.
The Holy Father has told us in his general
audience on the 29th of April 1998: “It is in
the Maternal Heart of Mary where all of the
Jubilees are prepared, because it is Her joy
that all creatures experience before the
announcement of the Savior. Therefore, it is Her
joy, Her gratitude, Her receptivity that is at
the very root of all Jubilees.” (cf. 1) Her
receptivity… is it not the Immaculate Heart of
Mary the first Heart that is open to the
redemptive grace? Is it not the Immaculate Heart
of Mary the one who receives strength from on
high and fully embraces the Redeemer? Is not the
Immaculate Heart the only one that has opened
itself wide to Christ? Therefore, in Her Heart
we too will be able to open ourselves to the
sanctifying action of the Spirit in this Jubilee
Year. In Her Heart we may be able to experience
the saving power of Christ and the designs of
mercy for this generation. What a gift the Holy
Father is giving to us with this solemn
Consecration!
The Lord has given great power to the
Consecration to the Immaculate Heart. We have
already been witnesses to the many personal
graces in the Church and in the world which have
come about and have been manifested to humanity
in virtue of this Consecration. Let us ask the
Lord to fulfill, by means of the Consecration of
the world and the Third Millennium that the Holy
Father will do on the 8th of October in
communion with all the bishops, during their
jubilee celebration, what he told us in his
Letter, Tertio Millenio Adveniente (1994), “It
is not difficult to see how the Marian Year
closely preceded the happenings of 1989. Events
that have surprised the world outreach and
especially for its rapid development. The Marian
Year was like an anticipation of the Jubilee,
including much of what is to be expressed fully
in the Year 2000.” (cf. 27)
In the Love of the Pierced Hearts,
Mother Adela Galindo, SCTJM
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