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Consecration of a
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the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary |
Consecration of a School
To the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Mother Adela Galindo, Foundress sctjm
“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)
O Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
you have loved humanity to the extreme and have not spared
anything to bring about our salvation and to give us your
love, your life, your grace, and your truth. You have
loved man to the point of allowing your Heart to be pierced
so as to become the source of living waters from which all
graces are poured forth in abundance. We recognize that your
Heart is the open fountain from which flow, with power and
strength, the Blood and Water that purify, transform, vivify
and liberate our hearts, bringing us to conversion.
Your Pierced Heart is the
narrow door through which we enter and participate in the
Kingdom of Heaven. It is in your Divine Heart that we learn
the virtues of humility and meekness, of obedience and
abnegation. It is in your Most Sacred Heart there that we
find the fullness of love and peace.
Your Heart is also the
Divine School where we learn to live the virtues of love,
humility, meekness, sacrifice and peace. It is for this
reason that we consecrate this Catholic School to
your Heart, so that your designs and your love may be
present here and so that, in this school and guided by your
Wisdom, true sons and daughters of God may be formed.
O Jesus,
by means of this consecration, we ask you to keep
in your Heart, the entire Family of this School. May they
find in you their guide, their light, their strength and
their reward. We ask you that each one of the teachers may
live within your Heart, so as to be channels of grace and of
love for the children that have been confided to them. In
virtue of this consecration, may each one of them be a model
of goodness, nobility, wisdom, truth and justice. May the
graces of mercy, conversion and peace that flow from your
Heart reach the heart of each one of their students by means
of the joyful, caring and dedicated service of each teacher.
Through the efforts of all, may the civilization of love, so
desired by the servant of God, John Paul II, be formed here.
O Immaculate Heart of Mary,
by your total disposition to
God’s plan of salvation, you accepted with generosity,
fidelity and obedience, the work of forming and of teaching
Jesus how to speak, to walk, to read and to love. Through
your maternal attention, Jesus “grew in stature and in grace
before God and before men.” You have become for us the Seat
of Wisdom by which we all come to know the true face of your
Son. By your perfect union of love with the Heart of Jesus,
you are the sure path that leads us to obtain the same
communion of heart. May your Heart be, O Mother, our refuge
and the place of grace where we are transformed, by the
power of the Holy Spirit, into living images of Jesus, your
Son.
We desire to consecrate to your Immaculate Heart,
this
Catholic School, all of its teachers, students, and
families; all of its directors and staff, and all of its
ministries and services. In virtue of this consecration, all
in this school recognize and accept your spiritual
maternity. All take you into their hearts and into their
lives, into their efforts, struggles, work and apostolates.
They commend themselves to your care, guidance and maternal
protection. In light of your example, may they too be
faithful to their mission of being formators and educators,
in a spirit of generosity, and conscious of the grace that
they have received by being called to be such a necessary
and fundamental part in the lives of so many families.
O Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
only hope of humanity! You are our
hope since in your perfect union of love for God and for
humanity, you have given yourselves for the salvation of the
world. This Catholic School desires to
participate, from its own littleness, in the designs of
mercy that the Two Hearts are manifesting in the world. In
virtue of this consecration, they commit themselves to make
of this school, a place of grace; a small sanctuary where
prayer is the source of all strength; where the Word of God
is the motivating force behind all decisions and actions;
where common effort is the guarantee of fostering true
spiritual and human development; where the love of the Pierced
Hearts is the measure of all relations; and where all can
proclaim together--with their lives, words and works--
the Reign of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Amen!
Consecration done by____________________________________Date_____________________
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