Act
of Consecration and Entrustment to the Virgin of Fatima
(Blessed John
Paul II, March 25, 1984)
“O Mother of
all men and women, and of all peoples, you who know all their sufferings and
their hopes, you who have a mother’s awareness of all the struggles between
good and evil, between light and darkness, which afflict the modern world,
accept the cry which we, moved by the Holy Spirit, address directly to your
Heart. Embrace with the love of the Mother and Handmaid of the Lord, this human
world of ours, which we entrust and consecrate to you, for we are full of
concern for the earthly and eternal destiny of individuals and peoples.
In a special
way we entrust and consecrate to you those individuals and nations which
particularly need to be thus entrusted and consecrated.
‘We have
recourse to your protection, holy Mother of God!’ Despite not our petitions in
our necessities”.
“Behold, as we
stand before you, Mother of Christ, before your Immaculate Heart, we desire,
together with the whole Church, to unite ourselves with the consecration which,
for love of us, your Son made of himself to the Father: ‘For their sake’, he
said, ‘I consecrate myself that they also may be consecrated in the truth’ (Jn
17:19). We wish to unite ourselves with our Redeemer in this his consecration
for the world and for the human race, which, in his divine Heart, has the power
to obtain pardon and to secure reparation.
The power of
this consecration lasts for all time and embraces all individuals, peoples and
nations. It overcomes every evil that the spirit of darkness is able to awaken,
and has in fact awakened in our times, in the heart of man and in his history.
How deeply we
feel the need for the consecration of humanity and the world-our modern world-in
union with Christ himself! For the redeeming work of Christ must be shared in
by the world through the Church.
Above all creatures,
may you be blessed, you, the Handmaid of the Lord, who in the fullest way
obeyed the divine call!
Hail to you,
who are wholly united to the redeeming consecration of your Son!
Mother of the
Church! Enlighten the People of God along the paths of faith, hope, and love! Enlighten
especially the peoples whose consecration and entrustment by us you are
awaiting. Help us to live in the truth of the consecration of Christ for the
entire human family of the modern world.
In entrusting
to you, O Mother, the world, all individuals and peoples, we also entrust to
you this very consecration of the world, placing it in your motherly Heart.
Immaculate
Heart! Help us to conquer the menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the
hearts of the people of today, and whose immeasurable effects already weigh
down upon our modern world and seem to block the paths towards the future!
From famine
and war, deliver us.
From nuclear
war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war, deliver us.
From sins
against the life of man from its very beginning, deliver us.
From hatred
and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us.
From every
kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international,
deliver us.
From readiness
to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us,
From attempts
to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us.
From the loss
of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.
From sins
against the Holy Spirit, deliver us, deliver us.
Accept, O
Mother of Christ, this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human
beings, laden with the sufferings of whole societies.
Help us with
the power of the Holy Spirit to conquer all sin: individual sin and the ‘sin of
the world’, sin in all its manifestations.
Let there be
revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite saving power of
the Redemption: the power of merciful Love! May it put a stop to evil! May it
transform consciences! May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of
Hope!” AMEN.
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