Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
O IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY, Queen of heaven and earth and tender Mother of men, in accordance with thy ardent wish made known at Fatima we consecrate to thee ourselves, our brethren, our country and the whole human race. Reign over us and teach us how to make the Heart of Jesus reign and triumph in us and around us as It has reigned and triumphed in thee.
Reign over us, dearest Mother, that we may be thine in prosperity and in adversity, in joy and in sorrow, in health and in sickness, in life and in death.
O most compassionate Heart of Mary, Queen of Virgins, watch over our minds and hearts and preserve them from the deluge of impurity which thou didst lament so sorrowfully at Fatima. We want to be pure like thee. We want to atone for the many sins committed against Jesus and thee. We want to call down upon our country and the whole world the peace of God in justice and charity.
Therefore, we now promise to imitate thy virtues by the practice of a Christian life without regard to human respect. We resolve to receive Holy Communion on the first Saturday of every month and to offer thee five decades of the Rosary each day together with our sacrifices in a spirit of reparation and penance. Amen.
The Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for our dear country.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, sanctify our clergy.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, make our Catholics more fervent.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, guide and inspire those who govern us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, cure the sick who confide in you.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, console the sorrowful who trust in you.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, help those who invoke your aid.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, deliver us from all dangers.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, help us to resist temptation.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, obtain for us all we lovingly ask of you.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, make our family life holy.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, help those who are dear to us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, bring back to the right road our erring brothers.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, give us back our ancient fervor.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, obtain for us pardon of our manifold sins and offenses.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, bring all men to the feet of your Divine Child.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, obtain peace for the world.
Let Us Pray:
O
God of infinite goodness and mercy, fill our hearts with a great
confidence in our Most Holy Mother, whom we invoke under the title of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and grant us by her most powerful
intercession all the graces, spiritual and temporal, which we need.
Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Act of Reparation (To be recited on the First Saturdays)
Most Holy Virgin and our beloved Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of thy Immaculate Heart, surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude.
Moved by the ardent desire of loving thee as our Mother, and of promoting a true devotion to thy Immaculate Heart, we prostrate ourselves at thy feet to prove the sorrow we feel for the grief that men cause thee, and to atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices for the offenses for which men return thy tender love. Obtain for them, and for us, the pardon of so many sins. A word from thee will obtain grace and forgiveness for us all.
Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners that they may love Jesus and cease to offend God, already so much offended, and thus avoid eternal punishment. Turn thine eyes of mercy towards us so that henceforth we may love God with all our hearts while on earth and enjoy Him forever in Heaven. Amen.
