Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Feast of the Assumption, 15 August 2021
O Immaculata, Mother of God, Mother of the Church, we come to thee in
this bleak hour. The forces of evil, enemies of thy beloved Son, rear their
heads with overweening audacity. Our families are under relentless attack, the
unborn are slaughtered by the millions, our children are scandalised and
corrupted, vice is glorified and sanctioned by law, our most fundamental
liberties are being speedily curtailed. Good is now called evil, and evil good
(Cf. Is 5:20).
Nor is this lamentable situation confined to the secular world. In our
beloved Church, founded by thy Divine Son, the cause of Truth and Justice is
often brushed aside; priests who stand up for the moral law are silenced and
besmirched; religious communities devoted to traditional observance are pressed
to compromise or written off as outdated; the Sacred Liturgy handed down by
Tradition is under overt attack.
In this hour of fierce trial and impending persecution, we entrust to
thee our woes. Thou hast assured us that, in the end, thy Immaculate Heart
would triumph. This promise consoles us, and we are ever mindful that we must
make ourselves worthy of such a victory by the sanctity of our lives.
Our Lady of Victories, on this day, as we honour thy glorious victory
over death and look up with joy to the eternal crown of victory which rests
upon thy beloved head, we are filled with confidence that thou dost not forget
thy beloved sons and daughters, still labouring in sorrow in this vale of
tears.
At Fatima thou didst request that the entire world, and especially
Russia, should be consecrated to thy Immaculate Heart. As we look around us, it
is all too clear that the errors of Communism have indeed spread throughout the
world through the tentacles of atheistic cultural Marxism; our societies live
more and more as if there were no God. We are saddened by the plight of our
beloved Church in which prominent Catholics are allowed with impunity to reject
the most formal teachings of our faith without condemnation and even with
approval, while faithful Catholics who defend the moral law and cleave to the
sacred rites and traditions of our Fathers are forced to the margins. In this
hour, Most Powerful Virgin, each one of us approaches with filial confidence
thy Immaculate and Maternal Heart.
United together with all Catholic communities around the world who are attached to Tradition, we consecrate to thee ourselves, our families, our communities, our priests, our bishops, our Holy Father the Pope, and the whole world. Following thy command, we consecrate especially Russia to thy Immaculate Heart. We entrust to thy maternal intercession all those whose lives and whose souls are in danger: the unborn, the youth, the elderly, the weak and handicapped, the persecuted and the slandered, the famished souls who search in vain for the clarity of truth and the purity of divine worship. We ask thee to look down with thy merciful eyes and to save one and all.
In a very special way, we consecrate to thee all the priests and
faithful who remain devoted to the Mass of Ages as it was handed down to us by
an unbroken and immemorial Tradition, forever immortalised by Pope St Pius V.
We ask thee to protect every priest in whose heart thou hast sown the resolve
to remain faithful to the Traditional Latin Mass, to give him the grace and the
courage to stand firm in the midst of whatever persecution he may have to
undergo. We entrust to thee all the traditional religious communities and
societies of apostolic life, that they may be unshakeable in fidelity to their
charism, immoveable in their dedication to doing the truth in charity (cf. Eph
4:15) for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
O Woman clothed with the sun, upon whose head rests a crown of twelve
stars and under whose feet lies the moon – symbol of change and instability –
(cf. Apoc 12:1), abandon us not in this hour which we know is thy hour.
Spread thy immaculate mantle over each of us, our families and communities, and
protect us from all harm. Keep us ever faithful to the practice of the true
faith and to the Mass of our Fathers. Lead us to that heavenly home where, with
thee and all the angels and saints, we may forever be the Praise of the Glory
of the Most Holy Trinity (Cf. Eph 1:12). Amen.
Sub tuum praesidium…
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