Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Take My Life and Make It What It Should Be!

We are beginning our School year on the right foot this year,  may all the joys, effort and suffering that follows be for the honor and advancement of the intentions of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, those of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and for the triumph of His Cross in our family, communities, parishes, states, country and world.

Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

O Mary, Virgin most powerful and mother of Mercy,

 Queen of Heaven and Refuge of Sinners, 

We consecrate ourselves to your Immaculate Heart.  

We consecrate to you our very being and our whole life:

 All that we have, all that we love,  all that we are.  

To you we give our homes, our families and our parish.  

We desire that all that is in us and around us may belong to you

 And may share in the benefits of your motherly blessing.

And so that this Consecration may be truly fruitful and lasting, 

We renew today at your feet the promises of our Baptism: 

We renounce Satan, and all his works, and all his empty promises.  

We pledge ourselves to courageously profess the truths of our Holy Faith, 

And to live as Catholics, accepting the directions of the Pope 

And the Bishops in communion with him.

We pledge ourselves to keep the Commandments of God and of his Church 

And in particular to keep holy the Lords Day.

We pledge ourselves to confess our serious sins frequently 

And to receive Holy communion worthily.

Finally, we promise you, O Glorious Mother of God, 

To devote ourselves wholeheartedly to spreading devotion to your Immaculate Heart, 

In order to hasten and assure the coming kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, your son, 

In our hearts, our families, our parish and our country.

Amen


and for a meditation for today...

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