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On Wednesday this week, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, Pope Francis asked that all the Christian Faithful join him in reciting the Our Father, “as humanity trembles at the threat” of the global pandemic “in these days of trial.”
On the same day, Bishop Konzen and Bishop Shlesinger rededicated the Archdiocese of At-lanta to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. You may join them in this rededication by offering this prayer at home:O Mary, Virgin most powerful and Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Ref-uge of Sinners, we consecrate ourselves to your Immaculate Heart. We conse-crate 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 bodies, our hearts and our souls; to you we give our homes, our families and our country. 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, that this act of consecration may be truly fruitful and lasting, we renew this day at your feet the promises of our Baptism and our First Holy Communion.
We pledge ourselves to profess courageously and at all times the truths of our holy Faith, and to live as befits Catholics, who are submissive to all directions of the Pope and the bishops in communion with him. We pledge ourselves to keep the Commandments of God and his Church, in particular to keep holy the Lord’s Day.
We pledge ourselves to make the consoling practices of the Christian religion, and above all, Holy Communion, an important part of our lives, in so far as we shall be able to do.
Finally, we promise you, O glorious Mother of God and loving Mother of us all, to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to the spreading of devotion to your Immac-ulate Heart, in order to hasten and assure, through the queenly rule of your Im-maculate Heart, the coming of the kingdom of the Sacred Heart of your Son, in our own hearts and in those of all people, in our nation and in all the world, as in heaven, so on earth.