Ascension & Memorial Day Sunday

Consecration to Mary Mother of the Church

The first Day of May in the Year Two thousand and Twenty

Holy Mary Mother of the Church, with renewed gratitude for your maternal presence we join our voice to that of all the generations who call you blessed. We celebrate in you the works of God, who never tires of looking down with mercy upon humanity, afflicted with the wound of sin, to heal it and save it.

Accept with the benevolence of a Mother the act of consecration that we perform today with confidence. We know that each of us is precious in your eyes and that nothing of all that lives in our hearts is unknown to you.

We let ourselves be touched by your most sweet regard and we welcome the consoling caress of your smile.

Hold our life in your arms: bless and strengthen every desire for good; revive and nourish faith; sustain and enlighten hope; awaken and animate charity; guide all of us along the path of holiness.  Teach us your own preferential love for the poor, for the suffering, for sinners: bring everyone under your protection and entrust everyone to your beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus. 

Amen.