“We have recourse to your protection, O Holy Mother of God.”
As we recite the words of his antiphon with which the Church of Christ has
prayed for centuries, we find ourselves today before you, our Mother. We, who
make up the “Body of Christ” present in our land, recite the words of his
present Act of Consecration and Entrustment, in which we gather, first of all,
the hopes and anxieties of our Filipino people, at this moment of our history
Mother of our people, we who rejoice in the name, “Pueblo
amante de Maria”, bayang sumisinta kay Maria- you know all our sufferings and
our hopes, you who have a mother’s awareness of all the struggles between good
and evil, between light and darkness, which afflict the world today. Mother of
our people, accept the cry which we, deeply moved by the Holy Spirit, address
directly to your heart.
Embrace, with the love of the Mother and Handmaid of the Lord
our people and our land, which now we entrust and consecrate to you, for we are
truly concerned for earthly and eternal destiny of every individual among us
and for all our people.
“We have recourse to your protection, O Holy Mother of God;
despise not our petitions in our necessities.”
Behold, as we gather before your Immaculate Heart, we desire,
the Church of the Lord in our land, joined in the heart and mind with all our
people isang baying Filipino, -to unite ourselves with the consecration which,
for love of us, your Son made himself to the Father: ‘For their sake,’ he said,
’I consecrate myself that they also may be consecrated in truth’ [Jn 17:19]. We
wish to unite ourselves with our Redeemer in this consecration for the world
and for the entire human race, which, in his divine Heart, has the power to
obtain pardon and to secure reparation.
The power of this consecration by your Son, our Lord, lasts
for all time and embraces all individuals, peoples and nations. Thus also it
embraces our people and our land. The power of this consecration overcomes
every evil that the spirit of darkness is able to awaken, and has in fact
awakened in our times, in the hearts of men and women in human history.
How deeply we now feel the need for the consecration of our
people, in union with Christ Jesus himself. God the redeeming work of our
Redeemer must be shared in and by the world, and by our own people, through the
Church.
We turn to you, Mother of our Redeemer and our Mother: above
all creatures may you be blessed, - you, the Handmaid of the Lord, who in the
fullest way obeyed the divine call. Hail to you, who are wholly untied to the
redeeming consecration of your Son.
Mother of the Church! Enlighten the people of God along the
paths of faith, hope and love! Help us to live in the truth of the consecration
offered by Jesus your Son for the entire human family, and for us, the Filipino
people and for our beloved land.
In entrusting to you, O Mother, our people, your “Pueblo
amante de Maria,” we entrust to you this every consecration itself, placing it
in your motherly heart.
Immaculate Heart! Help us to conquer the threat of evil,
which so easily enters and takes root in the hearts of people today, and whose
immeasurable effects already weigh own upon our county, and seem to block the
paths toward the future!
From hatred, violence, conflicts which divide and destroy our
people, deliver us.
From sins against human life, from its very beginning,
deliver us.
From the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God,
deliver us.
From every kind of injustice in the life of society, deliver
us.
From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver
us.
From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.
From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us.
Accept, O Mother of Christ, this cry, laden with, the hopes
and burdens, the sufferings of each one of us, and of all our people. Help us,
with the power of the Holy Spirit, to overcome and conquer all sin: individuals
sins, ‘social sins’ and ‘the sin of the world’, - sin in all its
manifestations.
Let there be revealed once more, in our own history as a
people, the infinite power of the Redemption, the power of God’s merciful Love!
May it destroy the power of sin and evil among us! May it transform
consciences! May it change hearts to the likeness of the Heart of Jesus, and
your own heart! May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all, in our land and
through the entire world, the light of hope! O Mary, Mother of Jesus and our
Mother, our life, our sweetness and our hope! Amen.
An Act of Consecration by Rev. Fr. Jessie Somosierra, Jr. on Scribd
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Posted by TV Maria on Friday, May 31, 2019
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