Devotion to Our Lady: I ask everyone for the consecration to my Heart
"Look at the ineffable moment of the Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel, sent by God to welcome my" yes "to the implementation of his eternal plan of Redemption, and to the great mystery of the Incarnation of the Word in my virginal womb, and then you will understand why I ask you to consecrate yourselves to my Immaculate Heart.
Yes, I myself manifested my will in Fatima, when I appeared in 1917. I asked several times to my daughter Sister Lucia, who is on earth to fulfill this mission that I have entrusted to her. In recent years I have insistently requested it, through the message entrusted to my Priestly Movement. Today I again ask everyone to consecrate myself to my Immaculate Heart.
I ask first of all to Pope John Paul II, the first favorite son, who on the occasion of this feast, performs it in a solemn way, after writing to the Bishops of the world to do it in union with him ...
I bless this courageous act of "my" Pope, who wanted to entrust the world and all nations to my Immaculate Heart; I welcome him with love and gratitude and, for him, I promise to intervene to shorten the hours of purification a lot and to make the trial less heavy.
But I also ask this consecration to all Bishops, to all Priests, to all Religious and to all the faithful.
This is the hour when the whole Church must gather in the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart. Why do I ask you for consecration? When a thing is consecrated, it is subtracted from any other use to be used only for sacred use. So it is with an object when it is intended for divine worship.
But it can also be of a person, when he is called by God to make him a perfect cult. Understand therefore how the true act of your consecration is that of Baptism.
With this sacrament, instituted by Jesus, grace is communicated to you, which inserts you in an order of life superior to yours, that is, in the supernatural order. Thus participate in the divine nature, enter into a communion of love with God and your actions therefore have a new value that exceeds that of your nature, because they have a true divine value.
After Baptism you are now destined for the perfect glorification of the Holy Trinity and consecrated to live in the love of the Father, in the imitation of the Son and in full communion with the Holy Spirit.
The fact that characterizes the act of consecration is its totality: when you are consecrated, you are now all and forever.
When I ask you for consecration to mine
Immaculate Heart, it is to make you understand that you must entrust yourself to Me completely, in a total and perennial way, so that I can dispose of you according to the Will of God.
You must entrust yourself completely, giving me everything. You don't have to give me something and still keep something for yourself: you must be truly and only all mine.
And then you don't have to trust Me one day and one no, or for a period of time, as long as you want, but forever. And to underline this important aspect of complete and lasting belonging to Me, your Heavenly Mother, whom I ask for consecration to my Immaculate Heart.
How should the consecration be lived by you?
If you look at the ineffable mystery that the Church remembers today, you will understand how the consecration that I asked of you must be lived.
The Word of the Father, out of love, completely entrusted me. After my "yes", it descended into my virginal womb.
He trusted me in his divinity. The eternal Word, the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity after the Incarnation, hid and gathered in the small dwelling, miraculously prepared by the Holy Spirit, in my virginal womb.
He entrusted himself to me in his humanity, in such a profound way, as each child relies on the mother from whom everything is expected: blood, flesh, breath, food and love to grow every day in her womb and then after birth every year always next to the mother.
For this reason, as I am the Mother of the Incarnation, I am also the Mother of the Redemption, which already has its admirable beginning here.
Here I am therefore intimately associated with my Son Jesus; I collaborate with him in his work of salvation, during his childhood, adolescence, the thirty years of his hidden life in Nazareth, his public ministry, during his painful passion, up to the cross, where I offer and suffer with him and I collect his last words of love and pain, with which he gives me as true Mother to all humanity.
Beloved children, called to imitate Jesus in everything, because you are his Ministers, imitate him also in his complete entrustment to the Heavenly Mother. This is why I ask you to offer yourselves to Me with your consecration.
I will be attentive and interested Mother for you to make you grow in God's plan, to realize in your life the great gift of the Priesthood to which you have been called; I will bring you every day to an ever better imitation of Jesus, who must be your only model and your greatest love. You will be his true instruments, faithful collaborators of his Redemption. Today this is necessary for the salvation of all humanity, so sick, far from God and the Church.
The Lord can save her with an extraordinary intervention of his merciful Love. And you, Priests of Christ and my beloved children, are called to be the instruments of the triumph of the merciful Love of Jesus.
Today this is indispensable for my Church, which must be healed from the plagues of infidelity and apostasy, to return to renewed holiness and its splendor.
Your Heavenly Mother wants to heal her through you, my Priests. I will do it soon, if you let me work in you, if you trust me with docility and simplicity, to my merciful maternal action.
For this reason, still today, with heartfelt imploration, I ask everyone to consecrate you to my Immaculate Heart ».