Immaculate Heart Consecration
      
     
    O Mary, Virgin most  powerful and Mother of mercy, Queen of Heaven and
      Refuge of sinners, we consecrate ourselves to  thine Immaculate Heart.
      We consecrate to thee our very being and our  whole life; all that we
      have, all that we love, all that we are. To thee  we give our bodies,
      our hearts and our souls; to thee we give our  homes, our families, our
      country. We desire that all that is in us and  around us may belong to
      thee, and may share in the benefits of thy  motherly benediction. And
      that this act of consecration may be truly  efficacious and lasting, we
      renew this day at thy 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 duly submissive to all the 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 likewise pledge ourselves to make  the consoling
      practices of the Christian religion, and above  all, Holy Communion, an
      integral part of our lives, in so far as we  shall be able so to do.
      Finally, we promise thee, O glorious Mother of  God and loving Mother
      of men, to devote ourselves whole-heartedly to  the service of thy
      blessed cult, in order to hasten and assure,  through the sovereignty
      of thine Immaculate Heart, the coming of the  kingdom of the Sacred
      Heart of thine adorable Son, in our own hearts  and in those of all
      men, in our country and in all the world, as in  heaven. so on earth.
      Amen
     
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