Pope to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to Immaculate Heart of Mary
By Vatican News
Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, 25 March, during the Celebration of Penance that he will preside over at 5pm in St Peter's Basilica.
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, said in a statement: “The same act, on the same day, will be performed in Fatima by Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner,” who is being sent there by the Pope.
The day of the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord was chosen for the consecration.
Martyrdom of the good
In the apparition of 13 July 1917, in Fatima, Our Lady had asked for the consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart, stating that if this request were not granted, Russia would spread "its errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecution of the Church.”
“The good," she added, "will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be destroyed."
Consecrations of Russia to Mary
After the Fatima apparitions there were various acts of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Pope Pius XII, on 31 October 1942, consecrated the whole world, and on 7 July 1952 he consecrated the peoples of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Apostolic Letter Sacro vergente anno:
On 21 November 1964, Pope St Paul VI renewed the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart in the presence of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council.
Pope St. John Paul II composed a prayer for what he called an 'Act of Entrustment' to be celebrated in the Basilica of St Mary Major on 7 June 1981, the Solemnity of Pentecost.
In June 2000, the Holy See revealed the third part of the secret of Fatima.
At the time, the then-Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, pointed out that Sister Lucia, in a letter of 1989, had personally confirmed that this solemn and universal act of consecration corresponded to what Our Lady wanted: "Yes, it was done," wrote the visionary, "just as Our Lady had asked, on 25 March 1984".
5 comments:
The alleged letter from Sister Lucia was debunked. Those close to her knew of her frustration that she could not speak publicly to deny the assertion. She was poorly used by the people in the Vatican at that time.
Unless the pope does this as instructed with the world's bishops ALL doing so in union with him, he's just spinning his wheels.
And if he does so incorrectly, the lack of conversion and emptiness of such a move will just invite more persecution of a Church that has just about hit its limit of poor credibility.
Let us pray that he does this right.
I don’t understand that. Was it done according to the instructions? When?
It was not.
http://www.unamsanctamcatholicam.com/history/79-history/225-john-paul-ii-admits-1984-consecration-invalid.html
https://fatima.org/silencing-of-sister-lucia/
The alleged (and that's ALL it is ) "confirmation" by Sister Lucia that the consecration was fulfilled and accepted was bogus. So is any assertion that the entirety of the Third Secret has been revealed. That's the party-line of the Blue Army and they work hard to enforce that popular perception.
And if this pope doesn't do it right, there will just me more controversy.
I was initially happy yesterday. Today, I am very concerned that we are just being played.
I agree with both posts above. This like the last one is not what Our Lady requested.
The pope is free to pray for whomever he wants, however he wants, whenever he wants.
That said, the Russian Empire was Christian and devoted to the Theotokos prior to the rise of the communists. On an FB page, a priest commenter wondered why private revelation is taking such pride of place relative to Church tradition. That aside, Eastern Christian praxis leads us to venerate our Lord in totality, the whole saint, not parts thereof.
http://philorthodox.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-latin-cultus-of-sacred-heart.html
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