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Friday, March 25, 2022

Pope's Consecration of Russia and Ukraine March 25, 2022


Unite in prayer today with the Holy Father as he Consecrates Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  The Pope will pray the Act of Consecration today at 6:30 pm local time in Rome which will be 1:30 pm Eastern and 10:30 am Pacific time. Bishops around the world will also be holding local events. Here in the Archdiocese of Hartford, Archbishop Blair will be celebrating 12:10 pm Mass in St. Joseph Cathedral with Consecration to follow.

This is the text of the prayer Pope Francis will use:

O Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, in this time of trial we turn to you. As our Mother, you love us and know us: no concern of our hearts is hidden from you. Mother of mercy, how often we have experienced your watchful care and your peaceful presence! You never cease to guide us to Jesus, the Prince of Peace.

Yet we have strayed from that path of peace. We have forgotten the lesson learned from the tragedies of the last century, the sacrifice of the millions who fell in two world wars. We have disregarded the commitments we made as a community of nations. We have betrayed peoples’ dreams of peace and the hopes of the young. We grew sick with greed, we thought only of our own nations and their interests, we grew indifferent and caught up in our selfish needs and concerns. We chose to ignore God, to be satisfied with our illusions, to grow arrogant and aggressive, to suppress innocent lives and to stockpile weapons. We stopped being our neighbour’s keepers and stewards of our common home. We have ravaged the garden of the earth with war and by our sins we have broken the heart of our heavenly Father, who desires us to be brothers and sisters. We grew indifferent to everyone and everything except ourselves. Now with shame we cry out: Forgive us, Lord!


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