(Christopher Wendt)
Good evening, everyone. Good evening, Your Excellency. Thank you for being here today. Good evening, Dr. Michael Srullah. Thank you for coming on. I want to wish all of you a happy feast day.
There are about 1500 of you right now across Facebook Live, YouTube, and also on the website through the Vimeo platform. Happy feast day, happy double feast day. We are celebrating the triumph of our Lord and the Ascension, that He is exalted over all the earth. We are also celebrating the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, where she said that the grace of God will be our comfort. And we are comforted in those maternal words of Our Lady in the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima.
We are also celebrating today a great day for 438 men and women all throughout the world who will be making the consecration with His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider. I am so happy to be making that consecration with you, 438. It is truly amazing.
A year ago, when the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima was just an idea, there were about 40 of us who made the consecration. Now there are 438. And as I said in the email earlier this morning to all of you, let us make it 4000 next year. Let the authenticity of our donation of ourselves, all that we are and all that we have, be authentic within ourselves, so that it can reverberate to the people that we know. And next year, we can come together on May 13, 2022, and have 4000 people making the consecration.
Tonight, the format will be as follows. His Excellency will give us a talk on true devotion and what that means for us. That will go on for about 30 or 40 minutes. After that, he is going to lead us in the Saint Louis de Montfort consecration. We will put it up on the screen so you can follow along. It is a beautiful prayer. Then we will close with the prayer that the Holy Father will consecrate Russia. And we will conclude the evening with his blessing.
Next time, we need to meet on June 2, because His Excellency has to do some traveling. So, just note that I will send you an email so that you remember to come back on June 2. That is when our next one is going to be. The format for that one will be a catechism class. His Excellency will teach us about the Resurrection from the Catechism of the Council of Trent.
Without further ado, I am going to turn this over to you, Your Excellency. Thank you for coming on again.
(His Excellency)
Thank you, and God bless all of you on this beautiful day of Our Lady of Fatima and the Ascension of our Lord.
So we will now speak about the spiritual and the theological meaning of the consecration of ourselves to Our Lady, according to Saint Louis Mary de Montfort. The doctrinal basis for our consecration is the prior fact of Mary’s spiritual motherhood. On Calvary, Christ entrusted us, in the person of Saint John, to His mother’s care when He told her, “Behold your son.” That was the beginning of Mary’s mediation. On Calvary, Christ also entrusted Mary to us again, in the person of John, when He told the Apostle, “Behold your mother.” That was the beginning of our consecration to Mary.
In God’s providence, Mary is the chosen Mediatrix of grace from her divine Son to us. Correspondingly, we are to entrust ourselves to her maternal care. And so, another name for this entrustment is consecration.
Why precisely should we entrust or consecrate ourselves to Mary’s Heart? On the cross, Christ said, “Woman, behold your son.” With these words, Christ opened in a new way His mother’s heart. The pierced Heart of Jesus is the sign of the redemption, a redemption which is achieved through the death of the Lamb of God.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary was opened with the words, “Woman, behold your son,” and therefore the Heart of Mary is spiritually united with the Heart of her Son, opened by the soldier’s spear. Mary’s Heart was opened by the same love for man and for the world with which Christ loved man and the world, offering Himself for them on the cross, until the soldier first struck that blow.
By entrusting and consecrating ourselves to Mary’s Heart, we are, in effect, entrusting and consecrating ourselves to her love.
Saint Louis Marie de Montfort left us the following admirable reflections upon the devotion and the consecration to Mary. In the following, we hear some passages of the book True Devotion to Our Lady, from Saint Louis Marie de Montfort. He writes:
“God in these times wishes His Blessed Mother to be more known, more loved, and more honored than she has ever been. This will certainly come about if, by the grace and light of the Holy Spirit, the faithful adopt the interior and perfect practice of the devotion to her. Then they will clearly see that beautiful Star of the Sea, which is Our Lady. Under her guidance, they will perceive the splendors of this our Queen and will consecrate themselves entirely to her service. They will experience her motherly kindness and affection for her children. They will love her tenderly and will appreciate how full of compassion she is and how much they stand in need of her help. In all circumstances, they will have recourse to her as their advocate and mediatrix with Jesus Christ. They will see clearly that she is the safest, easiest, shortest, and most perfect way of approaching Jesus and will surrender themselves to her, body and soul, without reserve, in order to belong entirely to Jesus.”
And then Saint Louis Marie explains the final goal of our consecration to Mary, that this consists in a deeper and complete consecration to Jesus Christ. He says:
“As all perfection consists in our being conformed, united, and consecrated to Jesus Christ, it naturally follows that the most perfect of all devotions is that which conforms, unites, and consecrates us most completely to Jesus. Of all God’s creatures, Mary is the most conformed to Jesus. It therefore follows that of all devotions, devotion to her makes for the most effective consecration and conformity to Jesus Christ. The more one is consecrated to Mary, the more one is consecrated to Jesus. That is why perfect consecration to Jesus is but a perfect and complete consecration of oneself to the Blessed Virgin, which is the devotion we speak of in other words, it is the perfect renewal of the baptismal promises of our holy baptism.”
They give her all that we possess, both in our natural life and in our spiritual life, as well as everything we shall acquire in the future in the order of nature, of grace, and of glory in heaven. This we do without any reservation, not even a hair or the smallest good deed. And we give for all eternity, without claiming in return for our offering and our service any other reward than the honor of belonging to Our Lord, through Mary and in Mary.
We consecrate ourselves at one and the same time to Mary and to Jesus. We give ourselves to Mary because Jesus chose her as the perfect means to unite Himself to us and to unite us to Him. We give ourselves to Jesus because He is our last end, since He is our Redeemer and our God. We are indebted to Him for all that we are.
And then Saint Louis Marie continues to speak about the consecration to Our Lady as a perfect renewal of the baptismal promises and vows. He says:
“Before baptism, every Christian was a slave of the devil because he belonged to him. At baptism, he has, either personally or through his sponsors, solemnly renounced Satan, his seductions, and his works. He has chosen Jesus as his Master and Sovereign, loved Him, and undertaken to depend upon Him as a slave of love. This is what is done in the devotion we are speaking about.”
We renounce the devil, the world, sin, and ourselves, as expressed in the act of consecration, and we give ourselves entirely to Jesus through Mary. We even do something more than at baptism. Then, ordinarily, our godparents speak for us, and we are given to Jesus only by proxy. In this devotion, in this consecration, we give ourselves personally and freely, and we are fully aware of what we are doing.
In Holy Baptism, we do not give ourselves to Jesus explicitly through Mary, nor do we give Him the value of our good actions. After baptism, we remain entirely free, either to apply that value to anyone we wish or to keep it for ourselves. But by this consecration to Mary, we give ourselves explicitly to Jesus through Mary’s hands, and we include in our consecration the value of all our good actions.
The consecration to Mary also expresses the truth that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of God. And as the Mother of God, she is the Mediatrix of graces. About this, Saint Louis Marie speaks:
“This is the will of God, who willed that we should have all things through Mary. If, then, we possess any hope or grace or gift of salvation, let us acknowledge that it comes to us through her. All the gifts, graces, and virtues of the Holy Spirit are distributed by the hands of Mary, to whom she gives, when she wills, as she wills, and in the measure she wills,” say Saint Bernardine of Siena.
And Saint Bernard of Clairvaux says, “As you were not worthy that anything divine should be given to you…”
All graces were given to Mary so that you might receive through her all graces you would not otherwise receive. And Saint Bernard continues to tell us that God, seeing that we are unworthy to receive His graces directly from Him, gives them to Mary, so that we might receive from her all that God decides to give us.
His glory is achieved when He receives from humanity the gratitude, respect, and love we owe Him in return for His gifts to us. It is only right, then, that we should imitate His conduct, in order that grace might return to its author by the same channel through which grace came to us.
This is what we do by this consecration and devotion to Mary. We offer and consecrate all we are and all we possess to the Blessed Virgin, in order that our Lord may receive, through her as intermediary, the glory and gratitude that we owe to Him. We deem ourselves unworthy and unfit to approach His infinite majesty on our own, and so we avail ourselves of Mary’s intercession.
The Blessed Virgin, Mother of gentleness and mercy, never allows herself to be surpassed in love and in generosity. When she sees someone giving himself entirely to her in order to honor and serve her, and depriving himself of what he prizes most in order to adorn her, she gives herself completely, in a wondrous manner, to him.
She engulfs him in the ocean of her graces, adorns him with her merits, supports him with her power, enlightens him with her light, and fills him with her love. She shares her virtues with him, her humility, faith, purity, and so on. She makes up for his failings and becomes his representative with Jesus.
Just as one who is consecrated belongs entirely to Mary, so Mary belongs entirely to him.
We can truthfully say of this perfect servant and child of Mary what Saint John, in his Gospel, says of himself: he took her to his own.
So, through our consecration to Mary, says Saint Louis Marie, we give to our Lord, through the hands of His holy Mother, all our good works. She purifies them, making them beautiful and acceptable to her Son. She purifies them of every taint of self-love and of that unconscious attachment to creatures which slips unnoticed into our best actions. Her hands have never been known to be idle. They purify everything they touch.
As soon as the Blessed Virgin receives our good works, she removes any blemish or imperfection she may find in them. She enriches our good works by adorning them with her own merits and virtues.
It is as if a poor peasant, wishing to win the friendship and favor of the king, were to go to the queen and give her an apple, his only possession, for her to offer to the king. The queen, accepting the humble gift, puts it on a beautiful golden dish and presents it to the king on behalf of the peasant. The apple in itself would not be a gift worthy of a king, but presented by the queen in person on a dish of gold, it becomes fit for any king.
Saint Louis Marie explains very beautifully what is happening through our total devotion and consecration to Mary. He says Mary presents our good works to Jesus. She does not keep anything we offer for herself, as if she were our last end, because she is not our last end, but Jesus is. And so, unfailingly, she gives everything to Jesus.
By the very fact that we give anything to her, we are giving all to Jesus. Whenever we praise and glorify Mary, she sings as she did on the day Elizabeth praised her: My soul glorifies the Lord.
At Mary’s request, Jesus accepts the gift of our good works, no matter how poor and insignificant they may be, for one who is the King of Heaven, the King of kings, the holiest of the holy.
When we present anything to Jesus by ourselves, relying on our own dispositions and efforts, He examines our gift and often rejects it because it is tainted with self-love, just as He once rejected the sacrifices of the Jews because they were imbued with selfish motives.
But when we present something to Jesus by the pure, virginal hands of His beloved Mother, we take Him by His weak side, in a manner of speaking. He does not consider so much the present itself as the person who offers it. Thus, Mary, who is never slighted by her Son but is always well received, prevails upon Him to accept with pleasure everything she offers Him, regardless of its value.
Mary has only to present a gift to Jesus graciously to accept it.
This is what Saint Bernard strongly recommended to all those he was guiding along the pathway to perfection. When you want to offer something to God, to be welcomed by Him, be sure to offer it through the worthy Mother of God. If you do not wish to see it rejected, said Saint Bernard.
So, our consecration to Mary is the best means to give greater glory to God. This explains Saint Louis Marie’s saying that this devotion, when faithfully undertaken, is a perfect means of ensuring that the value of all our good works is being used for the greater glory of God.
Scarcely anyone works for that noble end, in spite of the obligation to do so, either because men do not know where God’s greatest glory is to be found or because they do not desire it. Now, Mary, to whom we surrender the value and merit of our good actions, knows perfectly well where God’s greatest glory lies, and she works only to promote that glory.
The devout servant of Our Lady, having entirely consecrated himself to her, can boldly claim that the value of all his actions, words, and thoughts is used for the greatest glory of God unless he has explicitly retracted his offering. For one who loves God with a pure and unselfish love, and prizes God’s glory and interests far above his own, could anything be more consoling than to give Him the greatest glory through Mary?
Through the consecration to Mary, God grants us also true liberty and freedom. It gives great liberty of spirit, the freedom of the children of God, to those who faithfully practice this consecration.
Through this devotion, we make ourselves slaves of Jesus by consecrating ourselves entirely to Him. To reward us for this enslavement in love, Our Lord frees us from every scruple and servile fear which might restrict, imprison, or confuse us. He opens our hearts and fills them with His holy love.
Saint Louis Marie de Montfort continues to say that so closely are Jesus and Mary united, that one is wholly the other. Jesus is all in Mary, and Mary is all in Jesus. Or rather, it is no longer she who lives, but Jesus alone who lives in her.
It would be easier to separate light from the sun than to separate Mary from Jesus. So united are they, that Our Lord may be called Jesus of Mary, and His Mother Mary of Jesus.
Mary is the great, unique mold of God, designed to make living images of God at little expense and in a short time. Anyone who finds this mold and casts himself into it is soon transformed into Our Lord, because it is the true likeness of Him, Our Lady.
So at the end, we quote one more beautiful explanation of Saint Louis Marie de Montfort about the meaning and the effect of our total consecration to Mary. He summarizes this meaning as follows:
“We should be delighted to remain in Mary. We should rest there peacefully, rely on her confidently, hide ourselves there with safety, and abandon ourselves unconditionally to her, so that within her virginal heart, first, we may be nourished with the milk of her grace and her motherly compassion.”
Second, we may be delivered from all anxiety, fear, and scruples.
Third, we may be safeguarded from all our enemies, the devil, the world, and sin, which have never gained admittance there. That is why Our Lady says that those who work in her will not sin. That is, those who dwell spiritually in Our Lady will never commit serious sins.
And fourth, we may be formed in Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Our Lord Jesus Christ formed in us. Her womb is, as the early Fathers of the Church call it, the house of divine secrets, where Jesus Christ and all the elect have been conceived. This one and that one were born in her, says the Psalm.
Like every good servant, we must not remain idle, but relying on her protection, we should undertake and carry out great things for our noble Queen. We must defend her privileges when they are questioned and uphold her good name when it is under attack.
We must attract everyone, if possible, to her service and to this true and sound devotion. We must speak up and denounce those who distort devotion to her by outraging her Son, and at the same time, we must apply ourselves to spreading this true devotion.
As a reward for these little services, we should expect nothing in return, save the honor of belonging to such a lovable Queen, and the joy of being united through her to Jesus Christ, her Son, by a bond that is indissoluble in time and in eternity.
Glory to Jesus in Mary. Glory to Mary in Jesus. Glory to God alone.
So those are the words of Saint Louis Marie de Montfort about the meaning of the consecration to Our Lady. I would like to add some short reflections, also from Saint Maximilian Kolbe, who was a true spiritual disciple of the spirituality of Saint Louis Marie de Montfort.
Saint Maximilian said:
“These times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by man, even the most clever. The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. However, assumed into heaven, the Mother of God now requires our cooperation. She seeks souls who will consecrate themselves entirely to her, who will become, in her hands, effective instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spreading of God’s kingdom upon earth. The Immaculate Virgin alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan.”
And since today is the feast of Fatima, we would also like to add some thoughts about Fatima. The Marian devotion of all previous times found a summary for our time in the messages which Our Lady gave in Fatima.
Sister Lucia emphasized that devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was essential. In the consecration, Our Lady told her that her Immaculate Heart would be our refuge and the way that would lead us to God.
As she spoke these words, Sister Lucia reports, Our Lady opened her hands, and from them streamed a light that penetrated to our inmost hearts. From that day onwards, our hearts were filled with a more ardent love for the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Later, Sister Lucia revealed: in front of the palm of Our Lady’s right hand was a heart encircled with thorns, which pierced it. We understood that this was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, outraged by the sins of humanity and seeking reparation.
Before little Jacinta was taken to the hospital, she told Lucia: You will remain here to make known that God wishes to establish in the world the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell everybody that God grants us graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them also to pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for peace, since God has entrusted it to her.
And then Sister Lucia said, we all know that a mother’s heart represents love in the bosom of a family. Lucia explains, all children trust in the heart of their mother, and we all know that we have in her a special affection.
The same applies to the Virgin Mary. Thus, this message says to us: My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.
Hence, the Heart of Mary is the refuge and the way to God for all His children.
On July 13, 1917, in Fatima, Our Lady showed the children hell and the sinners. What she said next gave another reason for the devotion to her Immaculate Heart. She said on that day:
To save sinners, God wishes to establish in the world the devotion to the Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace.
Father Thomas McGlynn was the artist who carved the large marble statue of Our Lady above the main entrance of the basilica in Fatima. In the course of his work at Fatima, Father Thomas had several long interviews with Sister Lucia, the last living witness of the apparitions.
Sister Lucia knew that Father Thomas McGlynn was going to write a book on Fatima as soon as he completed his work on the statue. She said to him:
In your writing, please stress the spiritual meaning of things, in order to raise minds, which today have become so materialistic, to regions of the supernatural. Raise the minds to the supernatural, so that they may understand the true meaning and purpose of the coming of Our Lady on Earth, which is to bring souls to Heaven, to draw them to God.
Our Lady showed the three children a vision of hell.
That vision was not for their instruction and warning alone, but for all of us. The Blessed Virgin had assured them that they were going to be saved and that they were to help save souls.
So this is the aim of our faith: the salvation of our souls, as we read in the First Letter of Saint Peter. And the salvation of souls is the aim of existence and the work of the Church here on Earth, since all the laws of the Church have this aim in her supreme law and that is the salvation of souls.
We should often renew our consecration to Mary, our Mother, saying, as Saint Louis Marie de Montfort recommended, this short invocation:
I belong entirely to you, my dear Mother, and all that I have is yours.
Now, we will together recite the act of total consecration to Jesus through Mary, as Saint Louis Marie de Montfort wrote it.
(Christopher Wendt)
Your Excellency, do you want me to put it up on the screen? Shall we put the text up?
(His Excellency)
O eternal and incarnate Wisdom, O sweetest and most adorable Jesus, True God and true man, Only Son of the Eternal Father and of Mary, ever Virgin,
I adore Thee profoundly in the bosom and splendors of Thy Father during eternity, and I adore Thee also in the virginal bosom of Mary, Thy most worthy Mother, at the time of Thine Incarnation.
I give Thee thanks for that Thou hast annihilated Thyself, taking the form of a slave, in order to rescue me from the cruel slavery of the devil.
I praise and glorify Thee for that Thou hast been pleased to submit Thyself to Mary, Thy holy Mother, in all things, in order to make me Thy faithful slave through her.
But alas, ungrateful and faithless as I have been, I have not kept the promises which I made so solemnly to Thee at my baptism. I have not fulfilled my obligations.
I do not deserve to be called Thy child, nor even Thy slave. And as there is nothing in me which does not merit Thy anger and just rejection, I dare not come by myself before Thy most holy and august majesty.
It is on this account that I have recourse to the intercession of Thy Most Holy Mother,
whom Thou hast given me for a mediatrix with Thee.
It is through her that I hope to obtain from Thee the contrition and pardon of my sins,
and the acquisition and preservation of Wisdom.
Hail, then, O Immaculate Mary, living tabernacle of the Divinity,
where Eternal Wisdom willed to be hidden and to be adored by angels and by men.
Hail, O Queen of Heaven and Earth,
to whose empire everything is subject that is under God.
Hail, O sure refuge of sinners, whose mercy fails no one.
Hear the desires I have for Divine Wisdom,
and for that end, receive the vows and offerings which in my lowliness I present to thee.
I, a faithless sinner, renew and rectify today in thy hands the vows of my baptism.
I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works, and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before, in the presence of all.
In the presence of the heavenly court, I choose thee this day for my Mother and Mistress.
I deliver and consecrate to thee, as thy slave, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present, and future, leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for the greater glory of God in time and in eternity.
Receive, O benignant Virgin, this little offering of my slavery, in honor of and in union with that subjection which the Eternal Wisdom deigned to have to thy maternity, in homage to the power which both of you have over this poor sinner, and in thanksgiving for the privileges with which the Holy Trinity has favored thee.
I declare that I wish henceforth, as thy true slave, to seek thy honor and to obey thee in all things.
O admirable Mother, present me to thy dear Son as His eternal slave, so that, as He has redeemed me by thee, by thee He may receive me.
O Mother of Mercy, grant me the grace to obtain the true Wisdom of God, and for that end, receive me among those whom thou lovest and teachest, whom thou leadest, nourishest, and protectest as thy children and thy slaves.
O faithful Virgin, make me in all things so perfect a disciple, imitator, and slave of the Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus Christ thy Son, that I may attain, by thy intercession and by thine example, to the fullness of His age on earth and of His glory in heaven.
Amen.
(Christopher Wendt)
Thank you, Your Excellency. Yes, I wanted to ask if you had anything to share about the true devotion in your family. I remember reading in Christus Vincit the story in the beginning of your book about your mother and your grandmother. Do you have anything to share today about that? I know I’m putting you on the spot, but I just thought that would be interesting, and a lot of the members of the Confraternity and people watching tonight might like to hear about it.
(His Excellency)
Yes. My experience is that from my earliest childhood, my grandmothers and my mother taught me to love Our Lady and to pray to her. I think I would recommend to all parents to teach their children from the earliest childhood the love of our Heavenly Mother.
I have always remembered in my life that Our Lady is my spiritual mother, my heavenly mother. And this is our happiness that we have this Holy Mother. Especially mothers in families, not only grandmothers, but mothers themselves, should ask Our Lady that they may grow in holiness in their motherhood and in their family life. This is so beautiful that they may learn to be good mothers in their families from Our Lady, who is the best of all mothers.
And this I would share with you: that it was my happiness to know Our Lady from my earliest childhood and to have the blessing of God and the grace that I could also have had these good mothers my grandmothers and my own mother. And so I would strongly recommend a true devotion and consecration to Our Lady.
In our family, all of us my parents and all my siblings, consecrated ourselves several times during our life to Our Lady, as well as our entire family. I would encourage parents to gather their children and make the consecration together to Our Lady, and to renew this consecration, especially during difficult moments in family life. In those moments, we have to go to Mary.
Maybe I can share with you one grace which God gave to my mother. She loved Our Lady so much. When she was a young mother before I was born (I was the last in the family), after her third child, when my sister was still a small child, wounds suddenly appeared on her fingers and palms. All ten of her fingers were bleeding. She could not touch anything. Everything was bleeding.
And she had three little children, and she had to wear gloves and so on. She went to all the doctors, and no one could explain or give her a remedy. No medicine could help to heal or stop the bleeding or heal the wounds. They appeared suddenly, and she had never had anything like this before in her life. Then she said, Now I have to ask my heavenly mother to help me. I am a young mother, and the doctors cannot help me. No one can.
And then my mother started, with great confidence and trust, to pray the novena of the Perpetual Help to Our Lady. And at the end, on the ninth day of the novena, all those wounds disappeared. She had suffered with them for several months. And never again in her life did they return. They disappeared on the ninth day.
So Our Lady demonstrated her intervention in our family, helping my mother. And therefore, our love and devotion continued to increase and deepen even more.
So go to Mary, especially in difficult moments. She is our best mother.
Christopher Wendt
Thank you, Your Excellency, for those words and for sharing your personal experience. Very, very moving. It is an amazing miracle and grace that your mother experienced. I really want to thank you for coming on.
I have one quick announcement, and then we will ask for your episcopal blessing. If you have not received the certificate, we emailed those out this morning to all 438 of you, so that you can sign the certificate and post it on your wall if you want in your house. If you did not get it, just email us at info at live fatima dot io. That is info at live fatima dot io. We designed some special, nice certificates with this prayer that His Excellency just prayed the consecration. You can put your name on it, and you can use it to remind yourself of your consecration today.
Okay, Your Excellency, we now ask for your blessing.
(His Excellency)
Let me put that up. Yes, sure. We must not forget that the Holy Father will consecrate Russia.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the Holy Mother of God and our tender mother. Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church.
In Fatima, you warned against these errors as you spoke about the errors of Russia. You are the mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope, that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart, so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic faith, in the sacredness of divine worship, and in the holiness of Christian life.
O Queen of the Holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this, our trusting prayer. Amen.
Dominus vobiscum. Et cum spiritu tuo. Et benedictio Dei omnipotentis Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti descendat super vos et maneat semper. Amen. Amen.
(Christopher Wendt)
Thank you, Your Excellency. Until June the second. Thank you again.
