Dear Folks,

This weekend we are joining the bishops of our country to consecrate our nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Yesterday, many families came to the Saturday Morning Mass to receive blessings and prayers to enthrone the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart in their homes!

And beginning this week, we will recite a prayer for our nation leading up to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence! Semiquincentennial, that is one heck of a word! No wonder I typed 250th above!

So what is a consecration like this? It is a solemn act of entrustment by which persons place themselves, their lives, and their future more completely at the service of Christ through the maternal intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

John Paul II often used the language of “entrustment” asking Mary to intercede so that peoples and nations might open themselves more fully to Christ.

Take for example, Pope Saint John Paul II’s motto, “Totus Tuus” (“Totally Yours”) which came directly from St. Louis de Montfort’s teaching on True Devotion to Our Lady. It is a motto that he strove to live and belong more perfectly to Christ by placing everything he was and did under the maternal care of Mary, who always leads souls to her Son.

We can never have too much entrusting ourselves to Our Lord and Our Lady.

pax,

Father John Mosimann