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Family consecration: What you need to know about Consecration and it benefits.
Family Consecration.
Family Consecration is a practical way to intentionally live your baptismal consecration (promises) and grow in union with God, as a family. Through Baptism, we become children of God, called to eternal life with Him in Heaven. But to grow in union with God, we must choose to live for Him.
With Family Consecration, your family can renew your baptismal commitment by making an act of consecration to the Holy Family. This act of consecration is a deliberate choice to follow Jesus Christ more fully, with the help of Mary and Joseph, and to set your family apart for God.
Then, taking the Holy Family as your model, each family member seeks to lead a life that gives glory to God.
A Way of Life
INSPIRED BY THE FATIMA MESSAGEWhen Our Lady appeared at Fatima in 1917, she delivered a message of hope that gives the solution for reversing the effects of sin and bringing about God’s kingdom on earth. The AFC has summarized this message in four points.
The Four Points
SIN is the cause of all unhappiness.
GRACE is more powerful than sin.
HOLINESS, cooperation with God’s grace, repairs for sin and brings peace into the world.
CONSECRATION maximizes our efforts to repair for sin, because when we entrust ourselves to Mary, she purifies and multiplies our good works.
Family Consecration is a response to this message of hope. By turning away from sin, accepting God’s grace, seeking to live a holy life, and consecrating yourself—to Jesus, through Mary, in union with St. Joseph—your family can help to repair for sin and bring other souls to Heaven! Power
Family Consecration is incredible! Through it, everything you do or endure takes on purpose and meaning. Your ordinary activities, like washing dishes or going to work, as well as your trials, are made holy and can be used by God for the conversion of others.
If enough souls live Family Consecration, the ripple effect can become a force strong enough to crush the head of Satan and bring about God’s reign on earth!
Two Aspects
OF FAMILY CONSECRATIONMaking an act of consecration
Living your consecration every day
Making an act of consecration to the Holy Family, together as a family, is a renewal of your baptismal consecration and sets your family apart for God. When you consecrate your family to the Holy Family, you are placing Jesus at the center and pledging to live totally for Him, with the help and protection of Mary and St. Joseph.
Prayer of Consecration
TO THE HOLY FAMILYDaily Renewal
OF YOUR CONSECRATIONEach day, renew your act of consecration. This helps you to remember and live your commitment in daily life. You can renew your consecration in a variety of ways, such as praying this AFC prayer: All for the Sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, all through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, all in union with St. Joseph.
Second Aspect:
LIVING YOUR CONSECRATION EVERY DAYFamily Consecration is more than a one-time event. It’s a joyful, balanced way of life.
After making an act of consecration to Jesus, through Mary, in union with St. Joseph, you can live your consecration (and express your love for God) by following the pathway of the Seven Keys to God-Centered Family Living.
Seven Keys to God-Centered Family Living
Prayer Life
Building a personal relationship with God.
Daily prayer helps each family member to build their personal relationship with God and more deeply embrace their identity as His child. Family members should pray together and individually. In particular, the AFC emphasizes the daily family Rosary as a direct response to the Fatima message.
Sacramental Life
Growing in grace.
The sacraments give special grace to grow in holiness and union with God. The AFC encourages families to go to Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, and Confession often—to increase in the life of grace and to worship Our Eucharistic Lord in union with the whole Church.
Learning the Faith
Knowing God helps us to love Him.
Learning the truths of the Catholic Faith helps families to grow in love of God. Knowledge of the Faith also protects families from the false values of the world and equips them to more confidently defend, live, and share the Faith with others.
Living the Virtues
Faith, hope, and love lead to freedom and unity.
Families are empowered to live a life of virtue through the graces they receive through prayer, the sacraments, and learning the Faith. As they grow in faith, hope, and love, families are led to greater unity, peace, and freedom.
Serving Others
Serving others, both in the home and outside the home, is one of the best ways families can express their faith and love for God. By putting their love for each other and those around them into action, families satisfy Jesus’ thirst for love.
Sharing the Faith
Families that have deepened their union with God are inspired to evangelize by leading others to an encounter with Jesus. Sharing the Faith can take many forms, such as sharing one’s testimony, opening up the home to others, and treating everyone with charity.
Sanctifying Daily Duties
Offering up each moment “All for”
By embracing and joyfully offering the present moment to God, each family member can sanctify their daily duties and help to repair for sin. That way, when confronted with trials or difficulties, the family can remain at peace, recognizing that everything is either willed or permitted by God and that He draws good out of everything.
Friday, 18 March 2022
Pope Francis invited the Bishops for the consecration of Russians as the request of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917
Pray for the Holy Father and our bishops!
The Holy See confirmed on Fri., March 18, that Pope Francis invites all the world’s bishops to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Pope Francis will consecrate the two nations at 5 p.m. local time in St. Peter’s Basilica on March 25, the feast of the Annunciation. The consecration will occur during the Celebration of Penance.
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Apostolic Nuncio to the United States Archbishop Christophe Pierre signed an urgent letter dated March 17 informing bishops of the Holy Father’s intention to invite the participation of all United States’ bishops.
Here’s a photo of the letter below:

The first portion of the letter reads, “In the context of the tragic events unfolding in Ukraine, the Holy Father, Pope Francis will lead an Act of Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25th…”
Archbishop Pierre said the Holy Father will send a formal invitation, along with the consecration prayer.
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Several bishops throughout the world said they will join in the consecration. As of this writing, bishops in Ukraine, Portugal, Latin America, the Caribbean, England, Wales, and the Philippines intend to participate.
Our Lady of Fatima’s request for the Consecration of Russia
Our Lady of Fatima requested in her 1917 apparitions that all the world’s bishops consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart.
“I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays.
“If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church.
“The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.
“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.”
The Holy See and Sr. Lucia said Pope St. John Paul II’s 1984 consecration fulfilled her requests.
However, the Ukrainian bishops asked the Holy Father to renew this consecration hoping to obtain peace amid the ongoing war.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, please pray for us!
Thursday, 17 March 2022
POPE Francis to consecrate Russian and Ukarine for the the world peace. It is time for individuals and families should consecrate themselves to the immaculate Heart of Mary and to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, Time shall come everything outside the precious blood and immaculate heart will suffer.
Pope Francis asked: “How do we bring war into prayer?” Prayer allows itself to be transformed into action, charity and practical faith. Prayer, in its weakness, can appear to be a failure. Even God seems to fail in Jesus on the cross: instead, it was there that he conquered hatred, evil, death, and began a new history, a new creation.
The message of Fatima does not intend to satisfy apocalyptic curiosities about the end of the world; it only launches a heartfelt appeal for conversion so that humanity may be saved from the selfishness that destroys. In these difficult times, we are accompanied by Mary's consoling words: "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph". In 2000, the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, explained the meaning of these words as follows:
"My Immaculate Heart will triumph". What does this mean? The Heart open to God, purified by contemplation of God, is stronger than guns and weapons of all kinds. Mary's ‘fiat’, the word of her heart changed the history of the world because she introduced the Saviour into this world - because thanks to this "Yes", God could become man in our space and remains so now forever. The evil one has power in this world, we see it and experience it again and again; he has power because our freedom continually allows itself to be turned away from God. But since God Himself has a human heart and has thus turned man's freedom towards good, towards God, freedom for evil no longer has the last word. Since then, the word has been valid: ‘In the world, you will have tribulation but have confidence; I have conquered the world’ (Jn 16:33). The message of Fatima invites us to rely on this promise.”
The Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph
The message of Our Lady of Fatima is not intended to satisfy apocalyptic curiosities about the end of the world, but launches a heartfelt appeal for conversion so that humanity may be saved from the selfishness that destroys. At a time marked by devastating wars, Pope Francis will consecrate Russia
By Sergio Centofanti
"In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph!" These were the words of Our Lady to the shepherd children of Fatima over 100 years ago, words that give hope in the midst of the clamour of wars. On March 25, Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. At Wednesday’s General Audience, he prayed intensely for peace: "Lord Jesus, who died in a mother’s arms in a bunker in Kharkiv, have mercy on us… Stop the hand of Cain!” The meekness of prayer overcomes the arrogance of evil.
But even today there are so many wars in the world, often forgotten: in Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia... In Ukraine, the Russian army continues to bomb civilians, refugees, simple people queuing to buy bread; houses, hospitals and churches are hit and devastated. In the bombing of the paediatric hospital in Mariupol, a pregnant woman died with her baby. Wars cause suffering and devastation everywhere.