The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) released on Tuesday, May 25 the prayer for the upcoming National Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
A portion of the prayer reads:
"Accept, O Mother of Christ, this cry, laden with, the hopes and burdens, the sufferings of each one of us, and of all our people. Help us, with the power of the Holy Spirit, to overcome and conquer all sin: individual sins, social sins and the sin of the world', -- sin in all its manifestations.
Let there be revealed once more, in our own history as a people, the infinite power of the Redemption, the power of God's merciful Love! May it destroy the power of sin and evil among us! May it transform consciences! May it change hearts to the likeness of the Heart of Jesus, and your own heart! May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all, in our land and through allthe world, the light of hope! O Mary, Mother of Jesus and our Mother, our life, our sweetness and our hope! Amen."
CBCP News said the prayer was adopted from the “official act of consecration” written by St. John Paul II himself for the Feast of the Annunciation in 1985.
It added that the prayer was meant to be offered by the Pope himself and all the bishops of the Church.
It was during the CBCP's 108th plenary assembly in January 2014 when it approved that the consecration to the Immaculate Heart Mary be renewed every year on her feast day in every diocese until the Jubilee Year of 2021.
This year, the feast day will be on June 12.
The national consecration will be led by Archbishop Romulo Valles, CBCP President, and will be live streamed from the Davao Cathedral at 9:45 a.m.
The Mass in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will then follow at 10 a.m. in the different cathedrals and parish churches led by the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Valenzuela City.