PRAYER OF CONSECRATION TO MARY “O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection, hear the prayer that I address to you with filial trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole Redeemer. Mother of Mercy, teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice, to you, who come to meet us sinners, I consecrate on this day all my being and all my love. I also consecrate to you my life, my work, my joys, my infirmities, and my sorrows. Grant peace, justice and prosperity to our people; for I entrust to your care all that I have and all that I am, my Lady and Mother. I wish to be entirely yours and to walk with you along the way of complete faithfulness to Jesus Christ in His Church. Hold me always with your loving hand. Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, I pray to you for all the bishops, that they may lead the faithful along paths of intense Christian life, of love and humble service of God and souls. Contemplate this immense harvest, and intercede with the Lord that He may instill a hunger for holiness in the whole people of God, and grant abundant vocations of priests and religious, strong in the faith and zealous dispensers of God’s mysteries. Grant to my home the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God. Blessed Virgin Mary, protect my family, so that they may always be united, and bless the upbringing of the children. Our hope, look upon me with compassion, teach me to go continually to Jesus and, if I fall, help me to rise again, to return to Him, by means of the confession of my faults and sins in the Sacrament of Penance, which gives peace to the soul. I beg you to grant me a great love for all the holy Sacraments, which are, as it were, the signs that your Son left us on earth. Thus, Most Holy Mother, with the peace of God in my conscience, with my heart free from evil and hatred, I will be able to bring to all true joy and true peace, which come to me from your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.”