07/12/2022
HAPPY FEAST DAY OF
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
(PATRONESS OF THE PHILIPPINES)
Filipino Catholics have a strong devotion to Mary, Mother of God. One of the manifestations of which is when upon the request of the bishops of the Philippines, Pope Pius XII declared Mary, under the title of the Immaculate Conception, as the Patroness of the Philippines on September 12, 1942.
🌹ACT OF CONSECRATION
AND ENTRUSTMENT TO THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION🌹
"We have recourse to your protection, O holy Mother of God.
As we recite the words of this antiphon
with which the Church of Christ has prayed for centuries,
we find ourselves today before you, our Immaculate Mother.
We, who make up the Body of Christ present in our land,
recite the words of this Act of Consecration
and Entrustment, in which we gather, first of all,
the hopes and anxieties of our Filipino people,
at this moment of our history.
Mother of our people, we rejoice in the name,
Pueblo amante de Maria, a people who love Mary,
bayang sumisinta kay Maria.
You know all our sufferings and our hopes,
you who have a mother’s awareness
of all the struggles between good and evil,
between light and darkness, which afflict the world today.
Mother of our people, accept the cry which we,
deeply moved by the Holy Spirit, address directly to your heart.
Embrace with the love of the Mother
and Handmaid of the Lord, our people and our land,
which now we entrust and consecrate to you,
for we are truly concerned for the earthly
and eternal destiny of every individual
among us and for all our people.
“We have recourse to your protection, O holy Mother of God;
despise not our petitions in our necessities.”
From hatred, violence, and conflicts
which divide and destroy our people, deliver us.
From sins against human life, from its very beginning, deliver us.
From the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us.
From every kind of injustice in the life of society, deliver us.
