CONSECRATION OF UKRAINE AND RUSSIA TO IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY - MARCH 25, 2022

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Published: Friday, 25 March 2022 00:12

Our Holy Father invites all Catholics worldwide to go to their local church on Friday from 12 pm EST to 2 pm EST to pray in union with all of the bishops and faithful from the Vatican and Fatima.

Pope Francis will be consecrating the nations of Russia and Ukraine to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as she requested at Fatima in 1917. The Holy Father will begin a Lenten penitential service at 12 pm EST, followed by the prayer for Consecration.

Russia first invaded Ukraine back in 2014 and then again this past February. The conflict has escalated into a full-out war, with thousands being injured, killed, forced to flee, or forced to fight. In response, the whole of the Catholic world has been participating in prayer to end this war and provide safety for all those in danger. To that end, the Holy Father has written a letter asking all Catholics to participate in the act of consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, March 25th.

Pope Francis wrote, “I ask you to join in this act by inviting the priests, religious and faithful to assemble in their churches and places of prayer on March 25, so that God’s Holy People may raise a heartfelt and choral plea to Mary our Mother… This act of consecration is meant to be a gesture of the universal Church, which in this dramatic moment lifts up to God, through His Mother and ours, the cry of pain of all those who suffer and implore an end to the violence, and to entrust the future of our human family to the Queen of Peace.”