Pope Francis' Consecration Prayer, May13, 2013

http://www.spiritdaily.com/A1014entrustment.htm

Holy Mary Virgin of Fatima,

with renewed gratitude for your maternal presence

we join our voice to that of all the generations

who call you blessed.

We celebrate in you the works of God,

who never tires of looking down with mercy

upon humanity, afflicted with the wound of sin,

to heal it and save it.

Accept with the benevolence of a Mother

the act of consecration that we perform today with confidence,

before this image of you that is so dear to us.

We are certain that each of us is precious in your eyes

and that nothing of all that lives in our hearts is unknown to you.

We let ourselves be touched by your most sweet regard

and we welcome the consoling caress of your smile.

Hold our life in your arms:

bless and strengthen every desire for good;

revive and nourish faith;

sustain and enlighten hope;

awaken and animate charity;

guide all of us along the path of holiness.

Teach us your own preferential love

for the little and the poor,

for the excluded and the suffering,

for sinners and the downhearted:

bring everyone under your protection

and entrust everyone to your beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus.

Amen.

[Translation by Joseph Trabbic]

Excerpts from 

Cardinal Bertone's Homily at Fatima Shrine

http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/cardinal-bertone-s-homily-at-fatima-shrine

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Meanwhile -- 96 year later – the day has arrived in which Mary foresaw and came to announce sad times for humanity. Here she manifested herself beautiful as the dawn and strong as “an army prepared for battle,” asking us to prepare ourselves in her ranks to undertake the battle. It was not enough for her to be admired, invoked, venerated. Our Lady wants the hearts of individuals, of nations and of the whole world to be “consecrated” and placed under her guidance. She wants “dedicated” people, calling all to be united to her heart and to her in faithful service. But, do we really obey the appeal of Fatima and are we willing to continue to obey? Is all our being with Mary, in the certainty that love believes everything, hopes everything, endures everything? In the firm confidence that love embraces everything, forgives everything , conquers everything?

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“Do not be afraid” is the theme of this pastoral year, here in the Shrine, made up of the walk for the celebration of the centenary of the Apparitions, in which the promise of Our Lady is highlighted: “My Immaculate Heart will lead you to God.” These words enclose consoling certainties and appeals of Heaven, given in various moments to the little shepherds of Fatima, primarily to Lucia: “Do not lose heart. I will never leave you! My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the path that will lead you to God” (Apparition of June of 1917). Dear pilgrims, I repeat to all today: Let us not lose heart, “let us hold our first confidence firm to the end”(Hebrews 3:14)!

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Of what are we afraid? Often our heart is troubled by all the evil 

there is in the world and by our own weaknesses; our heart feels 

troubled with the betrayals and negations of which it itself is 

capable. We seem secure against everything, except against 

ourselves. We are afraid of ourselves, because we do not know 

what to do with our life and with the gifts that God grants us.. 

Redemption is “a trustworthy hope, thanks to which we can face 

our present time: the present beyond being difficult, can be lived 

and accepted, if raised to a goal and if we can be certain of this 

goal, if this goal is so great that it justifies the fatigue of the walk” (Benedict XVI, encyclical Spe salvi, no. 1). The goal is no more and no less than God himself. Of general knowledge is the episode of the little shepherds imprisoned by the governor of Ourem; frightening moments for three children, especially when they see themselves separated from one another and threatened with being thrown into boiling oil! What was their reaction? They take recourse to prayer. And when they asked Francisco what he was going to do, he with the grace of a child but also with the daring of a man of faith, responded: “I am praying a Hail Mary, so that Jacinta won’t be afraid.”