Dear God,Please make of our relationship a great and holy adventure.May our joining be a sacred space.May the two of us find rest here, a haven for our souls.Remove from us any temptation to judge one another or to direct one another.We surrender to You our conflicts and our burdens.We know You are our Answer and our rock.Help us to not forget.Bring us together in heart and mind as well as body.Remove from us the temptation to criticize or be cruel.May we not be tempted by fantasies and projections, but guide us in the ways of holiness.Save us from darkness.May this relationship be a burst of light.May it be a fount of love and wisdom for us, for our family, for our community, for our world.May this bond be a channel for Your love and healing, a vehicle of Your grace and power.As lessons come and challenges grow, let us not be tempted to forsake each other.Let us always remember that in each other we have the most beautiful woman, the mostbeautiful man, the strongest one, the sacred one in whose arms we are repaired.May we remain young in this relationship.May we grow wise in this relationship.Bring us what You desire for us, and show us how You would have us be.Thank you, dear God, You who are the cement between us.Thank You for this love. - By Marianne Williamson
Virgin of Fatima, Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Refuge of Sinners, we who belong to the Marian Movement consecrate ourselves in a very special way to your Immacualte Heart. By this act of consecration we intend to live, with you and through you, all the obligations assumed by our baptismal consecration. We further pledge to bring about in ourselves that interior conversion so urgently demanded by the Gospel, a conversion that will free us of every attachment to ourselves and to easy compromises with the world so that, like you, we may be available only to do always the will of the Father. And as we resolve to entrust to you, O Mother most sweet and merciful, our life and vocation as Christians, that you may dispose of it according to your designs of salvation in this hour of decision that weighs upon the world, we pledge to live it according to your desires, especially as it pertains to a renewed spirit of prayer and penance, the fervent participation in the celebration of the Eucharist and in the works of the apostolate, the daily recitation of the Holy Rosary, and an austere manner of life in keeping with the Gospel, that shall be to all a good example of the observance of the law of God and the practice of the Christian virtues, especially that of purity. We further promise you to be united with the Holy Father, with the hierarchy and with our priests, in order thus to set up a barrier to the growing confrontation directed against the Magisterium, that threatens the very foundation of the Church. Under your protection, we want moreover to be apostles of this sorely needed unity of prayer and love for the Pope, on whom we invoke your special protection. And lastly, insofar as is possible, we promise to lead those souls with whom we come in contact to a renewed devotion to you. Mindful that atheism has caused shipwreck in the faith to a great number of the faithful, that desecration has entered into the holy temple of God, and that evil and sin are spreading more and more throughout the world, we make so bold as to lift our eyes trustingly to you, O Mother of Jesus and our merciful and powerful Mother, and we invoke again today and await from you the salvation of all your children, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. [With ecclesiastical approval]
I love thee, most lovable Lady, by the love which I bear thee, I promise ever to serve thee, and to do as much as I can, that thou be loved by others also. I put all my hopes in thee, all my salvation. Receive me as thy servant and cover me with the mantle of thy protection, thou the Mother of mercy! Amen.
Queen of heaven, rejoice, alleluia, For he whom you were worthy to bear, alleluia, Has risen, as he foretold, alleluia; Pary for us to God, alleluia. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia. For the Lord has indeed risen, alleluia. God our Father, you give joy to the world by the resurrection of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Through the prayers of his mother, the Virgin Mary, bring us to the happiness of eternal life. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
