Pray the consecration to Our Lady of Aparecida
Consecration: O Most Holy Mary, through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in your beloved image of Aparecida, you spread countless benefits throughout Brazil. I, although unworthy to belong to the number of your sons and daughters, but full of the desire to participate in the benefits of your mercy, prostrate at your feet, I consecrate my understanding to you, so that you may always think of the love you deserve; I consecrate my tongue to you so that I may always praise you and propagate your devotion; I consecrate my heart to you, so that, after God, I may love you above all things.
Receive me, O incomparable Queen, you who the crucified Christ gave us as Mother, in the blessed number of your sons and daughters; welcome me under your protection; help me with all my needs, spiritual and temporal, especially at the time of my death.
Bless me, O heavenly cooperator, and with your powerful intercession, strengthen me in my weakness, so that, serving you faithfully in this life, I may praise you, love you and give you thanks in heaven, for all eternity. So be it!”
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Churches around the world commemorate the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturdays. This happens due to the importance of the role of the Mother of God in the history of humanity’s salvation.
It is stated, in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, that “commemoration of Saint Mary be made on Saturday, because, in the Liturgy of the Church, first and above all the saints, the Mother of the Redeemer is venerated”. (378)
In the TV and Radio programming schedule, a moment is dedicated, at 6:30 pm, to pray the Office of the Immaculate Conception.
This prayer proclaims the virtues of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God. It was originally written in Latin, in Italy in the 15th century, by the Franciscan Bernardino de Bustis with the aim of protecting the dogma of the Immaculate Conception from the countless attacks it had been suffering from heretics since the 12th century.