Lisa Arth remembers 17 years ago, when she and her husband, Mike, consecrated themselves and their four children to Mary. "We knew it was for the whole family," said Arth of South Lake, Texas.

Garden Consecration. Garden Consecration to Jesus through Mary "Seek and you shall find." Through the centuries Christians seeking most fully to know, love and serve God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit ...

Salonen writes, "The word 'consecration' here recalls a time in 1917 when the Blessed Mother appeared, on several different occasions, to three shepherd children in Fátima, Portugal. Without ...

Vatican City, Mar 22, 2023 / 06:40 am. Pope Francis has invited Catholics to annually renew an act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25.

In his homily for this year’s consecration, Cardinal Rai also reiterated how the Virgin Mary appeared to the three shepherd children in the Portuguese village of Fatima and told them, “In the ...

After reading the consecration, the pope placed flowers before the statue of Mary and censed it. Young children joined the pope as the Immaculata hymn was sung. 11:40 a.m.

The consecration will take place on March 25 and will be done at Saint Peter's Basilica. The blessing will coincide with the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, a Catholic feast day.

A sign in St. Peter's Square calls for the consecration of Russia and Ukraine to Mary, before the start of Pope Francis' Angelus at the Vatican March 13, 2022.

Mary, she said, first showed them a vision of hell. Then Mary urged prayers for Russia’s conversion, made the request for its “consecration” in the name of her Immaculate Heart and promised ...

The story starts in 1917, when Mary appeared repeatedly to three shepherd children in Fátima, Portugal, in what is considered to be the most recent major apparition to be officially confirmed by ...

In communion with Pope Francis, Bishop James F. Checchio of Metuchen joined in prayer as the Holy Father consecrates Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the Solemnity of the ...

Speaking to Crux, Mello said, “Mary is the mother of all peoples.She is the mother of Russians and Ukrainians,” and therefore, the goal of the consecration is to have a healing effect and to ...