Immaculate Mother,
in this place of grace,
called together by the love of your Son Jesus
the Eternal Servant, I,
a son in the Son and His deacon,
consecrate myself to your maternal Heart,
in order to carry out faithfully the Father’s Will.
I am mindful that, without Jesus,
I can do nothing good
and that only through Him, with Him and in Him,
will I be an instrument of salvation
for the world.
Bride of the Holy Spirit,
obtain for me the inestimable gift
of transformation in Christ.
Through the same power of the Spirit that
overshadowed you,
making you the Mother of the Saviour,
help me to bring Christ your Son
to birth in myself too.
May the Church
be thus renewed by deacons who are holy,
deacons transfigured by the grace of Him
Who makes all things new.
Enable me to be an example of this grace.
Mother of Mercy,
it was your Son Jesus who called me
to become like Him:
light of the world and salt of the earth.
Help me,
through your powerful intercession,
never to fall short of this sublime vocation of the diaconate,
nor to give way to my selfishness,
to the allurements of the world
and to the wiles of the Evil One.
Preserve me with your purity,
guard me with your humility
and enfold me with your maternal love
that is reflected in so many souls
consecrated to you,
who have become for me my
true spiritual mother.
Mother of the Church,
obtain for me the grace to be a true servant
who does not serve myself
but rather give myself to God for His children,
finding my happiness in this.
Not only with my words, but with my very life,
I want to repeat humbly,
day after day,
my “here I am” and my “let it be done to me according to your word”.
Guided by You,
I want to be an Apostle
of the Flame of Love,
glad to assist at the celebration of
the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar as often as possible,
proclaiming the Gospel joyfully,
marking the hours of each day and
sanctifying the day with prayer,
and facilitating communion in the Church through
my service to the least of my brothers and sisters.
Advocate and Mediatrix of grace,
you who are fully immersed
in the one universal mediation of Christ,
invoke upon me, from God,
a heart completely renewed
that loves God with all its strength
and serves mankind as you did.
Repeat to the Lord
your efficacious word:
“They have no wine”,
so that the Father and the Son will send upon me
a new outpouring of
the Holy Spirit.
Full of wonder and gratitude
at your continuing presence in our midst,
in the name of all deacons
I too want to cry out:
“Why is this granted me,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me?”
Our Mother for all time,
do not tire of accompanying me,
consoling me, sustaining me.
Come to my aid
and deliver me from every danger
that threatens me.
With this act of entrustment and consecration,
I wish to welcome you
more deeply, more radically,
for ever and totally
into my human and clerical life.
Let your presence cause new blooms to burst forth
in the desert of my loneliness,
let it cause the sun to shine on my darkness,
let it restore calm after the tempest,
so that all mankind shall see the salvation
of the Lord,
Who has the name and the face of Jesus,
Who is reflected in my heart,
for ever united to yours!
Amen
(Adapted from Pope Benedict XVI)
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