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| con·se·crate
[kon-si-kreyt] Show IPA verb, con·se·crat·ed, con·se·crat·ing, adjective
verb (used with object)
1.
to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
2.
to make (something) an object of honor or veneration; hallow: a custom consecrated by time.
3.
to devote or dedicate to some purpose: a life consecrated to science.
4.
to admit or ordain to a sacred office, especially to the episcopate.
5.
to change (bread and wine) into the Eucharist.
Pope Francis leads Rosary concluding Marian month of May
(Vatican Radio) “Pope Francis is very devoted to Mary. The very next day after his election he went to the Basilica of St Mary Major to pray to Mary to ask for her grace to carry out his Pontificate”, says Fr. Denis Kulandaisamy, OSM (Order of Servants of Mary or Servites) professor of Mariology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty Marianum.
On Friday Pope Francis leads faithful in the recitation of the Rosary for the conclusion of the Marian month of May, a traditional devotion that is echoed worldwide in homes, parishes and shrines.
Since the beginning of his pontificate the Holy Father has constantly referred to Christ’s Mother as our model in Christian life. In his homilies Pope Francis has spoken about her central role in our salvation history, in being among the first witnesses to the Resurrection and in building the early Church. Above all he has held Mary up as a model for the dignity of all women who are ‘fundamental in the life of the Church’, often ‘the first to give the Christian proclamation’ to new generations of faithful.
“Paul VI said we cannot be Christian if we are not Marian”, Fr. Denis tells Emer McCarthy. “She is the one who brings us Jesus, the second person of the Trinity. Talking about Mary we must also talk about the dignity of women in the Church: The woman who gave us Christ is a symbol of the world where women are not respected, not given proper importance or dignity. If we as Catholics want to give proper devotion to Mary, that devotion must be into practice in our day to day life”:
Portugal: The pope consecrates his pontificate to Our Lady of Fatima
26-04-2013
Filed under News, The Church in the world
On April 8, 2013, on the occasion of the opening of the Plenary Assembly of the Portuguese Bishops Conference, Cardinal José da Cruz Policarpo, Archbishop of Lisbon, announced that Pope Francis had asked him twice to consecrate his pontificate to Our Lady of Fatima. “This is an order that I can carry out in the silence of prayer. But it would be better for the whole Bishops Conference to join in the fulfillment of this request. Mary will guide us in all our works and also in the manner in which we satisfy this desire of the pope,” the cardinal added.
This consecration will take place on May 13 of this year, during the international pilgrimage for the 96th anniversary of the apparitions, in a ceremony presided over by Abp. Orani Tempesta, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Cardinal Policarpo announced that he would personally compose the prayer of consecration. (Source: Fatima Shrine – DICI no. 2724 dated April 26, 2013)
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