As our Mother, you love us and know us: no concern of our hearts is hidden from you. Mother of mercy, how often we have experienced your watchful care and your peaceful presence! ...We now turn to you and knock at the door of your heart. We are your beloved children. In every age you make yourself known to us, calling us to conversion ... You are able to untie the knots of our hearts and of our times. In you we place our trust ... O Mother, may your sorrowful plea stir our hardened hearts. May the tears you shed for us make this valley parched by our hatred blossom anew ... Accept this act that we carry out with confidence and love. Grant that war may end and peace spread throughout the world ... Our Lady of the “Fiat”, on whom the Holy Spirit descended, restore among us the harmony that comes from God. May you, our “living fountain of hope”, water the dryness of our hearts ... You once trod the streets of our world; lead us now on the paths of peace. Amen - the Act of Consecration of ...
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