This Friday, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, March 25, 2022 at 11 am at Holy Family Cathedral, Most Rev. David A. Konderla will be consecrating Russia, Ukraine, and all of humanity to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. All are welcome to attend.
If you cannot attend, pastors, deacons, and religious are encouraged to pray the Act of Consecration together with the faithful of their parish or institution outside of Mass any time on Friday, March 25th. Those faithful who cannot join their parish may offer it privately in their homes with their families.
"Now, also in response to numerous requests by the People of God, I wish in a special way to entrust the nations at war to the Blessed Virgin Mary. As I announced yesterday at the conclusion of the Angelus prayer, on 25 March, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, I intend to carry out a solemn Act of Consecration of humanity, and Russia and Ukraine in particular, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Since it is fitting that we should invoke peace with hearts renewed by God’s forgiveness, the Act of Consecration will take place in the context of a Celebration of Penance to be held in Saint Peter’s Basilica at 5:00 p.m., Rome time. The Act itself will take place about 6:30 p.m. This Act of Consecration is meant to be a gesture of the universal Church, which in this dramatic moment lifts up to God, through his Mother and ours, the cry of pain of all those who suffer and implore an end to the violence, and to entrust the future of our human family to the Queen of Peace."