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On the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 15th, 2012, Father Randy Stice celebrated the noon Mass with Father William Oruko con-celebrating. Following the final blessing, Father William led the team in a prayer consecrating ourselves and our Mission to Kenya to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
We are a small group that will be traveling, 5 in all. I was unable to attend the Mass and Consecration, but all of those that I am traveling with: Father William Oruko, Lisa Morris, Theresa Eirlerman and Judi Pedas were all present. I understand that many friends and parishioners came to the Mass and Consecration in support of the Mission.
Those of us that are traveling have received an outpouring of support and encouragement, for which we are so grateful. In talking with friends and family who cannot go with us and who have such a heart for what is happening with this Mission, it has become clearer and clearer that this Mission is truly for all of us...The participation in this mission is not limited to the 5 of us traveling to Kenya. We know that their are many who may not be able to physically travel to Kenya, but who are being called to participate from where they are. We know that it is all of us together that will spread this Mission far and wide!
Having said that, We would like to invite all of you reading this blog, if you feel so called, to pray and unite yourselves and your families to this mission spiritually by praying the Consecration prayer that was prayed by the team.
The power of prayer will strengthen all of us as pilgrims on the road together to serve our Lord and his people - Thank you for being a part of this journey - it is a blessing.
Those of us that are traveling have received an outpouring of support and encouragement, for which we are so grateful. In talking with friends and family who cannot go with us and who have such a heart for what is happening with this Mission, it has become clearer and clearer that this Mission is truly for all of us...The participation in this mission is not limited to the 5 of us traveling to Kenya. We know that their are many who may not be able to physically travel to Kenya, but who are being called to participate from where they are. We know that it is all of us together that will spread this Mission far and wide!
Having said that, We would like to invite all of you reading this blog, if you feel so called, to pray and unite yourselves and your families to this mission spiritually by praying the Consecration prayer that was prayed by the team.
The power of prayer will strengthen all of us as pilgrims on the road together to serve our Lord and his people - Thank you for being a part of this journey - it is a blessing.
CONSECRATION OF THE
KENYA MISSION
It is appropriate in our times, to profoundly understand and
have a greater conscience of the intimate relationship that exists between the
Two Hearts, and of the immense value that an authentic devotion and
consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary have in our lives.”
(Pope John Paul II, November 23, 1987)
(Pope John Paul II, November 23, 1987)
To your Sacred Heart, O Lord, we wish to consecrate ourselves and this Mission to Kenya today, June 15, 2012, the Feast of the Sacred Heart. Through this act of consecration, we desire to enter into your Heart, our refuge and protection. Keep us free from all error and confusion, from all frailty, selfishness, and indifference. Please give us wisdom and clarity in all that we do for this Mission and in our daily lives. May we acquire from your Heart the virtues that we most need, the light that will guide our path, and the strength necessary to be faithful to your will in this Mission and in all we do. May your Heart be our treasure and our reward. May the graces of mercy, conversion, and peace that flow from your Heart transform us, giving us new hearts like your heart. Moved by the contemplation of your love, may we become true channels of your grace in a world so in need of your love and of truth. Through the consecration of ourselves and this Mission to your Sacred Heart, may we help to establish in the world the civilization of love.
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the most perfect model of total consecration and dedication to the Heart of Jesus. O Mother, it is our desire to live in your Heart so as to learn to love unconditionally the Heart of Jesus, your Son. Through your Heart, may we truly obey Him and serve Him with all generosity, responding diligently to the desires of His Heart.
We wish to consecrate ourselves and this Mission to Kenya to your Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart, the perfect and sure path to reach the Heart of Jesus. Your Heart, abundantly filled with grace and holiness, is the refuge where we are healed and liberated from all our miseries and frailties. O Most Holy Virgin, we want to belong to your Heart, bearing within us a complete and loving readiness to do the will of God manifested through your maternal mediation. In virtue of this consecration, we implore you, O Immaculate Heart, to guard and protect us from all physical and spiritual evil. May our hearts be inflamed by the fire and love of the Holy Spirit as is your Heart. In union with you, most pure channel through which Christ came into the world, and anointed by the power of the Holy Spirit, may we be instruments in this world, bringing to all the love, joy, mercy, and peace of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
O Hearts of Jesus and Mary, only hope of humanity! You are our hope since in your perfect union of love for God and for humanity, you have given yourselves for the salvation of the world. Through this consecration of ourselves and this Mission to Kenya, we humbly seek to spread the fire of your love and mercy to all we meet and that those who will participate there and here (by their spiritual presence with us), be the light of Truth to all they encounter, so that the world will become a true Civilization of Love. We desire to offer our lives in love and in reparation to your Hearts. With all our lives, we desire to promote and to establish in the hearts of all men the Reign of Love found in the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Amen.
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| Father William, Lisa, Theresa and Judi and Father Randi in the background |
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| Father William |
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| Judi, Thersa, Lisa and I |
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