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Church throughout the world, to unite
all members to Himself and to one
another. When Christ taught His
disciples to pray, “Our Father ... Thy
kingdom come, Thy Will be done on
earth as it is in Heaven,” He was not
telling them to pray for what was never
to be. His Kingdom will come for the
Holy Spirit does not lie.
F
ather Pendergast had a vision of
an immense basilica built through
spontaneous offerings to Jesus and Mary
rising to the heavens as a symbol of
devotion to Jesus in all the Tabernacles
of the world and to Mary as Queen of
Tabernacles and Mediatrix of all Graces.
It would symbolize the inner unity among
the faithful, that organic oneness in
Christ’s Mystical Body, which is the
Church: ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC AND
APOSTOLIC! By one of the most
mysterious gestures of God’s mercy and
beneficence, we are permitted to share
in the application and distribution
of Christ’s graces and merits among
the members of His Body. In Christ’s
Passion, He permitted no one outside
of His Blessed Mother to contribute
and collaborate with Him in the act of
redemption, but He does permit us to
share and contribute in His redeeming
mission, which is His sacramental
mission.
Our devotion becomes part of the
corporate devotion of the Mystical Body
of Christ, which is together offered with
Christ’s own sacramental devotion to
His Father. This sacramental offering
becomes a universal act of the whole
Christ - a worthy act of adoration,
prayer, thanksgiving, atonement and
petition to the Most Blessed Trinity.
Dietrich von Hildebrand says that
“liturgical prayer means emerging
from the narrowness of one’s own
life and rejoining the Life of Christ and
the universal sphere of the praying
Church. It is an immersion into the
world of God.” We give our will to God
through love. No moral union among
men can endure unless it springs from
a supernatural principle of unity. The
Sacramental Christ throughout the
world is the unifying Principal of men.
Through it, the grace and peace of
God will forever rest upon the earth.
In 1899, Pope Leo XIII consecrated
the entire human race to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus. This solemn act was
the fulfillment of a command given
to a holy religious in Portugal. Christ
promised a great outpouring of graces
upon the world in return for this act
of homage. During the apparitions
at Fatima, Our Lady asked for the
consecration of the human race to her
Immaculate Heart and promised peace
for mankind in return for this act. The
Immaculate Heart is still waiting with
the patience of eternity. The promised
outpouring of graces will flow over
mankind and wash away the suffering,
misery and sins which cover the face
of the earth. There is a mighty force in
united prayer. Will the present scourge of purification
and universal suffering make mankind
acknowledge its humble need of Jesus
and Mary? Will the doctrines of the
Mystical Body of Christ and Mary’s
universal maternity and mediation of
grace find their realization in our own
times? We pray to see in our day:
The Eucharistic Reign of the
Heart of Jesus through the
Immaculate Heart of Mary!