National Launching Movement for the Dogmatic definition of Mary’s Universal mediation of Grace
On behalf of the Convenor Bishops, of the Movement for the Dogmatic definition of Mary’s universal mediation of Grace, namely: Ricardo Cardinal Vidal (Cebu), Abp. Jose Palma (Cebu), Abp. Angel Lagdameo (Jaro), and Bp. Camilo Gregorio (Batanes), Bp. Jose Colin Bagaforo, Bp. Antonio Rañola (Cebu), and in the presence of brother bishops present here today, namely, Abp. Romulo Valles (Davao), Bp. Antonieto Cabajog (Surigao), Bp. George Rimando (Davao), and Mons. Carlito Garcia (Kidapawan), together with the seed groups of crusaders of prayer and consecration of the movement, the Clergy and Religious and all the faithful devotees of Mary Mediatrix of all Grace.
I, Guillermo Afable, Bishop of the Diocese of Digos, do hereby launch today, on the feast of the Queenship of Mary, on this 64th Patronal Fiesta of Mary Mediatrix of All Grace Cathedral Parish, the revival of the Movement for the Dogmatic definition of Mary’s Universal mediation of Grace. We entrust this spiritual journey of the Mediatrix movement to the maternal care, protection, and guidance of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit.
St. Louis Marie Grignon de Monfort, pray for us.
St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.
St. John Paul II, pray for us.
San Isidro Labrador, pray for us.
May I now request you all to join our voices together in supplication to God, through the intercession of Mary our Mother, that He may grant to us if it is His will, the fulfillment of the movement’s objectives.
PRAYER: O Lord, Jesus Christ, our Mediator with the Father, who has appointed the most Blessed Virgin, Your Mother to be our Mother also and our Mediatrix before You; grant that whosoever draws near to You to beseech any benefit, may receive all things through Her and rejoice. You who lives and reigns with God the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever, Amen.
(From the liturgical feast of Mary Mediatrix of all graces instituted by Pope Benedict XV 1921).
PRAYER OF PETITION. O Ever-Virgin Mother of God and Mediatrix of Grace who are the House of Gold within which dwells your Son, our Mediator, Jesus Christ, we humbly beseech you to grant our request for our salvation and the salvation of the entire world.
- For you dear Mother to prepare and dispose us to experience your maternal mediation of grace.
- For the speedy dogmatization of your universal mediation of grace through the positive response of all bishops of the world leading to a definitive declaration of the Holy Father.
- For our own personal intentions (make your request)
Keep us close and faithful to the Vicar of your Son, in the unity of the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church. Hear our prayers and grant the requests we make to you as we pray this consecration.
I, (name), a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today in your hands the vows of Baptism; I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before.
In the presence of all the Heavenly Court, I choose you this day for my mother and queen. I deliver and consecrate to you, as your slave, my body and soul, my goods both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions – past, present and future – leaving to you the entire and full right of disposing of me and all that belongs to me without exception, according to your good pleasure, for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.
Issued and signed in the Mary Mediatrix of all Grace Cathedral, Digos City, Davao del Sur, on the Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and on the 64th Patronal Fiesta, August 22, 2015.
Guillermo D. Afable, D.D.
Bishop of Digos
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