The longawaited event of the consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Heart of Mary will take place today. He will take care of it Pope Francisbut all the bishops of the world will pray with him. Moscow Bishop Paolo Pezzi explained in an article in a subsidiary what this act means: “If it is true, as Dante says in his beautiful hymn to the Virgin, that Mary” is the living source of hope “, then devote our miserable hearts to her Immaculate Heart, but pulsating with the ultimate desire for happiness, it means not to put out the flame of thirst that is within us. ” And again: “The heart is open to God, purified through the contemplation of God stronger than guns and weapons All kinds “.
This act is also a response to the prayer of the Ukrainian bishops who, on March 2, asked “Your Holiness to make a public act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Ukraine and Russia, at the request of Our Lady of Fatima“To underline the importance of this event, Pezzi then cites Luigi Giussani, theologian and founder of the Communion and Liberation movement.
In his Subsidiary article, the bishop writes: “The consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary therefore becomes a request that the beginning of each day should be so for the Lord who embraces us and makes the soil fertile for our hearts. the fulfillment of his work in the world that he is victory over death and evil ““.
