Bishops of Poland Renew Consecration of the Country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as was Done in 1920 - FULL TEXT Prayer and VIDEO



Bishops Conference of Poland Press release:
Just like a hundred years ago, we humbly dedicate ourselves to Your Sacred Heart, giving our Homeland to You, said the chairman of the Polish Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, reading the Act of Consecration of the Polish Nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the 100th anniversary of this event. 
 On June 11, 2021, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, during the Holy Mass at. 18 in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Krakow, the Act of Consecration of the Polish Nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was renewed. 
 Holy Mass was chaired by Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, chairman of the Polish Bishops' Conference, who also renewed the Act. “We entrust to you our entire personal, family and social life, which we wish to base on the solid principles of the Gospel. Like a hundred years ago, we humbly dedicate ourselves to Your Sacred Heart, giving our Homeland to You, ”said the President of the Episcopate when reading the Act.


“Jesus, make our hearts like Your Heart, so that we may lose our lives in the service of the most needy, the weakest and the defenseless. During the difficult time of the pandemic, lead us to the sick and the elderly, and to those who mourn their dead. Open our hearts to those who have been painfully wounded in the community of the Church, so that, thanks to Your grace, their wounds may heal and they may have peace again, ”we read in the Act.

Father Jarosław Paszyński SJ, Provincial of the Southern Poland Province of the Society of Jesus, drew attention in the homily of the Holy Mass. to the fact that "The Heart of Jesus is the heart of the Church". “The cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus highlights what is the heart of the Church - God's love for us and our response to this love, following the example of Jesus' love. St. John Paul II called it the civilization of the Heart of Christ, the civilization of love, ”he said. He added that in building this civilization a program of spiritual formation that includes three things: adoration, communion and reparation can be helpful.

The Eucharist was attended by bishops gathered at the 389th Plenary Meeting of the Polish Bishops' Conference, which is held from 11 to 12 June 2021 in the Archdiocese of Krakow.

On July 27, 1920, at Jasna Góra, the Polish Episcopate consecrated the homeland to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This act was repeated a year later in Krakow, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on the occasion of the consecration of the temple.

We publish the full text of the Act:

RENEWAL
OF THE ACT OF DONATION OF
THE POLISH NATION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

Our Lord Jesus Christ,

Today, as a hundred years ago, we gather in the temple dedicated to the honor of Your Sacred Heart in Krakow. In the person of their pastors, people of consecrated life and faithful, the nation and the Church in Poland stand before you to solemnly renew the act of dedication to your Sacred Heart.

Like our ancestors on the threshold of independence, we also commend the Church and the Homeland to you today, thanking you for the gift of freedom. Giving ourselves to Your Sacred Heart, we ask: Your kingdom come! And in the wake of St. With John Paul II we cry: “Let Your Spirit descend and renew the face of the earth. This land! ”.

In the face of Your mercy, we confess our individual and social sins with repentance. We apologize for the lack of respect for life, including the weakest one, hidden under the mother's heart. We apologize for the sins of sexual abuse of minors, especially committed by some clergy and the related sins of neglect of their superiors. We apologize for addictions and addictions, for privacy, partying, aggression and inability to dialogue. We apologize for the lack of reverence for what is sacred, including attempts to treat religion instrumentally.

Aware of our shortcomings and weaknesses - facing new and difficult challenges for the Church and the Fatherland - we confidently cry out: Open our eyes, heal sick hearts, wash what is dirty, give the grace of conversion and penance! Free us from mutual hatred and contempt, from the spirit of discord and hurtful division. Give us enlightened eyes of the heart, so that we stop seeing each other's enemies and see our fellow household members - in your home and also in this house called Poland. Give us the grace of sincere love for you, for the Church, for the homeland and for each other. Instill in us the spirit of universal brotherhood.

Jesus, make our hearts like Your Heart, so that we may lose our lives in the service of the most needy, the weakest and the defenseless. During the difficult time of the pandemic, lead us to the sick and the elderly, and to those who mourn their dead. Open our hearts to those who have been painfully wounded in the community of the Church, so that, thanks to Your grace, their wounds may be healed and they may have peace again.

Make Polish families find a source of unity and renewal in your loving heart. May they be focal points of love and peace, free from betrayal, aggression and violence, open to accepting a new life and capable of transmitting the faith to new generations. Open the hearts of young people so that their enthusiasm, strength of faith and witness to hope may renew the community of the Church.

Teach us to contemplate what you have created. Teach us to care for a beautiful and undamaged earth so that - as a gift from you - we can pass it on to those who will come after us.

We entrust to you our entire personal, family and social life, which we wish to base on the solid principles of the Gospel. Just like a hundred years ago, we humbly dedicate ourselves to Your Sacred Heart, entrusting our Homeland to You.

With confidence we cry out: Glory be to Your Sacred Heart, with whom You love us so much and through which the path to our salvation leads. Amen.

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