Many nations are consecrated to Mary

The Philippines is a Marian country. The image of the Blessed Mother is enthroned in a special place in every Catholic Church.

Many of the faithful have entrusted themselves to Mary by the imposition of the scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Immaculate Conception. Many schools and towns are named after the different titles accorded the Virgin Mary. And girls are named after Mary, too.

Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary lists 55 countries consecrated to the Blessed Mother, as reported in Internet reports. Ecuador was listed as the first country entrusted to the Blessed Mother in 1892. The Philippines was entrusted to her on June 8, 2013, then on May 4, 2018, according to Wikipedia. All the 21 dioceses of Portugal and 42 in Poland were also consecrated to the Blessed Mother.

On May 13, 1982, Pope Saint John Paul II, after the concelebrated Mass in Fatima consecrated the modern world to her.

“Mothers of individual and peoples, you know all their sufferings and hopes. … Embrace with the love of a mother and handmaid this human world of ours. … In a special way, we entrust and consecrate to you those individuals and nations which particularly need to be entrusted and consecrated.”

Pope Francis, too, consecrated too, the world to the Blessed Mother on October 13, 2013, in Vatican City. He said: “Hold our life in your arms. Bless and strengthen every desire for good, revive and nourish faith; sustain and enlighten hope; awaken and animate charity; guide all of us along the path of holiness… bring everyone under your protection and entrust everyone to your beloved son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.”

Corazon Damo-Santiago

Faculty member at the Mater Redemptoris Collegium in Calauan, Laguna, and of Mater Redemptoris College in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija.

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