Therefore, Mother Mary, we come to you in the raging storm which the Prince of Darkness has unleashed. You see how millions of your Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant children have been deeply wounded, perverted or dehumanised, or suffer still under the terror of atheists, who wish to tear down the Almighty from His throne and destroy His Kingdom in the hearts of the faithful. You see how millions of refugees have been uprooted and are in danger of losing all hope. You see how in the Third World countless exploited millions are stranded on the shores of our selfishness. And you see how the smoke of Satan has seeped even as far as the Holy of the Holies; how the storm of confusion is battering even in the safest haven in God’s Church. Even the elect are torn from their moorings and away from God. You see how priests of all rank and dignity have lost their bearings and are sabotaging the course set by Peter, wrecking his barque in the midst of the foaming waters. And Jesus sleeps.

Mother, if even the Apostles lost their courage in the storm, you will understand our fear. Tell your Son to heed our cry of help: “Lord, save us, for we perish!” Yes, Mother, we are afraid in the face of the confusion, the division and the unfaithfulness to God, which are now spreading like a plague throughout the Church. Is not the rift that divides the People of God a collective sin against the Holy Spirit? Do you not see, Mother, that the strivings for unity with our separated brethren and the efforts to preach the old Faith in a new way go hand in hand with boundless excesses which are inflicting incalculable damage on the unity, peace, tranquillity of conscience and loyalty to their Faith of countless Catholics? What we are now witnessing is not a crisis of growth, but a real decay; not the springtime with all its promise, but the dark autumn; not the bursting forth of new life, but the wholesale fall of dead branches and dry shoots that have lost all contact with the vine that is Christ. Instead of permeating the world with the leaven of Gospel, innumerable Christians allow themselves to be thrown into turmoil by the leaven of the world, even though Christ has unequivocally broken with this world.

Mother, now that the need is greatest and the powers of darkness seem to have free rein, we come to you with childlike trust and implore your powerful aid. Now, swept away and rudderless on the tempest of this age, we place ourselves, together with the whole of disfigured humanity and our organisation for the Church in need, in your maternal hands. We consecrate ourselves to you, dear Virgin of Fatima. Preserve us in the love of your Son, protect us from the evil of this world and lead us safe to the heart of God. And grant, Mother, when we have passed through death’s dark gate and stand before the Judgement Seat of your Son, that we may find you there with a smile in your eyes, and be able to say without fear: “Here we are, Mother”.

For consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Father Werenfried asked his benefactors to say the following prayer which is recommended by the Church:

Virgin of Fatima, Mother of Mercy, Queen of heaven and earth, refuge of sinners, we consecrate ourselves in a very special way to your Immaculate Heart. By this act of consecration we intend to live with you and through you the obligations assumed by our baptismal consecration. We further pledge to bring about in ourselves that interior conversion so urgently demanded by the Gospel, a conversion that shall free us of every attachment to ourselves and to easy compromises with the world, so that, like you, we may be available only to the will of the Father. To you we wish to entrust, Mother most sweet and merciful, our Christian existence and vocation, so that you may dispose of us for your designs of salvation in this hour of decision that weights on the world. We pledge to live according to your desires, especially as it pertains to a renewed spirit of prayer and apostolate, fervent participation in the celebration of the Eucharist and in the apostolate, the daily recitation of the rosary, and an austere manner of life, in keeping with the Gospel, that shall be to everyone an example of observance of the law of God, and the practice of the Christian virtues, especially of purity. We further promise you to be united with the Holy Father, the hierarchy and our priests, so as to set up a bulwark against the movement of dissent against the magisterium that threatens the very foundation of the Church. Under your protection we wish to be apostles of this sorely needed unity of prayer and of love for as much as possible, souls with whom we come in contact to a renewed devotion to you.

We are mindful that atheism has caused shipwreck in the faith to a great number of the faithful, that desecration has entered into the holy temple of God, that the flood of evil and sin spreads wider over the world. With confidence, we raise our eyes to you, Mother of Jesus and our merciful and powerful Mother, Today we again invoke salvation for all your children, and we await it from you alone, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.