Envelop this island on all sides

We beseech and pray thee, holy Mary, to accept today the total and irrevocable consecration of Ireland to thy maternal and immaculate Heart.  Let the power of thy intercession envelop this island on all sides; let thy protecting mantle cover it from east to west and from north to south.  Open thou thy grace–dispensing hands over Ireland: let mercy fall upon us like a gentle rain to soften every heart hardened against thy Son and against His bride, the Church.  By thy all-powerful supplication obtain for Ireland the sanctification of our bishops and priests, a new flowering of consecrated life, and the opening of every home to the healing love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the blessed fruit of thy womb.

O thou who, in the mystery of thy glorious Assumption, comest forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array, deliver Ireland from the pernicious encroachments of the culture of death, from the deceptions of materialism, and from all of Satan’s temptations and empty promises.

Immaculate Queen of Ireland, who at Knock didst deign to manifest thy unfailing intercession in a mysterious silence, visit us again in these dark days of a great hunger not for bread, but for the Word of God, and draw all who dwell in this island to the altars of the Lamb who was slain, there to be nourished with the living Bread come down from heaven, in the brightness of the one true faith that confesses, now as always, the glory of the Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  Amen.