Devotion to The Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart of Mary
​For many years this holy Franciscan Tertiary, Berthe Petit, while leading a life of hidden suffering in the world, a voluntary victim for the expiation of sin, received repeated revelations from Our Lord of His desire that the whole world should be publicly consecrated to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.
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“The world must be dedicated to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of My Mother as it is dedicated to Mine. Fear nothing, no matter what suffering and obstacles you may meet. Think only of fulfilling My will.”
Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
“The Heart of My Mother has a right to be called Sorrowful and I wish this title to be placed before that of Immaculate because she has won it herself. The Church has defined in the case of My Mother what I Myself had ordained—her Immaculate Conception.
This right which My Mother has to a title of justice is now, according to My express wish, to be known and universally accepted. She has earned it by her identification with My sorrows, by her sufferings, by her sacrifices and by her immolation on Calvary, endured in perfect correspondence with My grace for the salvation of mankind.
In her co-redemption lies the nobility of My Mother and for this reason I ask for the invocation which I have demanded be approved and spread throughout the whole Church. It has already obtained many graces; it will obtain yet more when the Church will be exalted and the world renewed through its consecration to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of My Mother.”
- Jesus Christ
Messages From Our Lord Jesus Christ
“It is through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of My Mother that I will triumph, because having cooperated in the redemption of souls, this Heart has the right to share a similar cooperation in the manifestations of My justice and of My love. My Mother is noble in everything but she is especially so in her wounded Heart, transfixed by the wound of Mine.”
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"The time has now arrived when I wish mankind to turn to the Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart of my Mother. Let this prayer be uttered by every soul: ‘Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us’ so that it may spread as a refreshing & purifying balm of reparation that will appease my anger.”
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“You must think of my Mother’s Heart as you think of Mine; live in this Heart as you seek to live in Mine; give yourself to this Heart as you give yourself to Mine. You must spread the Love of this Heart so wholly united to Mine.”
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“This devotion to the Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart of my Mother will restore faith & hope to broken hearts & to ruined families. It will help to repair the destruction. It will sweeten sorrow. It will be a new strength for my church, bringing souls, not only to confidence in my Heart, but also to abandonment to the Sorrowful Heart of my Mother.”
Messages From Our Sorrowful Mother
on September 17, 1910, the Mother herself appeared to Berthe and revealed in a symbolic way the bodily martyrdom that she suffered at the foot of the Cross. Berthe saw her brow wounded and bleeding and her hands and heart pierced. She then said:
“Now you can understand the sorrows which my Heart endured and the sufferings of my whole being for the salvation of the world.”
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At a Holy Hour devotion during the night of March 24-25, 1912, the eve of the feast of the Annunciation, the Blessed Virgin spoke again to Berthe of her Sorrowful Heart:
“I am called the Immaculate Conception. With you, I call myself the Mother of the Sorrowful Heart. This title that my Son wants is the dearest to me of all my titles and it is through it that shall be granted and spread everywhere, graces of mercy, spiritual renewal and salvation.”
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Our Lady later showed her in a vision an untold multitude of every race and color, sick and suffering, all praying with arms raised to heaven. Some were physically healed, others, touched by grace, fell on their knees. “It seemed a regeneration of the whole world,” said Berthe.
Consecration to the Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart of Mary
Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart of Mary, dwelling pure & holy, cover my soul with thy maternal protection so that being ever faithful to the voice of Jesus, it responds to His love & obeys His Divine Will.
I wish, O, my Mother, to keep unceasingly before me thy Co-redemption in order to live intimately with thy Heart that is totally united to the Heart of thy Divine Son.
Fasten me to this Heart by thine own virtues and sorrows. Protect me always.
Fiat & Amen.
Drawing in the Vision of the 2 Hearts Fused Together
On Easter Sunday, 1910, while in Rome, Berthe again saw the Hearts of Jesus and Mary fused with one another under the wing of a dove. This time she heard these words: “What I desire derives from what I did on Calvary. In giving John to My Mother for her son, I confided the whole world to her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.” Our Lord then bade her to make the drawing of the vision of the two Hearts, adding: “I will guide your hand.” A few months later, she received a further communication from Jesus: “I desire that the picture for which I guided your hand should be widely diffused as well as the invocation ‘Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.’"