Immaculate Heart of Mary, Be Our Salvation

From the website, The Sacred Heart:

FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY - Saturday after the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - The feast springs from contemporary piety but has its roots in the Marian apostolate of St. John Eudes (1680), and outstanding apostle of devotion to the the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. After repeated requests and repeated refusals between 1669 and 1729, on December 8, 1942, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima, Pope Pius XII dedicated the Church and the human race to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He placed the feast on August 22 and extended it to the entire Latin Church. It has now been moved closer to the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus always falling on the Saturday after the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Both this blog and my book, The Rosary Workout, are dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  Every morning, as soon as I wake up, I consecrate my family to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart with this prayer:

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, I give myself and my family to you [add names of your family members].  And to show our devotion this day we consecrate to you our eyes, our ears, our hearts, our minds, our entire beings without reserve.  Wherefore dear Mother and sweet Jesus, as we are your own, guide us and keep us always as your property and possession.  Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Be Our Salvation!

Related websites:
- Lots of great links and prayers at TheSacredHeart.com
- Many beautiful prayers, novenas and chaplets to the Immaculate Heart at 2HeartsNetwork
- History and nature of the devotion to the Immaculate Heart at the Catholic Encyclopedia