The Immaculata prayer is a
Traditional Catholic
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Marian
Marian may refer to:
People
* Mari people, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group in Russia
* Marian (given name), a list of people with the given name
* Marian (surname), a list of people so named
Places
* Marian, Iran (disambiguation)
* Marian, Queenslan ...
prayer composed by Saint
Maximillian Kolbe
Maximilian Maria Kolbe (born Raymund Kolbe; pl, Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; 1894–1941) was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp ...
.
It is a prayer of consecration to the
Immaculata
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.
It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, meaning that it is held to be a divinely revealed truth wh ...
, i.e. the
immaculately conceived Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother o ...
.
The consecration prayer is as follows:
A shorter version of the prayer can be used for the daily renewal of the consecration:
[Aquilina, Michael, 2000. ''Book of Catholic Devotions'' page 194]
References
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Bibliography
* University of Dayton Marian prayer
* Consecration.co
* Women for Faith and Famil
Marian devotions