Consecration

Introduction

1 O father, Son and Holy Spirit,

You are worthy of our glory.

I pray to you and bless your Name. .

With my angel I adore ye.

2. O loving and love worthy Father,

Almighty and eternal God,

Infinite and merciful,

To you the glory and majesty.

3. O Father, adorable and great,

With the angels I give you praise,

With the saints I bless you too,

With all beings I adore you.

Personal Consecration

4. O Father, I consecrate myself to you,

All my being and my person,

My life and my eternity,

What I am and what I do.

5. O Father, from all eternity,

You willed me and created me.

I belong to you forever,

Thought, desire, action, my all.

6. O Father, you are my Creator,

My Savior and my Sanctifier.

You have made of me your priest

To serve you in your holy Church.

7. O Father, you are total goodness.

All that I do, desire to do

Be first of all your holy will,

And may my will always be yours.

8. O Father, what you will is holy.

May I write no word at all,

May I speak no syllable,

Except inspired by your Spirit.

9. O Father, you are my Creator.

I only want to breathe the air

Except directed by your Spirit.

All my existence depends on you. 

10. O Father, Creator of all time,

Not a second belongs to me,

All my life belongs to you.

Nothing is mine and all is yours.

11. O Father, you possess all things,

Yours are my days, yours are my nights,

You gave them, lend them to me.

Now I return them all to you.

12. O Father, I dare to hope indeed

That what I return to you

May be richer thanks to you

For we have gathered it together.

13. O Father, abundant source of all,

Into your hands I give my all,

What is yours and what is mine,

For what is mine already is yours.

14. O Father, you consecrated us,

We’ve become your God-like children,

Resembling to your holiness,

Sons and co-heirs with the Christ.

15 Francis of Assisi said:

“Deus meus et omnia” (Actus 1),

That is, “My God and my all”,

Indeed, God suffices me.

Debts

16. O Father, I owe you everything.

All results do come from you.

I deserve no merit at all

For without you I can do nothing.

17. O Father, our debt is great:

We owe you our life and grace,

Our conversion and holiness,

And forgiveness of our millions.

18. O Father, never can we give you back

The million gifts from you received,

The million errors by you forgiven.

But everlasting is your love.

19. O Father, I am always your debtor.

I only have my debts to you.

My only duty: to give you thanks.

Please accept me as your servant.

20. O Father, goodness without limit,

But this duty also is joy

Which I sing eternally,

A joy which is lost in your love.

Consecration of the Daisy Movement

21. O Father, I consecrate to you

The entire Daisy Movement

All its Priests and all its Petals,

In as much as I can do.

22. O Father, thus I mean to say

All my promotion work to place

This movement on the Internet

All my work and all my prayers.

23. O Father, I give you thanks today

For my Daisies that pray for me,

For my ministry, my mission.

Thanks to them I work for you.

24. O Father, bless my Daisies please.

My sole desire is but to do

Your holy will in everything.

For outside it nothing has value.

25. O Father, bless my volunteers,

Who help me read and write.

I heartily entrust to you

These prayer partners and assistants.

26. O Father, source of holiness,

Source of love and source of life,

Sanctify your chosen priests,

Sanctify your holy people.

Consecration of the world, where we work

27. O Father, as much as we can do

We consecrate the world to you.

Your holiness can conquer all,

And nothing can resist to it.

28. O Father, this complicated world,

Without faith and without hope,

Is the venue where you place us.

Bestow on us your Holy Spirit.

29. O Father, please have mercy on us.

We are blind and obstinate.

And our pride is limitless.

We repeat old Babylon.

30. O Father, the world you have created,

The world is living without you,

The world that chooses death as master,

The world that ruins its very self…

31. O Father, sovereign goodness,

Your will divine is so discreet

And yet it is also so strong

That nothing can resist to it.

32. O Father, all creatures bear your name.

Your signature all over written

Reveals who is the Architect

And towards which goal you all direct.

33. O Father, the deep anxiety

Which enveloped society,

Your hand destroyed, annihilated

As if it were a sheet of paper.

34. O Father, through the word you spoke

Joy returned to earth with hope.

They arouse the human spirit

Aflame with the Holy Spirit.

Renewal

35. O Father, source of every bounty,

By your generosity, 

Your abundant grace let flow

And the earth will show its glow.

36. O Father, paradise restore

Destroy our sins and every sore.

Death itself will be no longer

Your plan divine will be prolonged.

37. O Father, bless the priests, the pope,

The cardinals and the bishops.

Claim for heaven what is yours.

Make this earth into a garden.

38. O Father, may we not be loosing

What you conceived at the beginning.

On earth your glory be full measure,

A hidden and recovered treasure.

39. O Father, the Virgin Mother Mary,

Leading all the saints and angels,

Rejoice in you, acclaim your Name.

All is renewed and now is pure.

40. O Father, friend of every man,

Equality and harmony

Have returned among all men.

The earth is new, the world is bright. 

41. O Father, you have made the Church

So that man there may adore you.

Our prayer and our work

Rise up to you as an incense.

42 O Father, universal King.

Heaven has come down on earth.

No more tears, no more sorrow.

Rich and poor are now united.

43. O Father, you love us as your children,

What a great discovery:

Truly, you made us your children,

Divine children, certainly.

Thanksgiving

44. O Father, holy yet so close,

We owe you our gratitude,

Eternity is not enough

To express it fittingly.

45. O Father, universal Master,

Our songs of gratitude resound

From East to West, from North to South,

And from everywhere rebound.

46. O Father, to you, our Benefactor,

With your Son and Holy Spirit,

Be splendour, glory and thanksgiving

And infinite gratefulness.

Francis de Ruijte, 2009 March 22,

Translated from the French by the author, completed 2009 June 14.

Document created: 2009 March 22.

Latest update:2009 July 3.