Dr. Benjamin Carson Speaks at National Prayer Breakfast – Much to the Chagrin of Mr. Obama
O holy and Immaculate Mary, my Queen, Spiritual Mother and Mystical Spouse, I hereby renew, this day, my solemn consecration to you and to your most Immaculate Heart, entrusting to you, wholly and without reserve, all that I am and all that I possess. For, you are the Mediatrix of all grace and mercy, and nothing of the vast treasury of God's grace and mercy reaches humanity except through your loving, maternal and willed intercession. Through my espousal of and consecration to your Immaculate Heart, may our two hearts become so perfectly united as to become one, in order that through, with and in you, O holy Mary, my poor heart might become ever more perfectly united with the Sacred Heart of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Thus, in imitation of your Co-redemptive participation with Christ, O holy Mary, and exercising the royal priesthood that was bestowed upon me at the moment of my Baptism into Christ's Mystical Body, which is the Church, I place my little heart on the altar of your Immaculate Heart as an oblation. I beg of you, O holy Mother, to unite my heart, my works, prayers and sufferings of this day and of my whole life, past, present and future, to the perfect offering of your Divine Son; the same perfect offering of Christ that occurred 2000 years ago on Mt. Calvary at Golgotha, which is renewed in an unbloody fashion on all the alters, in all the Catholic Churches throughout the world, in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in a profound and unceasing act of adoration, glorification, gratitude, expiation, reparation and supplication to the Most Holy Trinity, and for the conversion and salvation of souls. Amen.

"The Madonna in Sorrow" by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (1609–1685)