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Very regrettable that they should say "the Consecration of Russia to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary", which Our Lady certainly never asked for. Theological objections can be made to putting these two adjectives together, as one refers to Our Lady's life on earth - the Seven Sorrows - and one to a now eternal and absolute privilege. The Immaculate Heart is not sorrowful in Heaven! Just as it would be wrong to refer to the "Suffering Sacred Heart".After Cardinal Mercier had granted an indulgence for Belgium for the invocation "Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us", he wrote to Pope Pius X, asking him to grant a universal indulgence. He received a coldly worded refusal, with an implicit criticism of the Cardinal's own local indulgence. The Pope gave no reason, and Pius XI granted an indulgence after the First World War, but the apparent allocutions of Our Lord to Berthe Petit, from which this devotion originates, are certainly open to criticism, reflecting themes of unjustified anti-German propaganda found in the Belgian yellow press during WWI.It's interesting that two organisations which consecrated themselves to the "Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary" both went into misfortune, the Blue Army of Fatima and the Little Pebble cult. The SSPX first consecrated itself to this in 1982 or 83, just at the time when Archbishop Lefebvre resigned as Superior General and the first moves seem to have been made towards the present disastrous policy.