Such meditation on the prayer of consecration is a perfect preparation for Consecration Day. Now get ready for a gloriously new morning in your spiritual life. See explanation of the miraculous medal in the Appendix. Again, these three things are recommendations. You can use either the one that follows, one from the saints, or one that you write yourself. With or without Mass, after you recite the consecration prayer, I suggest that you sign it, date it, and keep it in a safe place.
When I renew my consecration annually, I like to recite the prayer from the original copy and then sign and date it again. With you, O immaculate Mother — you who always do the will of God — I unite myself to the perfect consecration of Jesus as he offers himself in the Spirit to the Father for the life of the world. Lots of grace and a gloriously new morning! But as morning turns into day, we may begin to wonder how we should live out our consecration.
Do we just make it once and then forget about it? The following three points will help us live it out to the full: renewal, attitude, and devotion. Pope John Paul renewed his consecration to Mary every day. For daily renewal, we can use the same full formula that we recite on Consecration Day or we can pray a shorter version such as this one: Mary, my Mother, I give myself totally to you as your possession and property. Another way to renew and even deepen our Marian consecration is by making this retreat, 33 Days to Morning Glory, with a group or groups from your parish.
The group retreat, which includes a retreat companion and accompanying DVD, is a great way to enrich our understanding of Marian consecration. The group retreat also happens to be the first stage of an evangelization and faith-formation initiative called Hearts Afire: Parish-based Programs from the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.
To learn more about this group retreat, see the information pages at the end of this book. This is difficult to explain fully, and it will vary from person to person. Even our four saints differ in the way they express it. Still, they share the essentials. He believes we need to enter into the spirit of consecration, which requires an interior dependence on Mary. In this way, we pursue our interior life and make spiritual progress only in dependence on Mary. She alone must instruct each one of us at every moment, [and] lead us ….
Also, Kolbe would say that our consecration to Mary should give us an apostolic spirit that seeks to inspire others to make the consecration. Moreover, the context for her entire consecration is found in a kind of compassion on Jesus who thirsts for love and for souls. He does this when he points out that she who was most fully united to Christ in his redemptive consecration of himself on the Cross helps us to unite ourselves to this same consecration.
Having said this, being consecrated to Mary is not based on feelings or even a constant mindfulness of Mary, as beautiful as such mindfulness is.
So it is with us when Mary is in our hearts. Rather, they form a unity and work as a team — though with different roles — to bring all back to the Father. After all, deep relationships require communication and work, and this definitely applies to our relationship with Mary. However, it does mean that we should have a sincere resolution to avoid at least all mortal sin and that we should truly strive to grow in virtue and holiness. Such is the power of her motherhood.
Such is the power of Marian consecration! Because of the greatness of this gift, we should strive all the more to unite ourselves with Mary and aim to do everything through her, with her, and in her. At least out of gratitude, we should make it our aim to have an attitude of growing mindfulness and dependence on her. Yet there should be more at work here than just trying to be grateful to Mary. Indeed, the more we unite ourselves to Mary the more she can bring us into the deepest possible intimacy with Jesus.
Preeminent among these is the Rosary. The Rosary fosters in us the attitude that I just described in the previous section. When we pray the Rosary, our focus should be on the mysteries of the life of Jesus. For a full treatment of the Rosary, see the Appendix. Marian devotions not treated in the Appendix but that deserve mention and a brief description here are novenas, icons, pilgrimages, and feast days.
Novenas tend to convey a sense of urgency. Prayed every day for nine days, the prayer can be as simple as a single Hail Mary or as elaborate as the Litany of Loreto.
Mother Teresa would often pray this novena whenever big problems or difficulties arose that needed an immediate dose of great grace. Icons, or any tasteful images or representations of Jesus, Mary, the angels, or the saints, serve to turn our minds and hearts to God as they remind us of his presence and the loving intercession of Mary, the angels, and the saints.
In , the Second Council of Nicea declared that holy images including those of Mary are to be used and venerated. When we venerate an image be it a picture, statue, etc. In our busy lives, placing pictures of Mary in our homes and even in our cars remind us that she is always with us. We can also keep our favorite prayer cards in a pocket or purse.
Pilgrimages lead us from the everyday rhythm and distraction of life to a graced place of prayer and encounter with the Lord. There are many Marian shrines and pilgrimage destinations around the U. Those who are consecrated to Mary should celebrate her feast days with particular fervor and love.
It originates from an apparition of Mary to St. Catherine Laboure, a French nun, living in Paris. The specific apparition that has to do with the miraculous medal occurred on November 27, In that vision of November 27, St. Catherine saw Mary standing on a half-globe with a serpent crushed beneath her feet and her hands bejeweled with rings, holding a small golden globe with a cross on it.
Bright light shown from some of the jewels on her fingers. The cross stood on a horizontal bar. Those who wear it will receive great graces, especially if they wear it around the neck. She crushes Satan, who is helpless before her, under her foot Gen Her arms are open, and the many rays of light are graces that she obtains for those who request them.
The horizontal bar represents the earth. The two hearts are those of Jesus and Mary, burning with love for us all. The miraculous medal received liturgical approbation special recognition and approval for public prayer at the direction of Aloisi Cardinal Masella, Prefect of the Sacred Congregations of Rites, in One of the most famous conversions happened to Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Jewish atheist, on January 20, He despised the Church and the Catholic faith, especially since his older brother, Theodor, converted to Catholicism and became a Catholic priest.
On a dare from a Catholic friend, Baron de Bussieres, Ratisbonne began to wear the miraculous medal and to recite the Memorare prayer to prove the fruitlessness of what he thought were just the ridiculous superstitions of the Catholic religion.
Andrea delle Fratte in Rome, where the Baron had some business to attend to. I saw her! I looked up and found that the rest of the building had disappeared. One single chapel seemed to have gathered all the light and concentrated it in itself.
In the midst of this radiance I saw someone standing on the altar, a lofty shining figure, all majesty and sweetness, the Virgin Mary just as she looks in this medal. Some irresistible force drew me towards her. She motioned to me to kneel down and when I did so, she seemed to approve. Though she never said a word, I understood her perfectly. He later moved to the Holy Land with his brother Theodor and founded a congregation of sisters — the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion — to pray for the conversion of the Jews.
Later, another devotee of Mary and the miraculous medal, St. Maximilian Kolbe, celebrated his first Mass in the same church in Rome, before the same painting. Apparently, in January of , while he was still a seminarian in Rome, Kolbe had heard a talk on the conversion of Ratisbonne. These young men consecrated their lives totally and unconditionally to Mary for the sake of their own sanctification and the conversion of souls. All members of the MI now wear the miraculous medal as a sign of their total consecration to Mary and distribute it so that Mary may work wonders of grace in the lives of others.
As he left this world, Christ gave to his Mother a man, a human being, to be like a son for her: John. He entrusted him to her. And, as a consequence of this giving and entrusting, Mary became the mother of John. The Mother of God became the Mother of man. And in John every human being became her child. These places, sometimes radiate their light over a great distance and draw people from afar. Their radiance may extend over a diocese, a whole nation, or at times over several countries and even continents.
These places are the Marian sanctuaries or shrines. His own problems and those of others. Is not this the case with the shrine at Lourdes, in France? At Fatima these words resound; as one particular echo of the experiences not only of the Portuguese nation but also of so many other countries and peoples on this earth: indeed, they echo the experience of modern mankind as a whole, the whole of the human family. I seemed to recognize in the coincidence of the dates a special call to come to this place.
And so, today I am here. I have come in order to thank Divine Providence in this place which the Mother of God seems to have chosen in a particular way. Spiritual Motherhood 5. Motherhood means caring for the life of the child. Since Mary is the mother of us all, her care for the life of man is universal. The care of a mother embraces her child totally. In Christ, at the foot of the Cross, she accepted John, and in John she accepted all of us totally.
Mary embraces us all with special solicitude in the Holy Spirit. It is he who gives the fullness of life, open towards eternity. Convert and Repent 6. The Church evaluates and judges private revelations by the criterion of conformity with that single public Revelation. If the Church has accepted the message of Fatima, it is above all because that message contains a truth and a call whose basic content is the truth and the call of the Gospel itself.
The message of Fatima is, in its basic nucleus, a call to conversion and repentance, as in the Gospel. This call was uttered at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it was thus addressed particularly to this present century. The call to repentance is linked, as always, with a call to prayer. She herself prays with us.
The rosary prayer embraces the problems of the Church, of the See of Saint Peter, the problems of the whole world. In it we also remember sinners, that they may be converted and saved, and the souls in Purgatory.
The words of the message were addressed to children aged from seven to ten. Children, like Bernadette of Lourdes, are particularly privileged in these apparitions of the Mother of God. Hence the fact that also her language is simple, within the limits of their understanding. The children of Fatima became partners in dialogue with the Lady of the message and collaborators with her. One of them is still living. The solicitude of the Mother of the Savior is solicitude for the work of salvation: the work of her Son.
It is solicitude for the salvation, the eternal salvation, of all. Now that sixty-five years have passed since that 13 May , it is difficult to fail to notice how the range of this salvific love of the Mother embraces, in a particular way, our century. The deliberate blotting out of God from the world of human thought. The rejection of God by man. In reality, the eternal salvation of man is only in God.
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It sounds like John the Baptist speaking on the banks of the Jordan. It invites to repentance. It gives a warning. It calls to prayer. It recommends the Rosary. The message is addressed to every human being. Her care extends to every individual of our time, and to all societies, nations, and peoples. Societies menaced by apostasy, threatened by moral degradation. The collapse of morality involves the collapse of societies. Meaning of Consecration 8.
That pierced heart became a sign of the redemption achieved through the death of the Lamb of God. This Fountain pours forth unceasingly redemption and grace. In it reparation is made continually for the sins of the world. It is a ceaseless source of new life and holiness. Consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of the Mother means returning beneath the Cross of the Son. The Heart of the Mother is aware of this, more than any other heart in the whole universe, visible and invisible.
And so she calls us. She not only calls us to be converted: she calls us to accept her motherly help to return to the source of Redemption.
Consecrating ourselves to Mary means accepting her help to offer ourselves and the whole world to Him who is Holy, infinitely Holy; it means accepting her help by having recourse to her motherly Heart, which beneath the Cross was opened to love for every human being, for the whole world in order to offer the whole world, the individual human being, mankind as a whole, and all the nations to Him who is infinitely Holy.
By the power of the redemption the world and man have been consecrated to Him who is infinitely Holy. They have been offered and entrusted to Love itself, merciful Love. The Mother of Christ calls us, invites us to join with the Church of the living God in the consecration of the world, in this act of confiding by which the world, mankind as a whole, the nations, and each individual person are presented to the Eternal Father with the power of the Redemption won by Christ.
They are offered in the Heart of the Redeemer which was pierced on the Cross. Rooted in the Gospel The appeal of the Lady of the message of Fatima is so deeply rooted in the Gospel and the whole of Tradition that the Church feels that the message imposes a commitment on her. She has responded through the Servant of God Pius XII whose episcopal ordination took place precisely on 13 May : he consecrated the human race and especially the Peoples of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Was not that consecration his response to the evangelical eloquence of the call of Fatima? Many Going Astray Today, John Paul II, successor of Peter, continuer of the work of Pius, John, and Paul, and particular heir of the Second Vatican Council, presents himself, reading again with trepidation the motherly call to penance, to conversion, the ardent appeal of the Heart of Mary that resounded at Fatima sixty-five years ago.
Yes, he reads it again with trepidation in his heart, because he sees how many people and societies — how many Christians — have gone in the opposite direction to the one indicated in the message of Fatima. Sin has thus made itself firmly at home in the world, and denial of God has become widespread in the ideologies, ideas and plans of human beings.
It is still more relevant than it was sixty-five years ago. It is still more urgent. The successor of Peter presents himself here also as a witness to the immensity of human suffering, a witness to the almost apocalyptic menaces looking over the nations and mankind as a whole. My heart is oppressed when I see the sin of the world and the whole range of menaces gathering like a dark cloud over mankind, but it also rejoices with hope as I once more do what has been done by my Predecessors, when they consecrated the world to the Heart of the Mother, when they consecrated especially to that Heart those peoples which particularly need to be consecrated.
Doing this means consecrating the world to Him who is infinite Holiness. This Holiness means redemption. It means a love more powerful than evil. Once more this act is being done. It must be unceasingly returned to. It must ever be taken up anew. Faith of the Church This is the faith by which the Church lives. This is the faith by which the People of God makes its journey. The heart of the Bride and Mother which was opened beneath the Cross by the word of her Son to a great new love for man and the world.
The Heart of the Bride and Mother which is aware of all the sufferings of individuals and societies on earth. The People of God is a pilgrim along the ways of this world in an eschatological direction. They it is that constitute the temporal setting of our pilgrimage. Rev We cannot ignore it. Truly indeed, you are blessed. Yes, here and throughout the Church, in the heart of every individual and in the world as a whole, may you be blessed, O Mary, our sweet Mother.
Each celebration tells us something special about Mary and helps us to remember that she put God first in her life and always lived with love. She stayed with Jesus through his suffering and death and held him in her arms when he was taken down from the cross. October 7—Our Lady of the Rosary The feast celebrates the victory of European Christians who were outnumbered in a battle against an invading navy over years ago.
Before and during the fighting, Christians prayed the Rosary and asked Mary to help them be triumphant. The Christians defeated their much stronger enemy. Pope Pius V established this feast soon after. Today we pray the Rosary as a way of reflecting on the main events in the life of Jesus and Mary. As we pray, we can ask Mary to help us live as followers of Jesus.
When Mary was three years old, her parents took her to the temple in Jerusalem to be blessed and to dedicate Mary to loving and serving God always. Through the gift of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit lives in us. From the first moment of her life, Mary was free from sin. All human beings, except Mary, are born with original sin. God kept Mary free from this condition. This gift was a special grace that prepared Mary to be the Mother of God.
Mary spoke lovingly to Juan. She asked him to go to the bishop to tell him that she wanted him to build a church on the place where she was standing. This bishop did not believe Juan. Juan asked Mary for a sign that would convince the bishop. Mary told Juan to go to a certain place where roses were blooming. We have, then, the thought of the Church on the Most Blessed Virgin.
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