July 21, 1973
“(…) Why do you become troubled? Why are you worried? To be consecrated to Me means to let yourself be led by Me. It means to entrust yourself to Me, like a child who lets itself be led by its mother.
You must therefore accustom yourself to a new way of thinking, to a new way of acting. It is not your place to think of what is best for you; do not be making plans or building your tomorrow, for, you see, I upset everything and then you feel bad.
Why do you not wish to entrust yourself to Me? Let it be I who build-moment by moment-your future. It is enough for you to say just as a little child ‘Mother, I entrust myself to You, I let myself be led by You. Tell me: what must I do?’
And also, let it be I who act through you: for this, how necessary it is for you to die to yourself!
For this it is necessary that you accustom yourself to suffer: to be misunderstood, to be ignored, to be even trampled on a bit. This hurts you quite a bit, does it not?
But when you speak to the Priests of the Movement concerning the consecration, tell them how they must rely totally on Me and entrust themselves to Me; then they will be able to look to your person and you yourself will be a good example for them.
Do not take it too hard, my son: I love you, I love you so very much!”
If our goal is to be totally united to God…starting here and now, then consecrating ourselves and following one who we know without a doubt has already accomplished this should be a no brainer. With her Mother’s heart, Mary not only loves Jesus but she loves each one of us with that abundant motherly concern and wants to bring each one of us into the fold. When she wants to act through us, it isn’t to fulfill any other will other than Jesus’ Himself. You don’t need her? Check your pride.
Wholly united with her Son … 964 Mary’s role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it. “This union of the mother with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ’s virginal conception up to his death”;[504]
it is made manifest above all at the hour of his Passion: Thus the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross. There she stood, in keeping with the divine plan, enduring with her only begotten Son the intensity of his suffering, joining herself with his sacrifice in her mother’s heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim, born of her: to be given, by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross, as a mother to his disciple, with these words: “Woman, behold your son.”[505]
965 After her Son’s Ascension, Mary “aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers.”[506] In her association with the apostles and several women, “we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation.”[507]
Catechism of the Catholic Church