If you live your consecration, your life will be truly transformed. I will accustom you to my way of seeing, of thinking, of praying, of loving.
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I will communicate my spirit to you and will make you ever littler, more simple and more humble.
I will bring you to trust always and only in God. And the more that doubt and denial increase, the more you will find your certainty in Him, and you will bear witness to this.
We must not forget the almost forgotten virtue of hope, which rises like a crocus in the spring. It comes forth full of joy, youth,laughter, and humor, with a yes to being. It consents to accept life as it comes from the hands of God. It has faith, not blind faith but intelligent faith, realistic faith, a faith that understands. It is a faith based on the grace of baptism, and it has its being and its joy in the immense mystery of love.
Grace in Every Season (April 23)
The end result of consecration to Mary, is always full Union with Jesus Christ her Son. That’s all she ever had, so that’s all she has and desires to give! The following is from the MMP, in the back of the Blue Book.
ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY (for Religious and Laity)
Virgin of Fatima, Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Refuge of Sinners, we who belong to the Marian Movement of Priests consecrate ourselves in a very special way to your Immaculate Heart.
By this act of consecration we intend to live, with you and through you, all the obligations assumed by our baptismal consecration. We further pledge to bring about in ourselves that interior conversion so urgently demanded by the Gospel, a conversion that will free us of every attachment to ourselves and to easy compromises with the world so that, like you, we may be available only to do always the Will of the Father.
And as we resolve to entrust to you, O Mother most sweet and merciful, our life and vocation as Christians, that you may dispose of it according to your designs of salvation in this hour of decision that weighs upon the world, we pledge to live it according to your desires, especially as it pertains to a renewed spirit of prayer and penance, the fervent participation in the celebration of the Eucharist and in the works of the apostolate, the daily recitation of the holy rosary, and an austere manner of life in keeping with the Gospel, that shall be to all a good example of the observance of the Law of God and the practice of the Christian virtues, especially that of purity.
We further promise you to be united with the Holy Father, with the hierarchy and with our priests, in order thus to set up a barrier to the growing confrontation directed against the Magisterium, that threatens the very foundation of the Church.
Under your protection, wé want moreover to be apostles of this sorely needed unity of prayer and love for the Pope, on whom we invoke your special protection.
And lastly, insofar as is possible, we promise to lead those souls with whom we come in contact to a renewed devotion to you.
Mindful that atheism has caused shipwreck in the faith to a great number of the faithful, that desecration has entered into the holy temple of God, and that evil and sin are spreading more and more throughout the world, we make so bold as to lift our eyes trustingly to you, O Mother of Jesus and our merciful and powerful Mother, and we invoke again today and await from you the salvation of all your children, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.