Consecration to Jesus through Mary
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Consecration of oneself to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, through the hands of Mary.
O Eternal and Incarnate Wisdom! O most lovable and adorable Jesus, true God and true Man, only Son of the Eternal Father and of Mary ever Virgin, I adore You profoundly in the bosom and splendors of Your Father, throughout eternity, and in the virginal bosom of Mary, Your most worthy Mother, at the time of Your Incarnation.
I give You thanks for having annihilated Yourself, taking the form of a slave, in order to free me from the cruel slavery of the devil; I praise and glorify You for having willed to submit Yourself to Mary, Your holy Mother, in all things, so as to make me, through her, Your faithful slave. But alas! ungrateful and unfaithful as I am, I have not kept the promises I so solemnly made to You in my Baptism; I have not fulfilled my obligations; I do not deserve to be called Your child, nor Your slave; and since there is nothing in me that does not deserve Your rejection and Your wrath, I dare no longer, by myself, approach Your most holy and august Majesty. Therefore I have recourse to the intercession of Your most holy Mother, whom You have given me as mediatrix with You; and it is through her that I hope to obtain from You contrition and pardon for my sins, the acquisition and preservation of wisdom.
I greet you, then, O Immaculate Mary, living tabernacle of the Divinity, where Eternal Wisdom, hidden, desires to be adored by Angels and by men; I greet you, O Queen of heaven and earth, to whose dominion is subject all that is beneath God.
I greet you, O sure refuge of sinners, whose mercy fails no one; hear the desires I have for divine wisdom, and for this receive the vows and offerings that my lowliness presents to you. I, N…, an unfaithful sinner, renew and ratify today in your hands the vows of my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and his works, and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and so that I may be more faithful to Him than I have been until now.
I choose you today, in the presence of the whole heavenly court, as my Mother and Mistress; I deliver and consecrate to you, as a slave, my body and my soul, my interior and exterior goods, and even the value of my good actions past, present, and future, leaving to you a full and entire right to dispose of me and of all that belongs to me, without exception, according to your good pleasure, for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity.
Receive, O gracious Virgin, this little offering of my slavery, in honor of and in union with the submission which Eternal Wisdom was pleased to have toward your motherhood; in homage to the power which both of you have over this little worm and this miserable sinner; in thanksgiving for the privileges with which the Holy Trinity has favored you. I declare that I wish henceforth, as your true slave, to seek your honor and to obey you in all things.
O admirable Mother, present me to your dear Son, as His eternal slave, so that, having redeemed me through you, He may receive me through you.
O Mother of mercy, grant me the grace to obtain the true wisdom of God, and for this purpose place me among those whom you love, whom you teach, whom you guide, whom you nourish and protect as your children and your slaves.
O faithful Virgin, make me in all things such a perfect disciple, imitator, and slave of the Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus Christ, your Son, that I may attain, through your intercession and by your example, to the fullness of His age on earth and of His glory in Heaven. Amen.