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How would I go about it and after that then what?
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This is just my suggestion…
You can start with the Morning Offering to Our Blessed Mother (can be found online I am sure, if necessary)
Then you can read and study a bit of St. Louis Marie de Montfort’s total consecration to Mary (also information to be found online).
I have recently bought the book “33 Days to Morning Glory” by Father Michael Gaitley and you can start with that! For me it further enhanced what I had prayed about and learned from St. Louis Marie de Montfort, and he too is included in the “33 Days to Morning Glory Book”, along with Blessed Mother Teresa, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and Blessed Pope John Paul II. There is about two pages to be read, prayed about and pondered each day, for 33 days. The consecration prayer is at the end. I never dreamed, until I read this book, that there are more insights to be had about Our Lady and all she means to us.
Thank you Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!
I am an older senior citizen now and have made the full consecration many times. It has blessed me so much, and I am better understanding it now. Many more priests are now recommending these books and praising them highly. Retreat priests and parish priests.
You can start with the Morning Offering to Our Blessed Mother (can be found online I am sure, if necessary)
Then you can read and study a bit of St. Louis Marie de Montfort’s total consecration to Mary (also information to be found online).
I have recently bought the book “33 Days to Morning Glory” by Father Michael Gaitley and you can start with that! For me it further enhanced what I had prayed about and learned from St. Louis Marie de Montfort, and he too is included in the “33 Days to Morning Glory Book”, along with Blessed Mother Teresa, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and Blessed Pope John Paul II. There is about two pages to be read, prayed about and pondered each day, for 33 days. The consecration prayer is at the end. I never dreamed, until I read this book, that there are more insights to be had about Our Lady and all she means to us.
Thank you Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!
I am an older senior citizen now and have made the full consecration many times. It has blessed me so much, and I am better understanding it now. Many more priests are now recommending these books and praising them highly. Retreat priests and parish priests.
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ClearWater
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svid2
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Pax Christi!
There are differing approaches. Perhaps the best-known is the Montfortian. St. Louis de Montfort created a popular system, lasting 33 days, of preparation for personal consecration to our Lord through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the consecration itself being performed on the 34th day. Each of the 33 days has its own prayers and readings; on the 34th day one confesses sacramentally, receives Communion and prays a page-long prayer. This prayer is repeated occasionally, at least annually. See de Montfort’s “True Devotion to Mary” for the details.
Another newer version of this is “33 Days to Glory” by, um, I forget… But anyway, it is currently popular and simpler, with fewer and shorter readings. But it’s the same idea.
Alternatively, one can pray a simple prayer of personal consecration without any preparatory period. There are several such prayers already composed; one that I like can be found at www.fatima.org. Yes, I know Father Gruner is a suspended priest; I wouldn’t go to him for the sacraments, but he is not heretical and the website is an excellent and proper source nonetheless. Other such prayers can be found elsewhere.
After consecration, then what? That’s up to the individual. One hopes that individual’s life is lived as a servant of our Lady, pleasing to Her that it may be pleasing to Her Son.
Commonly, personal consecration takes place on one our Lady’s major feast days. The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is next Monday (moved from Sunday the 8th this year) and the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God is January 1st. It’s too late to start a 33-day preparatory period for either of these dates, but a short consecration (all that I’ve done so far) would work well.
I hope it works for you!
May the Handmaid of the Lord, whose humble footstool I am, pray for you.
God bless.
There are differing approaches. Perhaps the best-known is the Montfortian. St. Louis de Montfort created a popular system, lasting 33 days, of preparation for personal consecration to our Lord through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the consecration itself being performed on the 34th day. Each of the 33 days has its own prayers and readings; on the 34th day one confesses sacramentally, receives Communion and prays a page-long prayer. This prayer is repeated occasionally, at least annually. See de Montfort’s “True Devotion to Mary” for the details.
Another newer version of this is “33 Days to Glory” by, um, I forget… But anyway, it is currently popular and simpler, with fewer and shorter readings. But it’s the same idea.
Alternatively, one can pray a simple prayer of personal consecration without any preparatory period. There are several such prayers already composed; one that I like can be found at www.fatima.org. Yes, I know Father Gruner is a suspended priest; I wouldn’t go to him for the sacraments, but he is not heretical and the website is an excellent and proper source nonetheless. Other such prayers can be found elsewhere.
After consecration, then what? That’s up to the individual. One hopes that individual’s life is lived as a servant of our Lady, pleasing to Her that it may be pleasing to Her Son.
Commonly, personal consecration takes place on one our Lady’s major feast days. The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is next Monday (moved from Sunday the 8th this year) and the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God is January 1st. It’s too late to start a 33-day preparatory period for either of these dates, but a short consecration (all that I’ve done so far) would work well.
I hope it works for you!
May the Handmaid of the Lord, whose humble footstool I am, pray for you.
God bless.
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Angelus Press has a great book on the Montfortian consecration to Jesus through Mary. It will prepare you very well for your consecration day. I’d buy it if I were you. God bless you.
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