Living our Baptismal Promises, after renewing them on Mar. 25

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Yesterday on the Feast of the Annunciation, many of us renewed our Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary. I promised in my last thread that I would post today on enrolling in the Association of Mary Queen of ALL Hearts – for those who have Consecrated themselves.

The Link is : http://queenofallhearts.com/enrollment/

There is a great deal of information on this website and when you have time to browse you may find some videos that can help you to better understand St. Louis De Montfort’s Act of Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary. It can help you to “live” the Consecration which St. Louis de Montfort wrote is a “Perfect renewal” of our Baptismal Promises. These promises are meant to be lived every day as our preparation for eternity!

 

[MariaChristi]

I need to add here, dear Brothers and Sisters, that enrollment in the Association of Mary Queen of all Hearts is not absolutely necessary to our “Living the Consecration” but it can be one of the “helps” offered to us by the Church, through her saints and their work.

St. Louis de Montfort in his Treatise on True Devotion wrote in Chapter 7:

1. Although this devotion is essentially an interior one, this does not prevent it from having exterior practices which should not be neglected. … If properly performed, exterior acts help to foster interior ones. Man is always guided by his senses and such practices remind him of what he has done or should do. Let no worldling or critic intervene to assert that true devotion is essentially in the heart and therefore externals should be avoided as inspiring vanity, or that real devotion should be hidden and private. I answer in the words of our Lord, “Let men see your good works that they may glorify your Father who is in heaven.” As St. Gregory says, this does not mean that they should perform external actions to please men or seek praise; that certainly would be vanity. It simply means that we do these things before men only to please and glorify God without worrying about either the contempt or the approval of men.
2. Those who desire to take up this special devotion, (which has not been erected into a confraternity, although this would be desirable), should spend at least twelve days in emptying themselves of the spirit of the world, which is opposed to the spirit of Jesus, as I have recommended in the first part of this preparation for the reign of Jesus Christ…

At that time there was no “Confraternity or Association” to foster the devotion. After his death, the religious priests (the Montfort Fathers) he formed, eventually began the Association of Mary Queen of All Hearts, which exists today. I joined the Association, many years after I had made my Consecration. I wrote to the Association explaining I didn’t know if the Dominican Nun who helped us pray our Act of Total Consecration had already enrolled us. They searched their records to see if I had been enrolled, using my approximate date of my First Act of Consecration. They found no record, but sent me a certificate of enrollment with the date I gave them.

Servant of God Frank Duff, founder of the Legion of Mary was also enrolled in the Association.

Thanks again to all who have read these threads and seek to honor Jesus through Mary. I believe we need to do all we can as St. Louis wrote in his Introduction to True Devotion:

1. My heart has dictated with special joy all that I have written to show that Mary has been unknown up till now, and that that is one of the reasons why Jesus Christ is not known as he should be.

If then, as is certain, the knowledge and the kingdom of Jesus Christ must come into the world, it can only be as a necessary consequence of the knowledge and reign of Mary. She who first gave him to the world will establish his kingdom in the world.