Dear BeeSweet,
Thanks for letting me know of your joy and freedom from scruples on the journey. The Father indeed knows how to give good gifts to His children. Let us continue to praise and thank Him through Jesus and Mary.Dear MJE,
.OK MJE!!!
Hello, secretary Monday!Thank you for this thread; I wish I had found it a month ago, I could have joined you!
I have been wanting to do this for a while, and I had set my sights on Christmas for the Consecration day. Is this acceptable, or would it be better to wait until March 25th?
. And some of the group are doing this. Join us! Its a wonderful group, though it has partially shut for thanksgiving hol …it is the best group I have ever been in. Maybe Our Lady on this feast day has sent you! Consecration is usually made on Marian feast days, but why not for Our Lord’s birthday?Christmas Day . . . . why not! or Jan 1st Solemnity of Mary.Thank you for this thread; I wish I had found it a month ago, I could have joined you!
I have been wanting to do this for a while, and I had set my sights on Christmas for the Consecration day. Is this acceptable, or would it be better to wait until March 25th?
I have tried and failed the St. Louis de Monfort preparation 3 times…the third time I even made it all the way through the 33 days, but failed to consecrate myself to Mary because I felt like I had no comprehension of what I had just read and prayed the previous month and no real understanding of what “Marian Consecration” even meant.. So that’s the way the cookie crumbles. God’s will be done.Dear Jo Mary,Dear MariaChristi
Thank you so much for your reply, and you are so right! The st Louis de Montfort preparation was the one I first used, and so it remains very special to me. Since then, through the prayer group , I have encountered St Max … I did not know of this method …Indeed the nine day preparation begins tomorrow to consecrate on the 8th of Dec. How opportune a reminder.
It is true that my whole life took off after this consecration…almost as though Our Lady whisked me upwards ! No kidding!
Yes indeed, each soul and its needs are unique …we are one big garden of different varieties of plant, and the daisy may need different conditions to the lily! LoL.
I do hope I am not breaking any rules by posting the link of my prayer and consecration group? If so I will stop immediately! With apologies. I am a relatively new member.
However I have learnt so much and deepened my faith through this group, and 3 subscribers to this thread have joined since. You are warmly welcome to do the same, MariaChristi… I feel , if God wills (!) you could gift this group, I sense your openness to the Holy Spirit …
Sadly I have had to leave. You were saying about the unique way of each soul. Well I am drawn to deepen my baptismal vows through the 3 great vows, under the protection of Our Lady of Mount Carmel as a consecrated woman. My superiors have asked me to leave the group, else I would not!
Always at the beginning of my journey…will be total consecration to Our Lady, and I give all credit to her!
Blessings and prayer
Jo Mary
The vows of our Baptism are the beginning of our supernatural lives, and each sacrament is a further encounter with Christ. May we all continue to grow in Him, that each of us may become the unique saint we are called to become. May our Lady of Mt. Carmel continue to hold you close to Jesus.
Dear Bee Sweet,
Today is the Feast of St. Juan Diego, the humble Indian to whom Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared. I love her words to him: “…Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Are you not in the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else you need?” Let us remain forever in the crossing of her arms.
. After Mass Father phoned me and as we were having tea he destroyed my joy (without intending to) by calling to my attention that I had read the wrong reading!Dear Imma,The recent posts are really interesting, as something similar happened to me too, Lol.! I did not plan to talk about this (I was feeling too embarrased) but since an almost similar incident happened to someone else here, let us share our story. It goes like this: I prepared carefully for the 33 days using Montforts’ method. I must admit that things went rather as they should, meaning that as the days progressed I saw God working in me more powerfully and I could sense it more. Saturday morning came and I got myself early to Mass. it is Saturday morning. It happens that Sister would select anyone she wishes to read the readings for the weekdays (except Sunday is when we have pre-arranged people), and she does this just before the Mass, and she came to my pew and selected me, and showed me where exactly the reading is coming from (she usually put a yellow sticker just above the right reading for the Mass to make sure the person who will read it do not get lost looking for it in the massive book), then carried the Mass readings Book to its stand way up to its altar in the front of the church. I was not worried because I have done this countless times before. I should mention that, in the same Mass, apart from Mary Immaculate’s Solemnity, we were also celebrating a baptism, a couple was getting married and a child was being baptised. So it was a liturgy full of richness and a lot to contemplate about. When the time came I went and read the first reading which was showed to me - from Isaiah!! I had no time during this moment to recall that the reading should have been about the New Adam etc. Sister had accidentally showed me a wrong reading for the Somenity! The reading was a good one nevertheless, but a wrong one for the occassion
You remember that it was my Consecration Day, a very important day for me. (I consecrated myself right after Holy Mass infront of the tabernacle). I even have a daughter named “Immaculate” and Father reminded me of that kindly. But during Mass he was not able to do anything about it, however, he preached a little bit about Immaculate Mary and her Feast so it helped, and the second reading (which was read by someone else) also helped, and the Gospel itself of course. So I want to say that this knowledge that I read the wrong reading on my consecration day, became an immediate cross for me to bear and I quickly cast it at the feet of the Mother because I can not bear it on my own. I also think that it was not a coincidence, Mother Mary was telling me something important, probably about being humble, a lesson I had begged from her even on the same day But I still feel the pain and I still cast it at the feet of Our Lady humbly. I even asked Father if he would say another Holy Mass for the intention of the Solemnity, so that I could request to attend and read the right reading, and he replied he has two other Masses for the day but they are for different purposes.
In my friends posts, I see that the intention was pure, but there was a lesson to be taught, maybe trust, humility, etc. But I feel that the important part was the Communion and the Consecration, which I was able to do properly, and my friends were also able to make… the rest I leave in God’s mercy. Any thoughts on this welcome.