CONSECRATE YOURSELF TO MY IMMACULATE HEART
«My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God».
OUR LADY IN FATIMA
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To understand the meaning and importance that consecration to Mary has in the Church today, it is necessary to go back to the message of Fatima, when Our Lady, appearing in 1917 to the three young shepherd children, indicates her Immaculate Heart as an extraordinary means of grace and salvation. In more detail we note in fact how already in the second apparition Our Lady reveals to Lucia: «Jesus wants to use you to make me known and loved. He wants to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world ». Adding a very comforting message: «To those who practice it I promise salvation; these souls will be preferred by God, and like flowers they will be placed by me before His throne ».
To Lucia, who worried about the solitude that awaits her and the painful trials she will face, she confides: «Do not be discouraged: I will never abandon you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God ». Mary certainly wanted to address these reassuring words not only to Lucia, but to every Christian who trusts in her.
Even in the third apparition (which in the history of Fatima represents the most important apparition) Our Lady more than once indicates in the message the devotion to her Immaculate Heart as an extraordinary means of salvation:
in the initial prayer taught to the shepherd children;
after the vision of hell he announces that, for the salvation of souls, God wants to establish devotion to his Immaculate Heart in the world;
after announcing the Second World War he warned: «To prevent it I will come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the reparation Communion of the first Saturdays ...», also referring to her Sorrowful Heart;
finally, he concludes the message by announcing that there will still be many tribulations and purifications that await man in this difficult modern era. But behold, a marvelous dawn looms on the horizon: "In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph and as a consequence of this triumph a time of peace will be granted to the world".
(In addition to the numerous Marian movements of Montfort inspiration, the authentic spirit of consecration to Mary, today is particularly experienced and spread in the Marian Priestly Movement founded by Don Stefano Gobbi in 1973 and extraordinarily widespread in many parts of the world. To know better this Movement (which lay people can also join) and to deepen the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we recommend reading the book "To Priests, beloved sons of the Madonna." at the 2000th Italian edition (distribution center of the book: Mr. Elio Piscione Via Boccaccio, 24 9 Montesilvano (PE) Tel. 65016).
To be valid and effective, this consecration cannot be reduced to the simple reading of a formula; rather, it consists of a program of Christian life and a solemn commitment to live it under the special protection of Mary.
To better facilitate the understanding of the spirit of this consecration, we report in this booklet a summary of the work of Saint Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort "The Secret of Mary" (it is a work that Montfort (16731716) wrote towards the end of the his life and contains his most significant experiences of apostolate, prayer and devotion to Mary. The original text can be requested from our apostolate center. "It is dear to me to remember, among the many witnesses and teachers of this spirituality, the figure of St. Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort, who proposed to Christians the consecration to Christ by the hands of Mary, as an effective means of faithfully living the baptismal commitments. "John Paul II:" Redemptoris Mater ", 48.)
Holiness constitutes the indispensable and specific vocation of every Christian. Holiness is a marvelous reality which gives man resemblance to his Creator; it is very difficult and even unattainable for the man who trusts only in himself. Only Diok with his grace can help us achieve it. It is therefore very important to find an easy means by which to obtain from God the grace necessary to become saints. And this is precisely what Montfort teaches us: to find this GRACE OF GOD it is necessary to find MARY.
Indeed, Mary is the only creature who has found grace with God, for herself and for each of us. She gave body and life to the Author of all grace, and for this reason we call her Mother of Grace.
God chose her as treasurer, custodian and dispenser of all his graces, so that all divine gifts pass through his hands. ("All in the Church, whether they belong to the Hierarchy or whether they are directed by it, are called to holiness, according to the Apostle's saying:" Certainly this is God's will, that you sanctify yourselves ". (1 Thess. 4,3 , 1,4; cf. Eph. 3940) ... it is therefore clear to all that all the faithful of any state or grade are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity. "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church" Lumen Gentium " XNUMX.)
In fact, she distributes to those who want, as she wants and when she wants the graces of the Eternal Father, the virtues of Jesus Christ and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Nobody thinks, like certain false theologians, that Mary, being a creature, constitutes an impediment to union with the Creator. 4 It is no longer Mary who lives, it is Jesus, it is only God who lives in her. The transformation of Mary into God exceeds that reached by Saint Paul and the other saints more than heaven dominates the earth.
Mary is entirely oriented towards God. She cannot therefore stop the Christian to herself, on the contrary she projects him into God. The more a person enters into a relationship with Mary, the more Mary unites her perfectly to God.
Those who consecrate themselves to Mary are not freed from crosses and sufferings. On the contrary, it is easier for him to have more than the others; this is because Mary, Mother of the living, gives her children the fragments of the Tree of life: the cross of Jesus.
Together with large crosses, however, they receive from her the grace to carry them with patience and even with joy. Mary sweetens the crosses to her consecrated persons; it makes them candied crosses, not bitter crosses.
There are several ways of being devoted to Our Lady. We exclude false devotions.
The first way consists in fulfilling the duties of a Christian, avoiding mortal sin, acting more out of love than out of fear, occasionally praying to the holy Virgin and honoring her as, Mother of God. A second way of being devoted to Mary is to nourish towards feelings of deep esteem, love, trust and confidence. With it we are pushed to enter into Marian associations, to recite the holy Rosary daily, to honor the images of Mary and her altars, to make her known and loved.
This devotion, provided it is combined with the commitment to Christian life, is better than the previous one, yet it is not yet able to detach souls from creatures and from their own selfishness to unite them with Jesus Christ.
The third way of being devoted to Mary is known and accomplished only by a few people.
True devotion (or total and perfect consecration to her Immaculate Heart) consists in giving oneself totally to Mary and, through her, to Jesus. Through this consecration we commit ourselves to do everything with Mary, through Mary, in Mary and for Maria.
it is necessary to choose an important date to give oneself, entrust and consecrate oneself to Mary in complete freedom and for love, without any fear and without reservation: soul and body, home, family, earnings, material goods and spiritual goods, as you deserve, thank you, virtues and good works.
As you can see, this consecration to Jesus through Mary includes the renunciation (always for love) of all that a person holds dearest and the very right that it would have to dispose of its prayers and satisfactions at will. .
No religious order demands such a radical renunciation.
Through our offer, although without a vow, Mary is granted the widest faculty to dispose of the good accomplished. The holy Virgin can apply its value to a soul of Purgatory to comfort or free her, or to convert a sinner.
(It is understood that a soul consecrated to Mary will be able to continue freely expressing particular desires and intentions. If the graces requested fall within the will of God, they will certainly be granted.) Through consecration we put the graces, our merits and virtues in safe hands . We choose Mary as our treasurer.
Saint Bernard teaches:
«If you follow Maria you will not get lost, if you pray to her you do not despair, if you think about her you are not mistaken, if she supports you you do not fall, protected by her you will not be afraid, with her guide you will not get tired, with her benevolence you will arrive at the half".
It is not enough to consecrate oneself once and for all to Mary and not even repeat the consecration every month or every week; it would be too superficial a devotion, not effective enough for our sanctification.
It is not difficult to join an association or even to embrace this devotion and recite some prayers every day. Certainly, however, it is certainly difficult to enter into the spirit of this consecration which consists in belonging and in being totally dependent on Mary and Jesus through her.
Many people embrace this devotion with commendable enthusiasm, but without understanding its deep meaning; but few appreciate its true spirit and very few know how to persevere.
The fundamental commitment of this spirituality consists in carrying out every action with Mary and through Mary: that is, the holy Virgin becomes the perfect model of our action.
Before starting an action you have to give up yourself, your selfishness and personal points of view. We must recognize that we are nothing before the greatness of God and by nature incapable of performing useful actions for our salvation.
It is necessary to pray to Our Lady, to ask for her help, to get in tune with her will, with her intentions and, through her, with those of Jesus. We place ourselves, that is, in Mary's hands as simple tools for her to act in us and do what best seems to us for the glory of her Son and, through Jesus Christ, for the glory of the Father.
We must do everything in Mary (that is, entering into the depths of her Immaculate Heart), getting used to gradually gathering ourselves in our interior to contemplate the Madonna present in us.
It (or rather his Immaculate Heart) will be for us the temple, where we can pray to God without fear of being rejected; the "tower of David", a safe refuge in defense from enemies; the lighted lamp, to make light even in the most hidden parts of the soul and inflame it with divine love; the monstrance, where, united with her, contemplate God.
In conclusion, Mary will represent everything for the soul consecrated to her: in Mary she will pray, in communion with Mary she will receive Jesus in the Eucharist to be able to love him, in Mary she will act and in Mary she will rest, continually renouncing herself and her own selfishness.
This consecration, faithfully lived, produces wonders of grace in souls. The main fruit consists in transferring Mary's life permanently to a person, so that she no longer lives, but Mary lives in her until she becomes, so to speak, the soul of her own soul.
And what wonders Mary works when, by a special grace, she comes to reign in a soul! She creates wonderful works especially in the heart of her consecrated persons, where her extraordinary intervention is not perceived. If it were known, the inevitable pride would spoil all its beauty.
Mary, pure and fruitful Virgin, when she places her home in a person's intimacy, makes her pure in body and spirit, in intentions and purposes and fruitful of good works.
Do not doubt that Mary, the most fruitful of all creatures, remains idle in the people who consecrate herself to her. It will be precisely She who will make the soul live incessantly for Jesus Christ and make Jesus live in the soul.
For these fortunate souls, Jesus will become Mary's fruit and masterpiece.
Through Mary, God first came into the world in humility and hiding. Could it not be said that, again through Mary, God will return to the world again to establish his Kingdom and judge the living and the dead according to the expectation of the whole Church? 9 Nobody knows how and when this will happen. I know with certainty that God will come over time and in the most unexpected way from men, even from the most competent exegetes.
I therefore believe that, towards the end of time, and perhaps earlier than we think, God will raise up great men full of the Holy Spirit and trained in the school of Mary. Through their collaboration this exalted Queen will accomplish wonderful endeavors to destroy sin and establish the Kingdom of Jesus Christ on the ruins of the corrupt world.
Experience will teach you the true spirit of consecration, much better than can be expressed. If you know how to practice it with fidelity, you will receive so many graces to experience surprising and inexpressible joy.
Blessed is the man in whom the tree of life that is Mary was planted! Blessed is the man in whom Mary grows and blooms! Even more blessed is the man in whom Mary produces her fruit! Infinitely blessed is the man who enjoys this fruit throughout his life and eternity! Amen.
In the book "To Priests beloved children of the Madonna". edited by the Marian Priestly Movement, we find some very important meditations reported below which help us to enter more deeply into the authentic spirit of this consecration.
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
IN MY IMMACULATE HEART
Today, from all over the world, I enclose you all in my Immaculate Heart. it is the refuge that Heavenly Mother has prepared for you.
Here you will be safe from all dangers and, in the moment of the storm, you will find your peace. Here you will be formed by Me according to the design that the Heart of my Son Jesus has entrusted to me. In this way each one of you will be helped by Me to fulfill perfectly the divine Will.
Here I will give to your hearts the capacity for love of my Immaculate Heart, and thus you will be trained in pure love for God and neighbor.
Here I create you every day to your true life: that of divine Grace, of which my Son has filled me in view also of my role as Mother towards you.
I feed you with this pure milk, my beloved children, and I clothe you with all my virtues. Inwardly I form and transform you, because I participate in my beauty and reproduce my image in you.
In this way your life becomes more in line with my motherly plan every day and in you the SS. Trinity can reflect His Light and receive greater glory.
Now my time has come: everyone must recognize this extraordinary intervention of mine.
Therefore it is my desire that the feast of the Immaculate Heart return to be celebrated, throughout the Church, with that devotion and liturgical solemnity, as had been established by the Vicar of my Son in such stormy times.
Today everything has worsened and precipitates towards its most painful conclusion.
Then it must appear to the Church which is the refuge that I, the Mother, have prepared for everyone: my Immaculate Heart.
Feast of the Annunciation of Maria SS.
I ASK ALL THE CONSECRATION
"Look at the ineffable moment of the Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel, sent by God to welcome my" yes "to the implementation of his eternal plan of Redemption, and to the great mystery of the Incarnation of the Word in my virginal womb, and then you will understand why I ask you to consecrate yourselves to my Immaculate Heart.
Yes, I myself manifested my will in Fatima, when I appeared in 1917. I asked several times to my daughter Sister Lucia, who is on earth to fulfill this mission that I have entrusted to her. In recent years I have insistently requested it, through the message entrusted to my Priestly Movement. Today I again ask everyone to consecrate myself to my Immaculate Heart.
I ask first of all to Pope John Paul II, the first favorite son, who on the occasion of this feast, performs it in a solemn way, after writing to the Bishops of the world to do it in union with him ...
I bless this courageous act of "my" Pope, who wanted to entrust the world and all nations to my Immaculate Heart; I welcome him with love and gratitude and, for him, I promise to intervene to shorten the hours of purification a lot and to make the trial less heavy.
But I also ask this consecration to all Bishops, to all Priests, to all Religious and to all the faithful.
This is the hour when the whole Church must gather in the safe refuge of my Immaculate Heart. Why do I ask you for consecration? When a thing is consecrated, it is subtracted from any other use to be used only for sacred use. So it is with an object when it is intended for divine worship.
But it can also be of a person, when he is called by God to make him a perfect cult. Understand therefore how the true act of your consecration is that of Baptism.
With this sacrament, instituted by Jesus, grace is communicated to you, which inserts you in an order of life superior to yours, that is, in the supernatural order. Thus participate in the divine nature, enter into a communion of love with God and your actions therefore have a new value that exceeds that of your nature, because they have a true divine value.
After Baptism you are now destined for the perfect glorification of the Holy Trinity and consecrated to live in the love of the Father, in the imitation of the Son and in full communion with the Holy Spirit.
The fact that characterizes the act of consecration is its totality: when you are consecrated, you are now all and forever.
When I ask you for consecration to mine
Immaculate Heart, it is to make you understand that you must entrust yourself to Me completely, in a total and perennial way, so that I can dispose of you according to the Will of God.
You must entrust yourself completely, giving me everything. You don't have to give me something and still keep something for yourself: you must be truly and only all mine.
And then you don't have to trust Me one day and one no, or for a period of time, as long as you want, but forever. And to underline this important aspect of complete and lasting belonging to Me, your Heavenly Mother, whom I ask for consecration to my Immaculate Heart.
How should the consecration be lived by you?
If you look at the ineffable mystery that the Church remembers today, you will understand how the consecration that I asked of you must be lived.
The Word of the Father, out of love, completely entrusted me. After my "yes", it descended into my virginal womb.
He trusted me in his divinity. The eternal Word, the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity after the Incarnation, hid and gathered in the small dwelling, miraculously prepared by the Holy Spirit, in my virginal womb.
He entrusted himself to me in his humanity, in such a profound way, as each child relies on the mother from whom everything is expected: blood, flesh, breath, food and love to grow every day in her womb and then after birth every year always next to the mother.
For this reason, as I am the Mother of the Incarnation, I am also the Mother of the Redemption, which already has its admirable beginning here.
Here I am therefore intimately associated with my Son Jesus; I collaborate with him in his work of salvation, during his childhood, adolescence, the thirty years of his hidden life in Nazareth, his public ministry, during his painful passion, up to the cross, where I offer and suffer with him and I collect his last words of love and pain, with which he gives me as true Mother to all humanity.
Beloved children, called to imitate Jesus in everything, because you are his Ministers, imitate him also in his complete entrustment to the Heavenly Mother. This is why I ask you to offer yourselves to Me with your consecration.
I will be attentive and interested Mother for you to make you grow in God's plan, to realize in your life the great gift of the Priesthood to which you have been called; I will bring you every day to an ever better imitation of Jesus, who must be your only model and your greatest love. You will be his true instruments, faithful collaborators of his Redemption. Today this is necessary for the salvation of all humanity, so sick, far from God and the Church.
The Lord can save her with an extraordinary intervention of his merciful Love. And you, Priests of Christ and my beloved children, are called to be the instruments of the triumph of the merciful Love of Jesus.
Today this is indispensable for my Church, which must be healed from the plagues of infidelity and apostasy, to return to renewed holiness and its splendor.
Your Heavenly Mother wants to heal her through you, my Priests. I will do it soon, if you let me work in you, if you trust me with docility and simplicity, to my merciful maternal action.
For this reason, still today, with heartfelt imploration, I ask everyone to consecrate you to my Immaculate Heart ».
After the recitation of the Holy Rosary
THE FAMILIES CONSECRATED TO ME
«How I am comforted by this day spent in prayer, in a simple and cordial fraternity, with this family consecrated to Me and which belongs to me!
Now I want to give you my comforting word, which is for you comfort in the midst of the daily difficulties of your existence.
I love you, I am present among you, I speak to you and I lead you, because you are the instruments of my maternal Will.
I look with love at the families consecrated to Me. In these times, I gather families and introduce them into the depths of my Immaculate Heart, so that they can find refuge and security, comfort and defense.
Just as I love to be invoked Mother and Queen of my Priests, so I love to be invoked also Mother and Queen of the families consecrated to Me.
I am the Mother and Queen of families. I watch over their lives, I take their problems to heart, I am interested not only in the spiritual good, but also in the material good of all their components.
When you consecrate a family to my Immaculate Heart, it is as if you opened the door of your house to your Celestial Mother, you invite her to enter, You give her space so that she can exercise her maternal function in an ever stronger way.
This is why I want all Christian families to consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart. I ask that the doors of all houses be opened to me, so that I may enter and place my motherly home among you.
Then I enter as your Mother, I live with you and I participate in your whole life. First of all, I take care of your spiritual life.
I try to bring the souls of those who make up the family to always live in the grace of God.
Wherever I enter, sin comes out; where I dwell, grace and divine light are always present; where I live, with Me live purity and holiness.
This is why my first maternal task is to revive the members of a family in Grace and to make them grow in the life of holiness, through the exercise of all Christian virtues. And since the sacrament of marriage gives you a particular grace to make you grow together, my task is to deeply cement the unity of a family, to bring husband and wife to an ever deeper and more spiritual communion, to perfect their human love , make it more perfect, bring it into the Heart of Jesus, so that it can take on the new form of greater perfection, which is expressed in pure and supernatural Charity.
I increasingly strengthen the union in families, I bring them to a greater and mutual understanding, I make the new needs of a more delicate and profound communion be felt.
I lead their members on the path of holiness and joy, which must be built and traveled together, so that they can reach the perfection of love and thus enjoy the precious gift of peace.
Thus I form the souls of my children and, through the way of the family, I lead them to the summit of holiness. I want to enter families to make you saints, to bring you to the perfection of love, to stay with you, to make your family unity more fruitful and strong.
Then I also take care of the material good of the families consecrated to Me.
The most precious asset of a family are children. Children must be desired, welcomed, cultivated like the most precious gems of a family property.
When I enter a family, I immediately take care of the children, they also become mine. I take them by the hand, I lead them to follow the path of the implementation of a plan of God, which has already been clearly outlined for each of us from eternity; I love them, I never abandon them, they become a precious part of my maternal property.
I take particular care of your work.
I never let you miss divine Providence. I take your hands and open them to the plan that the Lord accomplishes every day, through your human collaboration.
How my humble, faithful and daily maternal action, in the small and poor house of Nazareth, made possible the fulfillment of the Father's plan, which was realized in the human growth of the Son, called to do the work of Redemption for your salvation, so I also call you to support the Father's plan, which is carried out with your human collaboration and through your daily work.
You must do your part, as Heavenly Father does his.
Your action must be married to that of divine Providence, so that work can produce its fruit in those goods that are useful for the sustenance of your life, for the enrichment of the same family, so that its members can always enjoy spiritual and wellness material.
Then I help you carry out the plan of God's will. In this way I make the work spiritually more fruitful, because I make it a source of merit for you and an opportunity for salvation for many of my poor lost children.
Then in you, action joins love, work to prayer, fatigue to the ardent thirst for ever greater charity.
Thus, with your collaboration at the will of the Father, you compose the masterpiece of a Providence which, through you, becomes concrete and daily.
Fear not: where I enter it, security is with Me. You will never miss anything. I make your business more perfect; I purify your own work.
I also participate in all your concerns.
I know that there are many concerns of a family today.
They are yours and become mine. I share your sufferings with you.
For this reason, in the difficult times of this purification, I am present in the families consecrated to Me, as a worried and grieved Mother who truly pervades all your suffering.
These are my times. "These", that is, the days you live, are "mine", because they are times marked by my great and strong presence.
These times will become even more mine, the more my victory will grow and become stronger, on the victory that now belongs to my opponent.
This presence of mine will become so strong and extraordinary especially in the families consecrated to my Immaculate Heart.
It will be felt by all and will become a source of particular consolation for you.
Then go forward in trust, hope, silence, your daily work, prayer and humility.
Go forward more and more in purity and right intention; with Me you advance on the difficult path of peace of heart and peace in your families.
If you all walk on the path that I have marked out for you, if you listen and practice what I have told you today, your families will be the first sprouts of my triumph: small, hidden, silent sprouts, which are already springing up all over the earth, as if to anticipate the new era and new times, which are now upon us.
I encourage all of you and bless you ».
Presentation of the Child Jesus in the Temple
IN THE TEMPLE OF MY IMMACULATE HEART
«Let yourselves be carried in my maternal arms, beloved children, like newborn children, in the spiritual temple of my Immaculate Heart.
In the Temple of my Immaculate Heart, I offer you to the perfect glory of the Most Holy and Divine Trinity. I offer you to the glory of the Father, who places his complacency in you, and I lead you, at every moment of your existence, to do his divine Will with love, with docility, with filial abandonment.
Thus, as in heaven, also on this earth the Heavenly Father is glorified and his Name is worshiped and sanctified.
I offer you to the glory of the Son, who pours upon you the river of his divine Mercy, to erase every shadow of evil and sin from your souls, he imprints on you his Image of the Only Begotten Son of the Father and associates you with his divine Splendor, so as to make yourself Light for the revelation of all peoples.
This is why I lead you, with sweet firmness, on the path of faith and purity, hope and mortification, love and ever greater holiness.
I offer you to the glory of the Holy Spirit, who gives himself to you with inexhaustible abundance, to lead you into the heart of his own plan of love for the Father and the Son, so as to make you ardent witnesses of divine Charity.
For this I obtain his seven holy Gifts, which give you strength and constancy, courage and strength, zeal and perseverance in fulfilling the mission that has been entrusted to you.
Thus, while in the temple of the created universe God is denied, vilified and blasphemed, in the Temple of my Immaculate Heart the most holy and divine Trinity still receives praise and its perfect glory from the mouth of my little children.
In the Temple of my Immaculate Heart, I train you for the greatest splendor of the Church, God's new Israel.
In the time of the great trial for the Church, you become the ardently awaited help that my Immaculate Heart gives her, for these bloody moments of the great tribulation.
Thus I lead you to the heroic witness to Christ and his Gospel, making you courageous announcers of all the truths of the Catholic faith, so as to illuminate with your light the profound darkness of these times of great apostasy. Through you the Church will become ever more enlightened and will find trust and strength, so that it can fulfill the task of the second evangelization, to which it is strongly urged by the Spirit.
In the Temple of my Immaculate Heart, I give to all humanity the refuge invoked and awaited for these times of the great trial that has now come. In these years how many of my children you will see running hungry and desperate, trampled and wounded, to seek protection and salvation in the Temple of my Immaculate Heart!
I wish that the task entrusted to my Marian Priestly Movement be completed in the shortest time and that all of them make the Consecration to my Immaculate Heart as soon as possible, which I ask you for these days of the great trial.
that's why today, my little child, you are still in a place so far away, where I am glorified and Jesus is worshiped by a large number of my little children, poor, humble, simple, but faithful and docile to the requests of your Heavenly Mama.
In the hearts of all my little children I place my home, where it shelters itself to be consoled by your tender and filial love and to obtain that great reparation, which I have asked you and which I need, to shorten the great ones sufferings of these days of yours ».
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
YOUR REFUGE
«Today you are here, my little son, in a continuous Cenacle of prayer and brotherhood, with many young people of my Movement, celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Heart of your Celestial Mother.
See how I am loved by all these young people! Their love, their enthusiasm, their prayer, their consecration to my Immaculate Heart, close the deep wounds of my great pain.
I open the golden door of my maternal Heart, to let all my children exposed to so many dangers, affected by so many pains, prostrated by so many battles, wounded by many defeats.
In these difficult and painful years, I open above all to my young people the refuge of my Immaculate Heart.
My Motherly Heart thus becomes your safe refuge for you.
it is your refuge, where you can take shelter from the serious and threatening dangers that surround you.
The pagan society in which you live, who has denied his God, to build the idols of pleasure and money, pride and selfishness, fun and impurity, is a great danger for you to betray your Baptism and to violate the commitments you have made before God and the Church.
In my Immaculate Heart you will be formed to the perfect glory of the Lord, through your commitment of life offered to him, in the fulfillment of the divine Will and in the observance of His Law.
it is your refuge, in which you are defended from the bad influence that this materialistic world has on you and is all leaning towards the exasperated search for pleasure.
In my Immaculate Heart you will be trained in renunciation and mortification, in prayer and penance, in poverty and in the perfection of love.
Thus you will experience the joy of walking on the road that Jesus has marked out for you, in a spirit of freedom, and of responding to the great gift that He has given you.
it is your refuge, which protects you from being contaminated by sin and impurity. How the environment in which you live is imbued with immorality and evil!
Sin is committed and justified; disobedience to the Law of God is exalted and promoted; the devilish power of Satan is increasingly spreading over individuals and nations.
How can you protect yourself from this flood of misery, corruption and impiety?
My Immaculate Heart is your refuge. It is given to you precisely for these times of yours. Enter, my beloved children, and so run on the road that leads you to the God of salvation and peace.
My Immaculate Heart is your refuge, in which I gather you, as in a new spiritual Upper Room, to obtain the gift of the Holy Spirit, who will transform you into Apostles of the second evangelization.
Be apostles of this work of mine throughout Sardinia.
Get out of this Upper Room and go everywhere to look for my children, who have lost their way on the roads of sin and evil, of unbelief and pleasure, of impurity and drugs.
Bring them all into the same refuge that I have prepared for you.
I am with you and I am illuminating the path you must take.
Today I look at you with maternal tenderness and, with all your loved ones, I bless you and encourage you to walk on the path of holiness and love, purity and joy ».
FAMILY DINNERS
The typical activity of the Marian Movement consists in gathering in prayer and fraternity meetings called "Cenacoli".
The Cenacles offer an extraordinary opportunity to have a concrete experience of prayer made together, of lived fraternity, and are of great help to all in overcoming doubts and difficulties, to proceed courageously on the difficult path of consecration. Family Cenacles are particularly providential today in the face of the serious disruption of family life. During these Cenacles, one or more families gather in the same house: the Rosary is recited, the life of consecration is meditated, brotherhood is experienced, problems and difficulties are communicated to each other, and the act of consecration to the Heart is always renewed together Immaculate Conception of Mary. Christian families are helped by family Cenacles to live today as true communities of faith, prayer and love.
The structure of the Cenacles is very simple: in imitation of the disciples who were reunited with Mary in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, we find ourselves together:
To pray with Maria.
A common feature is the recitation of the Holy Rosary. With it we invite Mary to join our prayer, we pray together with her. «The Rosary that you recite in the Cenacles is like an immense chain of love and salvation with which you can wrap people and situations, and even influence all the events of the your time. Continue to recite it, multiply your Cenacles of prayer ».
(Marian Priest Movement 7 October 1979)
To live the consecration.
Here is the way forward: to get used to the way of seeing, feeling, loving, praying, operating the Madonna. This may serve as a pause for meditation or appropriate reading.
To make fraternity.
In the Cenacles everyone is called to experience an authentic fraternity. The more you pray and leave room for the action of Our Lady, the more you feel you are growing in mutual love between us. To the danger of loneliness, today particularly felt and dangerous, here is the remedy offered by Our Lady: the Upper Room, where we meet with her to be able to know, love and help us as brothers.
Our Lady makes these four promises to those who form the family Cenacles:
1) It helps to live unity and fidelity in marriage, in particular to remain always united, living the sacramental aspect of the family union. Today, in which the number of divorces and divisions increases, Our Lady unites us under Her mantle, always in love and in the greatest communion.
2) Take care of children. In these times for many young people there is the danger of losing faith and embarking on the path of evil, sin, impurity and drugs. Our Lady promises that as Mother she will stand next to these children to help them grow in good and lead them on the path of holiness and salvation.
3) He takes the spiritual and material good of families to heart.
4) She will protect these families, taking them under her mantle, becoming like a lightning rod that will defend them from the fire of punishment.
THE TIME OF THE DINNER
«For a week, my little son, you have been making wonderful Cenacles with the priests and faithful of my Movement (...)
Thus you live, with particular intensity, the liturgical time between the solemnity of Ascension and that of Pentecost, which is the time of the Upper Room.
Remember the time I spent with the Apostles in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, united in prayer and in the ardent wait for the prodigious event of Pentecost to take place.
And with what joy I contemplated the descent of the Holy Spirit, in the form of tongues of fire that rested on each of those present, working the miracle of their complete and total transformation.
And this for the Church and for all humanity the time of the Upper Room.
it is the time of the Upper Room for the Church, invited by Me to enter the Upper Room of my Immaculate Heart.
All the Bishops must now enter this new and spiritual Upper Room, so that they can obtain, from the incessant prayer made with Me and through Me, a particular outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which opens minds and hearts to receive the gift of divine Wisdom and thus they come to an understanding of the whole truth and to give their full testimony to my Son Jesus.
Priests must enter this new spiritual Upper Room, so that they may be confirmed by their Holy Spirit in their vocation, and by prayer, made with Me and through Me, they will obtain the strength, security and courage to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus in all its integrity. and to live it literally, with the simplicity of the little ones, who feed on the joy of every word that comes from the mouth of God.
All the faithful must enter this new spiritual Upper Room, so that they may be helped to live their baptism and receive light and comfort from the Holy Spirit on their daily journey towards holiness.
Only in this way can they become courageous witnesses of the risen and living Jesus among you today.
it is the time of the Upper Room for this poor humanity, so possessed by the Spirits of evil, driven on the path of pleasure and pride, of sin and impurity, of selfishness and unhappiness.
Humanity must now enter the Upper Room of my Immaculate Heart: here, as Mother, I will teach her to pray and repent, I will lead her to penance and conversion, to the change of heart and life.
Inside this new and spiritual Upper Room I will prepare her to receive the gift of the second Pentecost, which will renew the face of the earth. This is why I ask today that the Church and humanity enter the Upper Room that your Heavenly Mother has prepared for you.
The period of purification and the great tribulation that you are experiencing must be the time of the Upper Room for you.
All of you enter the new and spiritual Cenacle of my Immaculate Heart, to gather yourselves in an intense and incessant prayer made with Me, your Celestial Mother, waiting for the great miracle of the second Pentecost now near to be accomplished ».
CONSECRATION OF HIMSELF IN MARY
I greet you, o Maria,
Beloved daughter of the eternal Father, admirable Mother of the divine Son,
Faithful bride of the Holy Spirit.
I greet you, O Mary, my dear Mother, my amiable teacher, my powerful Sovereign,
my joy, my glory, my heart and my soul!
You are all mine by mercy, I am all yours by justice, but I am not yet enough.
Again I give myself entirely to You, as your eternal slave, without reserving anything for me or for others.If you see something in me that is not yet yours, take it now, I beg you, and be the absolute master of my will. Destroy, eradicate and annihilate in me all that is displeasing to God.
Plant, build and operate anything you like. The light of your faith dispels the darkness of my spirit; may your profound humility take the place of my pride; your sublime contemplation turn away the distractions of my unstable fantasy.
Your continuous vision of God fills my memory with his presence; your ardent charity dilate and inflame the coldness and indifference of my heart; your sublime virtues replace my sins; may your merits be my ornament and perfection before God.
My dearest and most beloved Mother! Finally, I ask you, if possible,
to offer me your spirit to know Jesus Christ and his divine Will; to offer me your soul to praise and glorify the Lord; to offer me your Heart to love God with pure and ardent love like You. Amen.San Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort
Prayer from Montfort's work: "The Secret of Mary".
CONSECRATION TO JESUS BY MEANS OF MARY
Aware of my Christian vocation, I renew today in your hands, O Mary, the commitments of my Baptism.
I renounce Satan, his seductions, his works; and I consecrate myself to Jesus Christ to carry my cross with him in daily fidelity to the Father's will.
In the presence of the whole Church I recognize you for my Mother and Sovereign.
To you I offer and consecrate my person, my life and the value of my good past, present and future works.
You dispose of me and what belongs to me to the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity.
Saint Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort Prayer from Montfort's work: "The love of Jesus eternal Wisdom".
CONSECRATION OF THE FAMILY TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Come, O Maria, deign to live in this house. Just as the Church and all mankind were consecrated to Your Immaculate Heart, so we perpetually entrust and consecrate our family to Your Immaculate Heart.
You, who are the Mother of divine Grace, obtain for us to always live in the grace of God and in peace among us.
Stay with us; We welcome you with the heart of children, unworthy, but eager to always be yours, in life, in death and in eternity.
Stay with us as you lived in the house of Zacharias and Elizabeth; how you were joy in the house of the spouses of Cana; as you were mother to the Apostle John.
Bring us Jesus Christ, Way, Truth and Life. Remove sin and all evil from us.
In this house be Mother of grace, Master and Queen.
Dispense to each of us the spiritual and material graces we need; especially increase faith, hope, charity.
Arouse among our dear holy vocations.
Always be with us, in joys and sorrows, and above all make sure that one day all the members of this family find themselves united with you in Paradise. Amen.
COMMUNITY CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, whom you exhorted us in Fatima to pray, to repair sins and to consecrate ourselves to Your Immaculate Heart, we welcome Your invitation with a filial soul and we raise to you our confident and fervent prayer in this now dramatic and full of worries for the whole world.
We consecrate ourselves to Your Immaculate Heart. Our consecration wants to be an act of total availability to God and his plan of salvation over us, to be lived on your example and with your maternal guide.
We are aware that this consecration commits us to live according to the demands of baptism, which unites us to Christ as members of the Church, a community of love, of prayer, of proclamation of the Gospel in the world.
Accept, O Mother of the Church, this consecration of ours and help us to be faithful.
With you, humble handmaid of the Father, we will say our yes to the divine Will every day of our existence. Through you, Mother and disciple of Christ, we will walk on the way of the Gospel. Led by you, bride and temple of the Holy Spirit, we will spread joy, fraternity and love in the world.
O Mary, turn your merciful eyes to humanity consecrated to Your Immaculate Heart.
He implores for the Church, for families, for peoples the gift of unity and peace.
You, who already live glorious in the light of God, offer the tormented man of today the victory of hope over anguish, of communion over solitude, of peace over violence.
Accompany us on the journey of faith of this life and show us, after this exile, Jesus, the blessed fruit of your womb, either merciful, or pious, or sweet Virgin Mary.
Prayer from the book by Eugenio Fornasari: "The great promise of Fatima" Milan, Ed. Paoline, 1988.
OR IMMACULATE VIRGIN
O Immaculate Virgin, Queen of heaven and earth,
I know I am unworthy to approach you. But since I love you so much, I dare to beg you
to be so good as to tell me who you are. I want to know you more and more,
to be able to love you without limits. I want to reveal to everyone who you are, so that an increasing number of souls know you more and more perfectly,
you love yourself more and more ardently and You can become the Queen of all hearts as soon as possible
who beat and will beat on this earth. O Immaculate Virgin, I beg you
that all men recognize you for Mother and that all, for You, feel they are children of God
and love each other like brothers.
Grant me, oh Immaculate Virgin, that I praise You with all my strength, that I live only for You
and for You you work, suffer, consume me, die. Let me work on it
for Your greater glory, that I may give you so much joy.
Make others glorify you more than I, so that in noble emulation
Your glory increases more and more, as He who elevated you above all creatures desires. Amen.
St. Maximilian M. Kolbe
PRAYER
TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY MATERNAL REFUGE
O Queen of the Universe and Mediator between men and God, Mother of pain, love and mercy, consolation and refuge of all our hopes that, while breaking your Heart with so many contempt and outrages, you still deign to be propitious towards of us, unworthy and ungrateful children; obtain us, we pray You with filial confidence and great trust, the grace to be freed from sin, which kills souls and has brought the world into ruins. O dearest Mother, we recognize that you have crowned Your divine Son and our Redeemer Jesus with thorns and torn your tender Heart with many wounds, for which we deserved the scourges of the Justice of God. But now, repent and repent, invoking Yours protection and your help, we take refuge in your maternal heart, the only shelter in the stormy whirlwind that upsets the world.
Welcome, with prayer for our salvation, our fervent supplication for reparation for the many offenses that are committed, at any time of day and night, by many other ungrateful children, so that, illuminated and attracted by your motherly love, may they also find refuge and salvation.
O Mary, Queen of Heaven and earth, Mother of God, our Mother and Mediatrix, You who have
all the power with God and all the love for our salvation, in this sad and dark hour, which envelops and submerges this wretched and tormented humanity, among the growing and threatening forces of the infernal evil one, let go down, we pray you with live faith, the light of your motherly love on the whole world and especially in unfaithful hearts and hardened in guilt, so that all united, as one heart, in the faith and love of the divine heart of your and our Jesus, we can sing, on the whole earth, the triumph of Your maternal mercy. So be it.
With ecclesiastical approval of the Diocese of Mileto (CZ)
PRAYER TO THE MOTHER OF GOD
Holy Mary, Mother of God, keep me a child's heart,
pure and clear as spring water. Get me a simple heart,
that it does not bend while savoring its sadness. A big heart in giving oneself,
easy to compassion;
a faithful and generous heart that does not forget any good
and hold no grudge against any evil. Form me a gentle and humble heart, which you love without demanding to be loved in return, happy to disappear into other hearts by sacrificing yourself to Your divine Son.
A big and indomitable heart
so that no ingratitude can close him, and no indifference can tire him.
A heart consoled by the love of Jesus Christ, united with his Passion, with a plague
that you do not heal except in Heaven. Amen.
Lorenzio de Grandmaison
PRAYER TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Immaculate Heart of Mary, full of Goodness, show your love for us.
The flame of your Heart, O Mary, descend on all men.
We love you immensely.
Imprint true love in our hearts so as to have a continuous desire for You.
O Mary, meek and humble of heart, remember us when we fall into sin.
You know that all men sin.
Give us, through your Immaculate Heart, to be healed of any spiritual illness.
Grant that we can always look at the goodness of your maternal Heart and that we convert through the flame of your Heart.
Amen