Marian Consecration Journey May 11 to June 13 for Our Lady of Fátima + Prayers for Days 1 to 12 taught by Padre Nuno (Portugal), Amelia & Fr. David Michael (USA)

SCRIPTURAL FOCUS (Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition)

2 Corinthians 1:19-20

"For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we preached among you, Silva′nus and Timothy and I, was not "Yes" and "No"; but in him it is always "Yes." For all the promises of God find their "Yes" in him. That is why we utter the Amen through Him, to the glory of God."

TRAVESSA DA SENRA HOUSE PRESS PRESENTS | A UNIQUE MULTIMEDIA CONSECRATION JOURNEY WITH THE SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS OF THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST, FR. PETER TURRONE, FR. ELIAS MARY MILLS, FR. NUNO ROCHA, FR. DAVID MICHAEL MOSES. We are THANKFUL TO THE PASTORAL TEAM HELPING US TO ACHIEVE A DEEPER INTIMACY WITH GOD IN SOLIDARITY during YEAR-OF-PRAYER / YEAR-OF-MERCY / YEAR-OF-FORGIVENESS / YEAR-OF-GRACE.

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MARIAN CONSECRATION PHASE 1:

DAYS 1-12, COMBATTING THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD

INTRODUCTION

In the book by St. Lúcia entitled "CALLS" (2017, Coimbra), in Chapter 12, "The Call to the Daily Recitation of the Rosary", the visionary notes the following observation:

“I see that there are very few truly contemplative souls who preserve and maintain within themselves a relationship of intimate familiarity with God which prepares them for the worthy reception of Christ in the Eucharist. Thus, vocal prayer is necessary for them too, meditated, pondered and and reflected upon as much as possible, as the Rosary should be."

THE PRAYERS FOR DAYS 1-12 from SATURDAY MAY 11 to JUNE 13, 2024 in 10 steps. (Scroll to the Footnotes for all the prayers) 

REVIEW THE BASIC CONSECRATION PRAYERS IN THIS VIDEO to BATTLE THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD

• STEP 1: Make the “Sign of the Cross”

• STEP 2: Pray the “Angel of God” (prayer to the Guardian Angel), Morning Prayer¹

• STEP 3: Pray the “Veni Creator Spiritus”²

• STEP 4: SING w/ Bishop Keenan : “Ave Maria, Gratia Plena”³

• STEP 5: Pray “The Magnificat”, Evening Prayer

• STEP 6: Pray to St. Joseph with Fr. Nuno’s Prayer⁴

• STEP 7: Read Matthew 5, 6, 7

• STEP 8: See Fr. Amorth’s notes on Marian Consecration. We’ll add the Liturgical readings he recommends for Days 1-33 as well.

• STEP 9: Learn Portuguese, “Meu Deus” and the “Santíssima Trindade”

• STEP 10: Pray the Rosary Prayers starting on May 12, 2024, the Vigil of Our Lady of Fátima.

ON SPIRITUAL BATTLE: DAYS 1-12 (WHY FOCUS ON PRAYER?)

Fr. Chad Rippenger, an exorcist in the USA, speaks about the nature of Spiritual Battle and the importance of battling Spiritual Indifference in our times. He raises the idea that we cannot any longer accept a life of Spiritual Mediocrity today if we are to overcome the great battles of our times, weakened by a world that has, he argues, forgotten how-to-pray and who needs the question of the Apostles to be re-iterated, “Lord, can you teach us HOW to pray?”.

We invite you also to see part of an earlier version of the 33-Day Consecration to Jesus through Mary by Fr. Gabriel Amorth way down in the footnotes; Father Amorth notes, “After the apparitions of Fatima, consecrations were increasingly multiplied.” LINK TO FOOTNOTE:⁵

STEP 3: ADVANCED (those with more time) - What is Prayer? How to pray in Portuguese. 

• Pray one to five decades of the Holy Rosary as introduced by Fr. Elias Mary Mills, FI in the above video.

• Pray the “Meu Deus” with Fr. Nuno Rocha & Fr. David Michael Moses (translation)

  

• Next, pray the Santíssima Trindade and make time in the next 12 days to find a chapel / Church to partake in Eucharistic Adoration⁶

HISTORY OF FÁTIMA / APPARITIONS OF OUR LADY

GOAL: 

FOR DAYS 1-12, TRY TO READ about the 2nd Apparition of Our Lady of Fátima

Also, pray to St. Jacinta who said of the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

“It will not be long now before I go to Heaven. You will remain here to make known that God wishes to establish in the world devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. When you are to say this, don’t go and hide. Tell everybody that God grants us graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; that people are to ask her for them; and that the Heart of Jesus wants the Immaculate Heart of Mary to be venerated at His side. Tell them also to pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for peace since God has entrusted it to her. If I could only put into the hearts of all, the fire that is burning within my own heart, and that makes me love the Hearts of Jesus and Mary so very much!”

We’ll update this post as time permits with other notes as they arise from inspiration and our daily discoveries. 

God bless and thanks to Fr. Elias, Fr. David Michael, Fr. Anthony, and Fr. Nuno.  

The Rosary Hour Podcast Team

FOOTNOTES TO THIS FIRST POST by THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST (REVIEWED BY IZZY). Start date: May 11, 2024. You can catch up May 12, 2024. 

1. Pray:

“Angel of God, my Guardian Dear, to whom God’s love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to Rule and guide. Angel of God be one with us.”

2. Pray the “Veni Creator Spiritus” (TEXT w/ AUDIO BY AMELIA)

PG. 2: WE INVITE YOU TO PRAY THIS CONSECRATION JOURNEY PRAYER WITH RADIO MARIA USA host who is 10-YEARS-OLD, and has been leading the Rosary with Zosia and Dr. Kaufman for almost 24 months. Pray this prayer every day in the next 12 days.

LEARN A NEW MARIAN HYMN IN PORTUGUESE / LATIN (ENGLISH SUNG BY BISHOP JOHN KEENAN from CHILDCONSECRATION.COM)

3. SING THE “AVÉ MARIA, GRATIA PLENA”

PRAY THE EVENING PRAYER of "THE MAGNIFICAT"

HOST OF THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST with ASHER KAUFMAN (MEMBERS OF CHILDREN’S ROSARY) reads the “Magnificat” for CONSECRATION JOURNEY pilgrims. Click below to pray together so you can memorize the words yourself and get into a routine of including this into your Evening Prayers. The Vatican has announced the importance of praying the Liturgy of the Hours in 2024 and Amelia will return to praying the Divine Office prayers for this Consecration Journey using iBreviary. We invite you to start an “evening prayer” routine which includes the daily prayer of the “Magnificat”.

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Prayer to St. Joseph by: Fr. Nuno Rocha

ADVANCED READERS CAN READ "CONSECRATION TO MARY" by Fr. Amorth SSP

5. For educational use purposes, we have included in this post the text called "Consecration to Mary," written by Father Gabriele Amorth, S.S.P. (1925-2016).

He was a member of the Society of Saint Paul and the Chief Exorcist in the Diocese of Rome in Italy. He is also a prolific author whose book we found in Fátima this past weekend.

According to the pastor who translated Father Amorth’s discourse in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, on Saturday, May 14, 2005 -- “six weeks to the day after the death of Pope John Paul II” -- he said he share these ideas “during a ceremony honoring Our Lady of Fatima connected to the First "Day of the Pilgrim."

The pastor translated this text from Italian into English and says, “May the words of Father Amorth inspire us to give ourselves completely to Our Blessed Mother. She awaits our self-surrender.”

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Consecration to Mary
by Father Gabriele Amorth, S.S.P.

It is beautiful to speak of the Consecration to Mary in this Basilica in which a Pope whom we all have in our hearts presented TOTUS TUUS ("Totally yours") to the world.

But let us deepen the concept of consecration. To consecrate something is to separate it from profane use in order to use it exclusively for worship of God. Therefore, consecration can be made only to God. Why then do we consecrate ourselves to Mary? Because of her role in the plan of Redemption, in which she is always associated to Christ. Mary is wholly a reference to Christ. Therefore, consecration to her has the aim of belonging entirely to Jesus. Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716), the great apostle of consecration to Mary, calls it "Consecration to Jesus through Mary" (Ad Iesum Per Mariam), and spread that famous short formula: "I am all Yours and all that I have I offer to You, my lovable Jesus, through Mary, Your most holy Mother."

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SCRIPTURE:

But let us see first the Biblical texts which demonstrate that God associated Mary to Jesus in the entire plan of the Redemption. I choose three.

1. Genesis 3:15. Adam and Eve sinned. God casts them out of earthly paradise--the Garden of Eden--but gives a great hope for the Redeemer to them, with those words we usually call the Protoevangelium or "First Gospel":

"I will place enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers; she will crush your head . . . ." It is the Offspring of the Woman, that is her Son, Who defeats Satan. But the Mother is so associated to the work of the Son, that painters and sculptors rightly represent Mary in the act of crushing the head of the serpent. "Jesus came to destroy the works of Satan." (1 John 3:8)

2. Saint Luke 1:26-38. The Annunciation. Here the association of Mary in the work of the Redemption reaches its culminating point. The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (1962-1965) does not hesitate to say:

"The Father of mercies willed that the Incarnation should be preceded by the acceptance of her who was predestined to be the mother of His Son . . . ." (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, 56) 

The Divine Maternity of Mary is the center of her mission and greatness. God wanted to give Jesus through Mary to us.

3. Saint John 19:25-27. At the foot of the Cross. Also in that supreme moment of the Redemption Mary associates herself entirely to the Son. The same Council will say the strongest and newest word:

Mary "lovingly consent(ed) to the immolation of this victim which she herself had brought forth." (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, 58) 

To what did she consent? To the Will of God: as the Father wants, so Jesus wanted and Mary wants.

REFLECTIONS ON CONSECRATION TO JESUS THROUGH MARY

Our consecration to (Jesus through) Mary is a following of the Will of God Who wanted to make use of Mary because Jesus became incarnate and accomplished the work of the Redemption.

Consecration to Mary has a very ancient history. We present the recent great consecrations of the world. The most solemn was that pronounced by Pope John Paul II on March 25, 1984, in union with all the Bishops of the world, which led to the collapse of the Communist regime without a shot being fired.

But consecration has a very remote history. Already in the third century the oldest Marian prayer, the Sub Tuum Praesidum ("We fly to Thy Patronage"), presents a people that entrusts itself to Mary:

"We fly to Thy Patronage, O Holy Mother of God, despise not our prayers in our necessities, but ever deliver us from all dangers, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin." 

Thus, we find repeatedly consecrations throughout the centuries. Consider the very beautiful formula of consecration of Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo (+667), even if the first to use the expression "consecration to Mary" was Saint John Damascene (+749).

Throughout the Middle Ages there is a contest between cities and villages that entrust themselves to Mary, often presenting her with the keys of the city, in beautiful ceremonies. But it is in the seventeenth century that the great national consecrations begin: France, 1638; Portugal, 1644; Austria, 1647; Poland, 1656 . . . the consecration of Italy to Mary was later, in 1959, because national unity had not yet been achieved and the previous proposals remained unactualized.

OUR LADY OF FÁTIMA

After the apparitions of Fatima, consecrations were increasingly multiplied. We recall the first consecration of the world, pronounced by Pope Pius XII in 1942, followed in 1952 by the consecration of the Russian peoples. Many others followed. The consecration to the Immaculate Heart always concluded each Peregrinatio Mariae ("Pilgrimage of Mary"). And we remember how Pope John Paul II, in his first stop in the different countries of the world, always consecrated every nation to Mary.

And finally let us go deeper in understanding the significance of consecration. It is a dense and engaging act, which increasingly has been emphasized in the life of the Faithful and in the same life of the Church. But let us attend to a very important fact: the act of consecration per se is not an end in itself but instead is a commitment that is experienced daily. A few years after he made the first consecration of the world in 1942, Pope Pius XII said in 1946:

"To gather abundant and lasting fruits from the consecration to Mary, it is necessary to intend the true sense, understand all that it signifies, assume faithfully all its obligations."

To that end I propose six points of reflection.

1. The first reason that helps us to understand the importance of consecration to Mary is the example of God the Father, Who gave Jesus through Mary to us, entrusting Him to her. It follows that consecration is to recognize the Divine Maternity of Mary and to entrust ourselves to her, as Jesus entrusted Himself to her: from her He was born and grew under her guidance. Hence, to consecrate ourselves to Mary is to imitate the example of Jesus Who entrusted Himself to her. We can truly say that Jesus is the first consecrated to Mary.

2. The consecration to Mary is a means by which we live the fullness of our first consecration to God, which is that of Baptism. Therefore, it is a pledge to live the Baptismal promises with fidelity. And since Mary lives entirely for Jesus and leads everyone to Him, consecration to Mary tends to unite us more closely to the Redeemer, until we can say with Saint Paul: "I no longer live but it is Christ Who lives in me . . . ." (Galatians 2:20)

3. Consecration is a commitment to imitate Mary who not only is the Mother of the Lord but is also the most faithful disciple, the one who always said her unconditional "yes" to God. Therefore, it is a commitment to imitate, with her help, her virtues. In particular she is the Immaculate, and this compels us in the fight against sin. She is the very humble servant of the Lord; this compels us to battle against our pride. She is very obedient to God and so she encourages us to seek to do in everything the Will of God. At her school, that is in obeying her, we are certain of obeying God.

4. To consecrate ourselves to Mary is to welcome her into our life, after the example of John to whom Jesus said from the Cross: "Behold, your Mother." (Saint John 19:27) And John performed a gesture of acceptance that is very exemplary for us. The Greek text, eis ta idia, is translated in various ways: "he received her among his spiritual goods" . . . "he received her into his house." I like the translation chosen by the current Pontiff Benedict XVI when he gave the Homily during the Funeral of Pope John Paul II. He preferred the translation: "he took her as his own." To do all with Mary, through, in and for Mary.

On her part, Mary has taken very seriously her Maternity over us: she treats us, loves us, educates us and provides all for us as sons and daughters. Our concern--and it is one of the ends of consecration--is to recognize this Spiritual Maternity, to welcome Mary into our life, to be docile to her so that her presence and her maternal action over us are experienced, while she does not tire of repeating to us, as to the servants of the Wedding of Cana, "Do whatever He will tell you." (Saint John 2:5)

5. One cannot welcome Mary if he does not also welcome his brothers and sisters, who are all sons and daughters of Mary. It is to put into practice the New Commandment of Jesus: "Love one another as I have loved you." (Saint John 15:12) It is essential and does not admit of exclusions. I add here that certain common phrases, like "I believe in God, but I do not believe in priests, or I do not believe in the Church" do not make sense especially if one is consecrated to Mary, who is the Mother of the Church.

6. And one cannot leave out a concluding thought: we consecrate ourselves to Mary also because we trust in her powerful intercession. We are needy of everything, and Mary is the Mediatrix of All Graces. God made her so great, so powerful, to our advantage. The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council tells us that Mary, assumed into Heaven, continues her maternal work over us, until we see each other safely in Paradise. (See the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, 62, 69) We recommend ourselves to Mary in all our necessities, but especially so that she may pray for us "now and at the hour of our death": they are the two principal moments of life.

CONCLUSION by: FR. GABRIEL AMORTH

I finish with a thought that Pope John XXIII expressed on the occasion of the consecration of Italy to Mary in 1959:

"The Holy Virgin does not come and arrange consecration for her Son. Consecration to Mary means fervent, irrevocable and generous consecration to the Divine Savior, to His law, to His Church."

At the end we will make the renewal of the consecration to Mary. May each person say with sincerity on leaving this Basilica:

"Totus Tuus, O Mary!"

TEXT BY FR. AMORTH FOR EDUCATIONAL USE PURPOSES and RE-PRESENTED for VISUAL CLARITY for MULTIMEDIA CONSECRATION 

by THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST TEAM

33-DAY CONSECRATION JOURNEY 2024 for OUR LADY OF FÁTIMA created graphics visuals made by Amelia and captured May 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 2024 by Karen Rocha for Travessa da Senra House Press; Porto, Portugal (The Rosary Hour Podcast on Marian Pilgrimage).

Thanks to Fr. Elias Mary Mills for his Spiritual Direction on helping us contemplate prayerful our focus for this Consecration Journey. Thanks to Fr. Peter / Fr. Anthony / Fr. David Michael / Fr. Nuno / Fr. Elias for their recordings. Thanks also to Cardinal Collins, Fr. Chris Alar, Teresa Tomeo, Keith Nester and Josephine Lombardi from St. Augustine's Seminary in Scarborough, Ontario.

Thank you for listening to the Rosary Hour Podcast and being part of this Consecration Journey for Our Lady of Fátima in 2024. 

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