Dear Friends in Christ:
Here is a daily act of consecration for the end of the Rosary:
LEADER 2: “Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary”
LEADER 2 / ALL:
My Queen and my Mother,
I give myself entirely to you;
and to show my devotion,
I consecrate to you this day
my eyes,
my ears,
my mouth,
my heart,
my soul,
my whole being without reserve.
Wherefore, good Mother, as I am yours,
keep me, and guard me, as your own property and possession. Your own devoted child. Amen.
See her recap video below: “What is a Consecration?”
WHAT IS A CONSECRATION? DR. BLYTHE KAUFMAN EXPLAINSCONSECRATION INFOHere is the best translation of St. Maximillian Kolbe’s consecration. You can still recite it if you missed this step. As we had technical difficulties, we will keep up this Consecration and re-boot for ROSARY365 when needed. First, listen to this video:
The following text was provided by Fr. Elias Mary Mills, Franciscan Friar of the Immaculata (USA) to assist our listeners.
ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY to recite
O Immaculate Queen of Heaven and earth, Refuge of sinners and Our most loving Mother, to whom God willed to entrust the entire order of Mercy, I, an unworthy sinner, cast myself at Your feet, humbly begging You to be so good as to accept me wholly and completely as Your possession and property, and to do with me and with all my powers of soul and body, with my whole life, death, and eternity, whatever pleases You.
If it pleases You, use my whole self without reserve to accomplish what has been said of You: "She will crush your head" (Genesis 3:15), and also: "You alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world" (Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary), so that I may become a useful instrument in Your immaculate and most merciful hands for promoting and increasing Your glory to the maximum in so many strayed and indifferent souls, and thus extend as much as possible the blessed Kingdom of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
For, wherever You enter, You obtain the grace of conversion and sanctification, since it is through Your hands that all grace comes to us from the Most Sweet Heart of Jesus.
R. Allow me to praise You, O most Holy Virgin.
V. Give me strength against Your enemies
The explanation:
Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Explained
St. Maximillian Kolbe
O Immaculata. . . [1331]
In the invocation we first say, O Immaculata. We turn to Her under this name, because She Herself deigned to be known by this name at Lourdes. The Immaculate Conception. God is immaculate, and each of the Three Persons is immaculate, but God is not conceived. Angels are immaculate, but there is no conception with them. The first parents were immaculate before sinning, but neither were they conceived. Jesus was immaculate and conceived, but He was not a conception, for as God He already existed before and to Him also applied the words of the Name of God as revealed to Moses: "I am Who am, Who always is and does not begin to be." Other people are conceptions, but stained. She alone is not only conceived, but also a conception and immaculate. This name conceals many more mysteries, which will be discovered in time. Thus She indicates that the Immaculate Conception belongs as to the essence of the Immaculata.
This name must be dear to Her, because it signifies the first grace She received in the first moment of Her existence. The first gift is the dearest one. This name is ratified by Her life, because She was always unspotted. Hence She was also full of grace and God was always with Her, even to the degree that She became the Mother of the Son of God.
Queen of heaven and earth
In a family the loving parents fulfill the will of the children as much as they are able, in so far as it is not harmful for them. So much the more does God, the Creator and Prototype of earthly parents, desire to fulfill the will of His creatures, in so far as it is conformable with His will. The Immaculata did not bend away from the Will of God in anything. In all things She loved the Will of God, loved God. Hence, She is justly called the Omnipotent Beseecher. She has influence upon God Himself, on the entire world; She is the Queen of heaven and earth. In heaven everyone acknowledges the rule of Her love. That group of the first angels which did not want to acknowledge Her reign lost its place in heaven.
She is Queen also of earth because She is the Mother of God Himself, but She both desires and has a right to be freely acknowledged by every heart, be loved as the Queen of every heart, so that through Her that heart might purify itself more, might become immaculate, similar to Her Heart and more worthy of union with God, with the Love of God, with the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Refuge of Sinners
God is merciful, infinitely merciful, nevertheless just and infinitely just. He cannot bear the least sin and must demand full satisfaction for it. The Stewardess of the infinite value of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus which washes away sin, is the personification of God's Mercy in the person of the Immaculate. Therefore She is rightly called the Refuge of Sinners, of all sinners regardless of the number and greatness of their sins; even though the sinner would think that there is no more mercy left for him. Indeed, every cleansing of the soul is for Her a new confirmation of Her title of Immaculate Conception. The more deeply the soul is plunged in sin, the more does the power of Her immaculateness show itself, by the fact that She gives snowy whiteness to such a soul.
Most merciful Mother
The Immaculata is the Mother of our entire supernatural life. She is the Mediatrix of All Graces, indeed Mother of the grace of God, hence our Mother in the sphere of grace, in the supernatural sphere. She is a most merciful Mother, because you do not have any mother so affectionate, so loving, so God-like, so Immaculate, wholly divine.
Thou to whom God entrusted the entire order of mercy
In a family the father is glad at times that the mother stays his punishing hand over the child by her intercession, because justice is satisfied and mercy is shown. Not without cause is justice suspended. Similarly God, in order not to punish us, gives us a spiritual Mother, whose intercession He never opposes. Hence the saints claim that Jesus reserved for Himself the disposition of justice, giving to the Immaculata the whole dispensation of His mercy.
I an unworthy sinner. . . [1331 cont.]
In the second part of the act we say: I, an unworthy sinner. We here admit that we are not as She, immaculate, but sinful. What is more, none of us can say that he has reached this day without sin, but feels himself guilty of much infidelity. We also say unworthy, because between an immaculate being and one soiled by sin there is in some sense an infinite difference. In all truth we acknowledge ourselves unworthy to turn to Her, to pray to Her, to fall at Her feet, in order not to become similar to the proud Lucifer. Hence we also say: I prostrate myself at Thy feet, humbly beseeching Thee to accept my whole and entire self as Thy possession and property. By these words we beg, we beseech the Immaculata to accept us. We offer ourselves to Her entirely, in every respect, as Her children, and as slaves of love, as servants, as instruments, and under every single aspect, under every title which anyone at any time might be able to express. We become Hers as Her possession and property, to use us and use us up even to complete destruction, according to Her free disposition.
And to dispose of me, of all my faculties of soul and body, of my whole life, death, and eternity, as it pleases Thee.
To Her we give our whole being, all the faculties of our soul, and intellect, memory and will, and all the faculties of the body, all the senses and each in particular, our strength, health or sickness. We offer Her our entire life with all its experiences, pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent.
We give Her our death whenever and wherever and in whatever way it befalls us. We give Her our whole eternity. We expect that we will be able to belong perfectly to Her only then beyond comparison. In this way we express a desire and entreaty, so that She allows us to become Hers under every aspect more and more perfectly.
Make use of me, if such be Thy will, entirely without reserve to bring about that which was said of Thee: "She will crush thy head, " and again, "Thou alone hast destroyed all the heresies in the whole world."
On the statues and pictures of the Immaculata we always see the serpent at Her feet, surrounding the globe of the earth, as She crushes the head of the serpent.
Satan soiled by sin, endeavors to soil all souls on earth. He hates Her who was always unspotted. He waits for Her heel in the persons of Her children; She crushes his head in the fight in the person of everyone who has recourse to Her. We ask Her to use us if She wishes, as an instrument to crush the proud head of the serpent in unfortunate souls. Holy Scripture adds, quoting the verse mentioned above: "And thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." The evil spirit really lies in wait in a special way for those who dedicate themselves to the Immaculata; he desires to insult Her at least in them. His endeavor against sincerely dedicated souls always ends with his more shameful defeat; hence his fury is more violent, impotent.
The words, "Thou alone hast destroyed all the heresies in the whole world,” are taken from the prayers which the Church orders Her priests to say about Her (the Immaculata). The Church says "heresies" and not the heretics, whom She loves and because of this love desires to free them from the error of heresy. The Church says "all", without any exception; “alone", since She alone suffices. God is Hers with all the treasures of grace for the conversion and sanctification of souls. No corner of the earth is excluded “in the whole world." In this act of consecration we beg Her to use us to destroy the whole serpent coiled about the earth, which serpent represents the various heresies.
So that in Your Immaculate and Merciful hands, I might become a useful instrument (tool) towards implanting and developing Thy glory in a most eminent degree in the many strayed and indifferent souls.
All over the world we see unhappy, erring souls, who do not even know their purpose in life. They love all kinds of earthly goods, instead of the one good, namely, God. Many too are indifferent to the highest love. We desire the "implanting and developing... in a most eminent degree" of the glory of the Immaculata in those souls. We beg Her that we may be instruments in Her immaculate and merciful hands, in order that She would not allow us to contradict Her, that She constrain us, should we not want to listen to Her.
And thus become instrumental in spreading the sweet Kingdom of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is the love of God toward men. His kingdom is the reign of love in the hearts of men, which Jesus manifested in the crib, throughout His life, on the Cross, in the Eucharist, when He gave His Mother as Mother to us, and which (love) He desires to enkindle in human hearts. The implanting and developing of the honor of the Immaculata and the conquest of souls for Jesus' Mother, who will carry the Kingdom of Jesus into souls.
Wherever Thou dost enter, there Thou obtainest the grace of conversion and sanctification---since through Thy hands flow all the graces from the Sweetest Heart of Jesus.
The Immaculata is the Omnipotent Beseecher. Every conversion and sanctification is the work of grace, and She is the Mediatrix of All Graces. Hence She Herself will suffice to beg and grant graces. During the apparition of the Miraculous Medal, St. Catherine Laboure saw rays streaming from the rings on the fingers of the Immaculata. They represent graces which the Immaculata liberally bestows upon everyone who desires them. Ratisbonne speaks similarly about the rays of grace in his vision.
Vouchsafe that I may praise Thee, O Sacred Virgin. Give me strength against Thine enemies.
When Duns Scotus, a Franciscan, going to Paris for a dispute, in which he was to defend the privilege of the Immaculate Conception at the University of Sorbonne, was passing by a statue of the Blessed Mother and prayed to Her with the above mentioned words, as tradition has it, the Blessed Mother bowed Her head as a sign of confirmation.
In the first part of this petition Duns Scotus turns humbly to the Mother of God and asks that She permit him to praise Her. Acknowledging his great unworthiness for such a sublime work as praising the Blessed Mother, he likewise acknowledges that grace depends on Her, and it is enough that She permit him, and his efforts will be crowned with success.
The second part is strong, unconditional, brave. As an instrument in Her hand, he asks for strength to overcome the serpent.
Who is Her enemy? Whatever is stained, whatever does not lead to God, whatever is not love, whatever comes from the hellish serpent, through his instruments or himself, is Her enemy; hence it includes all our defects, all our faults. We ask Her to give us strength against them. For this one purpose all devotions exist, all prayers, the Holy Sacraments: that we receive power to overcome all obstacles in our striving for God in a more and more ardent love, in assimilating ourselves to God, in uniting with God Himself. Just as we have come from God through a creature, so also we return to God. All nature tells us this. Wherever we glance, we see reaction after action, contraries opposed, as it were, an echo of God's operation and His operation in creatures in its reaction.
The being endowed with free will meets with difficulties and oppositions, and God permits these trials in order to strengthen that being so much the more in its striving towards Him. In order that the being have sufficient strength, it must pray, it must ask for that strength from Him, Who is the source of all strength and Who looks upon the efforts of His creatures with love and desires that it come sincerely to Him, for He does not stint His aid. Even if that creature, that child of His, stumbles on the way, falls, soils itself, wounds itself, that merciful Father cannot look upon its misfortune. He sends down His Only Begotten Son, Who by His life and teaching points out to the soul a bright and sure road. By His Most Sacred Blood of infinite value He washes away the dirt and heals the wounds. So that the soul in sight of the violated justice of God would not lose hope, God sends a personification of His love, the Spouse of the Spirit of motherly love, the Immaculata, all beautiful, without stain, though a daughter of men, sister of human beings, He commits the stewardship of His entire mercy towards souls to Her the Mediatrix of Grace which was earned by His Son. He makes Her the Mother of Grace, the Mother of souls born of grace, reborn, and continually reborn in an always more perfect God-likeness.
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Every morning, try after your Rosary to recite “the Act of Consecration”.
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APPENDIX: INTERNATIONAL ROSARY SONG OPTIONS (AS SUNG BY BISHOP JOHN KEENAN)
As I kneel before you
As I bow my head in prayer
Take this day, make it yours
And fill me with your love
REFRAIN: Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu
All I have I give you
Every dream and wish are yours
Mother of Christ
Mother of mine, present them to my Lord
REFRAIN: Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu
As I kneel before you
And I see your smiling face
Every thought, every word
Is lost in your embrace
REFRAIN: Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu
