1.     HOW TO MAKE IT: THE ORDER OF GRACE

FATHER: Ask the Holy Spirit to help you to respond to Jesus’ great love. It is through Jesus that you come to Me, your Heavenly Father. It is through Mary that you go to Jesus, your Saviour (p90HLAW).

For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man
Christ Jesus (1Timothy2:5).

 Saint Louis de Montfort outlined the perfect Consecration to Jesus through Mary in a process of three steps which are:

1.     Surrender to Mary our Mother and model (Nos. 28,45 Secret of Mary):

        JESUS: Will you at last submit to the rule of the Queen of Heaven by offering your entire life to her as a gesture of love for the Blessed Trinity? (cf Behold thy Mother John 19:27), (p316HLAW).

        I renounce myself, I give myself to you, my dear Mother (No.259 True Devotion to Mary). “The essential practice of this devotion is to perform all our actions with Mary” (No.45 Secret of Mary). This “requires an interior dependence on Mary”(No.44 Secret of Mary), in which “we must forget self and abandon our own views”(No.46 Secret of Mary). Be with Mary at the foot of the Cross in order to become totally consecrated to Jesus’ Most Precious Blood, totally committed to Jesus’ mission – the salvation of souls including our own, and totally devoted to Mary.

2.     And to Jesus through Mary (No.28 Secret of Mary). Through surrendering to Mary we show that we need her “to be our Advocate and Mediatrix with Him who is our Mediator” with our Father (No.36 Secret of Mary), (cf John 2:3-5; 3 Kings 2:19 Douay Rheims).

3.     And then perform “all our actions with Mary, in Mary, through Mary, and for Mary”(No.28 Secret of Mary). “We must become an instrument in Mary’s hands for her to act in us and do with us what she pleases for the greater glory of her Son, and through Jesus for the greater glory of the Father”(No.46 Secret of Mary). “Without Mary” our “work and intentions will be of little value. But if” we “go to God through Mary”, our “work will become Mary’s work, and consequently will be most noble and most worthy of God” (No.50 Secret of Mary).

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