True Devotion to Mary/Consecration to Jesus through Mary
Second day - August 7.
TRUE DEVOTION TO OUR LADY IN
GENERAL
NECESSITY OF DEVOTION TO OUR LADY
Mary’s part in the Incarnation
With the whole Church I acknowledge that
Mary, being a mere creature fashioned by the hands of God is, compared to his
infinite majesty, less than an atom, or rather is simply nothing, since he
alone can say, “I am he who is”.
Consequently, this great Lord, who is ever independent and
self-sufficient, never had and does not now have any absolute need of the
Blessed Virgin for the accomplishment of his will and the manifestation of his
glory. To do all things he has only to will them.
However, I declare that, considering things
as they are, because God has decided to begin and accomplish his greatest works
through the Blessed Virgin ever since he created her, we can safely believe
that he will not change his plan in the time to come, for he is God and
therefore does not change in his thoughts or his way of acting.
God the Father gave his only Son to the
world only through Mary. Whatever desires the patriarchs may have cherished,
whatever entreaties the prophets and saints of the Old Law may have had for
4,000 years to obtain that treasure, it was Mary alone who merited it and found
grace before God by the power of her prayers and the perfection of her
virtues. “The world being unworthy,”
said Saint Augustine, “to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the
Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.”
The Son of God became man for our salvation
but only in Mary and through Mary. God the Holy Spirit formed Jesus Christ in
Mary but only after having asked her consent through one of the chief ministers
of his court.
God the Father imparted to Mary his
fruitfulness as far as a mere creature was capable of receiving it, to enable
her to bring forth his Son and all the members of his mystical body.
CONSECRATION TO JESUS THROUGH MARY
Day 2 of 33
Matthew 5:48, 6:1-15
Be you
therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect...Take heed that you
do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not
have a reward of your Father who is in heaven. Therefore when thou dost an
almsdeed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the
synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honored by men. Amen I say to
you, they have received their reward. But when thou dost alms, let not thy left
hand know what thy right hand doth. That thy alms may be in secret, and thy
Father who seeth in secret will repay thee. And when ye pray, you shall not be
as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of
the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have
received their reward. But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber,
and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret: and thy Father who
seeth in secret will repay thee. And when you are praying, speak not much, as
the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard. Be
not you therefore like to them, for your Father knoweth what is needful for
you, before you ask him. Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in
heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it
is in heaven. Give us this day our supersubstantial bread. And forgive us our
debts, as we also forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation. But
deliver us from evil. Amen. For if you will forgive men their offenses, your
heavenly Father will forgive you also your offenses. But if you will not
forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offenses.
Recite: Veni Creator, Ave Maris Stella
Veni Creator
Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest, and in our souls take up Thy rest;
come with Thy grace and heavenly aid to fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
O comforter, to Thee we cry, O heavenly gift of God Most High, O fount
of life and fire of love, and sweet anointing from above.
Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known; Thou, finger of God’s hand we
own; Thou, promise of the Father, Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue.
Kindle our sense from above, and make our hearts o’erflow with love;
with patience firm and virtue high the weakness of our flesh supply.
Far from us drive the foe we dread, and grant us Thy peace instead; so
shall we not, with Thee for guide, turn from the path of life aside.
Oh, may Thy grace on us bestow the Father and the Son to know; and Thee,
through endless times confessed, of both the eternal Spirit blest.
Now to the Father and the Son, Who rose from death, be glory given, with
Thou, O Holy Comforter, henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.
Ave Maris Stella
Hail, O Star of the ocean, God’s own Mother blest, ever sinless Virgin,
gate of heav’nly rest.
Taking that sweet Ave, which from Gabriel came, peace confirm within us,
changing Eve’s name.
Break the sinners’ fetters, make our blindness day, Chase all evils from
us, for all blessings pray.
Show thyself a Mother, may the Word divine
born for us thine Infant hear our prayers through thine.
Virgin all excelling, mildest of the mild, free from guilt preserve us
meek and undefiled.
Keep our life all spotless, make our way secure till we find in Jesus,
joy for evermore.
Praise to God the Father, honor to the Son, in the Holy Spirit, be the
glory one. Amen.
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