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Act of Consecration to Jesus through Mary (St. Louis de Montfort)

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Eternal and Incarnate Wisdom, most lovable and adorable Jesus, true God and true man, I thank Thee for having emptied Thyself in taking the form of a slave to rescue me from the cruel slavery of the evil one. I have not kept the promises made for me at my baptism. I have not fulfilled my obligations, and I do not deserve to be called Thy child. Yet since I can obtain nothing except through Thee, I come to Thee by the hands of Thy holy Mother. I, N., an unfaithful sinner, renew and ratify today in thy hands, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism. I renounce for ever Satan, his pomps and works, and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life. I choose thee this day for my Mother and Queen. I deliver and consecrate to thee, as thy slave of love, my body and soul, my goods both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present and to come; leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for the greater glory of God in time and in eternity. Amen.

St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary (public domain translation)

About the prayer

Louis de Montfort and printed at the end of his True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is prayed once, after the thirty-three day preparation, on a Marian feast day, and renewed each year on the same feast. Its language of "slavery of love" is deliberately strong and comes from the seventeenth-century French school of spirituality; Montfort means by it that nothing is held back. Two points are essential to reading it rightly. First, the consecration is to Jesus — Mary is the way, and Montfort says so on nearly every page. Second, what is given away is the satisfactory value of one's good works, not merit, and God is not thereby prevented from providing for the one who gives. The prayer is a renewal of baptismal promises, which is why it opens by naming the vows made at Baptism.

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