Marian Prayers
Act of Consecration to Jesus through Mary (St. Louis de Montfort)
This is the act of consecration composed by St.
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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