TOTUS TUUS, MARIA!

(I am all yours, Mary)

TOTAL CONSECRATION TO MARY

TRUE HAPPINESS FOR YOU AND THE WORLD

Myriam van Nazareth

God created man that he might lead a holy life. The first couple, however, followed Satan’s lures and disobeyed God. This - humanity’s first sin - is known as original sin. Satan’s poison penetrated man’s soul and was thus to prevent all future generations from living in the image of God. From this moment man could only be sanctified to the extent that he was prepared to remove the infernal serpent’s bite from his soul by living according to the divine will, namely in true love, in purity and in virtue. Original sin, as well as the endless chain of sins committed by subsequent generations, has saddled humanity with an ever-increasing indebtedness in the face of divine justice. This indebtedness has, in turn, engendered a serious imbalance in creation. All the misery we witness around us, such as wars, combat, discord, lack of love, hunger, poverty, natural disasters and a relentless spread of sin and vice, is the result of this imbalance. Evil incessantly increases its power over humanity because, by sinning, souls provide Satan with ever more power.

God had predetermined that the Most Blessed Virgin Mary would be the one to win the victory over Satan. Mary was the only human being conceived without blemish, which means that Her soul is free from original sin. From Her, Jesus Christ – the Son of God – was to be born in order to save humanity from the effects of original sin – eternal damnation – by suffering and dying on the cross. To allow Jesus’ Works of Redemption to serve you, it is necessary for you to follow Jesus in your life. You must accept His word as the only truth of God and strive to imitate His earthly life as faithfully as possible by aiming for perfection in all the virtues (Love, purity, honesty, integrity, tolerance, spirit of sacrifice and reconciliation...) and by loving acceptance of your daily crosses (daily burdens, trials and tribulations, sufferings, diseases, worries). This is the path that leads to eternal happiness in heaven, and helps to reduce humanity’s indebtedness and to limit the power of evil, thus purifying the world of all misery.

The Blessed Virgin Mary has received the power to complete Christ’s work of redemption in the world and to banish Satan from the world forever. Yet She is allowed to make use of this power only to the extent that souls request this of Her through fervent prayer and through total consecration of their lives to Her. Why should this be so? Because God always respects man’s free will.

So your personal happiness and that of the whole world lies in the hands of Mary. Do you long for eternal bliss after your earthly life and an earthly existence in a world without misery but full of love and peace? Consecrate your whole being then, your whole life and all that is yours, to Mary.

How do you consecrate yourself to Mary?

By telling Her each day that you want to be in Her possession and safekeeping, by offering to Her all your actions, words, thoughts, feelings, desires and aspirations; by asking Her daily to guide you in everything and by accepting all your burdens, trials and sufferings so that She may use them in Her plan for the salvation of the world. This plan is the establishment of Christ’s Kingdom on earth. Through your consecration your sufferings are transformed in Mary’s hands into POWER and LIGHT.

The more you can give Mary by way of sacrifice and trial in a spirit of love and submission (without resistance), the more She will be able to exercise Her infinite power over Satan. Each protest, each grumble of dissatisfaction in your heart slows down Mary’s victory and postpones the establishment of God’s Kingdom of joy and peace on earth.

Why should you consecrate yourself to Mary?

Because She has at Her disposal the power of God, and because She is the Chosen One who, wholly victorious over all sin and temptation, will bring down Satan under Her feet. For God had predestined Her as the Woman who would crush with Her heel the head of the serpent. The souls who surrender completely to Mary – in deed, not word – willingly offering up their burdens, are – as Her servants – to place Satan under Her feet.

This consecration is a sacred covenant. The expectation from these souls is that they should live this bond not in a theoretical way, but in everyday practice, without reserve. Were they to protest and grumble about every trial, they would contribute nothing to the salvation of the world.

Do not waste your daily troubles, rather consecrate yourself totally to Mary and live this consecration with your whole being. Thus, your daily crosses will gain heaven for you after this life, free the world from all misery and glorify God.
This alone is required of you: that every moment of your life may be geared towards the realisation of Mary’s goals rather than your own. After all, Mary longs exclusively for eternal happiness for each soul and for the salvation of the world.
 
CONSECRATION TO MARY
applied very conscientiously in everyday practice
=
PERFECT IMITATION OF CHRIST

So as to be a link in MARY’S CHAIN OF LIGHT
which will finally overcome evil,
offer the following brief prayer of consecration to Mary daily,
and share it with others:

741. BASIC ACT OF CONSECRATION TO MARY

(Myriam van Nazareth)

Heavenly Mother Mary,
I want to be all Yours, in all my actions, words, thoughts, feelings, hopes and desires.
Help me serve You with love, purity, devotion and joy every moment of my life.
May this offering of my entire being to You sanctify my soul and deliver the world from the power of evil, so that God’s Kingdom on earth may come.

Myriam