Total Consecration Day
It has arrived. TOTAL CONSECRATION DAY is HERE!!! ALLELUIA!!! This is a beautiful day. We give ourselves to our Lady in Holy Slavery. We give her all our actions, merits, blessings, everything. We entrust ourselves to her like Jesus did. St. Louis De Montfort says: “To Jesus through Mary.” Why? Mary always takes us to Jesus to worship Him and adore Him, she is always leading, pointing, directing us toward Him. This is why giving ourselves to Mary is really giving ourselves to Jesus.
So if we are really giving ourselves to Jesus, why not just go to Jesus directly? We go through Mary because we are poor sinners who need help. We go through Mary because it is the humble thing to do. We ask Mary for her help and she will intercede for us and help us to get to Jesus. Mary is able to shower down upon us graces and blessings because she will always be in conformity with the will of God. We go through her because she knows what is best for us.
Really it is as St. Louis De Montfort says, “Through Jesus to Mary.” Since Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, all devotion begins and ends in Jesus. We wouldn’t know who Mary is except that God made her holy and perfect. She perfectly did the will of God and still does the same. It is because God poured His love into her that we know her, so Jesus help’s us to go to His Mother.
St. Louis De Montfort encourages us to renew our Consecration each year. We should try to do it on the same feast day. Each time we make the Total Consecration, we should aim at getting to confession, we so need the grace of this sacrament especially. And we should remember that just because we have made the Total Consecration it doesn’t mean that we are holy. We have a continued battle to grow in virtue and holiness, but now we entrust ourselves to Mary and she will help us. We still need to continually respond to God and His grace.
It is great that we have made the Total Consecration, but now we need to live the Total Consecration day in and out!
Finally, we are in good company with those who have made the Total Consecration. St. Louis De Montfort and St. John Paul II made this Total Consecration. We even see evidence of this Consecration on St. John Paul II’s Coat of Arms. It is blue with an M for Mary. Wow. We are following in the footsteps of great saints!