254. Consecration to Our Lady by Blessed
1908. MARY IMMACULATE 243 lower than Gop. I salute thee, O secure refuge of sinners, whose mercy fails no one; graciously respond to the desires which I have for divine wis- . dom, and receive the vows and offerings which my nothingness makes to thee to obtain it. DN , a faithless sinner, renew and ratify this day at thy hands my baptismal vows. I re- nounce for ever Satan, his works and pomps, and I give myself wholly to Jesus CuristT, the incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and, in order that I may be more faith- ful to Him than I have hitherto been, I choose thee this day, O Mary, in the presence of the heavenly court, for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and consecrate to thee, as a bondslave, my body and my soul, my possessions interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present and to come, leaving thee the entire and full right to dispose of me and of all that be- longs to me without exception, according to thy good pleasure, to the greater glory of Gon, for time and eternity. Receive, O loving Virgin, this offering of bon- dage which I make to thee, in honour of and in union with the subjection which the eternal Wisdom gave to thy Maternity, as an act of homage before the power which thou and thy Son have over me, a worm and miserable sinner, in thanksgiving for the privileges which the Holy Trinity has bestowed on thee. I protest that I desire henceforth, as thy veritable slave, to seek thy honour and obey thee in all things.
O Mother most admirable, present me to thy dear Son as his eternal slave, so that, having redeemed me through thee, He may receive me from thee.
O Mother of mercy, obtain for me from Gop the gift of true wisdom, and also, to that end, the grace to place myself among the number of those who love thee, and whom thou dost cherish 234 THE HEART OF MARY and protect as thy children and slaves.
O faithful Virgin, make me a perfect disciple in all things, imitator and slave of the eternal Wisdom JEsus CurisT, thy Son, so that by thy intercession I may , come to the plenitude of his years on earth and of his glory in heaven. Amen