Marian Consecration Day 20 - A Covenant with Mary

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Help me to ardently make a Covenant of Consecration with Mary.

Icon of Mary with Child Jesus

As seen at St. Mary Cause of Our Joy Catholic Church (Westland, MI) 

The Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady prompts us to acknowledge the basis for this joyful hope. Yes, we are still pilgrims, but our mother has gone on ahead, where she points to the reward of our efforts. She tells us that we can make it. And, if we are faithful, we will reach home. The blessed Virgin is not only our model, she is the help of Christians. And as we besiege her with our petitions — "Show that you are our Mother" — she cannot help but watch over her children with motherly care.

St. Josemaria Escriva

"The Blessed Virgin, Cause of Our Joy:

A Homily on the Solemnity of the Assumption"

Christ Is Passing By (#177)

Mary’s Duties	My Duties
1. To give of her spirit and her heart	1. Total gift of all I have and am
2. To possess, protect, and transform me	2. Total dependence on her
3. To inspire, guide, and enlighten me	3. Responsiveness to her spirt
4. To share her experience of prayer + praise	4. Faithfulness to prayer
5. Responsibility for my sanctification	5. Trust in her intercession
6. Responsibility for all that befalls me	6. Accept all as coming from her
7. To share with me her virtues	7. Imitate her spirit
8. To provide for my spiritual + material needs	8. Constant recourse to her
9. Union with her heart	9. Remembrance of her presence
10. To purify me and my actions	10. Purity of intention; self-denial
11. Right to dispose of me, my prayers, my intercessions, and graces	11. Right to avail myself of her and her energies for the sake of the kingdom
12. Total freedom in and around me, as she pleases, in all things	12. Right to enter into her heart and share her interior life