Marian Consecration Day 15 - Mother Teresa's Long Night of the Soul

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Help me to find the love of the Heart of Jesus hidden in the darkness.

 

"In anticipation of Mother Teresa's canonization"

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Marian Consecration Day 14 - Kolbe's Prayer of Consecration

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Prepare me to give all to the Immaculata for the sake of the kingdom.

 Jesus said to his disciples:

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field,

which a person finds and hides again,

and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant

searching for fine pearls.

When he finds a pearl of great price,

he goes and sells all that he has and buys it.”

Mathew 13:44-46

 I, (name), a repentant sinner, cast myself at your feet, humbly imploring you to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to yourself as your possession and property. Please make of me, all of my powers of soul and body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases you.

If it pleases you, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of you: "She will crush (Satan's) head," and, "You alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world." Let me be a fit instrument in your immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing your glory to the maximum in all the many strayed and indifferent souls, and thus help extend as far as possible the blessed kingdom of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. For wherever you enter you obtain the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through your hands that all grace comes to us from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

St. Maximilian Kolbe

Prayer for Marian Consecration 

Marian Consecration Day 13 - Mary the Mediatrix of All Graces

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Prepare me to be a fit instrument in the hands of the Immaculata.

 

Our Lady Queen of the Miraculous Medal

. . . (The image of Mary on the Miraculous Medal) depicts Mary standing on a globe with rays of light (graces) streaming from the rings on her fingers. (St.) Catherine (Laboure) noticed that rays did not stream from all of Mary's rings. Mary explained that the rays and graces were available but did not come because nobody asked for them. 

Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC

33 Days to Morning Glory

St. Maximilian Kolbe on building an army of people "possessed" by Mary, ones who give themselves to be her instruments on earth:

The Knights of the Immaculata seek to become ever more truly the property of the Immaculata; to belong to her in an ever more perfect way and under every aspect without any exception. They wish to develop their understanding of what it means to belong to her so that they may enlighten, reinvigorate, and set on fire the souls living in their own environment, and make them similar to themselves. 

Luigi Faccenda, OFM

One More Gift

"My dear, dear brothers, our dear little, little mother, the Immaculate Mary, can do anything for us. We are her children. Turn to her. She will overcome everything."

St. Maximilian Kolbe

 As quoted by Patricia Treece in 

A Man for Others: Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz

Marian Consecration Day 12 - I Surrender of My Will to Yours

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

    Unite my will to the will of Mary, which is one with Your will.

Marian Consecration Day 11 - Mary Always Does God's Will. Perfectly

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Renew the face of the earth, so that all creation may return to God.

He no longer wished for curious things, searching to find out what would happen to him, but studied rather to learn what was the acceptable and perfect will of God for the beginning and perfection of every good work. 

Thomas a Kempis

"On the Fervent Amendment of Our Whole Life"

Imitation of Christ (Book 1, Chapter 25)

Two evils have my people done:

They have forsaken me, the source of living waters;

          They have dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that hold no water. 

Jeremiah 2:12-13

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"But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and hear what you hear but did not hear it."

Mathew 13:16-17

 

  

Marian Consecration Day 10 - Mary's Deep, Mystical, Spousal Union with the Holy Spirit

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Unveil for me the meaning of the Immaculate Conception

What type of union is this? It is above all an interior union, a union of her essence with the "essence" of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit dwells in her, lives in her. This was true from the first instant of her existence. It was always true; it will always be true. . . Among creatures made in God's image, the union brought about by married love is the most intimate of all (Mt 19:6). In a much more precise, more interior, more essential manner, the Holy Spirit lives in (Mary's) soul, in the depths of her very being. He makes her fruitful from the very first instant of her existence, all during her life, and for all eternity. 

. . . If among human beings a wife takes the name of her husband because she belongs to him, is one with him, becomes equal to him, and is with him the source of new life, with how much greater reason should the name of the Holy Spirit (who is the divine Immaculate Conception) be used as the name of her in whom he lives . . . ?

Maximilian Kolbe

from Immaculate Conception and the Holy Spirit (H M Manteau-Bonamy, OP) 

Marian Consecration Day 9 - The Holy Spirit Is The Divine Immaculate Conception

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Unveil for me the meaning of the Immaculate Conception.