The Crowning of Mary, consecration of all the not consecrated.
'Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.' (John 17,17)
Invocation to the Holy Spirit:
In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Holy Spirit, how to name You, You have no face,
You are not the Father, nor the Son, but their love.
The words describing You are the words I loved most:
Spirit of truth, Spirit of love.
You unite Them in You, grant me to try and unite Them in me.
Holy Spirit, You are the inspiration of all that begins,
You give patience in delays and setbacks.
You allow us to achieve, be the invisible Host,
The Host unknown of all human history.
Jean Guitton
Psalm 150:
Halleluiah!/Praise God in his holy sanctuary;/give praise in the mighty dome of heaven./Give praise for his mighty deeds,/praise him for his great majesty./Give praise with blasts upon the horn,/praise him with harp and lyre./Give praise with tambourines and dance,/praise him with strings and pipes./Give praise with crashing cymbals,/praise him with sounding cymbals./Let everything that has breath/give praise to the Lord.
Reading: Romans 12,1-2
I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal or your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.
Meditation:
This devotion consists in giving oneself entirely to Mary in order to belong entirely to Jesus through her. It requires us to give: our body with its senses and members, our soul with its faculties, our present material possessions and all we shall acquire in the future, our interior and spiritual possession, that is, our merits, virtues and good actions of the past, the present and the future.
In other words, we give her all that we possess both in our natural life and in our spiritual life as well as everything we shall acquire in the future in the order of nature, of grace, and of glory in heaven. This we do without any reservation, not even of a penny, a hair, or the smallest good deed. And we give for all eternity without claiming or expecting, in return for our offering and our service, any other reward than the honor of belonging to our Lord through Mary and in Mary.[...]
It follows then that by this devotion we give to Jesus all we can possibly give him, and in the most perfect manner, that is, through Mary's hands. Indeed, we give him far more than we do by other devotions which require us to give only part of our time, some of our good works or acts of atonement and penance. In this devotion, everything is given and consecrated.
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, Treatise on True Devotion, §121;123
Prayer of consecration:
Look at my life, Virgin Mary. I wish to submit everything to your queenship, up to the smallest detail. I hereby consecrate to your Immaculate Heart all that is not yet fully consecrated: all my life, spiritual and material, all the dimensions of my being, all that I own. May your motherly love facilitate my act of total surrender, so that my life may not be mine anymore, but God's, who saved me and gave himself for me.
Mother of hearts, may my heart stay united to yours, so that I may take after you, and that I may act in this world according to the Holy will of your divine Son.
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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. Col 4:6