Marian Consecration

Children of Our Lady of Mercy - Eucharistic Adorers

“Behold, Your Mother”

We invite families to come follow Jesus, by making an act of total consecration. For fathers and mothers to entrust their children and themselves to Jesus, the Divine Mercy through Immaculate Heart of Mary, under her title, Our Lady of Mercy. And to renew their consecration often.

Why Mary? As Catholics, we honor Mary with a great love and devotion because she is the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of God. We honor and love Mary because Jesus gave us His mother to be our mother, we are her spiritual children. By consecrating our heart and life to Jesus through Mary, His holy mother, we will find our love for Jesus will be transformed by grace into a more perfect and holy love.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe puts it this way, “Mary, the mother of God, is the most God like of creatures. The first grace she received from God was her Immaculate Conception, freedom from every stain, even of original sin from the first momentof her existence. The love of Mary is the most perfect love with which a creature can love God. With her heart then let us strive to love the heart of Jesus more and more.”

About Marian Consecration

What is Marian Consecration? Marian Consecration is a gift to us from Jesus at the cross. When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple there whom He loved, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother” (John 19:26-27).

The apostle John represents all of us. On Good Friday, Christ made His mother, the Mother of the human race, and made us her spiritual children.

Jesus loves us, and calls us to share in His divine life. Mary then was given to us to help us enter into a more intimate, and holy relationship with her son Jesus.

Jesus invites us to accept Mary, His own Mother into our heart. To walk with Mary, to share our hopes, our joys, our sorrows, and our fears. Then to allow Mary to help us develop our interior life of trust in Jesus, so that we may have a greater trust in His love.

Marian Consecration then is to say yes to Jesus’s invitation at the foot of the cross, to accept Mary into our heart as our spiritual Mother. To receive Mary in our heart, to love her, and allow her to form our heart in her maternal and loving protection of her Immaculate Heart.

Marian Consecration Prayer: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear Mary, my Heavenly Mother, I love you. Please lead my heart always to Jesus in the richness of His Divine Mercy.
O’ Mary conceived without sin, help me to develop my interior life of trust in Jesus, so that I may live more in the presence of Jesus - so that I may live a life of holiness, offering love, mercy, healing, and hope to the world.

O’ Mary full of grace, take me under your special protection of your Immaculate Heart and guard the purity of my soul. Guide me in life and comfort me in times of suffering.

In times of temptation, in the struggle against evil, in the effort to do good, to do what is right, pray for me dear Mother. And in moments that I may fall from grace into sin, lead me safely to the mercy of your son, Jesus.

Mary, loving Mother of Jesus and my mother, I give you my heart and entrust my life to you and all that I have under your title, Our Lady of Mercy. Amen