Reflections on Second Week
We began our journey of the 33 Day Consecration To Jesus Through Mary with St Louis de Montfort leading us down a path into self-knowledge. Like all the great saints, he teaches us the necessity of knowing ourselves because only through self-knowledge can we learn of our great beauty in that we are images and likenesses of God but also, it’s only through self-knowledge that we can begin to know the depth of our sinfulness against this all-loving God whom we have so often rejected during our lives.
During these past 3 weeks, we have looked at our attitude in our past toward any trials that God may have permitted to touch our lives. We’ve talked about how these trials allow us to recognize our need for control, our erroneous belief in our own self-sufficiency. The Holy Spirit is enlightening us to see that it’s been through these very trials that God has been calling us back to Himself. We’re slowly beginning to know ourselves a little better because through our Consecration prayers, we are learning to look at our need for God, to see the folly of believing that we can restrict God to only certain activities during our days. We are beginning to approach Him with humility and that we are totally dependent on Him, for everything.
As we now step into a time to enter into a deeper knowledge of Mary, we take all that we’ve learned with us…
- if we are still holding on to any belief in our own self-sufficiency, we read of St Louis’ words which reveal Mary’s complete emptiness of self and her total reliance on God. We ask her to help us to get rid of our own self-sufficient thinking when we pray “root it out and bring it to nothing”.
WE ARE GIVING OVER ASPECTS OF OUR WILL INTO HER CARE.
- if we find that we are still reacting to trials with fears, we ask her to
