Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary Day 7 of 33

Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis: Book 1, Chapter 18, cont. Outwardly they suffered want, but within they were refreshed with grace and Divine consolation. They were aliens...

Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary Day 6 of 33

Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis: Book 1, Chapter 18On the examples of the Holy Fathers.Look upon the lively examples of the holy Fathers in whom shone real perfection and the...

Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary Day 5 of 33

Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis: Book 3, Chapter 40 Wherefore, but I did know well, how to cast from me all human comfort, either for the sake...

Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary Day 4 of 33

Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis: Book 3, Chapters 7, 40 That man has no good of himself, and that he cannot glory in anything Lord, what is...

Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary Day 3 of 33

Matthew 7:1-14 Judge not, that you may not be judged, For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be...

Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary Day 2 of 33

Matthew 5:48, 6:1-15Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect....Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have...

Supplement: This Devotion at Holy Communion

266. 1) Place yourself humbly in the presence of God.2) Renounce your corrupt nature and dispositions, no matter how good self-love makes them appear to you.3) Renew your consecration saying, "I belong...

Particular Practices of This Devotion

226. Although this devotion is essentially an interior one, this does not prevent it from having exterior practices which should not be neglected. "These must be done but those not omitted." If...

Wonderful Effects of This Devotion

213. My dear friend, be sure that if you remain faithful to the interior and exterior practices of this devotion which I will point out, the following effects will be produced in...