PROCEDURE FOR 33-DAY PREPARATION
For TOTAL CONSECRATION to Jesus thru Mary (TC JM)
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- Pray daily the Total Consecration to Jesus thru Mary (TC JM) by St. Louis Marie de Montfort, preferably in the morning before you start working.
- Read “The Secret of Mary” or “True Devotion to Mary” by St. Louis Marie de Montfort to understand what the TC JM is, its benefits, and how to live it.
- 33-Day Preparation before Your Day of Total Consecration: Choose a day, preferably a
Marian feast day as your “ Day of Total Consecration to Jesus thru Mary” and prepare for 33 days before that day. For example, if you want your Day of TC JM to be March 25, Feast of the Annunciation, your 33-day preparation starts on Feb. 20 (Day 1) and ends on March 24 (Day 33). 33 days to honor Jesus who lived for 33 years on earth. St. Louis de Montfort advises 33 days preparation through spiritual exercises consisting of readings and prayers which are not compulsory but will assure that your Total Consecration is greatly efficacious because of the purity and other good dispositions they tend to develop in your soul. For this preparation you can use “The Secret of Mary” edition of our foundation which has Book 2: 33 Day Preparation for TC JM. This will take you only 5 to 10 minutes daily for 33 days. Go for confession within the week before your Day of TC JM.
4. On your Day of TC JM (34th Day) : Go to Mass receive Holy Communion, with the intention of consecrating yourself to Jesus thru Mary as His slave of love. Pray the TC JM after Holy Communion, or if there is no time, right after the Mass. Don’t forget to bring your handwritten or printed copy of TC JM so you can sign your name and write the date of your Day of TC JM. Offer Jesus and Mary a tribute that day. It may be fasting, an act of self-denial, alms, or offering of a votive candle.
5. Renew yearly on same date, after same preparation or a shorter one due to circumstances.
6. Live the Total Consecration: Pray the TC JM daily in the morning so you live your day totally consecrated to Jesus thru Mary. Live it by doing everything through, with, in and for Mary for the sake of Jesus. At the end or start of your usual prayers or periods of work, you can remember to say the Short Act of TC JM ( “Totus Tuus. I am all yours and all that I have is yours, Oh My Sweet Jesus thru Mary your holy Mother.”) or simply “Totus Tuus”. This will help you to live totally surrendered and united to Jesus thru Mary throughout the day, and enjoy Love Peace and Joy.
NOTE: The New Earth of Love Peace & Joy Foundation has published a 3-in-1 book entitled “The Secret of Mary” which contains:
(1) The Secret of Mary by St. Louis Marie de Montfort, (2) Book 2: 33-Day Preparation for Total Consecration, (3) Appendices including testimonies on TC JM. Book outlets listed below.
THE SECRET OF MARY & 33 DAYS PREPARATION FOR TOTAL CONSECRATION
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The 33 days preparation (signifying Jesus 33 years of life on earth) are divided into 4 periods: (1) Renouncement of the world (2) Self-knowledge (3) Knowledge of Jesus (4) Knowledge of Mary.
For each period, there are spiritual exercises, prayers and readings from the Bible, “Imitation of Christ” by Thomas a Kempis and “Secret of Mary” and “True Devotion to Mary” by St. Louis Marie de Montfort. When you read, internalize them. When you pray, pray with your mind and heart.
(1) Renouncement of the World: 12 days
This is a 12-day preparation period that consists of emptying oneself of the spirit of the world through penance and mortification. “ Those who desire to take up this special devotion should spend at least twelve days in emptying themselves of the spirit of the world, which is opposed to the spirit of Jesus…” (Cf. Montfort, TD 227). During these12 days, you pray the Veni Creator, the Ave Maris Stella, the Magnificat, and the Glory Be.
(2) Knowledge of Self: 1 week
“During the first week, they should offer up all their prayers and acts of devotion to acquire knowledge of themselves and sorrow for their sins. Let them perform all their actions in a spirit of humility. They will ask Our Lord and the Holy Spirit to enlighten them saying, “Lord, that I may see,” or “Lord, let me know myself,” or the “Come Holy Spirit.” Everyday they should say the Litany of the Holy Spirit, with the prayer that follows, … They will turn to our Blessed Lady and beg her to obtain for them that great grace which is the foundation of all others, the grace of self-knowledge. For this intention they will say each day the Ave Maris Stella and the Litany of the Blessed Virgin.” (Cf. Montfort, TD 228)
(3) Knowledge of the Blessed Virgin
During the second week, we ask the Holy Spirit to help us better understand the Blessed Virgin:
“They shall devote the second week to the knowledge of the Blessed Virgin.”(Cf. Montfort, TD 229). We must unite ourselves to Jesus through Mary — this is the characteristic of our devotion; therefore, St. Louis de Montfort asks that this week be employed in acquiring a knowledge of the Blessed Virgin. Mary is our sovereign and our mediatrix, our Mother and our mistress. Our Mother is a perfect mold where we are to be molded in order to make her intentions and dispositions ours. This we cannot achieve without studying the interior life of Mary; namely, her virtues, her sentiments, her actions, her participation in the mysteries of Christ and her union with Him. We pray the Litany of the Holy Spirit, the Litany of Loreto, the Ave Maris Stella, the prayer to Mary by St. Louis-Marie, and 5 decades of the Holy Rosary each day for assistance.
(4) Knowledge of Jesus Christ
“During the third week, they shall seek to understand Jesus Christ better… Again with St. Augustine, they may pray repeatedly, “Lord, that I may know You,” or “Lord, that I may see.” (Cf. TD 230). We seek to understand Christ through meditation and the Litany of the Holy Spirit, the Ave Maris Stella, and the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus, Montfort's prayer to Jesus, and the prayer O Jesus Living in Mary.
The 34th day will be your Day of Total Consecration.
After your Day of Total Consecration:
.1. Live TC : read and reread Secret of Mary which tells you how to act with, through and for Mary.
2. Pass your work and everything you do through Mary and she will purify them, embellish them with her virtues, and increase their meritorious value and effectiveness for you and the souls of purgatory. Jesus is more glorified when we pass everything through Mary. Do everything through, with, in and for Mary for the sake of Jesus, with the prayer, "Totus Tuus. I am yours and all that I have is yours oh my sweet Jesus through Mary your holy Mother. ”.
3. Frequently recite the Rosary, and the Magnificat.
- Renew the Total Consecration daily as Blessed Pope John Paul II did. You can pray the long version or the underlined paragraph.
- Yearly, renew the TC on the same feastday. Prepare for 33 days or less, depending on your circumstances.
- Share the Total Consecration to your family, friends, and to persons you know or do not know. As you benefited so much from it, others will do too. Spread this way of life- Mary's life- which is always pleasing God. Share to many so the nationwide Total Consecration in our country will be realized quickly.
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“The Secret of Mary with 33-Day Preparation for Total Consecration” by St. Louis Marie de Montfort, with appendix about the Launching of the Nationwide Total Consecration that happened in Cagayan De Oro are currently available in the following locations:
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Luzon:
Quezon City- Sto. Domingo Church (bookstore) Quezon Avenue, QC.
Visayas:
Caballo Residence in Mandaue, Cebu, contact 09237079772
Soon to be available in bookstores in Metro Manila and nationwide. |
Special orders through courier can also be made if you are far from the locations mentioned above (pls. contact 09172419237 for arrangement.)
