CONSECRATION TO HUMILITY IN THE LOVE FOR OUR NEIGHBOURS IN OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL VISITATION

O Most holy virgin Mary, mother of God. I hear within my soul the greeting that was first directed to you by the Archangel coming in the name of the blessed Trinity:” Hail O soul filled with grace, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among the souls”. My soul too is troubled at these words.  To what do I owe that the mother of my Lord comes to me? How is it that she greets me with the celestial words that in their fullness can be applied only to her?

O Mary, you are full of grace and the mercy of the Lord brings you the sinners so that you may convert them to the Trinity. Full of God, the bounty of the Lord brings you to the just ones so that you may fill them with holiness. Full of God, the love of the Lord brings you to the holy souls so that you may unite them with the divine persons! Blessed are you forever, o ever blessed virgin Mother of God, that in your fullness of grace, of holiness and of divine union, you bring to us every grace of conversion, of divine relationship with the adorable Trinity, one God.

Blessed are you who have believed to the Lord, to the message of his love, so all the divine words have been fulfilled in you, and you have become the person most united to the divine persons, most transformed by the divine nature, most revealing of the divine perfections, most cooperative with the divine operations, most communicating the divine favours, the true mediator of all graces.

O Mary, coming to you and becoming your son, the Lord has made you co-redeemer with him the redeemer. He has made you mediator with him unique mediator between God and men; he has made you mother of grace, with him, unique author of grace. You, coming to me, to us, coming and remaining in our Congregation, make us fitting and willing, apostolic, seraphic and heroic co-operators of salvation and sanctification of souls and of correspondence and  glorification of the blessed Trinity. 

Divine grace has disposed and prepared you with sublime purity, humility and charity to become virgin mother of God in the incarnation and of the souls in their sanctification. Bring to us this perfection of purity, humility and charity; we really need it, we want it, we beg for it through the mercy of the Lord.

With you we plan to leave the shelter of our small comforts, abandoning ourselves to the Spirit of divine zeal, and go from town to town, from house to house, from family to family, from soul to soul in a perpetual and extraordinary visitation, in a perpetual and extraordinary mission to every person.

We cannot do anything really good for the souls if we do bring first Jesus to them. We cannot bring him if we do not have him in us, completely ours, totally ours. We cannot have him unless he gives himself to us, if the Father does not send him to us, if the Holy Spirit does not welcome him in us. We cannot have God in us unless he finds his complacence in us. O blessed Mother communicate to us your dispositions, perfections and virtues that enabled you to enjoy his divine complacence, the virtues that attracted the incarnate Word of God in you and enable you to communicate him to the souls.

Trusting in you, we now consecrate ourselves to the most immaculate purity, so that we may please the Lord, as you do. Trusting in you we consecrate ourselves to humility, the most gleaming of truth, so that we may attract the Lord to us. Always trusting in you, we consecrate ourselves to charity, the most fervent in holiness, in order to possess the Lord in such a way, that may enable us to give him to all souls.

Holy virgin Mary, mother of God, we now consecrate ourselves to the practice of these three virtues especially in the love for our neighbour, in honour, imitation and union with you, O our Lady of Perpetual Visitation.

We embrace our vocation and mission of the divine union and of the apostolate of divine union, so that we may reach it ourselves, and help our neighbours to reach it too. We dedicate ourselves to the ascetical, perpetual and extraordinary mission though the ascetical and perpetual visitation to our neighbours, one by one.

Obtain for us that our divine missions and the divine indwelling may always reach in us and in our neighbours the highest effect in the divine union and in the apostolate of divine union, so that in every family may be formed the saints of God, and from every family may come out precursors and apostles, so that he whole world may be conquered to divine love. Amen.