33- Day Preparation for

TOTAL CONSECRATION
TO JESUS THROUGH MARY

ACCORDING TO ST. LOUIS MARIE DE MONTFORT

Patterned from the book of Fr. Hugh Gillespie, SMM

 Day 4
Preparation for Total Consecration
The worldly make excuses

Purpose: Emptying yourself of the spirit

of the world Day 4/12
(Make the Sign of the Cross) In the name of the Father, and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful, and
enkindle in them the fire of Your love.
v. Send forth Your Spirit, O Lord, and they shall be created.
R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.
Let us pray.
God our Father, pour out the gifts of Your Holy Spirit on the
world. You sent the Spirit on Your Church to begin the
teaching of the gospel: now let the Spirit continue to work in
the world through the hearts of all who believe. Through Christ
our Lord. Amen.
Examine your conscience, pray, practice renouncement of
your own will; mortification, purity of heart. This purity is
the indispensable condition for contemplating God in
heaven, to see Him on earth and to know Him by the light
of faith. The first part of the preparation should be
employed in casting off the spirit of the world which is
contrary to that of Jesus Christ. The spirit of the world
consists essentially in the denial of the supreme dominion
of God; a denial which is manifested in practice by sin and
disobedience; thus it is principally opposed to the spirit of
Christ, which is also that of Mary.
It manifests itself by the concupiscence of the flesh,
by the concupiscence of the eyes and by the pride of
life. By disobedience to God's laws and the abuse of
created things. Its works are: sin in all forms, then all
else by which the devil leads to sin; works which bring
error and darkness to the mind, and seduction and
corruption to the will. Its pomps are the splendor and
the charms employed by the devil to render sin
alluring in persons, places and things.
(By St. Louis Marie de Montfort From True Devotion to Mary.)
Scripture: Luke 14:16-24
English Standard Version

16
But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited
many. 17 And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant[a] to say
to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now
ready.’ 18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to
him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please
have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of
oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ 20 And
another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot
come.’ 21 So the servant came and reported
these things to his master. Then the master of the house became
angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and
lanes of the city and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and
lame.’ 22 And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been
done, and still there is room.’ 23 And the master said to the servant,
‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in,
that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you,[b] none of those men
who were invited shall taste my banquet.’”

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
St. Louis Marie de Montfort – Letters of Eternal Wisdom #76

76. In the opinion of the world, a wise man is one with a keen eye
to business; who knows how to turn everything to his personal
profit without appearing to do so. He excels in the art of duplicity
and well concealed fraud without arousing suspicion. He thinks
one thing and says or does another. Nothing concerning the graces
and manners of the world is unknown to him. He accommodates
himself to everyone to suit his own end, completely ignoring the
honour and interests of God. He manages to make a secret but
fatal reconciliation of truth and falsehood, of the gospel and the
world, of virtue and sin, of Christ and Belial. He wishes to be
considered an honest man but not a devout man, and most readily
scorns, distorts and condemns devotions he does not personally
approve of. In short, a man is worldly-wise who, following solely the
lead of his senses and human reasoning, poses as a good Christian
and a man of integrity, but makes little effort to please God or atone
by penance for the sins he has committed against him.
Question:

The temptation to make excuses for not responding to the will

and call of God is very common and very subtle. What are the
excuses you make most frequently?
Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska

9 Once I was at a dance [probably in Lodz] with one of my sisters. While

everybody was having a good time, my soul was experiencing deep torments.
As I began to dance, I suddenly saw Jesus at my side, Jesus racked with pain,
stripped of His clothing, all covered with wounds, who spoke these words to
me: How long shall I put up with you and how long will you keep putting
Me off? At that moment the charming music stopped, [and] the company I
was with vanished from my sight; there remained Jesus and I. I took a seat by
my dear sister pretending to have a headache in order to cover up what took
place in my soul. After a while I slipped out unnoticed, leaving my sister and all
my companions behind and made my way to the Cathedral of Saint Stanislaus
Kostka.
It was almost twilight; there were only a few people in the cathedral. Paying no
attention to what was happening around me, I fell prostrate before the Blessed
Sacrament and begged the Lord to be good enough to give me to understand
what I should do next.
O Jesus Living In Mary

O Jesus living in Mary,

come and live in your servants.
In the spirit of your holiness,
in the fullness of your gifts,
in the truth of your virtues,
in the perfection of your ways,
in the communion of your mysteries.
Subdue within me the power of the flesh and demon by your Holy Spirit,
for the glory of God the Father. Amen
Night Prayer

Sub Tuum

We fly to thy protection,

O holy Mother of God.
Despise not our petitions in our necessities,
but deliver us always from all dangers,
O glorious and blessed Virgin.
Amen.