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 5
Preparation for Total Consecration
Enter through the narrow gate

Purpose: Emptying yourself of the spirit

of the world (Day 5/12)
(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: Matthew 7:13-14
English Standard Version
13
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is
easy[a] that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are
many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life,
and those who find it are few.
St. Louis Marie de Montfort – Letter to the Friends of the Cross #5

Are you walking along the true way of life, which is the narrow and stony
way of Calvary? Or are you, without perhaps realizing it, on the wide road
of the world which leads to perdition? Are you aware that there is a
highway which is to all appearances a straight and safe road, but which
really leads to eternal death?
Question:

Take some time with these questions of St. Louis Marie de

Montfort. Are you truly faithful to the Gospel even when doing
what is right is unpopular or do you tend to take the easier path
of compromising its fullness to remain at peace with the world?

Inspiration:

Enter the Narrow Gate by Kyle Sigmon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjXS-UsAkjU
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
153 One day, I saw two roads. One was broad, covered with sand
and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People
walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the
end without realizing it. And at the end of the road there was a horrible
precipice; that is, the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they
walked, so they fell. And their number was so great that it was
impossible to count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path,
for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people
who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering
befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately
and went on. At the end of the road there was a magnificent garden
filled with all sorts of happiness, and all these souls entered there. At
the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings.
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