Day 5:
Opening Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created and You shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful,
Grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations.
Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Consecration to the Immaculata: In the Heart of the Trinity, with Our Gaze Fixed on Christ
The gift of the Mother, entrusting and consecrating ourselves to Mary, our belonging to her, are in themselves a gift of the Most Holy Trinity. The Father reveals all His love for us in the Son’s sacrifice on the Cross. The Spirit makes the gift of the Crucified Christ alive and present. The love that the Father manifested in Christ is oKered to us by the Holy Spirit, Who remains forever in the Church.
The motherhood of Mary, therefore, is also oKered to us by the Holy Spirit. As her physical motherhood is a work of the Spirit (“What has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit”), so her spiritual motherhood is from the Holy Spirit. Then it is a gift of the Trinity, but it also refers to the Trinity. Consecration to Mary has the Trinity as its goal and as its ultimate reference, because the whole Christian life is related to the Trinity. Mary herself is entirely related to the Trinity: “She is the Mother of the Son of God, beloved daughter of the Father, the Temple of the Holy Spirit” (LG 53).
St. Maximilian cared very much about the Trinitarian dimension of consecration to Mary, because everything that happened to Mary is a work of the Holy Trinity. Mary lived a unique experience of the action of the Most Holy Trinity in her life at the moment of the Annunciation:
“The One and Triune God looked upon the low estate of his handmaiden and ‘He who is mighty’ works in her ‘great things’. God the Father entrusts to her, as a son, His own Son, God the Son enters into her womb, while the Holy Spirit molds the Body of Christ in the womb of the most pure Virgin. ‘And the Word was made flesh’ (Jn 1:14). The Immaculata becomes Mother of God. Christ, God-Man, is the fruit of the love of the One and Triune God and of Mary Immaculate” (KW 1295).
๏ปฟIt is important to understand that, in the light of Father Kolbe’s considerations, the profound relationship between Mary and the Trinity is the reason why our consecration to her implies to begin an itinerary that leads us to the encounter with the Most Holy Trinity.
Closing Prayer
Hail Mary…
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you, and for all those who do not have recourse to you, especially the enemies of Holy Church and all those
recommended to you.
