Mary conceived Jesus by the Holy Spirit and in her life she was always docile to the  action of the Spirit.

Consecration/entrustment to Mary, therefore, becomes trusting in the divine Presence. In the Holy Spirit. Mary takes care of me, of us, the world. My life and that of the world are in good hands. In the hands of the Spirit, first of all, and of this Mother, who exercises her motherhood by the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit who associates Mary to Himself in the work of sanctification of men. The “motherhood in the order of grace” (LG 61) that Mary exercises in the Church is in the Holy Spirit. Even today, like that day at the foot of the Cross, we receive the gift of this motherhood thanks to the Holy Spirit, as we have already pointed out.

Mary, for her part, from the moment of the Annunciation, was always docile to the action of the Spirit. St. Luke emphasises a usual attitude of Mary who “treasured all these things in her heart...” (Lk 2:19, 51). Mary accomplished it in the Holy Spirit, in Whom the Word is alive. The first attitude in living out our consecration to Mary is precisely to listen to the word in total availability, trust, and surrender to the Spirit.

“Let yourself be led… by the Holy Spirit. Let yourself be led by the Holy Spirit through the Immaculata” (KW 987 C), as St. Maximilian reminded himself, in a text that speaks of consecration to Mary as surrender into the hands of Mary and docility to the work that the Spirit accomplishes in us through her.

Mary is the beloved daughter of the Father, as it was written in the text of the Second Vatican Council. We see in her the fully realized plan of God for His creatures: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ…. He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself,” as Paul writes in the Epistle to the Ephesians (1:3-5). In this sense, Mary is the beloved daughter of the Father, because He accomplished first of all in her the dream that He had for all of us, making her holy and immaculate in love. Contemplating this mystery, St. Maximilian wrote that: “The Immaculata is ... the ultimate limit between God and creation. She is a faithful image of God’s perfection, of His sanctity” (KW 1232). Mary’s life is under the sign of the gratuitous love of the Father from the beginning of her existence. Mary feels all its intensity when with grateful astonishment and singing to her God she exclaims: “He has been mindful of the humble state of his servant” (Lk 1:48). This ocean of love that inundates her from the first instant of her conception, becomes a river of love that grows in the following of her own Son, and which will reach its climax under the Cross. There, at the foot of the Cross and conformed to

her Son in love (Phil 2:5), she received every man for whom He offered Himself and whom He was asking her to embrace as her child.

From this attitude of love and acceptance of Mary’s motherhood, arises another fundamental attitude in living our consecration to the Immaculata: love. It is love that conforms us, as it did her, to her Son.

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.