Consecration can only change our lives if we integrate it into how we live. Paul looks at our need to hand our lives over to God and entrust ourselves to the intercession of Our Lady.
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Dr Mark Miravalle says Marian consecration is not simply as added devotion or prayer, but rather, a new Marian way of life, the highest devotion to Our Lady that invites Her and Her powerful intercession into every aspect of the Christian life!
In other words, this new Marian way of life essentially consists of one act which under various formulas and conditions we apply to our whole life, both interior and exterior. Marian consecration leads to a permanent disposition of living and acting habitually in total dependence on our Blessed Mother – ‘Totus Tuus’ as St John Paul would declare. The act of consecration embraces one’s entire life, not just one’s prayer times or specific religious acts.
God has given us free will. But the paradox is that we can give God nothing that He already does not have in abundance, except our free will. Our will is the perfect and only meaningful gift we can give God. In a similar way, Our Lady can only intercede for us to the extent that each adult person freely allows Her to do so. When a person consecrates themselves to Mary, this free and total gift of self to Mary allows Her to use Her full God-given power of intercession to sanctify the person in the graces of Jesus Christ and to provide them with spiritual protection from Satan.
