A Letter to Mama Mary

 A Letter to Mama Mary on the Eve of the Start of the Marian Consecration

November 4, 2024

Dear Mama Mary,

I am so excited. Tomorrow, I start a 33-day retreat to consecrate myself to your Son Jesus through you. This will be my second consecration. I did the first one, last year, on my own. This one, I will do it as part of a group. There’s over 100 of us doing this retreat together, and I just know it’s going to be great.

The consecration will take place on December 8th, your feast day of the Immaculate Conception. This day has a special meaning for me because that is the name of the school that I attended when I lived in Madrid. We always had a special celebration to commemorate the feast day. It would also mark the start of the Christmas season. We would always put up the Christmas tree and the Nativity on this day. Therefore, I feel that doing the consecration on this particular day will be extra special.

Tonight, I’m reading the introduction on the book we will be using: “33 Days to Morning Glory” by Father Michael E. Gaitley. Even though I did the consecration last year, I feel like I need a fresh start. So I am very much looking forward to completing this spiritual journey with my fellow pilgrims. We will be “a great squadron of brave and valiant soldiers of Jesus and Mary, of both sexes, to combat the world, the devil, and corrupted nature, in those more than ever perilous times which are about to come” St. Louis de Montfort.

How appropriate that we are starting our 33-day journey to consecration on Election Day. We are at a turning point in our country. We need to pray more than ever before, because we are living “in perilous times.” But “where sin abounds grace abounds all the more,” St. Paul in his letter to the Romans (Rom 5:20). Therefore, we must pray for that grace, and consecrating ourselves to Jesus through you is definitely a good beginning.

Mama Mary, just like St. John Paul II, I want to give myself totally to you (Totus Tuus). I am so ready to be transformed. Just like you said “Yes” to God during the Annunciation, I say “Yes” to you today. I give you my full permission to transform me from within. “I freely choose to give you my full permission to do your work in me, with your Spouse, the Holy Spirit.”

So Mama Mary, “let’s get to work.”

Your daughter in Christ.