DAILY PREPARATORY PRAYERS

A) Litany of the Immaculate Heart (for private use only)

Lord have mercy on us. 
Christ have mercy on us. 
Lord have mercy on us. 
Christ hear us. 
Christ graciously hear us. 
God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us. 
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us. 
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us. 
Holy Trinity, One God, have mercy on us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, favourite Daughter of God the Father, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of God the Son, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Spouse of the Holy Ghost, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, redeemed in a sublime manner by the merits of thy Son, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother and Model of the Church, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, excellent exemplar in faith and charity, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, who conceived the Word of God in Thy heart before thou didst in thy womb, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, who gave precious Blood to the Son of God in His human nature, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, conceived free of Original Sin, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, who embraced God's saving will with a full heart, impeded by no sin, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, whose sweet soul a sword pierced beneath the Cross, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, given to us as Mother by Jesus as He hung dying on the Cross, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, who accepted us as sons as thou didst stand beneath the Cross, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, all pure and holy, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, exalted by Divine grace above all Angels and men, pray for us. 
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mediatrix of grace, pray for us. 

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,  
spare us, O Lord. 
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,  
graciously hear us, O Lord. 
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,  
have mercy on us. 
V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. 
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. 
Let us pray: O Immaculate Heart of Mary, burning with love for all thy children upon earth, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Show to Our Heavenly Father the Wound in the Heart of Thy Son and at the same time offer again the sword that pierced thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart as thou didst suffer by compassion with Thy Divine Son for the redemption of the world. By thy intercession, through the merits of Jesus Christ, bring us to salvation. Amen. 

B) Marian praises by St. Maximilian Kolbe

Grant to me that I may praise you, most Blessed Virgin. 
Grant that I may praise you with all my strength. 
Grant that I may live and work and suffer for you and for you alone, that I may be consumed and die for you. 
Grant that I may contribute to your greater and more extensive glorification. 
Grant that I may pay you such homage as no one has yet paid you. 
Grant that others may surpass me in their zeal for your glorification and that I may then, as though in a noble 
competition, propagate devotion to you ever more deeply and swiftly and magnificently, as desired by Him Who exalted you so ineffably above all other creatures. Amen. 

C) Prayer for generosity by St. Ignatius of Loyola

Eternal Word, only begotten Son of God, 
Teach me true generosity. 
Teach me to serve you as you deserve. 
To give without counting the cost, 
To fight heedless of wounds, 
To labour without seeking rest, 
To sacrifice myself without thought of any reward 
Save the knowledge that I have done your will. Amen. 

D) Ejaculatory prayer of the M.I.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee, and for all who do not have recourse to thee, especially for the Freemasons and for those who are recommended to thy care. 
Jesus, Mary, I love You. Save souls! 
Immaculate Heart of Mary — be my salvation! 
Saint Maximilian Kolbe — pray for us! 

DAILY MEDITATION AND SPIRITUAL READING

Meditation: Every day we examine one aspect of the consecration prayer. The text for each day is an excerpt from St. Maximilian’s original commentary on the consecration text.

Day One 

To be said after preparatory prayers. 
O Immaculata 
We address her with this title, because she herself in Lourdes chose to state her name thus: “Immaculate Conception.” God and each of the three divine Persons are immaculate, yet God is not conceived. The angels are immaculate, but even in them there is not conception. Our first parents were immaculate before their sin, yet even they were not conceived. Jesus was immaculate and conceived, but He was not a conception, because, being God, He existed before time, and the words that revealed to Moses the name of God referred to Him: “I am Who am” [Ex 3:14], that is, the One who always exists and has no beginning. All other people are a conception; yet, a conception stained by sin. Only she is not merely conceived, but Conception, and, what is more, Immaculate Conception. That name contains many other mysteries that will be revealed in time. For it marks the fact that Immaculate Conception belongs in some way to the very essence of the Immaculate. That name must be dear to her, for it indicates the first grace she received in the first instant of her existence, and the first gift is always the most welcome. This name, then, was fulfilled throughout her life, because she was always without sin. So she was also full of grace and God was with her (cf. Lk 1:28) always and with her to 
the point that she became the Mother of the Son of God. 

Explanation: 
From the beginning St. Maximilian wanted to direct us to the unique mystery of the Immaculate Conception by 
comparing Mary to all others: with God Himself, with Christ, with human beings. Conception is a concept that is difficult to define as it encompasses so much. It is the beginning of the existence of a being, but this beginning is the reception of its existence from God. My conception is the moment when God the Creator gives me everything, what I am and have, and I receive it. I receive my soul directly from God, however I receive my body via the mediation of my parents. Thus it is obvious that all human beings ‘are conceived’. But ‘because the sin of Adam is passed down to all men’, the moment of my conception is not pure, immaculate, but stained with original sin. God on the other hand, forever holy and ‘immaculatus’, cannot be conceived, as He always was and possesses everything within Himself. He never had a beginning and has never ‘received’ anything from anyone. 
Mary stands as it were between God and men: she was conceived like all human beings and her conception was the beginning of the existence. But she shares her sinlessness, her virginity, her immaculateness with God. This is the first grace that characterises her innermost being. When she appears in Fatima, she answers Lucia’s 
question about where she came from: “I am from Heaven”. She does not say “I come from Heaven”, but “I am from Heaven”, as if she wanted to say: it is my essence to be from Heaven, I am more heavenly than earthly. Immaculata Conceptio — the masterpiece of all creation, infinitely closer to God than all angels and saints put together. “This name conceals many mysteries”, indeed!

Day Two

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

Queen of Heaven and earth
In a family, the parents who love their children strive, to the best of their ability, to fulfil the wishes of their children, as long as such desires are not to their detriment. All the more so God, the Creator and Prototype of earthly parents, wants to fulfil the will of His creatures, as long as that does not cause them harm; that is, provided that this will is in accordance with His Will. Never and in anything did the Immaculata move away from God’s will. In everything she loved God’s Will, she loved God, so she is aptly named “Suppliant Omnipotence”; she exerts her influence on God Himself, on the whole universe: she is the Queen of Heaven and earth. In Heaven, all recognize the sovereignty of her love. Instead, that part of the first angels who would not recognize her queenship, lost their place in Heaven. She is also the Queen of the earth, for the fact that she is the Mother of God. Yet she desires — and is entitled to such desire — to be recognized spontaneously by every heart, to be loved as Queen of all hearts, so that such hearts may be purified ever more through her, become immaculate, like her Heart and ever more worthy of union with God, with the love of God, with the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Explanation: 
Our act of devotion begins with a profound gaze upwards to her who stands invisibly before us in all her beauty, might and motherly love. St. Maximilian wants that we peer deep into her inner-most being so as to realise that a speck of dust stands before a huge mountain. SHE has turned her eyes of mercy towards us in order to “draw us out of darkness into her wonderful light” long before we turn to her with child-like love. Once SHE becomes so important for us that our own ego melts away and we do not waste any more time on our own trifles but live only towards her, in her and for her, only then do we experience true devotion. The title of ‘Immaculata’ allows us to take a profound look at her innermost being, who she really is in the eyes of God, in her eternal being so to speak. “Queen of heaven and earth” lets us recognise her power over the whole of creation, her ineffable greatness, before which the entire universe shrinks as before the boundless ocean that SHE is. We can never overestimate Mary's greatness. If we gather together all glory, might and magnitude that can be mustered in the order of creation and apply these to Mary, then we must think: you are so much greater! How often do we lack in trust because we forget how ineffably great SHE is! God has laid everything at her feet, everything and everyone! It is also important to consider Mary’s eternal beauty and her royal dignity side by side because power on its own would frighten us and beauty on its own can easily lead to sentimentality. But beauty combined with royal might fills the soul with wonder and awe; and vice versa: power combined with attractive beauty robs the soul of fear and trembling.

Day Three

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

Refuge of sinners
God is merciful, infinitely merciful, but He is also just, infinitely just, so that He cannot tolerate even the smallest sin and must demand its complete reparation. The Dispenser of the most precious Blood of Jesus, which has infinite value and which washes away such sins, is God’s mercy embodied in the Immaculate. With good reason, therefore, we invoke her as “Refuge of sinners,” of all sinners; even if their sins were most serious and most numerous, even if those sinners had the impression they no longer deserved any mercy. Indeed, any purification of the soul is for her a new confirmation of her title of “Immaculate Conception,” and the more a soul is plunged in sin, the more the power of her immaculateness, which makes a soul as pure as snow, is made manifest. 

Explanation: 
The title of ‘Refuge of Sinners’ shows plainly who Mary is for us, but also who we are before God, that is to say miserable, unworthy sinners. “If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it?” (Psalm 129). Our history, the history of our souls, is a tragic drama of illusion and lies. God loves us infinitely and at every moment He gives us everything out of love, but we hardly ever think of HIM. Worse even than all indifference and negligence are the thousands of offences that pierce His head and heart like so many thorns. This is our condition — it is impossible to look on the Most Holy Face of God who is “light, and in Him there is no darkness”. But now the mighty Queen before whom millions of angels kneel in awe stands before us, and it is SHE who turns to us and opens Her loving arms. Her smile draws me, a miserable worm, to her like a magnet and I know that there is hope here: Spes nostra, salve! Hail, our hope!

Day Four

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

Our most loving Mother The Immaculata is the Mother of all our supernatural life, for she is the Mediatrix of all graces, indeed the Mother of divine grace, so she is our Mother in the sphere of grace, in the supernatural sphere. Also, she is a most loving Mother, for there is no such loving, such affectionate, such God-filled Mother as the Immaculata, who is all divine.

Explanation: 
“So much” means above all, boundless, not comparable with any created love however great. This small phrase 
“so much” leads us right to the heart of her innermost being. Mary is the Mother of “beautiful love”, her entire being is mere devotion and loving mercy, but “so much” that it infinitely exceeds our understanding. When we penetrate only slightly deeper into Mary’s heart, we notice straight away how little we know HER, how little we appreciate HER love and how weak our faith in it is. St. Bernard understands this love when he prays that “never was it known that anyone who fled to Thy protection was left unaided”. SHE loves us that much! This title is perhaps the most beautiful and moving to the heart: “the Mother who loves us so much, so ineffably, so boundlessly”. Everything about Mary speak of love. Kneel before her image, her statue and contemplate her: her eyes are flames of love; her smiling countenance — an expression of total devotion of a mother for her child, as if nothing else existed for her on earth. She extends her hands most pure towards our dirty ones so as to draw us upwards into her light. Her feet never tire of running after her lost children everywhere so that she may knock on their doors and implore them to let HER save them. All this is an expression of her greatest benevolence towards us. Finally behold her immaculate heart that beats for each and everyone with ineffable pangs and pains. She shows compassion for every pain, every suffering soul, every broken heart! And lastly contemplate HER, complete and entire, as she appeared in Guadalupe, Rue de Bac, La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, etc. Thus contemplate her statue, her painting on your bedroom wall and repeat: “Love! Love only! All love! Mother, you love me so much!” 

Day Five

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to you 
At times, in a family, the father rejoices when the mother, by her own intervention, holds his hand, which would punish the child, because in that case justice is met and mercy manifested. It is not without reason, in fact, that justice is suspended. In the same way God, not to punish us, gives us a spiritual mother, to whose intercession He is never opposed. That is why the saints have said that Jesus reserved the order of justice to Himself, entrusting the entire order of mercy to the Immaculata.

Explanation: 
We know the title “Mother of Mercy”. The Immaculata is the mother of the Saviour whose entire work of salvation is a never ending stream of mercy. However, St. Maximilian takes it to a higher level by referring to St. Bernard who links the mystery of Mary particularly to divine mercy. God is just because He is holy. The infinite holiness of God demands that all darkness must give way to eternal light. Sin cannot exist before God. Good must be rewarded, evil must be punished. Justice demands that debt be paid to the last penny. However, the mercy of God consists in not sparing His own Son, but in sacrificing Him for all of us in order to fulfil the demands of justice. We have sinned — Christ pays our debt. We commit the crime — Christ takes our punishment upon Himself. Now Christ has made a gift of this His most beautiful privilege, the profoundest expression of His love for us, to His Mother as the most precious jewel in her crown. Thus Mary may be all mercy. She leaves judgement and the demands of sanctity and justice entirely up to her Son. She herself is all merciful in everything, nurturing the miserable, grubby wretch that we all are as a mother does.

Day Six

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

I, an unworthy sinner
At that point, we recognize that we are not immaculate as she is, but sinners. Especially since none of us could possibly claim to have lived up to the present day without committing a sin, but feels guilty of many infidelities. We also say “unworthy” because, in truth, between an unsullied Being and one disfigured by sin there is, in a certain way, an unfathomable difference. Therefore, in all truth we recognize ourselves unworthy to turn to her, to appeal to her, to fall at her feet and entreat her not to let us become similar to proud Lucifer. For that reason, we also say: I cast myself at your feet, humbly imploring you to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to yourself as your possession and property. With these words we pray, implore the Immaculate that she deign to welcome us, and we give ourselves up to her completely and in all respects as her children, her slaves of love, her servants, her instruments, in every respect, under any name that any person at any time could possibly still devise. And all that as a possession and property at her full disposal, that she may make use of us and exploit us until we are fully consumed.

Explanation: 
After profound contemplation of the Immaculata, her privileges and her relationship with us, we are now in a position to perform the important act of the will which defines the essence of true devotion. I cannot devote myself to someone I do not know and whose relations to me are not clear. Hence the preceding meditations. But now the onus is on me. I know how right and crucial it is for my salvation that I should freely admit who SHE is according to God's plan from the beginning of time: my mistress, my mother, my queen. But we often hear that 'I am not yet capable of such devotion. I am completely unworthy, surely I cannot consecrate myself to someone to whom I always cause grief and whom I offend so often. May she therefore choose better soldiers to be in her service than such a weakling and traitor as myself. This is exactly the reason why St. Maximilian uses the phrase 'I, N.N., an unworthy sinner!' The wonderful thing about our Mother is precisely that SHE wishes to take me into her service with the full knowledge of my infinite weakness and my constant failings. She longs so much for the salvation of her children that she makes do with any instrument. After all, she can paint the most beautiful works of art with a broom and build palaces with a dustpan, i.e. the sanctuary of the soul washed in the blood of Christ. So there are no more excuses: 'I, unworthy sinner!' This also means that I should never forget that left to my own devices I will only suffer failure and defeat, but being united to the Immaculata's I makes a gale force 10 — a gale that thoroughly shakes souls up in order to save them from 
eternal hell fire. 

Day Seven

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and of my body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases you
With these words, we surrender to her our whole being, all the faculties of the soul, namely the intellect, memory and will, all the faculties of the body, all the senses, and each individually, our strengths, health or infirmity. We give to her our entire life with all its features, be they pleasant, sad, or indifferent. To her we offer our death, at any time, in any place, and in any way it shall befall us. We even surrender to her all of our eternity. Indeed, we have the firm hope that only in Heaven shall we belong to her in an incomparably more perfect fashion. Thus, we voice the wish and prayer that she grant that we will become more and more perfectly hers in every aspect.

Explanation: 
Hence all our consecrations are always rather an expression of our longing, our striving towards a state which we can never attain here on earth. All the more reason to fix our gaze on eternity; not only because our exile will come to an end then, because we will 'enter into the joy of the Lord', but also because at that point we will really, truly forever and ever belong to HER: fully owned by our Mother, entirely childlike, our small hearts completely engulfed by the flames of HER loving heart. Then we shall be allowed to completely absorb HER love and mercy within ourselves and love our beloved Saviour as SHE has loved HIM and shall love HIM forever. 

Day Eight

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

If it pleases you, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of you: “She will crush your head” (Gen 3:15)
In statues and paintings of the Immaculate, we always see at her feet a serpent that wraps the globe between its coils and whose head she, with her foot, is about to crush. He, Satan, stained with sin, strives to sully all the souls on earth with it. He hates her, who has always been unsullied. He lies in wait for her children at her heel, but in the fight with her, she always crushes his head in every soul that has recourse to her. We implore her to deign to use us, if she wills, as instruments to crush the proud head of the serpent inside unhappy souls. Continuing the verse already cited, the Scriptures add: “And thou shalt lie in wait for her heel,” and in fact the spirit of evil undermines in a special way those who are consecrated to the Immaculate, because he wants to offend her at least through them. However, his attempts against souls faithfully consecrated always end up in even more ignominious defeat. Therefore, his impotent rage becomes even more violent. 

Explanation: 
In order to belong to the Mother of God, you have to be hers, her child, her servant, her slave. Thus the prayer of consecration repeats at the beginning the essence of every true devotion to Mary. It is with these words that St. Maximilian defined the Knight of the Immaculata who — apart from his personal devotion to Mary for his own sanctification — consecrates himself as a soldier, a Knight: I am ready, my mistress. All around me stand the armies of the devil, everywhere the evil one triumphs so as to lead innumerable souls into damnation. Facing him stands YOU alone who have received the grace to crush his head. And it is precisely for this mortal combat, for this cruel, decisive battle that I put myself at your disposal: do with me what thou wilt. You are the serpent crusher, but you can only really crush Satan's head if you have children who are under your orders, whose hands, feet, spirit and heart you can use to end his dominion on earth, to chase him from the throne he has erected in so many souls.

Day Nine

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

“You alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world” (Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary).
The words “You alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world” are taken from the Divine Office which the Church requires priests to recite with regard to her. The Church speaks of “heresies,” not “heretics,” because she, Mary, loves them and on account of this love wants to free them from the error of heresy. It also reads: “all,” without exception. “You alone,” because she suffices. God, in fact, belongs to her, with all the treasures of grace, graces of conversion, and of sanctification of souls. “In the whole world”: no corner of the earth here is excluded. In this section of the act of consecration, we implore her to make use of us to destroy the whole body of the serpent, that is to say the most diverse heresies that hold the world captive.

Explanation: 
The devil becomes incarnate so to speak, he appears under different forms and guises. The Church herself often prays this line (8th antiphon of Matins on Marian feasts) and relates it to all movements that have fallen away from the true faith and try to lead souls astray from the true path. St. Maximilian puts a strong emphasis on the extent of Mary's role in overcoming heresies. Perhaps we could elaborate a little more on the Greek origins of this word: 'hæresis' means 'cutting away' and 'separation'. Whatever separates mankind from God, whatever separates it from the tree of life, the Immaculata has already overcome and destroyed it. There is nothing worse to cut men of goodwill off from God's grace and separate them from the source of life than today's modernism, 'the melting pot of all heresies'. Are we not often saddened and disheartened when we witness the continuing downward trend, the still more cruel separation from Christ's truth, way and life? All the more reason to adopt this phrase as a short prayer: You alone! Yes, the Immaculata is our last resort, the surest victory: “My Immaculate Heart will triumph in the end!”

Day Ten

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

Let me be a fit instrument in your immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing your glory to the maximum in all the many strayed and indifferent souls On earth, we see so many unhappy, misguided souls who do not even know the purpose of their life, who love many short-lived goods instead of the only good, God. Many of them are even indifferent to the most sublime love. We want to introduce and increase to the maximum the glory of the Immaculate in these souls and we beseech her to make us useful tools in her immaculate and merciful hands, not to let us hamper her; to drive us even by force in case we were to refuse to obey her.

Explanation: 
Here true devotion is defined even more precisely. Here lies the difference with other forms of true devotion (among others, the one according to St. Louis de Montfort). This devotion aims at our neighbour, at the lapsed and lukewarm souls, at the “heretics, schismatics, unbelievers, Jews, especially the freemasons”. It is love of neighbour that wishes these men only happiness and thus the turning away from the wide path that leads down the eternal abyss. In order for us to avoid being useless instruments that are more likely to rot than to serve, SHE has to “do it”: YOU do it, Immaculata! You know your naughty, disobedient child. You know that I get everything wrong as soon as I forget that I should let you guide me in everything. Force me, I beg you. Hold my hand even tighter when I want to tear myself away at my peril.

Day Eleven

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

Extend as far as possible the blessed kingdom of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is the love of God toward mankind. His Kingdom is the domain of this love in the hearts of men, the love that Jesus manifested in the manger, throughout His life, on the Cross, in the Eucharist, and in giving us His own Mother as our Mother; and He wants to kindle this love in the hearts of men. To infuse and to enhance the glory of the Immaculate, to conquer souls over to her, means to win souls over to the Mother of Jesus, who introduces the Kingdom of Jesus into them.

Explanation: 
The goal of all Marian veneration is adoration of God, expansion of the kingdom of Christ, triumph of eternal truth, triumph of God's eternal love that has manifested itself in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. We should meditate often on St. Maximilian's commentary in order to experience His majesty. The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus IS love of God for mankind. You cannot sum up the essence and significance of the Sacred Heart devotion more succinctly. Thus we will never make the mistake of playing off Marian veneration against worship of Our Saviour. 'Through Mary to Jesus!' Whoever utters the word 'Mary', receives the word 'Jesus' as an echo in return. These words invite us to join the Immaculata in contemplation of Our Saviour's every word that falls from His lips, of each of His miracles, but above all of His suffering and death on the Cross. And all Christ's miracles and glories make up HIS MOST SACRED HEART! 

Day Twelve

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

Wherever you enter you obtain the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through your hands that all graces come to us from the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Immaculata is “Suppliant Omnipotence.” Each conversion and each sanctification is the work of grace, and she is the Mediatrix of all graces. So she alone is enough to beseech and to distribute all the graces, whatever grace. During the manifestation of the Miraculous Medal, Blessed Catherine Labouré saw the rays that shone forth from the precious rings that the Immaculata wore on her fingers. Such rays symbolize the graces that the Immaculata generously bestows upon all those who want them. Even Ratisbonne, in the vision he had, speaks of the rays of graces.

Explanation: 
All prayers, sacrifices and actions of the Knight consist in guiding souls to the Immaculata and in bringing the Immaculata to souls so that SHE may enter into their lives. Once the Mediatrix of all Graces has entered, she will transform the robber's cave into a sanctuary. Then a cold, empty and dark grave will turn into a shining home full of love and joy. However small the part we play in the salvation of souls may seem, we should be firmly convinced that nothing we do is ever unimportant and insignificant in HER eyes. Even our little trifles (a pathetic ejaculation, the distribution of a Miraculous Medal) actually have a great significance: to prepare the way for HER to enter into souls. How, when, where, through whom — that is her business, not ours. If, however, we are not convinced of the effectiveness, often verging on the miraculous, of our miserable apostolate, then we will lack motivation sooner or later to be her willing instruments always and everywhere.

Day Thirteen

To be said after preparatory prayers. 

Allow me to praise you, O Sacred Virgin. Give me strength against your enemies

But who is her enemy? All that is sullied by sin, which does not lead to God, which is not love; it is all that comes from the infernal serpent, who is a lie, and from him alone: all our faults, then, all our sins. We beseech her to give us strength against them. In fact, all devotions exist only for that; that is why there is prayer; for that there are the holy Sacraments: namely, to obtain the strength to overcome all obstacles in our path to God, in ever more ardent love, in becoming like God, uniting with God Himself. Just as we came from God through creation, so too we return to God; all nature speaks to us of that, and wherever we turn our gaze, we see that an action has an equal and opposite reaction, as an echo of God’s activity, even of His activity in creation. On this return path of reaction, a creature endowed with free will runs into difficulties and adversities, which God allows in order to increase even more the impetus with which such creature tends toward Him. To obtain sufficient strength to achieve that goal, however, this creature must pray, implore such strength from the One who is the source of all energy and who looks to the efforts of His own creatures lovingly, wishing that they sincerely want to come to Him, sparing no assistance toward them. And even if such creatures, such dear children of His, happened to stumble along the way, to fall, to be sullied, to become dirty, this loving Father cannot possibly sit back when faced with  their misfortune. He sends His only begotten Son, who with His life and His teaching shows them a clear and safe way. With His Most Holy Blood, which has infinite value, He washes away the dirt and heals the wounds. And lest the soul lose hope because of fear, for violating divine justice, God sends the One who is the personification of His love, the Bride of the Spirit of motherly love, the Immaculate, all beautiful, without stain (even though she is the daughter of a human being), sister of human beings, and appoints her to distribute generously His mercy toward souls. He appoints her Mediatrix of the graces merited by His Son, Mother of grace, Mother of the souls that are reborn through grace.

Act of Consecration to the Immaculata - For the Final Day

O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our Mother who loves us so much and to whom God has entrusted the entire kingdom of mercy! 
I, N.N., an unworthy sinner, cast myself down at your feet and implore you with all my heart: deign to accept me utterly and entirely as your possession and your property. Do what you will with me, with all the faculties of my soul and my body, with my whole life, with my death and my eternity.
Dispose of me as it pleases thee, so as to fulfil what is said of thee: “She will crush the head of the serpent,” and also: “Thou alone hast vanquished all heresies throughout the world.” 
Make me an instrument in your immaculate and merciful hands to serve thee, so as to increase as much as possible thy honour in so many tepid souls that have fallen away from the faith and thus to extend the kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. For upon whatever place you enter, you implore the grace of conversion and sanctification, for all graces come to us from the Sacred Heart of Jesus only through thy hands. 
Grant to me to praise thee, O most Blessed Virgin, Give me strength against thine enemies. 

Ejaculatory prayer of the Militia Immaculata

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee, and for all those who do not have recourse to thee, especially for the Freemasons and for those who are commended to thy care.