4.6 Prayer
STAGE 4: Towards the Likeness of Jesus Christ
JESUS AND CONSECRATION
THE CAPTIVATING MODEL
PRAYER
Rosary
With St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, we meditate on Jesus Christ as “the ultimate end of all our devotions” (cf. TD 61-67).
The Alpha and the Omega: “Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning the end of everything. ‘We labour’, says St. Paul, ‘only to make all people perfect in Jesus Christ’” (TD 61).
The fullness of grace: “In Jesus alone dwells the entire fullness of the divinity and the complete fullness of grace, virtue and perfection. In him alone we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing” (TD 61).
The only model: “Jesus is the only Teacher from whom we must learn; the only Lord on whom we should depend; the only Head to whom we should be united and the only Model that we should imitate” (TD 61).
The only name: “We are given no other name under heaven by which we can be saved. God has laid no other foundation for our salvation, perfection and glory than Jesus” (TD 61).
The perfect devotion: “If then we are establishing sound devotion to Our Blessed Lady, it is only in order to establish devotion to Our Lord more perfectly, by providing a smooth but certain way of reaching Jesus Christ” (TD 62).
Concluding Prayer
- Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus (Just click or tap) or
- “O Jesus living in Mary”, an adapted version, by Georges Madore, smm.
O Eternal One, living in time;
O Spirit, enfleshed in humanity;
O Jesus, living in Mary,
Come to live within me:
Your strength in my weakness;
Your love in my sinfulness;
Your spirit in my materialism;
Your fidelity in my guile.
Come to grow within me
As your humanity grew in Mary.
And as you came into the world through her
So now reveal yourself to the world through me,
In the power of the Spirit,
For the heartening of humanity,
And for the glory of the Father.
Amen!
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