Marian Total Consecration
To Jesus through Mary.
Here the consecration is not one devotion among many; it is the whole spiritual life, and everything else flows from it. St. Louis de Montfort called the way through Mary the shortest, easiest, and surest road to Christ — per Mariam ad Jesum.
The day is given to Our Lady at its dawn and renewed throughout: the Rosary, the morning offering through her hands, Mass offered through her, small mortifications laid at her feet for souls. The year turns on Marian feasts, and each can be prepared by Montfort's thirty-three days.
For anyone with a deep Marian pull — and especially fitting in the lands where she is most loved. Often lived alongside another tradition's rule.
St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary
What it proposes
- Morning Offering — Renewal of the Consecration 07:00 · Daily · Essential
The renewal of the consecration at dawn — I am all yours, my Queen and my Mother — placing the whole day into Our Lady's hands.
- Holy Rosary 18:00 · Daily · Essential
The daily Rosary, the very heart of the Montfortian way and the chain of love that binds the soul to Mary hour by hour.
- Holy Mass 07:30 · Daily · Ideal
Mass and Communion offered through Mary's hands, so that what is given to Christ passes first through the purest of hearts.
- Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary According to the Roman Rite 09:00 · Sat · Ideal
The Saturday devotion to Our Lady, keeping her own day with the Office that has praised her across the centuries.
- Confession 10:00 · Sat · Essential
Frequent confession, keeping the soul a clean and worthy dwelling for the One whom Mary forms within it.
- Total Consecration to Mary 21:00 · Extra
Montfort's thirty-three day preparation — knowledge of self, of Mary, of Jesus through Mary — by which the consecration is renewed and deepened toward each Marian feast.
In the Ember app, adopt this tradition as your own plan of life, practice by practice, with times and reminders.