ACT OF MAGISTERIUM
Consecrating ourselves to Mary
is a necessary act
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Mary is the Mother of God (Lk 1:43) and the Mother of every son who identifies himself in her Son Jesus (Jn 1:12).
St Peter is the One on whom Jesus founded His Church (Mt 16:18). Peter is therefore ‘the’ Stone (Jn 1:42), the one who, despite having denied the Son of God (Mt 26:34), repented; and, contrite, he wept over his wrongdoing, entrusting himself to Mary’s Immaculate Heart (Revelation of Jesus to Maria Giuseppina Norcia, ‘Catechesis of Jesus’, 01/01/1988), letting himself be healed by his Mother’s Love, in order to become, then, ‘the’ Stone, which humanity would never be able to graze again.
Petrus, in his encounter with Mary and in his infinite love for Mary, is the Sign for this humanity who wants to repent by following Mary, the Star of the path of every man and every woman who wants to encounter the only Truth, which in the Little Cradle of Baby Jesus has made its dwelling place (Mt 2:9-10).
Petrus is therefore the Sign of the unbreakable bond between those who consecrated themselves to the Son and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to Whom everyone must now consecrate themselves in order to live to the full the only-begotten Spirit: the same Spirit who pierced the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Lk 1:35) since the Father’s grace overflowed in Her (Lk 1:28); the same Spirit that is in the Father and in the Son and that in Mary, essentially, became incarnate, in order to become, then, the ‘Incarnate Word’ (Jn 1:14) that led everyone to Salvation, towards the Itinerary of Salvation (Revelation of Jesus to Maria Giuseppina Norcia, ‘The Return of Jesus’, 30/10/1994), which, at that time, began, and which now comes to an end.
Men of this world will never be able to understand the true meaning of Love, Love made Person (1 Jn 3:16) – generated by the Immaculate Heart of Mary, given to humanity so that all may recognise themselves under one Shepherd (Jn 10:16) – if they do not bend their knees and bow their heads consecrating themselves to Mary.
In these final times of the history of salvation, the consecration to Mary is a necessary Act, not optional or deferrable. Whoever wants to live out to the full Jesus, the Good Shepherd, humble and meek, mild and holy (Mt 11:29), must consecrate himself to Mary.
Through Mary the Sheep recognise the Good Shepherd in His spiritual essence, and then recognise Him as true Man and true God (Jn 10:14).
The Good Shepherd knows His sheep one by one: He knows their heart, their spirit, their scent; He also knows their feeling, just as He knows the thoughts of the heart (thoughts that lead to doing good, thoughts that lead astray): everything is known by the Good Shepherd (Jn 10:27). In the same way the sheep recognise the scent, the words, the feelings of the Good Master, He alone who is Life (Jn 14:6) and gives Life (Jn 5:24).
One is the Good Master (Mk 10:18); all the others are “extras” (Jn 10:8): “extras” of this world who tend to or want to be recognised as masters (Mt 24:23-25) but who, instead, lead towards nothingness, towards all that is decadent, destined to end, together with this world. Here is the happiness that does not satisfy the heart but is ephemeral and fleeting (Sir 18:26). Here is the power to prevail and to want to prevail over others that will give way to nothingness, because everything will come to an end (Mt 24:14).
Only he whose life is founded on the Stone, the one and only eternal Stone, the cornerstone (1 Peter 2:6), will find eternal Life, which will never end (1 John 5:10-14).
To do this, humanity must entrust itself and necessarily consecrate itself to Mary (Revelation of Jesus to Maria Giuseppina Norcia, ‘Mary, I consecrate myself to You’, 10/03/1986). This is the reason why Jesus, at the culmination of His earthly mission, gave everyone ‘the’ Mother, the one and only eternal Mother (Jn 19:27): so that this humanity should (then) and must (now) ‘cling’ to Mary, in order to understand Her and know Her to the full.
Understanding Mary means not just dwelling upon the fact that Mary is ‘the’ Mother of God (and She really is); not only recognising Mary as the humble Instrument who bore the Saviour; but mainly knowing intensely and profoundly the meaning of the belonging of Her Immaculate Heart to the Heart of the Father, in an indissoluble fusion that led the Holy Spirit to dwell in Mary and Mary – by virtue of the grace received and earned (Lk 1:49) – to be united with the Father and the Son in the Mystery of Salvation (Gen 3:15).
From this, it is understood that there cannot be the Holy Trinity on one side and humanity on the other, but that the Holy Trinity is united to Mary the Co-redemptrix in the Mystery of Redemption (Pontifical Decree ‘In Mary, with Mary and for Mary’, 22/12/2019). In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
October 14, 2024
The Pontiff
Samuel
