For many years through chosen messengers Our Lady has been telling us of the need for consecration to her Immaculate Heart.  We have been told to consecrate ourselves, our children, and our families to her Immaculate Heart.  In making the consecration, we surrender everything that we are in body and in spirit to the care of Our Heavenly Mother.  In turn she has promised to see to our needs provided that they conform to the Will of God, and to protect us from evil.

    Lately, we have heard her resounding plea to make such consecration to enable her to protect us from the forthcoming Great Tribulation.

    The citations of her pleas are many, and come from worldwide messengers from
all walks of life.  One noteworthy request was made through Father Stefano Gobbi on December 31, 1995

…For this, I invite all to consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart, and I am extending this, my request, to the most extreme limits of the earth through my Marian Movement of Priests.  In this way, I am offering you a safe refuge, which the Most Holy Trinity has prepared for you, for these stormy times of the great tribulation and of the painful trial which has come for the Church and for all humanity.…"
 

    This is how she wages battle with the Red Dragon.  This is how she crushes the head of the serpent.  This is how the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart will be realized.  Satan's ploy is to draw the whole world into wholesale rejection of God's Holy Will.  Refer to the discussion in message #17, AFTER THE WARNING, in the Message section of
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/era-of-peace

    To be sure, Jesus defeated evil through His Passion and Death on the cross, but He reserved the final crushing blow for His Mother.  It was the Holy Trinity who created Lucifer, and they could have destroyed him with just a thought.  But they had a different plan. Our Heavenly Father chose a meek and humble obedient virgin to crush the head of the powerful, prideful and disobedient Satan.  We have been told repeatedly that when Satan springs his plan to seize the whole world in his grasp via his Antichrist and False Prophet of Revelation, Our Lady will rescue those consecrated to her Immaculate Heart and guide them to safe refuges.

In Genesis 3:15 Our Heavenly Father said:
I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel."

In Revelation 12:1-6 it is written:
A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.  She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadems.  Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth. She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne. The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God, that there she might be taken care of for twelve hundred and sixty days…"

    During the 16th century, Our Lady appeared to Juan Diego as Our Lady of Guadalupe.  She was standing in front of the sun and appeared clothed by its rays.  She also had the moon under feet  The Aztec word "guadalupe" means "she who crushes the head of the serpent"

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As Our Lady of Grace She Appeared With A Crown of Twelve Stars

    Her child that was caught up to God and His throne was none other than Jesus Christ who ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of His Father.

    Our Lady has told us that when it is time to flee, those consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be guided to safe refuges away from the Antichrist and his minions and the wrath and chastisements of God, for the duration of the worst of the Great Tribulation.  We will reside there under the full protection of her mantle, during the worst of the Great Tribulation.  In Revelation we are told that the Great Tribulation lasts for 3 ½ years or approximately the above mentioned 1260 days.

Consecrations to the Immaculate Heart of Mary 
1. The de Montfort daily consecration.
2. Total Consecration – de Montfort 33 day consecration
3. The Queenship Publishing 33 day consecration.

    I, (your name), a faithless sinner-- renew and ratify today in thy hands, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan, his pomp's and works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before.

    In the presence of all the heavenly court I choose thee this day, for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and consecrate to thee, as thy slave, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present and future; leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.

(St. Louis-De Montfort's Consecration)
Nihil Obstat: Thomas W. Smiddy, S.T.D., Cen. Lib.
Imprimatur: Thomas Edwards Molloy, Bishop of Brooklyn
Source: The Secret of the Rosary by Saint Louis Mary De Monfort, Montfort Publications, 1954

    By Saint Louis de Montfort   (33 day consecration located
at the following URL: http://www.isc-durant.com/lbaa/montfort.htm

    Queenship Publishing Version (33 day consecration located at the following
URL: http://hia.net/giftstor/consbook.htm

    Merciful Jesus, I consecrate myself today and always to Your most Sacred Heart.  Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I implore, that I may ever love You more and more.  Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You!  Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!  Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Your love for me.  Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like Your Heart.

    O most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thou didst reveal to the blessed Margaret Mary Thy desire to rule over Christian families; behold, in order to please Thee, we stand before Thee this day, to proclaim Thy full sovereignty over our family. We desire henceforth to live Thy life, we desire that the virtues, to which Thou hast promised peace on earth, may flower in the bosom of our family; we desire to keep far from us the spirit of the world, which Thou hast condemned. Thou art King of our hearts by our love of Thee alone, with which our hearts are on fire and whose flame we shall nourish by frequent reception of the Holy Eucharist. Be pleased, O Sacred Heart, to preside over our gathering together, to bless our spiritual and temporal affairs, to ward off all annoyance from us, to bless our joys and comfort our sorrows. If any of us has ever been so unhappy as to fall into the misery of displeasing Thee, grant that he may remember, O Heart of Jesus, that Thou art full of goodness and mercy toward the repentant sinner. And when the hour of separation strikes and death enters our family circle, whether we go or whether we stay, we shall all bow meekly before Thine eternal decrees. This shall be our consolation, to remember that the day will come, when our entire family, once more united in heaven, shall be able to sing of Thy glory and Thy goodness forever.

    May the immaculate Heart of Mary and the glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph vouchsafe to offer Thee this our act of consecration, and to keep the memory thereof alive in us all the days of our lives.

    Glory to the Heart of Jesus, our King and our Father! Amen

a) The members of a family, on the first occasion of its consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, if they recite the above prayer before a likeness of the Sacred Heart, are granted: an indulgence of 7 years; a plenary indulgence, if they fulfill the usual conditions.

b) The members of a family, on the renewal of this consecration each year, if they make use of the same prayer before a likeness of the Sacred heart of Jesus, are granted: an indulgence of 3 years; a plenary indulgence, if the usual conditions are fulfilled.

    During one of the cenacles which Fr. Gobbi held in the United States, he was urged by many concerned people to ask Our Lady specifically what could be done to save the youth from the seductions of the world which were leading many of them astray and causing them to leave the Church.  Our Lady gave Fr. Gobbi this definite and final solution to console the parents who are so concerned about the salvation of their children:

Pray the Rosary !

Every time you pray the Rosary say:  "With this Rosary I bind all my children to the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

In doing so, Our Lady promised "to see to their souls"

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