The spirituality of Lourdes is intimately linked to total consecration to Mary. This classic text by Saint Louis de Montfort is often recited by pilgrims to seal their alliance with the Virgin. It is an act of total abandonment, where we offer our body, our soul, and our goods to Mary, so that she may lead us more surely to Jesus. A foundational text to find on lourdes.live.
Prayer Text
I choose you this day, O Mary, in the presence of the whole court of heaven, for my Mother and my Queen. I deliver and consecrate to you, in all submission and love, my body and my soul, my interior and exterior goods, and the very value of my good actions, past, present, and future, leaving to you an entire and full right to dispose of me and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to your good pleasure, for the greater Glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.