O Wisdom, eternal and incarnate!
O most lovable and adorable Jesus,
True God and true man,
Only Son of the eternal Father
And of Mary ever virgin!
I adore you profoundly
In the bosom and splendors of your Father
During eternity
And in the virginal womb of Mary
Your most worthy Mother,
at the time of your incarnation.
I give you thanks
That you have emptied yourself
In taking the form of a slave,
In order to rescue me
From the cruel slavery of the devil.
I praise you and glorify you
That you have been pleased to submit yourself,
In all things,
To Mary, your most holy Mother,
In order to make me,
Through her,
Your faithful slave.
But alas!
Ungrateful and faithless that I am,
I have not kept the vows and promises
That I made so solemnly to you
In my baptism.
I have not fulfilled my obligations;
I do not deserve to be called your child
Or even your slave;
And, as there is nothing in me
That does not merit your rejection and your anger,
I no longer dare
To approach your holy and august Majesty
By myself.
This is why I have recourse
To the intercession and mercy
Of your most holy Mother,
Whom you have given to me
As Mediatrix before you;
And it is through her
That I hope to obtain from you contrition
And the pardon of my sins,
And the acquisition and preservation
Of wisdom.
I call to you, O Mary Immaculate,
Living tabernacle of the Divinity,
Where eternal Wisdom is hidden
And wishes to be adored
By angels and by men.
I call to you, O Queen of heaven and earth,
To whose rule everything is subject
That is under God.
I call to you, O sure Refuge of sinners,
Whose mercy fails no one;
Fulfill the desires that I have
For divine Wisdom,
And for that end,
Receive the vows and offerings
Which my lowliness presents to you.
I, ___________, unfaithful sinner,
Renew and ratify today
In your hands,
The vows of my baptism.
I renounce forever Satan,
His pomps and his works,
And I give myself entirely
To Jesus Christ, incarnate Wisdom,
To carry my cross after him
All the days of my life,
And to be more faithful to him
Than I have been until now.
I choose you today,
In the presence of the entire heavenly court,
To be my Mother and my Mistress.
I hand over to you and consecrate,
As your slave,
My body and my soul,
My goods, both interior and exterior,
And even the value of my good actions,
Past, present and future,
Leaving to you
An entire and full right
To dispose of me
And of everything that belongs to me,
Without exception,
According to your good pleasure,
For the greater glory of God,
In time and in eternity.
Receive, O benign Virgin,
This little offering of my slavery,
In honor of, and in union with,
The submission that eternal Wisdom
Deigned to have to your maternity;
In homage to the power that the two of you
Have over this little worm and wretched sinner,
And in thanksgiving for the privileges
Which the Blessed Trinity has favored upon you.
I declare that I wish henceforth,
As your true slave,
To seek your Honor
And to obey you in all things.
O admirable Mother!
Present me to your dear Son,
As his eternal slave,
So that, having redeemed me through you,
He may receive me through you.
O Mother of mercy!
Grant me the grace
Of obtaining the true Wisdom of God
And so to include me
In the number of those
Whom you love,
Whom you instruct,
Whom you lead,
Whom you nourish and protect
As your children and your slaves.
O Virgin most faithful!
Make me in all things
So perfect a disciple, imitator and slave
Of incarnate Wisdom,
Jesus Christ, your Son,
That I may come,
Through your intercession and your example,
To the fullness of his age on earth
And of his glory in heaven.
Amen.
Qui potest capere capiat (He who is able to receive this, let him receive it)
Quis sapiens et intelliget haec? (Who is wise that he shall understand these things?)
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