Fr. Ed Broom OMV - Total Consecration Through the Mysteries of the Rosary

Fr. Ed Broom, O.M.V.

Total
Consecration

through the

Mysteries

of the

Rosary

Meditations to Prepare
for Total Consecration
to Jesus Through Mary

SOPHIA INSTITUTE PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Broom, Ed author.

Title: Total consecration through the mysteries of the rosary : meditations

to prepare for total consecration to Jesus through Mary / Fr. Ed Broom,

O.M.V.

Description: Manchester, New Hampshire : Sophia Institute Press, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017007595 | ISBN 9781622824502 (pbk. : alk. paper) ePub ISBN 9781622824519

Subjects: LCSH: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Devotion to. | Mary, Blessed

Virgin, Saint Prayers and devotions. | Rosary Meditations. | Sorrows of

the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to.

Classification: LCC BX2160.23 .B76 2017 | DDC 242/.74 dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007595

Contents

Week 1:

Day 1.

Day 2.

Day 3.

Day 4.

Day 5.

Days 6 and 7.

Week 2:

Day 1.

Day 2.

Day 3.

Day 4.

Day 5.

Days 6 and 7.

Week 3:

Day 1.

Day 2.

Day 3.

Day 4.

Day 5.

Days 6 and 7.

Week 4:

Day 1.

Day 2.

Day 3.

Day 4.

Day 5.

Day 6.

Day 7.

Week 5:

Day 1.

Day 2.

Day 3.

Day 4.

Day 5.

Day 6.

Day 7.

Conclusion: The Abundant Fruit That Flows from Consecration to Jesus through Mary

About the Author: Fr. Ed Broom, O.M.V.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thanks my parents, Mrs. and Mr. Claude Edward Broom; the Oblates of the Virgin Mary; my local community of priests; Fr. Larry Darnell, O.M.V.; and most especially the Virgin Mary for help, support, and inspiration in composing this work of Consecration to Mary contemplating the Face of Jesus through the eyes and Heart of Mary hoping that many will love Jesus more and more through Mary.

Introduction

The purpose of our life is to arrive at our final destiny our home in heaven! God created all of us out of pure love so that we might know Him, love Him, and serve Him in this life and be happy with Him forever in heaven. This is a simple but profound catechetical truth.

To arrive at our destination, heaven, we should carefully plan our route. If we do not, we will drive around like a chicken with its head cut off, as we have all experienced upon getting lost. Many people in the modern world have not the slightest idea where they came from, what their goal in life is, or how to reach that goal. They follow the most current fad, or their feelings, or the advice and suggestions of friends who are even more confused than they are. In the end, sadness and depression invade and permeate their whole being.

Consecration to Mary: the shortcut to heaven

So how do we find our way to heaven? In his masterpiece, True Devotion to Mary , Saint Louis Marie de Montfort tells us that the quickest, easiest, shortest, and most efficacious path to Jesus is through the Blessed Virgin Mary. Other paths might lead to union with Jesus eventually, but Mary is the shortcut! Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Pope Saint John Paul II, Saint Bernard, and many other Marian saints have highlighted this all-important truth.

Throughout the Churchs history, many have followed this shortcut through various forms of consecration to Jesus through Mary. In these pages, however, we present for your conversion, sanctification, perseverance in grace, and ultimate salvation a new form of consecration consecration through the Rosary.

Why the Rosary? During each of our Ladys six appearances in Fatima, Portugal, to three children Lucia de los Santos and Francisco and Jacinta Marto she insisted on the praying of the Most Holy Rosary. If the Queen of Heaven and Earth, the Mother of Jesus, insisted six times on the daily recitation of the Rosary, it must be of prime importance for our salvation!

Saint John Paul IIs devotion to our Lady

Saint John Paul II was shot and almost killed on the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima, May 13, 1981. The following year, on May 13, 1982, he knelt in front of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima, in Portugal. After praying in silence before the statue, the Pope rose and performed a very significant deed: he approached the statue and deposited something in her crown. What was it? Nothing less than the bullet that had been extracted from his body after the attack exactly a year earlier! This bullet can still be found in the crown of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. Saint John Paul II attributed the saving of his life to the powerful intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In his Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II , the renowned scholar George Weigel wrote that it was through the mysterious presence of Mary that the bullet was directed in such a way that the Pope was not killed by it.

Evil exists, but our Lady with her power of intercession conquers evil! Consecration to Jesus through Mary will help you triumph over evil.

In his 2002 apostolic letter The Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary which all lovers of Mary and the Rosary should read Saint John Paul II insisted that we pray the Rosary daily, in obedience to the request of Our Lady of Fatima, and for two specific intentions: (1) for world peace (the document was written shortly after the attack on New Yorks Twin Towers) and (2) for the salvation of the family. And he quoted the famous Rosary priest, Father Patrick Peyton: The family that prays together, stays together. Father Peyton also said: A world at prayer is a world at peace.

The Rosary in spiritual warfare

In his classic Spiritual Exercises , Saint Ignatius of Loyola includes a powerful meditation entitled The Two Standards, which considers the constant battle between Satan, who desires our eternal damnation, and Jesus, who desires our eternal salvation. Blessed Bartolo Longo, who is mentioned several times in John Paul IIs 2002 letter on the Rosary, embodied the Two Standards. Born and raised a Catholic, he lost his faith while studying at the university, fell into Satanism, and became a priest of Satan. As is to be expected in the lives of those who ally themselves with the Devil, despair soon overwhelmed him. One day, however, Longo heard a gentle but insistent voice: If you want to be saved, pray the Rosary and propagate the Holy Rosary. This was the voice of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Rosary! Heeding her advice, Bartolo renounced his practice of Satanism, went to Confession, and renewed his commitment to his Catholic Faith. In the end, he was instrumental in the construction of one of the most renowned sanctuaries dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary Our Lady of Pompeii, near Naples, Italy. Saint John Paul II, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis have all been pilgrims to this extraordinary place.