A new booklet has been published by the Catholic Truth Society in Great Britain to provide guidance on how a family can consecrate itself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Written by British Catholic author Gianpaolo Mosconi, Consecration of Our Families to the Immaculate Heart of Mary aims to nurture Marian devotion “within the family and to create a fruitful, flourishing Catholic home” through simple consecration prayers that every family can recite.
In this May 15 interview with the Register, Mosconi says he has tried to show in the booklet that, at a time when marriage and the family are under spiritual attack, a consecration “is the armor” in the battle to defend the family, “and the Rosary is the weapon.”
He recalls evidence of the power of consecration to Our Lady through history and notes how it changes lives. “Being consecrated to Our Lady, we will want to act as she would want us to act,” says Mosconi. “We will think as she wants us to think. We will have an inner joy and peace, a peace that the world cannot give because if Mary is living in our hearts, Jesus will be there too. Mary draws
