Give yourself totally to Jesus Christ.
Totally.
Everything.
Sound extreme? It shouldn't. That's Christianity.
But it makes sense. After all, Jesus is God. Who better to trust than God Almighty?
Now take another leap. Entrust yourself entirely to a creature - a dependent, limited creature. Entirely. Hold nothing back. Put yourself entirely into his or her hands. Trust them absolutely - beyond reason, and beyond hope, through every suffering, every trial, everything. Obey them.
Is that harder to imagine? Would that be harder to do?
But it has been done. By whom? By God Almighty.
And into whose hands did He deliver Himself so entirely?
Into Mary and Joseph's hands.
One of the most underappreciated passages in the whole of the New Testament is the section that comes right after the finding in the Temple.
He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and His mother kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus advanced [in] wisdom and age and favor before God and man. - Lk 2:51-52.
God Almighty was obedient to them. God Almighty obeyed Mary and Joseph, His parents. And what happened? Jesus in His human nature advanced in wisdom and age and favor before God the Father and man.
You think Marian consecration asks a lot of you? Think of what it asked of Jesus Christ! The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity entrusted Himself to Mary and Joseph, put Himself under obedience to them, and grew into the Man who would go to the Cross for the salvation of the world.
That's what we celebrate in this Christmas season. That's what we honor and commemorate: God entrusting Himself into the hands of Joseph and Mary so that His salvific will should be accomplished, so we may come to be partakers of the divine nature (see 2 Pt 1:4) and have eternal life as adopted sons and daughters of God.
Marian consecration - if it's good enough for God, then it's good enough for me.
Merry Christmas!
