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00:00Active evangelization, in its desire to bring the Gospel to all people,
00:12presents its collection of Marian themes, Who are you, Mary? We hope that by listening to them,
00:20May the seed of the Gospel bear fruit in your hearts. With you, Father Ernesto María Caro.
00:30Father Ernesto Maria Caro.
01:00Of course, to be able to do it, it has to be the Blessed Virgin Mary. So we could use any path.
01:08In fact, there are people who unfortunately do not know or value the relationship with our Blessed Mother
01:16and even goes so far as to say, why pray to her or why have a relationship with her,
01:22And the important thing is to maintain a relationship with God our Lord.
01:27Many paths exist, but we know that not all paths are straight.
01:33We know that some of us will encounter serious and painful accidents,
01:39which could even prevent us from arriving.
01:43Therefore, the saint proposes this devotion of consecration to Mary,
01:48that what he really proposes is the total consecration to Jesus Christ through Mary,
01:53as the shortest and safest path to salvation.
01:58So, well, taking this quote from the saint as a premise,
02:05I would like to begin our reflection by asking ourselves what the importance of consecrating oneself might be.
02:13in a world that has lost the value of the sacred.
02:19Today, unfortunately, we see that the desire for holiness of the holy has been lost in our society.
02:28It is sad, for example, to note in Europe and the United States that even holy places,
02:34They may have been churches and convents, but they have been gradually transformed,
02:39Some in hotels and others, well, even in nightclubs.
02:45What was once a holy place, a sacred place where a life of holiness was fostered and enriched
02:53in that consecration to God, because now it has been completely desacralized
03:00and to have a completely opposite use and meaning.
03:05The word "consecrate" comes from the Latin "cum sacrum".
03:12which is a participation in the sacred.
03:16It would have its root in the holiness of God, because that is where the word sacred comes from.
03:24The word saint is a derivation.
03:27The saint makes a place, a person, and consecrates it.
03:34Thus, the principle of the entire element of consecration
03:38It is based on holiness and the holiness of God.
03:43Sacred Scripture is continually emphatic in saying that the only holy one is God,
03:49He is the separated one, he is the only saint.
03:54And therefore, he can consecrate, he can make holy, he can make sacred,
04:01He can make sacred whatever he desires.
04:05He can separate it, he can draw it towards himself and in that way make it a part of himself,
04:11of the holiness of God.
04:14Therefore, our whole life tends precisely towards that holiness,
04:20to be included in the realm of God.
04:24Because in the words of Saint Paul we would have what is holy,
04:29what is sacred and what belongs to the world.
04:32In this sense, which we could even call pejorative,
04:37where the world represents this carnality,
04:41This thought that separates itself from God.
04:43Today we live this thought,
04:46We live in a desacralized world,
04:49where we no longer have a relationship with God our Lord,
04:53And obviously, this will be the cause of the condemnation.
04:57having separated.
04:59That is why the apostle Saint Mark reports to us in chapter 16,
05:05at the end of his gospel,
05:07that whoever refuses to believe is the one who is condemned,
05:11That is, the one who leaves this sphere of holiness
05:14that God has created for all of us.
05:18Therefore, it is important that we maintain this throughout our entire reflection
05:22this idea of the holy,
05:25Because that's going to be it in the end.
05:27the purpose of consecration,
05:31to belong to that sacred realm,
05:34to belong to that realm of holiness,
05:37to belong to that sphere
05:38which is the one to which the sky belongs,
05:42where we are all destined.
05:45And if what makes a saint,
05:50or that which consecrates,
05:52What communicates holiness is God.
05:55It is an action of the only saint,
05:58so,
06:00That is, we can speak of a consecration to Mary,
06:05or even a consecration to God,
06:08It is that man can consecrate himself to God,
06:11since God is the one who consecrates it.
06:13What if the only thing,
06:15the only one who can make a saint,
06:18God is something that can consecrate.
06:21It will be valid to say,
06:24Am I going to consecrate myself to Mary?
06:26In what sense can we say that?
06:31If the consecration ultimately refers to baptism,
06:36How can I say that I consecrate myself to Mary?
06:39God has separated us,
06:43He consecrated us at the moment of baptism.
06:48At that moment the Holy Spirit is poured out,
06:51Saint Paul says in his letter to the Romans,
06:53is poured into our hearts,
06:56the Holy Spirit begins to dwell habitually,
06:59and separates us from this world,
07:02consecrates us.
07:02And then Maria,
07:06Where does the participation of the baptized fit in?
07:12Well, who has set or given us the guidelines to revisit this topic of consecration?
07:19He has been a great figure in our history.
07:24And so many of us,
07:26Or I think most of us,
07:28We had the opportunity to meet,
07:31at least on television,
07:33or in its different appearances,
07:35who is John Paul II.
07:37He,
07:38from the moment he assumes the papacy,
07:41He will adopt as a phrase of his pontificate,
07:45the totus tuus,
07:47which is all yours.
07:49This is the central element of the consecration,
07:52to belong entirely to someone.
07:55We see then that John Paul II,
08:00He is truly the head of our church,
08:03It shows us that we can indeed,
08:07even,
08:08if we want,
08:09As I was saying at the beginning,
08:11take the short and safe path to reach God,
08:15so take the path of consecration to Mary.
08:20I would like to begin this part
08:22with biblical foundation
08:25to understand a little better
08:27What does consecration mean?
08:30Where does this topic of consecration come from?
08:34And well,
08:34Well, the first thing we found
08:35in Deuteronomy 7.6
08:38It's because we have a consecrated people,
08:43The Lord says in this text,
08:46because you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God
08:51and the Lord your God has chosen you
08:54so that you may be the people of his property.
08:57among all the peoples that exist on the surface of the earth.
09:00We see then that from the very beginning,
09:03since the formation of the people,
09:05the people of Israel,
09:06It is considered a separate people.
09:09God chose him
09:10and separated them.
09:12It's going to be a different town then.
09:14because it is a holy people,
09:17consecrated to God.
09:20Let's also keep this idea in mind.
09:22from a separate people,
09:25from a different town.
09:28God separates him from the rest of the peoples
09:31And this will bring benefits to the people
09:34a way of life,
09:37a different relationship with God
09:39and with the others
09:40because it is a consecrated people.
09:44Let's always keep the vision.
09:46that we are part of that people.
09:50We are then a people
09:51together with the consecrated people of Israel,
09:54a separate people
09:55because God has acquired it.
09:59God separated him from all others
10:02and separated him from the others.