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O Eternal and Incarnate Wisdom! O sweetest and most adorable Jesus! True God and true man, only Son of the Eternal Father,
and of Mary, always virgin! I adore Thee profoundly in the bosom and splendors of Thy Father during eternity; and I adore
Thee also in the virginal bosom of Mary, Thy most worthy Mother, in the time of Thine Incar-nation.
I give Thee thanks for that Thou hast annihilated Thyself, taking the form of a slave in order to rescue me from the
cruel slavery of the devil. I praise and glorify Thee for that Thou hast been pleased to submit Thyself to Mary, Thy holy
Mother, in all things, in order to make me Thy faithful slave through her. But, alas! Ungrateful and faithless as I have been,
I have not kept the promises which I made so solemnly to Thee in my Baptism; I have not fulfilled my obligations; I do not
deserve to be called Thy child, nor yet Thy slave; and as there is nothing in me which does not merit Thine anger and Thy
repulse, I dare not come by myself before Thy most holy and august Majesty. It is on this account that I have re-course to
the intercession of Thy most holy Mother, whom Thou hast given me for a mediatrix with Thee. It is through her that I hope
to obtain of Thee contrition, the pardon of my sins, and the acquisition and preservation of wisdom.
Hail, then, O Immaculate Mary, living tabernacle of the Divinity, where the Eternal Wisdom willed to be hidden and to
be adored by angels and by men! Hail, O Queen of Heaven and earth, to whose empire everything is subject which is under God.
Hail, O sure refuge of sinners, whose mercy fails no one. Hear the desires which I have of the Divine Wisdom; and for that
end receive the vows and offerings which in my lowliness I present to thee.
I, Michael Anthony Ramos Prieto, a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today in thy hands the vows of my Baptism;
I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry
my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before.
In the presence of all the heavenly court I choose thee this day for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and conse-crate
to thee, as thy slave, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good ac-tions,
past, present and future; leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without
exception, according to thy good pleasure. for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity.
Receive, O benignant Virgin, this little offering of my slavery, in honor of, and in union with, that subjection
which the Eternal Wisdom deigned to have to thy maternity, in homage to the power which both of you have over this poor sinner,
and in thanksgiving for the privileges with which the Holy Trinity has favored thee. I declare that I wish henceforth, as
thy true slave, to seek thy honor and to obey thee in all things.
O admirable Mother, present me to thy dear Son as His eternal slave, so that as He has redeemed me by thee, by thee
He may receive me! O Mother of mercy, grant me the grace to obtain the true Wisdom of God; and for that end receive me among
those whom thou lovest and teachest, whom thou leadest, nourishest and protectest as thy children and thy slaves.
O faithful Virgin, make me in all things so perfect a dis-ciple, imitator and slave of the Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus
Christ thy Son, that I may attain, by thine intercession and by thine example, to the fullness of His age on earth and of
His glory in Heaven. Amen.
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