Why it is worth it

1. YOU CAN EXPECT MIRACLES.

"When Mary takes root in someone's soul, she works miracles of grace in it, which she alone can do, because she is that fertile Virgin who has never had, nor will have, in purity and fertility a like unto herself." St. Louis

2. MARY WILL GIVE YOU HER POWER.

"Mary received from God a special power over souls, in order to nourish them and make them grow in God. St. Augustine even says that in this life all the elect are enclosed in the womb of Mary and will see the light of day only when this Good Mother gives birth to them for eternal life. Therefore, just as a child draws all its nourishment from its mother, according to the needs of its weakness, so too the elect draw all its spiritual nourishment and all its strength from Mary." St. Louis

3. MARY WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ERRORS.

"Oh! Dear soul! How great is the difference between souls formed in Jesus Christ simply, as those who trust only their own knowledge and rely on their own experience, and a susceptible and docile soul, which, without seeking support in itself, throws itself into the arms of Mary and submits itself to the action of the Holy Spirit! How many stains, errors, darkness, how many illusions, how much human naturalism in the first soul, and how much purity, divinity and likeness to Jesus Christ in the second!" St. Louis

4. MARY WILL CARRY CROSSES WITH YOU AND SWEETEN BITTERNESSES.

"He who has found Mary through true devotion is not thereby free from the cross and suffering. She experiences them even more than anyone else, because Mary, being the Mother of the living, gives her children a part of the Tree of Life, which is the Cross of Jesus. But she, in distributing these good crosses, also gives grace so that they may bear them patiently and joyfully, so that the crosses she gives them are rather sweet; they are crosses of consolation rather than bitterness." St. Louis

5. AFTER ENTRUSTMENT, MARY DISPOSES OF OUR PRAYERS.

"If, after such an offering of ourselves to the Mother of God, we desire to relieve some soul in purgatory, to save some sinner, to support some friend with our prayers, sacrifice or mortification, we must humbly ask Mary for this and abandon ourselves to whatever she decides without our knowledge. Let us be convinced that the value of our works, distributed by the same hand that God uses to grant us his graces and gifts, will contribute to his even greater Glory." St. Louis

6. MARY PURIFIES OUR "DIRTY" PRAYERS AND INTENTIONS

"To consecrate ourselves in this way to Jesus through Mary means to place in her hands our good deeds, which - although they seem good to us - are often dirty, unworthy of God's gaze and His acceptance, before whom even the stars are not clean. (...) If you wish to offer God some small sacrifice, and you do not want to be disappointed, says St. Bernard, offer your gift through the hands of Mary." St. Louis