The Marian Movement
Living the Baptism
In the act of consecration for the members of the Marian Movement, set out at the end of the book, we read: "By this act of consecration we intend to live, with you and through you, all the obligations assumed by our baptismal consecration." These words bring out clearly how a member of the faithful, who makes the consecration to the Immaculate Heart, is assisted by Our Lady especially in living out today the obligations assumed at the time of baptism. It is natural that, in these times, the Christian, immersed in a world which is so secularized, finds it very difficult to live out his baptismal consecration.
Baptism brings about a radical transformation: it communicates grace and divine life itself and makes us into the image of Jesus Christ, whose brothers we become and whose life we must relive in our own.
At the present time, through all the means of social communication, the Christian is easily made use of and even manipulated by the world in which he lives in such a way that often, almost without noticing it, he absorbs and shares the values which are opposed to those taught by Christ.
Thus today how many baptized persons there are who, in their everyday life, come to betray their baptismal consecration! And so Our Lady asks that the faithful consecrate themselves to her Immaculate Heart, as a specific commitment of the Marian Movement and then, as a mother, gently leads them to live out their baptism, in complete fidelity to Jesus and to his Church.