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title: "The Choice to Return: Consecration Day 11"
description: Join us as we prepare for the Year of Mercy by participating in a 33 day Marian Consecration retreat using the book 33 Days to Morning Glory by Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC.
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# The Choice to Return: Consecration Day 11

Nov 15, 2015 7:00:50 AM  |  by [Rebecca W. Martin](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/rebecca-w-martin)

*Welcome to our 33 day Marian Consecration Retreat as we prayerfully anticipate the commencement of the Year of Mercy. Join us as we share the book 33 Days to Morning Glory: A Do-It-Yourself Retreat In Preparation for Marian Consecration by Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC. *

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### Today's Reflection:

All of nature returns to its Creator, even without trying. Yet for us, our fallen human nature places so many obstacles in the path of our return to God. To return to our Creator and Savior takes a daily battle, a constant choice to do what He wants, whether it is to take up our ordinary duties for love of Him, or to step up to the Cross He offers. Yet we can turn to Our Mother, place that daily choice in her hands, and ask that she fill us with her own perfect will.

### To Ponder:

Even when her Son was led to the awful death of His Crucifixion, Mary was perfectly at peace, because her will was united to the Father's.

### Let Us Pray:

Mother, lend me your strength to turn away from my own will, and choose every day to return to Christ.

*Copyright 2015 Rebecca Willen*

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### [Rebecca W. Martin](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/rebecca-w-martin)

Rebecca W. Martin, a trade book Acquisitions Editor for Our Sunday Visitor and Assistant Editor at Chrism Press, lives in Michigan with her husband and too many cats. A perpetually professed Lay Dominican, Rebecca serves as editor for Veritas, a quarterly Lay Dominican publication. Her children’s book Meet Sister Mary Margaret will release in fall 2023 from OSV Kids.

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