Excellent!  If you were at all inspired by what I said, then this may be my first good work.  I can't seem to help convert anyone, so maybe I will switch to being a latter-day apostle of St. Louis de Montfort and at least help those who are already converted.  

This is really the key; I believe there is a connection between this consecration and the Restoration of the Church, which will coincide with an explosion of Marian devotion like nothing seen before; that also ties in with Fatima and the idea of the Marian age.  But St. Louis de Montfort is the prophet of all this and he says right in his book that the end-time saints will all do this consecration.  He is a majorly undervalued saint, there is no doubt that this consecration is the greatest tool of Marian devotion since the Rosary given to St. Dominic.  He is also an incredible writer.  In the True Devotion book, every line seems to build on every other line in kind of an explosion of Marianism, hugely mystical and visionary.  I never really understood the idea of Mary being a conduit, intercessor, or repository of all graces -- except in a dry, intellectual way -- until I read how he expressed it.  Then suddenly I saw so clearly how she is placed between God and man to appease Him towards us, and that you can completely let go and give yourself solely to her, not worrying, like a Protestant, that you're offending God by doing so.  To honor Mary is to worship God; because she has no being outside God, which is what makes her what she is.  This book also makes you contemplate the line "My soul doth magnify the Lord."  St. Louis de Montfort says this is almost too profound to understand, you wouldn't want to say that she makes Him greater, but she somehow makes Him more understandable to us; and He has WILLED to be known through Mary.

Ever notice how so many heretics and other clueless people can justify themselves by saying "Jesus did this" and "Jesus did that," but that you will never, ever find someone with a true devotion to Mary who is a hypocrite?  God is really too high and too out of our reach for us to have access to on our own; that is why He gave us His mother; and once you begin to see Him THROUGH HER, it all changes, then you begin to really understand Him.  Hence the line "In Christ Through Mary."    

The  whole consecration is arranged in a way to drive this home.  After the preliminary 12 days, it's divided into three weeks.  The first week is about knowledge of self, acknowledging your own lowliness.  God gave me the grace to understand this right when I needed it, which to me shows clear approval of the devotion.  It was uncanny how He was working with me every step of the way, despite the kind of shoddy way that I went about things.  Once you are emptied of yourself, or at least desire to be, then the second week is about devotion to Mary, where you study someone who, unlike us, is filled with every possible virtue.  You ask her to be your eyes, your ears, your tongue, your mind, your soul.  Then the third week is knowledge of Christ; but it has been set up so that you are coming to him through Mary, from the week before, so your mind has first been cleansed by Mary.  

What this makes me think about is that, when Christ was alive, no one really knew Him or what He was doing except Mary; she was privy to the secrets of the Redemption.  No other human was ever so close to sharing the mind of God, and this gift wasn't given gratuitously, it was for her to use to help us, she is the bridge.  No one else really understood what was happening when He was on the Cross, but she was completely consumed by it and understood it more profoundly than all angels and all saints who came later -- WHILE she was living through it.  Once this sinks in, it doesn't make sense to just "go directly" to God, that shows a lack of understanding of the entire plan.  

My 82-year old friend was pushing me ever since I was baptized to do the consecration.  I thought it was unnecessary because I "already got" Mary.  Half a year ago, I was talking to another friend, and I said something about how "I prefer to go directly to Jesus" rather than concentrate on Mary.  I remember after saying this, I got a sinking feeling and knew something was wrong with it, besides its Protestant evocations.  I somehow knew my devotion to Mary wasn't what it should be.  That began to put my mind on the right track.  

As I like to say, this consecration makes you a gnostic.  You become part of an almost secret subgroup of Catholics.  Once it is done, you will perceive and have a special kinship with others who have done it.  Those who haven't will often feel "incomplete" to you.  The fact that no one commented on your post alone tells the whole story about the sad spiritual shape that people are in today; I can feel and perceive how the devotion to Mary is insufficient with many, otherwise their lips would be unsealed like a fountain in praise of her, as mine are here.  Since doing this devotion I am practically unquenchable in praise of her, some people probably think I've become a maniac ( as they thought of St. Louis de Montfort ).  But this consecration is the way to break the ice we are frozen in.
 

I've done the consecration after reading True Devotion to Mary.

It has changed my life, I will say simply. Many many many big things occurred soon after it that definitely shaped my life permanently (involving myself, as well as other people in relation to me that I thought were close to me, but I was wrong apparently). Praise God, and all His saints and angels, especially Mary, the most amazing and important saint of them all. She is key to our salvation.

You have to remember, Raoul is a bit melodramatic- he's a hollywood man don't you know   (jk Raoul). I think I 'got' most of everything else he was saying without it being too literal...