Day 1: A Window to the Soul – Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
- Beata
- Feb 11, 2022
- 8 min read
Updated: Feb 28
33 Days to the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary – Day 1 – February 20 Start Today: Open the Window of Your Soul to Mary and God's Light
Do you long for true peace, deep trust, and a profound transformation of heart - even in retirement, even after years of worries and wounds?
We are beginning a 33-day spiritual preparation for total consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary - a path to Her Triumphant Victory in your life and in the world.
This is not an ordinary novena. It is a daily act of entrusting yourself to Mary, who promises: “Your hearts are the window of your soul. The act of consecration opens this window.”
Each day you will find here:
Mary's message for today (“The Heart Is the Window of the Soul”)
A short commentary and teaching
Direction for reflection
The prayer of the day
My personal reflection (drawing from the Bible, St. Teresa of Ávila, St. Faustina, and Carl Jung)
Day 1 is the foundation: Mary reveals that your soul is like a prism—created to reflect only God. But for this light to shine brightly, the window of your heart must be opened and cleansed through prayer.
If you feel a gentle invitation in your heart, this is the sign. Join us today. Don't wait for a “better moment.” Mary is waiting for you right now.
Mary's Message for Today – The Heart Is the Window of the Soul
“Dear children, the act of consecration to my Immaculate Heart is just as I speak it. It is an act and not merely words. I rejoice that your hearts are realizing this.
I tell you, your hearts are a window to your soul; the Act of Consecration opens this window. Your soul is like a prism; it is designed by God to reflect Him.
If there are impurities in this prism, it cannot reflect the glory that was intended. To bring clarity to the soul, you must pray. Only through prayer may all impurities be dissolved.
Look into My heart, dear ones, for when you gaze in, you shall only receive the Trinity. I can only reflect the presence of God to you.
Listen, My children, I assure you, open your hearts to receive the light of God. Allow only Him to be reflected in you.”
7-7-92
Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Preparation
GUIDANCE:
Our Lady brings to us a call to Her mission – the mission for the Triumph. This mission begins in our consecration to Her Immaculate Heart; thus, we are responding to the call to holiness and the quest for peace within ourselves and within the world.
We must begin by realizing that this is a call to a personal conversion involving our own heart and soul, which allows God to work in us and through us.
The Act of Consecration is exactly as Our Lady has said — it is an act. The Act of Consecration will join our hearts through Hers, to Her Son, through a specially created grace.
DIRECTION:
Prayer is what creates our relationship with God. Through this means of communion, God comes into our hearts and we into Him. Through prayer, all impurities in us may be realized, given to Him and then transformed by His grace. To have peace in the soul is to be filled with the presence of God. We must first be united as one with God, then, through this unity of ourselves with Him. He will be able to work miracles through us.
MEDITATION:
O, Immaculate Heart of Mary, help me to allow the window of my soul to remain clear and open so that all impurities may be erased and God may be magnified brilliantly and gloriously through my conversion, consecration and witness. May I give action to the words I promise to you, dear Mother? Open my heart so that I may become the sign of your Triumph to the world.
Continue with the:
THE BLESSED WORD REFLECTION 🤍🌿
Today, pause for a moment in silence. Think: what does consecration to the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary mean to you - is it a true act, or just words?
This is a difficult question, because how do we recognize the difference? What does it really mean?
There are areas of life like a forest that no one has ever reached, overgrown so densely that light cannot break through. Do you have such places in your heart? God tries to illuminate them, but…
What does Mary’s message for today - “The Heart Is the Window of the Soul” (Day 1 of the 33-Day Novena to the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) mean to me?
Read Mary’s words once more, because this message from July 7, 1992, is the key to the entire 33-day novena preparing for total consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Her Triumph.
Below, I share with you my understanding of Mary’s message in the light of the Bible, the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, and the teachings of two great mystics: St. Teresa of Ávila and St. Faustina Kowalska.
These words from the Lord Jesus were heard by Alicja Lenczewska on March 19, 1990 – from Word of Instruction ("Słowo pouczenia"):
"My Words are a window through which you can see the realm of the Spirit. I am that realm. Apart from Me there is emptiness and sin. Look through this window often. When you gaze into it, you will see much and come to know much. Prayer is the gazing through the window of the Word. It is the beholding of Me."
In the Light of the Bible – The Heart as a Window, the Soul as a Mirror of God’s Glory
The Bible repeatedly presents the heart as the center of a person, the “window of the soul,”
the center of decisions
the place of encounter with God
the source of thoughts and choices — compare Proverbs 4:23:
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
The act of consecration is not empty words or a mere declaration, but a radical opening of the heart — this window — just as in Revelation 3:20:
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.”
The soul as a prism reflecting God echoes 2 Corinthians 3:18:
“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
When the heart is pure:
the soul reflects God’s light
a person sees the truth
decisions become ordered
Purity is the condition:
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God”
(Matthew 5:8).
This exactly matches the image of the prism in Mary’s message: the soul was created to reflect God’s glory, but sin and disorder “dirty the glass,” while prayer restores clarity.
Mary says: the act of consecration opens the window — for me, this means: surrendering the will, consenting to God’s action, a daily decision, not just a fleeting feeling.
What Mary says is deeply biblical: “Repent” means change your way of thinking and choosing. Impurities like sin, attachments, fears blur the image like smudged dirt on a window; that is why prayer is the only way to cleanse it — see Psalm 51:12:
“Create in me a pure heart, O God.”
When we look into Mary’s Immaculate Heart, we see only the Trinity — because She is the most perfect “mirror” of God (see Wisdom 7:26).
In the Light of St. Teresa of Ávila – The Soul as a Crystal Castle
St. Teresa in The Interior Castle (Prologue) writes: “I began to think of the soul as a castle made of a single diamond or of very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms, just as in heaven.”
The soul is crystalline, transparent, created to let through and reflect God’s light from the center where God dwells. When sin “covers it with a thick black cloth,” the light is still there, but it no longer illuminates the rooms or shines outward.
The act of consecration and prayer means entering the castle, opening the windows, and cleansing the crystal — exactly as in Mary’s message. To gaze into Her Heart is to stand at the center of the castle and see only the Trinity.
In the Light of St. Faustina Kowalska – The Prism and the Ray of Light
In her Diary, entry 451, St. Faustina records an almost identical image:
“O Jesus, I desire to unite myself entirely with You, like a ray of light in a prism.”
In her life, Mary is the “Mistress of the interior life” and “Star of the Sea,” bringing coolness and purity. Consecration to the Immaculate Heart means, for Faustina, offering soul and body so as to reflect only God. Prayer removes impurities, and Mary’s Heart becomes the gateway to a direct encounter with the Trinity — just as in the message.
In the Light of Carl Gustav Jung’s Psychology – Archetype and Integration
Jung saw in Mary (especially the Immaculate and Assumed One) a powerful archetype of the Anima — the feminine soul, a bridge to the unconscious and to the “Self” (the image of God within the human being).
Consecration is a psycho-spiritual act: consciously entrusting oneself to a pure, maternal force that helps integrate the “shadow” (all impurities, repressed fears, resentments).
The heart as “window of the soul” means, for Jung, opening to the unconscious; the soul-prism is the psyche’s capacity to reflect the divine archetype. Prayer functions like “active imagination”: it cleanses, integrates, and allows only Him to be reflected in us.
For Jung, devotion to Mary completes the image of God by adding the feminine dimension — thus the triumph of Her Heart is also the healing of the modern psyche.
What Does This Mean for a Contemporary Woman in Retirement? How Can It Change Her Life?
For me, being in retirement, this is once again the most beautiful invitation of life.
When professional duties and daily “musts” give way to a slower pace, the heart finally has time to become a true window. Past difficulties, moments of sadness, and unmet expectations are the “impurities” in the prism that are worth cleansing so that all the goodness of life can shine through the heart. Mary says: you no longer have to fight — a deep, mature act of entrustment is enough now.
Every morning, recite the act of consecration — the one from the chaplet: “O Mary...” — and other prayers will cleanse the crystal of your soul. The effect?
Instead of emptiness and “what am I still doing here?” — deep peace and a sense of mission.
Instead of fear for health or grandchildren — trusting intercession: “Mary, transform my heart (= my perception) into Yours...”
Instead of reflecting the world (TV, gossip, worries) — reflecting only God’s light in a smile to the neighbour, in prayer for family, in the witness that “in old age I can still be even more loved by God.”
Your life will change from “waiting for the end” to “preparation for the Triumph” — in you and through you.
Many seniors who have undertaken this 33-day entrustment say: “For the first time, I feel that my life has eternal meaning.”
🤍 DAILY CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY – St. Louis de Montfort (1673-1716)
O Mary, my Mother and my Queen, I give myself entirely to You, and as a proof of my love for You, I consecrate to You this day, my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, my whole being — without reserve. Therefore, O good Mother, since I am entirely Yours, defend me, guard me as Your own possession and property. Amen
Invitation to the Heart 🤍🌿
Begin your consecration with sincere prayer and allow the Mother of God to polish the prism of your soul. Let this first step be more than devotion - let it be transformation.
Ask: What is reflected from my heart today?
Tomorrow is the next day of preparation. See you then:
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