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4 Reasons to consecrate yourself to Mary, even though your baptism is all the consecration you need.
It’s a good question: What is the point of consecrating yourself to Mary when you already have the fundamental consecration you need, your baptism?
All year long, people consecrate themselves to Mary using Father Michael Gaitley’s 33 Days to Morning Glory. But November is a popular time to begin the process that ends on the big Marian feast days of winter. See all the start dates and the links you need here. So now is a good time to ask: Why consecrate yourself to Mary at all?
Here are four reasons, for starters.
First: You can’t have a relationship with Jesus alone because Jesus is not alone.
I love what Tory Baucum wrote about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. No, they are not models of morality or politics. But it is beautiful that their very public relationship has not just been about Taylor and Travis: It has been about Taylor and the Kelce family and Travis and the Swift family.
Authentic human relationships embrace the fact that we are not just individuals, but individuals embedded in a community, starting with the fundamental human community, the family.
It’s the same with Jesus. To love him, you have to love his family too: His mother, Mary, and his brothers and sisters, the saints.
Second: Jesus made his mother ours at the very moment when he launched Christian discipleship.
Continued below.
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It’s a good question: What is the point of consecrating yourself to Mary when you already have the fundamental consecration you need, your baptism?
All year long, people consecrate themselves to Mary using Father Michael Gaitley’s 33 Days to Morning Glory. But November is a popular time to begin the process that ends on the big Marian feast days of winter. See all the start dates and the links you need here. So now is a good time to ask: Why consecrate yourself to Mary at all?
Here are four reasons, for starters.
First: You can’t have a relationship with Jesus alone because Jesus is not alone.
I love what Tory Baucum wrote about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. No, they are not models of morality or politics. But it is beautiful that their very public relationship has not just been about Taylor and Travis: It has been about Taylor and the Kelce family and Travis and the Swift family.
Authentic human relationships embrace the fact that we are not just individuals, but individuals embedded in a community, starting with the fundamental human community, the family.
It’s the same with Jesus. To love him, you have to love his family too: His mother, Mary, and his brothers and sisters, the saints.
Second: Jesus made his mother ours at the very moment when he launched Christian discipleship.
Continued below.
I have a relationship with Jesus; why have one with Mary?
4 Reasons to consecrate yourself to Mary, even though your baptism is all the consecration you need.
aleteia.org
