Are you being called to consecrate yourself to Mary?

Fatima · Apr 7, 2014

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Of course we all have prayer intentions for our family, friends, and situations. Those never go away. However, after being consecrated, I stopped earmarking a rosary for a specific intention. All my rosaries simply went to Mary so she could do with them as she wished, and by doing so, I believe all of my intentions are covered through Mary augmenting my prayers and trust that she knows the needs of my family and myself and all of my intentions. I have maybe 2 pages of prayer intentions in my spiritual journal, and the intentions range from the salvation of the souls of all my family, to the end of abortion to prayers for priests, to a job where I can actually support myself, etc. After the consecration last year, I said in prayer to Mary...you know my list of intentions and what is in my heart. I won't keep referring back to them or earmarking prayers for them...I trust you've got them covered. From now on, I won't even worry about them because I'm sending all my prayers to you and you will take care of it.

To me, consecration is giving everything I have in prayer, fasting, offering up of suffering to Mary for her intentions. This does not mean I'm not praying for my family or other intentions. In fact, to me it's just the opposite...my intentions are covered in ways I could never achieve by earmarking my rosary for a single intention. It was very hard for me to stop praying for a job, as I needed one so desperately. But I do believe that is what the consecration asks us to do, so that is what I did with the belief that my mother knows I needed a job and she will see to it without me calling it out as a specific intention. It is very rare that I pray for a specific intention. After all, Mary knows all of my prayer intentions already, and by sending my prayers to her, she will see that they get covered.
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I understand where you are coming from now. It was your earlier post that said "What was different for me was I no longer pray for a certain intention or family member. I just pray. It takes the burden off a bit, with so much to pray for and so little time", that made me think that you no longer prayed for the intentions of your family.

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