Consecration to Our Lady? Costs and Benefits
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"Daily offer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the sacrifices demanded by the duties required of your state in life, as well as whatever hardships and difficulties God permits in your life, in reparation for sin and for the conversion of sinners. In other words, “offer it up.” Sister Lucia considered the living out of this disposition the most fundamental and important everyday response to Fatima."
If we do our best to live the message of Fatima by offering the suffering we experience from the death of our loves ones, to Jesus through Mary, in reparation for sins and the conversion of sinners (starting with ourselves) we will truly be participating in the salvation of souls. This is a very high calling and one which I guarantee our loved ones who have passed away are hoping and praying that we will respond to.
Our Lady came to Fatima to bring a message of hope and peace to the world during a time of great upheaval in the world.
The core of her message can be expressed in three simple sentences
1. Addressing the eternal order, she told us that hell exists and that souls are being lost to it because there is no one to make reparation for their sins.
2. Speaking of the temporal, she said that war is a consequence of sin.
3. The salvation of souls and the attainment of world peace require the conversion of sinners. “People must stop offending God because He is already so much offended.” (Oct. 13, 1917)
Our Lady of Fatima Requests
1. Daily offer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the sacrifices demanded by the duties required of your state in life, as well as whatever hardships and difficulties God permits in your life, in reparation for sin and for the conversion of sinners. In other words, “offer it up.” Sister Lucia considered the living out of this disposition the most fundamental and important everyday response to Fatima.
See Why do we have to Carry Our Crosses? Isn't what Jesus did enough?
How exactly do I make my offering? Here is a practical method to "offer it up"
2. Pray a Rosary daily while meditating on the mysteries, especially for world peace.
3. Consecrate yourself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and wear the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel as a sign of your consecration. (Read more about Marian Consecration)
4. Practice the Communion of Reparation on the first Saturday of the month, popularly known as the First Saturday devotion.
5. Contribute to the establishment of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the world by spreading the message of Fatima to others.
The devotional requests of Our Lady of Fatima provide the precise weapons of spiritual warfare so desperately needed today – the peace plan from heaven. The honoring of these requests constitutes the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which Our Lady told Lucia God desired.
Original Source: The Blue Army
I am a daughter of the Most High and of His Catholic Church. I introduce myself that way because I am so grateful for that! I have been married to Dan for 36 years and we have three young adult children - Brett, Nicole and Eryn - and three grandchildren - Cash, Bowie and Indy. I was employed as the Adult Faith Formation Coordinator at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Peachtree City, Georgia for 14 years from December of 2008 to January of 2023. I earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theology from Catholic Distance University and a certificate as a Catholic Spiritual Mentor from the Catholic Spiritual Mentorship Program.
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