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I read in another forum that the American Bishops are to formally reconsecrate the US to Mary on Nov. 11. No disrespect intended, but I just don’t understand how our Catholic bishops can “consecrate” a nation of 300 million, the vast majority of whom are *not *Catholic, to Mary. Isn’t that like picking your neighbor’s flowers without asking so you can give a bouquet to your Mother.
Doesn’t consecration imply consent? Doesn’t it require commitment of the consecrated? Doesn’t it mandate their pledge of faith or action? If not, what merit can it have? It just sounds like an gratuitous gesture to me, like the Mormons’ posthumous baptisms of the dead, who get no choice in the matter, into the LDS.
Doesn’t consecration imply consent? Doesn’t it require commitment of the consecrated? Doesn’t it mandate their pledge of faith or action? If not, what merit can it have? It just sounds like an gratuitous gesture to me, like the Mormons’ posthumous baptisms of the dead, who get no choice in the matter, into the LDS.