Can someone explain to me why God would want the world devoted to Mary’s Immaculate Heart or why Mary would say that for herself? I am preparing to do a Marian consecration and I don’t claim to understand everything but I think I am being asked to do it. . .I love Mary. I wear a miraculous medal. But help me understand why we would be devoted to her heart as opposed to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I believe the answer is they are almost inseparable but why not just mention the sacred heart? Thanks in advance.
Mary was there for her son in thick and thin. She was there because she cared in a way only a mother can. He was her life, thought, and love, and was willing to walk thru fire for him.
She suffered so much when she saw him put down, ridiculed, hated, rejected, and not just in his last days. Her heart was torn and broken in two more than once because she loved him so hard.
She was without sin which made them closer than any other pair of beings could be. Her life was his life and he was the life and center of her life. Their souls were inseperable even after birth. Jesus knowing all things, knew this closeness of his mother and her warm love for him. It must have conforted him more then once in his trials, feeling and knowing her depth of love.
That great closeness would never be experienced by him with anyone else, and he returned it to her as well. Now when the end was near and he knew he must leave us for whom he gave his life, he would give us his final gift of love, whom he loved more than all else, his last love, his mother. She was to love her new children as she loved him. But she can only love us as she loved Jesus, thru being close to us and only when we listen to her.
And so any mother’s protection is only good if the children listen to her directions. And so a dedication to her heart is not only a pledge to love her and take her formally into our hearts as our own mother, but a promise to listen to her wisdom and to do as she instructs us. We treat her as our mother by talking to her and requesting her to obtain the needs to be one with her son. Because love is the strongest power God has made, she is right there with her son to ask him for those needs to be fulfilled. He, being one with her, will never refuse whatever she wants.
I believe that all our requests go thru Mary. But that those who consecrate themselves to Mary open themselves up to her more just as Jesus opened himself up to her in his life. Similar to a child who confides in his mother and one who does not. The mother is able to help the child who confides in her and comes to her for help. This special closeness then brings the person to Christ faster and easier because Mary will bring her thoughts and ways to that person. They will be taught and trained in the love that she had for him.
What I have just said dosen’t make anyone less a christian and loved by Jesus if they do not use the consecration to Mary, but just that they,who consecrate themselves, are more fortunate to find a simplar and quicker path to the heart of Jesus following that of Mary’s path. She will not only teach them how to love, but is right there with her Son to ask him for the graces needed.
On the otherhand, I do believe that Jesus wants his mother to be honored by us in a very special way because of what she endured in her life with him and the tender love and nurturing care she gave him. She has a special place by his side and in his heart because he wants to honor her and love her for doing what he wanted so perfectly and with devotion. I think it would be hard to imagine the love that went on between them. Now he wants her also to be loved who gave everything to him.
The hearts of Jesus and Mary are united.
“See the water flowing from the temple wall, from the side of Christ, renewing all the earth.”
(hymn)
