I can't stop these thoughts...please help!

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I can’t stop these thoughts about praying to the Blessed Mother and why I should do it. Everytime I say the Rosary or going through the Consecration to Jesus through Mary, I have these thoughts going through my head saying “what if praying to Mary is wrong?” and “Jesus doesn’t want me to pray to Mary and I should only pray through Him to God”.

I don’t want to think this way but I can’t stop! I’m so afraid I’m doing the wrong thing! How can we be so sure that it’s right praying to Mary?

Please help!
 
Intrusive thoughts are very common. I battle them every second of the day almost. Remember you are not worshiping Mary, you are hyper venerating her . You are taking your problems to her and she is taking them to her Son.
 
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Mary
Lk 1:28, 30 - angel: "full of grace, found favor with God
Lk 1:42 - Elizabeth: “most blessed among women”
Lk 1:48 - Mary: “all generations will call me blessed”

Mother of God
Lk 1:43 - Elizabeth calls her “mother of my Lord” = God
Mt 1:23 - virgin bear a son, Emmanuel = “God is with us”
Lk 1:35 - child born will be called holy, the Son of God
Gal 4:4 - God sent his Son, born of a woman

The Assumption
Gn 5:24 (Hb 11:5) - Enoch taken to heaven without dying
2Kg 2:11 - Elijah assumed into heaven in fiery chariot
Mt 27:52 - many saints who had fallen asleep were raised
1Thess 4:17 - caught up to meet the Lord in the air
1Cor 15:52 - we shall be instantly changed at the last trumpet
Rom 6:23 - for the wages of sin is death
Rev 11:19-21 - ark in heaven = woman clothed in sun
Ps 132:8 - Arise, O Lord & go to thy resting place, thou & the ark of thy might

The Immaculate Conception
Lk 1:28 - hail full of grace[highly favored] Lord is with you
Lk 1:30 - you have found favor with God
Lk 1:37 - for with God nothing shall be impossible
Gn 3:15 - complete enmity between woman & Satan, sin
Ex 25:11-21 - ark made of purest gold for God’s word
*Rom 3:23 - all have sinned & are deprived of God’s glory
*Lk 1:47 - my spirit rejoices in God my Savior

Perpetual Virginity
Lk 1:34 - how can this be, since I do not know man
Lk 2:41-51 - age 12, Jesus evidently only son of Mary
Mk 6:3 - “the son of Mary” not “a son of Mary”
*Mt 13:55-56 - brothers James, Joseph, Simon & Jude
Mt 27:56 - Mary the mother of James & Joseph also
Jn 19:25 - Mary the wife of Clopas
Jn 19:26 - entrusted Mary to John, not a younger sibling
Jn 7:3-4 - brothers advise like elders: “go to Judea, manifest self”
unthinkable for younger siblings (see next verse)
Mk 3:21 - set out to seize him, “he is out of his mind”
*Mt 1:25 - Joseph knew her not until she bore first-born
Mt 28:20 - I am with you always, until the end of the age
1Tim 4:13 - until I arrive, attend to reading, teaching…
1Cor 15:25 - he must reign until has enemies underfoot
Lk 1:80 - John in desert until day of his manifestation
Ex 13:2; Nb 3:12 - consecrate first -born that opens womb
Ex 34:20 - first-born among your sons you shall redeem
 
CherishNY said:
I can’t stop these thoughts about praying to the Blessed Mother and why I should do it. Everytime I say the Rosary or going through the Consecration to Jesus through Mary, I have these thoughts going through my head saying “what if praying to Mary is wrong?” and “Jesus doesn’t want me to pray to Mary and I should only pray through Him to God”.

I don’t want to think this way but I can’t stop! I’m so afraid I’m doing the wrong thing! How can we be so sure that it’s right praying to Mary?

Please help!
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Read and pray over the articles that Joe Brown has provided. Also remember you don’t have to rush into anything. I would suggest holding off on consecrating yourself until you can wrap your mind around this. I understand where you’re coming from. I was a convert and Marian devotions are so opposed to the theology I was raised in that it took awhile for me to come around to some of it. Just study and pray to find yourself well equiped. God will do the rest.
 
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