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bookish
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After someone is consecrated to Jesus through Mary by St. Louis de Montfort’s method, can they still gain partial and plenary indulgences for themself?
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Wired
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No, you have given everything to Jesus through Mary. Everything. You trust that Mary will be there for you to intercede for you at death to ask for the graces you need to enter heaven when the time comes… That’s why it’s a total consecration.
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Monica4316
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I think that St Louis de Montfort said in the book that you can offer prayers, etc, for intentions, - but you should leave the final decision up to Jesus and Mary. Maybe it’s similar with indulgences?
Of course we should trust Mary that she would intercede to give us all the graces we need
maybe this takes the place of indulgences?
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BeckyBrohaugh
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From various readings of the materials by St. Montfort, another way of viewing the same answer as given above is:
Any plenary indulgence which you might earn, you give to the Blessed Mother to dispose of as she will. St. Montfort speaks of consecrating yourself and all your goods or merits, material and spiritual.
The different aspect I’m getting at is that if one “earned” a plenary indulgence it is therefore something well worth doing beause it is something you automatically give to your Queen, your Mother (all your possessions and self automatically belonging to her, because you are her holy slave) – and indeed you utterly trust her.
So, for example, I would be pleased to have “earned” a plenary indulgence for Our Lady to dispose of, though her spiritual riches are beyond my imagining… that is what I was getting at.
No expert, just thoughts…may God Bless you!
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Lief_Erikson
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You can earn indulgences and merits, but whatever you gain, you give to Mary, and if she chooses to distribute them to you or someone else, that’s up to her. You can gain them with a specific intention, though, and offer prayers or indulgences for oneself or others. She will decide whether these merits, sacrifices, prayers or indulgences end up serving the cause you had in mind or some other. However, she is always a most benificent queen. She will always be generous to you. Your indulgences are safer with her than they are with you, for she knows how to use them better and will keep them more surely. When you get to Heaven, you will be very, very glad you gave them to her rather than keeping them for yourself.
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