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seanom
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How does one depend on Mary? Does that mean I can never talk to Jesus about my problems and have to go always to Mary? How does this devotion lead you to a deeper love for Christ? Thankyou and God Bless
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Tantum_ergo
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I recommend you read “True Devotion to Mary” by St. Louis de Montfort. You can find the whole text on line (or at least you could a couple of years ago) over at the Fisheaters site. It will explain. As you go through the text, if you find a point that confuses you, make a note. If as you proceed through you find that you’re not understanding further, come back here and ask about the particular point. That will be a lot better.
For the record, Jesus and Mary are not in opposition. All prayer has Jesus as its ultimate end, therefore a prayer say to St Jude isn’t to ‘Jude alone’ but “to Jesus, through Jude”. So you would NEVER be saying a prayer to “Mary alone” instead of Jesus.
And it does lead to deeper devotion. Mary has a knowledge of Jesus that only a mother can have. Ask any of us who are mothers, and even the ‘worst’ mother among us has a special knowledge of our child. We carried our children in our bodies, we cared for them when they were helpless. . . and in return, ours was the first face they saw, the first voice the recognized, the first TRUST and LOVE they gave to another. . .
Understanding Mary’s role, you understand who Jesus is, as God made Man, more deeply than ever, and love Him even more.
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Christine85
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Youre still able to pray to Jesus. Once you do the Consecration prayers go automatically through Mary. St De Montfort says this in True Devotion 
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Delaine75
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Definitely don’t stop praying and talking to Jesus! 
But you can certainly talk to Mary as well. After all, everything she does is to bring us closer to her Son. When I pray the rosary each day, I do so not just out of love for our Blessed Mother, but also because meditating on the Mysteries helps me to focus on the life, death and resurrection of Christ. I definitely think it has brought me closer to Christ (and doing a scriptural rosary also helps tremendously with that). Talking to Mary and asking her to intercede in our prayers doesn’t take away your love for Christ or your need to talk and pray to Him!
But you can certainly talk to Mary as well. After all, everything she does is to bring us closer to her Son. When I pray the rosary each day, I do so not just out of love for our Blessed Mother, but also because meditating on the Mysteries helps me to focus on the life, death and resurrection of Christ. I definitely think it has brought me closer to Christ (and doing a scriptural rosary also helps tremendously with that). Talking to Mary and asking her to intercede in our prayers doesn’t take away your love for Christ or your need to talk and pray to Him!
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fred_conty
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You have conversations all the time with live people on earth, different individuals.
The same thing happens with live people in heaven, different individuals.
Mary fits into that description, along with your guardian angel, and others in heaven.
Praying to Mary or any saint in heaven means talking to them.
Just as you share your thoughts and feelings to your friends, so also you may share your toughts and feelings to your friends in heaven.
And just as you ask your friends for favors, so you can ask your friends in heaven for favors.
So from this we treat everyone we know on earth and in heaven as friends.
You don’t feel bad talking to friends. Those in heaven are your friends.
Actually they are more than friends, they are your spiritual relatives.
For we are all members of one body in Christ, those on earth, in heaven, and in purgatory.
And Jesus said we are to love one another, those on earth, in heaven and in purgatory.
One way to stay close and love one another is to talk to one another.
We have lots of time to talk to our spiritual relatives in heaven and plenty of time to talk to our dear Lord as well. And they also help us for they too bring things about us to the attention, so to speak ,of our Father in heaven, in our behalf. Love ties it altogether in the plan of God…
Just a thought.
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JRKH
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For me the simplest answer to this is that you depend and trust that Mary will always point you to Christ.
Not at all. In fact, you should talk to Jesus, and/or the Father about your problems.
My own very simple view is that, I love my Heavenly mother and want to be obedient to her. In the Bible, the last recorded words of Mary are “Do whatever He (Jesus) tells you”. Then Jesus - in teaching us how to pray - begins with “Our Father”…
So never feel that you cannot or should not take your problems right to “Dad” and or “Big Brother” and or to Mom.
Mostly through a meditation on the life of Mary. Her obedience to the Will of God. The great Love she displays in following Jesus all the way to the cross. Through this we seek to understand that Love between them and to emulate her in Love.
God Bless you too.
Peace
James
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