Is Marion Consecration anything more than just a pious practice?

Father Hugh Barber is next.

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Christians are divided over the person of Mary and over how to honor and all that and Catholics are in one camp and many other Christians are in other camps in regard to that.

But within the Catholic Church, there's quite a bit of division over Mary as well and with this growing movement, really a flowering movement of consecration to Mary.

There's a whole section of the church that's very fired up about this and very enthusiastic about it and there's a whole other section who looks, shall we say, a scant at all this Marian consecration, wondering if it's not just maybe piety gone too far or piety disconnected from the meat of the matter,

the soul of the church, and particularly from the person of Jesus.

So we thought we'd ask our resident expert on all things liturgical and on all holy things,

and that is Father Hugh Barber, who joins us now,

with some explanation and some of the theology

behind Marion Consecration. I think a lot of people a lot of people have a problem with consecration to Mary and I'm

going to tell you I'm going to start there and then we'll get into what but here's

the problem one it's not Jesus and there's there is

this everything she's not Jesus she's not Jesus right it's not

but it's not consecration Jesus and two we have gender neutral

language okay she's not she's that's true we don't want to be gender neutral with the mother of God neutral

because she's not she's not she's not she's not we don't want to be gender neutral with the mother of God no we don't but

but okay so but it's not about Jesus the first person I ever heard call our lady

it I wasn't saying our lady is it I was saying the axe maybe when she's a little baby is not

directed apparently at least when we say consecration to marry to Jesus maybe you're gonna

straighten that out but the other thing is we have no idea what the word

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