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Morning Consecration to Mary
My Queen, My Mother, I offer
myself entirely to thee.
And to show my devotion to thee,
I offer thee this day, my eyes,
my ears, my mouth, my heart,
my whole being without reserve.
Wherefore, good Mother, as I am thine own, keep me, guard
me as thy property and possession.
Amen.
My Queen, my Mother, I give myself entirely to thee, and to show my devotion to thee, I consecrate to thee this day, my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, my whole being without reserve.
Wherefore good Mother as I am thine own, keep me, guard me, as thy property and possession.
Amen.
Secondary ey?
If it literally means dedicating oneself "entirely" to Mary without limit and without acknowledgment that Mary is a handmaid of the Lord Whom we both serve, this would, on the face of it, be "totalizing" or "divinizing" Mary.
I'm with you here. I don't feel obliged to defend this. I would view it with alarm and disapproval if somebody who prayed this way lacked a Catholic, Christ-centric understanding.
There are those who thus abuse Marian devotion. The Mariavites (excommunicated in 1906) come to mind.
However, the classic, Church-approved Morning Offerings are quite different from what you sent me. An old one that many of us learned as children goes like this:
Most Holy and Adorable Trinity,
one God in three Persons,
I firmly believe that You are here present;
I adore You with the most profound humility;
I praise You and give You thanks with all my heart
for the favors You have bestowed on me.
Your Goodness has brought me safely
to the beginning of this day.
Behold, O Lord, I offer You my whole being
and in particular all my thoughts, words and actions,
together with such crosses and contradictions
as I may meet with in the course of this day.
Give me, O Lord, Your blessing;
may Your divine Love animate me
and may both my joys and my sufferings tend
to the greater honor and glory of Your Sovereign Majesty.
Amen.
Here's Morning Offerings for every day of the week: note that they are all directed to God! http://www.catholicity.com/prayer/morning-offerings.html
Don't be distracted by the dubious stuff you pick up while hauling your dragnet through the Internet. The Church could be described in these terms:
Matthew 13:4-48 "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet which was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind,
which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.