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Consecrate Your fight to Save America to Our Lady

Consecrate Your fight to Save America to Our Lady

Last updated on: August 15, 2025 at 7:09 am by Rebecca Hamilton

Consecrate Your fight to Save America to Our Lady 2025-08-15T07:09:26-06:00 Rebecca Hamilton

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Today is the Feast of the Assumption. It is the day Roman Catholics honor the bodily assumption into heaven of the Mother of God.

Our Lady is woven into the story of our salvation alongside her Son, Our Lord from the first chapters of Genesis to the book of Revelation. She is an absolutely essential person in the redemption of humankind.

Mary was not and is not the passive cipher that flowery hagiography tries to reduce her to. She is instead, the ultimate exemplar of the incalculable dignity of all human beings.

Mary said “yes.” The Church calls this her “fiat.” Too often, her “yes” is depicted as a kind of mindless passivity that negates the force of will, courage and strength of faith it required.

Protestants, in particular, reduce the Mother of God to a mute figure in Christmas manger scenes whose only job is to sit there and look pretty.

But Mary is like all women in that she is not just a walking incubator. She is fully and completely human with a will and mind of her own.

God meant for human beings to be free. He made us free. He gave us the freedom and the mental and spiritual power to actually be free moral agents. God gave us such complete freedom that we can even choose to follow Him, or we can choose to reject Him.

We can choose what we do.

Mary chose God. She said “yes” to the Angel Gabriel’s request that she be the God-bearer. She could have said “no.” That is absolutely clear.

She made a considered decision that was informed by a clear understanding of Who and What her child, Jesus, was.

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, she told her cousin Elizabeth. He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation … He has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty.

Our Lady saw what so many clergy deny. Jesus did not come to make people wealthy and help the powerful crush the weak. He came to lift up the lowly and fill the hungry with good things.

Jesus is not a government-owned God who deifies the rich and powerful. He is a God of equality of all persons, a God Who lifts up the lowly and feeds the hungry.

Our Lady knew that when she said “Yes” to the angel’s request.

She suffered her own passion alongside her Son. She had to flee into the desert in the middle of the night with her infant. She became an immigrant, a refugee in a foreign land, to protect Him.

She lived in poverty and worked hard all her life. Scripture does say this explicitly, but it seems that she was widowed. She found the courage to set Jesus on the road to the Cross at the Wedding at Cana.

She was there at the foot of the Cross when He died. She was in the room with the Apostles when the Holy Spirit burst into the world on Pentecost, and she is there, protecting her other child, the Church, you and I, from that dragon Satan in the Book of Revelation.

From Genesis, when God said the serpent would strike at her heel and she would crush his head, to Revelation when she battles Satan for us, Mary is there.

St John took care of Mary after Jesus’ Ascension. I’ve visited the place and seen the restored house he took her to, high in the hills above Ephesus. It’s a lovely place.

John took good care of Jesus’ precious mother. Scripture doesn’t say, but I think that the Apostles and other followers of the Way must have gone there to ask her for prayer and advice during the years before her own death.

I can’t imagine how much comfort and wisdom she shared with them. It’s obvious, from reading the Gospel that carries his name, that she talked to Luke.

When she died, Jesus raised her, body and soul, and took her home with Him.

She’s been working for us, from heaven, defending us from the dragon, ever since.

Mary is the human manifestation of the freedom that God gives to every human being. He did not create us to be His slaves. He created us to be His children.

He became human and suffered the agony of the Cross because that was the only way He could redeem us and leave us free. He always had the power to make us perfect. But that would also make us puppets, and we were intended from the first to be free moral agents who could give Him our love or withhold it.

If He did not create us to be His slaves, how much less would He will for us to be the slaves of other people?

God made us free, in the same way He made Our Lady free. We are not His puppets. We are His children.

He has given us everything we need to keep our freedom. Jesus gave us His mother to help us from the Cross.

She is a human being, like us, in heaven, as close to Jesus Christ the Lord as any human being can be.

We are meant to be free. We were not created by Almighty God to be slaves of any human being, including the mad king in the White House and his evil regime.

We are also meant to fight for our freedom, to earn it anew in every generation. Defending American freedom is the task of this generation.

But we are not alone in this fight. We have Our Lady.

I am going to dedicate my work to save America’s democracy to the Jesus’ Mother. And then I will trust.

I encourage you to do the same.

I can promise you, based on my own life experience, that if you do that and then do your honest best every day, God will guide you. Even when things seem to be going wrong, you will realize later that they were really going right.

Just trust her. Trust Him.

And do not be afraid.

Note: I quoted and referred to so many verses from the book of Luke, that I am going to encourage you to sit down today and read the entire Gospel of Luke. It will do you good. Our Lady is first mentioned in Scripture in Genesis 3:15. She is the woman in Revelation 12: 1-6. I didn’t reference this, but she is also prophesied extensively in the books of prophecy, including Isaiah 7: 14.

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