The act of consecration is dedicating for a purpose -- we cannot "give" what we are just stewards of, what we do not own.
seems to have been useful for us all to dedicate our grace, our prayers to bringing down the Evil Empire.
I believe that our prayers brought down communism,
Allow me to get my snotty on:
I believe that , through our prayers and through the intercession we asked of the Panagia, God brought down communism.
But wow do I believe it! I remember when I was in seminary taking a bus to DC to go to the Shrine to get a rosary. In the Shrine I passed a chapel filled with "little old ladies" saying to Rosary a la mode d'Irlandais, to wit: "... and blayssed be t' froot of dy woomb, JAYsus,: and scorning them.
Less than 20 years later down comes the Berlin Wall and Yeltsin is president of a diminished Russia.
Wow! Color me Catholic! Never get between a gaggle of little old Irish Ladies and their goal 's all I'm sayin'.