Finally, God in these times wishes his Blessed Mother to be more known, loved and honoured than she has ever been. This will certainly come about if the elect, by the grace and light of the Holy Spirit, adopt the interior and perfect practice of the devotion which I shall later unfold. Then they will clearly see that beautiful Star of the Sea, as much as Faith allows. Under her guidance they will come safely to port in spite of storm and pirates. They will perceive the splendours of this Queen and will consecrate themselves entirely to her service as subjects and slaves of love. They will experience her motherly kindness and affection for her children. They will love her tenderly and will appreciate how full of compassion she is and how much they stand in need of her help. In all circumstances they will have recourse to her as their advocate and mediatrix, with Jesus Christ. They will see clearly that she is the safest, easiest, shortest and most perfect way of approaching Jesus and will surrender themselves to her, body and soul, without reserve in order to belong entirely to Jesus.
But what will they be like, these servants, these slaves, these children of Mary?
They will be ministers of the Lord who, like a flaming fire, will enkindle everywhere the fires of divine love. They will become, in Mary's powerful hands, like sharp arrows, with which she will transfix her enemies.
They will be as the children of Levi, thoroughly purified by the fire of great tribulations and closely joined to God. They will carry the gold of love in their heart, the frankincense of prayer in their mind and the myrrh of mortification in their body. They will bring to the poor and the lowly everywhere the sweet fragrance of Jesus, but they will bring the odour of death to the great, the rich and the proud of this world. To be contd
Oh, thank you for those beautiful words of St. Louis de Montfort! It is good to be reminded of them often. I wonder why we don't hear that message (those truths about Mary) preached very often. Is it because there isn't enough devotion to her amongst the clergy, because the declining number of clergy don't want/have the time to oganize formal devotions to her or because people are "too busy" to take the time to perform such a glorious Consecration to her ... or, all of the above?
ReplyDeleteAnne Marie, it's so evident in our time that we spend time wasting time trying to save time, for what? We make our lives way to busy, we allow so many trivial things to occupy our time rather than set that time aside to involve ourselves in taking a couple moments to give thanks with one of the most powerful prayers we have, the recitation of the Rosary. Committing ourselves to the Blessed Mother opens us up to the Mediatrix of all Graces, such and abundance of Divine treasures, if only we ask. Maybe it's our time to start knocking on our Pastors door, after all they are hand picked by Our Lady.
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