Dear Brothers and Sisters,
All God’s Words are important, and listening to this Sunday’s Mass Readings, each had much for us to hear and ponder, but again, I was touched by the Alleluia verse:
Mary our Mother Listened to God’s Word with the ears of her Immaculate Heart, and did the truth she heard from Him. God also inspires His Saints to know and love Mary as their Mother and Model. St. Louis de Montfort, in writing “True devotion to Mary” has listened to God also and so we have much to thank God for, hearing what He gave to His Saints. Today let us Listen to paragraphs 222 and 223 in “True Devotion” which speak to us of the Greater Glory of Christ:
Come Holy Spirit, fill us as you filled Mary with Jesus, our Way, our Truth and our Life. Amen.
All God’s Words are important, and listening to this Sunday’s Mass Readings, each had much for us to hear and ponder, but again, I was touched by the Alleluia verse:
Alleluia (1 Pt 1:25) The Word of the Lord remains forever. This is the Word that has been proclaimed to you.
Mary our Mother Listened to God’s Word with the ears of her Immaculate Heart, and did the truth she heard from Him. God also inspires His Saints to know and love Mary as their Mother and Model. St. Louis de Montfort, in writing “True devotion to Mary” has listened to God also and so we have much to thank God for, hearing what He gave to His Saints. Today let us Listen to paragraphs 222 and 223 in “True Devotion” which speak to us of the Greater Glory of Christ:
222 - If you live this devotion sincerely, you will give more glory to Jesus in a month than in many years of a more demanding devotion. Here are my reasons for saying this: 1) you naturally lay aside your own intentions no matter how good they appear to you. You abandon yourself to our Lady’s intentions even though you do not know what they are. Thus you share in the high quality of her intentions which are so pure that she gave more glory to God by the smallest of her actions, say, twirling her distaff or making a stitch, than did St. Lawrence suffering his cruel martyrdom on the grid-iron, and even more than all the saints together in all their most heroic deeds! Mary amassed such a multitude of merits and graces during her sojourn on earth that it would be easier to count the stars in heaven, the drops of water in the ocean or the sands on the sea-shore than count her merits and graces. She thus gave more glory to God than all the angels and saints have given or will ever give Him. Mary, wonder of God, when souls abandon themselves to you, you cannot but work wonders in them!
223 - 2) In this devotion we set no store on our own thoughts and actions but are content to rely on Mary’s dispositions when approaching and even speaking to Jesus. We then act with far greater humility than othrs who imperceptibly, rely on their own dispositions and are self-satisfied about them; and consequently we give greater glory to God, for perfect glory is given to Him only by the lowly and humble heart of Mary.
Come Holy Spirit, fill us as you filled Mary with Jesus, our Way, our Truth and our Life. Amen.
