"...a compelling example of the three divine Persons..."

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

St. Louis de Montfort continues to share motives for the Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary , which he lived and taught and explains in his book on “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin”

1. Let me remind you again of the dependence shown by the three divine Persons on our Blessed Lady. Theirs is the example which fully justifies our dependence on her. The Father gave and still gives His Son only through her. He raises children for Himself only through her. He dispenses His graces to us only through her. God the Son was prepared for mankind in general by her alone. Mary, in union with the Holy Spirit, still conceives Him and brings Him forth daily. It is through her alone that the Son distributes His merits and virtues. The Holy Spirit formed Jesus only through her, and He forms the members of the Mystical Body and dispenses His gifts and His favors through her.

With such a compelling example of the three divine Persons before us, we would be extremely perverse to ignore her and not consecrate ourselves to her. Indeed we would be blind if we did not see the need for Mary in approaching God and making our total offering to Him.

1. Here are a few passages from the Fathers of the Church which I have chosen to prove what I have just said: “Mary has two sons, the one a God-man, the other, mere man. She is Mother of the first corporally and of the second spiritually” (St. Bonaventure and Origen).

“This is the will of God who willed that we should have all things through Mary. If then, we possess any hope or grace or gift of salvation, let us acknowledge that it comes to us through her” (St. Bernard).

“All the gifts, graces, virtues of the Holy Spirit are distributed by the hands of Mary, to whom she wills, when she wills, as she wills, and in the measure she wills” (St. Bernardine).

“As you were not worthy that anything divine should be given to you, all graces were given to Mary so that you might receive through her all graces you would not otherwise receive” (St. Bernard).

Blessed be the Holy And Undivided Trinity, One in Three.

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear patricius and Divine3,

Thanks so much for your “hearts” letting us know you read the words of St. Louis de Montfort. Perhaps you might like to share what particularly blessed you in the paragraphs today.

 

[patricius79]

It’s just so consoling that the Blessed Trinity gave us Mary as our Mediatrix of All Grace so that all of God’s tenderness could be expressed through her who is our Blessed Mother.

What St. Louis teaches is right in line with the Papal Encyclicals about Mary, such as Pope Leo XIII’s “Octobri Mense”:

Thus as no man goeth to the Father but by the Son, so no man goeth to Christ but by His Mother. How great are the goodness and mercy revealed in this design of God! What a correspondence with the frailty of man! We believe in the infinite goodness of the Most High, and we rejoice in it; we believe also in His justice and we fear it. We adore the beloved Saviour, lavish of His blood and of His life; we dread the inexorable Judge. Thus do those whose actions have disturbed their consciences need an intercessor mighty in favour with God, merciful enough not to reject the cause of the desperate, merciful enough to lift up again towards hope in the divine mercy the afflicted and the broken down. Mary is this glorious intermediary; she is the mighty Mother of the Almighty; but-what is still sweeter - she is gentle, extreme in tenderness, of a limitless loving-kindness. As such God gave her to us.
Octobri Mense (September 22, 1891) | LEO XIII

 

[MariaChristi]

Thanks again, Patricius for adding to St. Louis de Montfort’s words, the words of Pope Leo XIII:

Mary is this glorious intermediary; she is the mighty Mother of the Almighty; but-what is still sweeter - she is gentle, extreme in tenderness, of a limitless loving-kindness. As such God gave her to us .

On this 2nd Saturday of October, Month of the Rosary, let us continue to pray for one another, for the Church, and for all those in most need of God’s Mercy, through Mary’s intercession. May she interceded especially for Popr Francis and the Bishops meeting in Rome at the Amazonian Synod!