Day 20 - Mar. 11

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Today we begin Week Two in our Preparation:

Purpose: Obtain Knowledge of the Blessed Virgin

Acts of love, pious affection for the Blessed Virgin, imitation of her virtues, especially her profound humility, her lively faith, her blind obedience, her continual mental prayer, her mortification in all things, her surpassing purity, her ardent charity, her heroic patience, her angelic sweetness, and her divine wisdom: "there being," as St. Louis De Montfort says, "the ten principal virtues of the Blessed Virgin."

We must unite ourselves to Jesus through Mary - this is the characteristic of our devotion; therefore, Saint Louis De Montfort asks that we employ ourselves in acquiring a knowledge of the Blessed Virgin.

Mary is our sovereign and our mediatrix, our Mother and our Mistress. Let us then endeavor to know the effects of this royalty, of this mediation, and of this maternity, as well as the grandeurs and prerogatives which are the foundation or consequences thereof. Our Mother is also a perfect mold wherein we are to be molded in order to make her intentions and dispositions ours. This we cannot achieve without studying the interior life of Mary; namely, her virtues, her sentiments, her actions, her participation in the mysteries of Christ and her union with Him.
Mary is the perfect human person. She followed the Divine Person of Jesus in love, guided by the Holy Spirit for the Glory of the Father. In her we see the perfection of charity to which we are called.

Come Holy Spirit, enlighten our minds and strengthen our wills to know and do the Truth as Mary did all the days of her earthly journey.

NOTE: There is a "bad link" at the end of the suggested Prayers for this week. It looks as if it originally was a link to the Pope's Letter on the Rosary but it is not. I advise you not to use that link. If you would like to read Bl. John Paul II's letter "On the Most Holy Rosary" you can find it[ HERE](http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae_en.html)

Other Suggested Prayers and Readings for today are [HERE](http://totalconsecration.ageofmary.com/preparation-20.html)