Day 25 - (Seeking Knowledge of Mary)

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

In seeking a true knowledge of Our Lady, we need to continue praying to the Holy Spirit and asking Our Lady to intercede for us. St. Louis de Montfort encourages us that if we are faithful to the interior and exterior practices of this devotion we will see wonderful results, such as:

1. The soul of Mary will be communicated to you to glorify the Lord. Her spirit will take the place of yours to rejoice in God, her Saviour, but only if you are faithful to the practices of this devotion.

In today’s reading from the link below, there is an excerpt from True Devotion which lists 7 wonderful effects. I posted only this one, since it reminded me so much of Mary’s Canticle from Luke’s Gospel. Let us put all our hope in the Lord with Whom nothing is impossible. God is able to do great things in each of us even as He worked marvelous things in Mary, our Mother.

See HERE

 

[hazcompat]

Saint Anthony of Padua (Sermons)

Let thy voice sound in my ears; for thy voice is sweet. [Cant 2.14]

The ‘sweet voice’ is the praise of the glorious Virgin, which most sweetly sounds in the ears of the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ the Son of that Virgin. Let each and every one of us lift up our voice to the praise of blessed Mary, and say to her Son: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. To be ‘blessed’ is to be fulfilled. “Blessed is he who has all he wants, and wants nothing evil.”“Blessed is he to whom comes all he desires.” Blessed then is the womb of the glorious Virgin, who for nine months was worthy to bear all good, the supreme good, the blessedness of the angels and the reconciliation of sinners. As St Augustine1says, “We were reconciled by the
Son alone, as regards human nature; but not by the Son alone as regards the divine nature. The whole Trinity reconciled us to Itself, because it was the Trinity Itself that made the Word alone to take human nature.” Blessed then is the womb of the glorious Virgin, of whom St Augustine says in his book “On Nature and Grace”: “I make an exception of the Virgin Mary. When discussing sin, I do not wish (for the Lord’s own honour) to raise any question whatsoever about her. Greater grace was given her, to overcome every kind of sin, than simply to conceive and bear him who, as all agree, had no sin. Except for this Virgin, if all holy men and women could be gathered together and asked whether they had sin, what reply could they make other than that of John: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us [1Jn 1.8]. But that glorious Virgin was prevented by a singular grace, and filled with it, that she might have as the fruit of her womb him whom from the beginning she acknowledged as Lord of the whole universe.”

Peace

 

[MariaChristi]

Saint Anthony of Padua (Sermons)

Let thy voice sound in my ears; for thy voice is sweet. [Cant 2.14]

The ‘sweet voice’ is the praise of the glorious Virgin, which most sweetly sounds in the ears of the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ the Son of that Virgin. Let each and every one of us lift up our voice to the praise of blessed Mary, and say to her Son: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. To be ‘blessed’ is to be fulfilled. “Blessed is he who has all he wants, and wants nothing evil.”“Blessed is he to whom comes all he desires.” Blessed then is the womb of the glorious Virgin, who for nine months was worthy to bear all good, the supreme good, the blessedness of the angels and the reconciliation of sinners. As St Augustine1says, “We were reconciled by the
Son alone, as regards human nature; but not by the Son alone as regards the divine nature. The whole Trinity reconciled us to Itself, because it was the Trinity Itself that made the Word alone to take human nature.” Blessed then is the womb of the glorious Virgin, of whom St Augustine says in his book “On Nature and Grace”: “I make an exception of the Virgin Mary. When discussing sin, I do not wish (for the Lord’s own honour) to raise any question whatsoever about her. Greater grace was given her, to overcome every kind of sin, than simply to conceive and bear him who, as all agree, had no sin. Except for this Virgin, if all holy men and women could be gathered together and asked whether they had sin, what reply could they make other than that of John: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us [1Jn 1.8]. But that glorious Virgin was prevented by a singular grace, and filled with it, that she might have as the fruit of her womb him whom from the beginning she acknowledged as Lord of the whole universe.”

Peace

Thanks so much, hazcompat! Ah, the wisdom of the saints!