Day 26 - 2nd Wk ends today

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Yesterday I mistakenly typed “Day 24” instead of Day 25, hence today is actually Day 26 and the final day of our 2nd wk of seeking greater knowledge and understanding of our Mother Mary, as St. Louis De Montfort wrote:

1. Each day of the second week they should endeavor in all their prayers and works to acquire an understanding of the Blessed Virgin and ask the Holy Spirit for this grace. They may read and meditate upon what we have already said about her. They should recite daily the Litany of the Holy Spirit and the Ave Maris Stella as during the first week. In addition they will say at least five decades of the Rosary for greater understanding of Mary.

I’ve also pondered and shared some thoughts especially on “Mary’s smile” as given in a homily by Pope Emeritus:

…In the very simple manifestation of tenderness that we call a smile, we grasp that our sole wealth is the love God bears us, which passes through the heart of her who became our Mother. To seek this smile, is first of all to have grasped the gratuitousness of love; it is also to be able to elicit this smile through our efforts to live according to the word of her Beloved Son, just as a child seeks to elicit its mother’s smile by doing what pleases her. And we know what pleases Mary, thanks to the words she spoke to the servants at Cana: “Do whatever he tells you” (cf. Jn 2:5).

St. Louis De Montfort encouraged us to mediate on and imitate especially, Mary’s virtues: Faith, Humility and Purity. In faith she lkept in her humble and pure heart, all Jesus said and did, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, she lived the Truth.

Jesus taught us, “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God”. Tomorrow, God willing, we’ll begin to look with faith and humility, “seeing” with the eyes of our hearts, united with Mary’s Immaculate Heart: Jesus, Incarnate God. Let us pray fervently to the Holy Spirit that He cleanse our hearts, and for Mary’s intercession to be pure of heart as she is, hearing His Truth and living His Truth, purely for love of God.

Litany of the Holy Spirit - HERE
AveMaris Stella - HERE
The Rosary - praying as in all prayers, with attention and devotion