Day 28 (Wk 3 - Day 2) seeking to understand Jesus Christ better

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Forgive me, please, for not giving the link yesterday for the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus. I didn’t discover the omission until I came back to the post yesterday evening – by then it was too late to edit. Today I listed it below with the other prayers St. Louis asks us to pray daily, during this final week of the journey.

Again, words from True Devotion:

1. During the third week they should seek to understand Jesus Christ better. They may read and meditate on what we have already said about him. They may say the prayer of St. Augustine which they will find at the beginning of the second part of this book. Again with St. Augustine, they may pray repeatedly, “Lord, that I may know You,” or “Lord, that I may see.” As during the previous week, they should recite the Litany of the Holy Spirit and the Ave Maris Stella, adding every day the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus.

St. Louis de Montfort writes of his experience coming to know Jesus better through Mary, especially in the Incarnation. This is a good section to read during Advent:

1. Our good Master stooped to enclose himself in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, a captive but loving slave, and to make himself subject to her for thirty years. As I said earlier, the human mind is bewildered when it reflects seriously upon this conduct of Incarnate Wisdom. He did not choose to give himself in a direct manner to the human race though he could easily have done so. He chose to come through the Virgin Mary. Thus he did not come into the world independently of others in the flower of his manhood, but he came as a frail little child dependent on the care and attention of his Mother. Consumed with the desire to give glory to God, his Father, and save the human race, he saw no better or shorter way to do so than by submitting completely to Mary.

He did this not just for the first eight, ten or fifteen years of his life like other children, but for thirty years. He gave more glory to God, his Father, during all those years of submission and dependence than he would have given by spending them working miracles, preaching far and wide, and converting all mankind. Otherwise he would have done all these things.

What immeasurable glory then do we give to God when, following the example of Jesus, we submit to Mary! With such a convincing and well- known example before us, can we be so foolish as to believe that there is a better and shorter way of giving God glory than by submitting ourselves to Mary, as Jesus did? – From “True Devotion”, Chapter 4

May the Holy Spirit guide our hearts and minds into ALL truth that we may have the heart and mind of Christ. Mary our Mother pray for us. Jesus, we trust in You!

Litany to the Holy Spirit HERE
Ave Maris Stella HERE
Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus HERE