"It is Your Wisdom Who has knowledge of Your works..."(Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel)

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

What a perfect excerpt from St. Louis de Montfort’s book, “The Love of Eternal Wisdom”, God has provided for us on today’s Feast of Our Mother Mary! As I began to read the words, in paragraph #92, I thought to myself, Mary could have prayed this prayer – for indeed, God sent His Eternal Wisdom not only to Mary but through her to all the world!

At the end of paragraph #93 (which ends chapter 13) St. Louis comments on his own prayer. He prayed the 15 decades of the Rosary, (God had not yet inspired Pope St. John Paul II to teach us to pray 20 decades – by adding the Mysteries of Jesus’ Public Life called the Mysteries of Light or the Luminous Mysteries added during JPII’s pontificate).

1. It is Your Wisdom Who has knowledge of Your works, Who was with You when You made the world, and Who knows what is pleasing in Your sight and shows what is right according to Your commandments. Send Him then from Your sanctuary in heaven and from the throne of Your majesty, for Him to be with me and work with me so that I may know what is pleasing to You; for He possesses the knowledge and understanding of all things. He will lead me in all my works with true perception, and by His power will guard me. My actions then will be pleasing to You and I will lead Your people with justice and be worthy of the throne of my father; for what man can know the designs of God, or can discover what is His will? The thoughts of men are unsure and their plans uncertain, for a perishable body weighs heavily upon their soul, and the earthly dwelling depresses the spirit disturbed by many cares. We understand only with difficulty what is happening upon earth and we find it hard to discern even what is before our eyes. How can we know what is happening in heaven, and how can we know Your thoughts unless you give us Your Wisdom and send us Your Holy Spirit from heaven so that he may straighten out the paths of those living on earth and teach us what is pleasing to You. Lord, it is through Your Wisdom that all those who have been pleasing to You since the beginning of time have been saved. (Wis 9.1-6, 9-19)
2. To vocal prayer we must add mental prayer, which enlightens the mind, inflames the heart and disposes the soul to listen to the voice of Wisdom, to savor His delights and possess His treasures. For myself, I know of no better way of establishing the kingdom of God, Eternal Wisdom, than to unite vocal and mental prayer by saying the holy Rosary and meditating on its fifteen mysteries.

Come, Holy Spirit, teach us to pray well, Jesus we trust in You! Mary our Mother pray for us.

 

[MariaChristi]

Thanks again, dear Greenfields! I just replied to your heart on the thread from yesterday, and I’m happy to be thanking you again for your love of Mary our Mother especially on this Feast day, and for appreciating the Words of her servant St. Louis de Montfort, or I should call him her “slave” – the word he prefers with good reasons – in his treatise on “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin.”

St. Bernard is the one, who is believed to have written “Numquam satis de Maria” Latin for the words:
“Never enough of Mary”. As God gave St. Louis de Montfort and other Saints, God gave to St. Bernard the “Wisdom” to see by Supernatural faith, much more in Mary than many people can “see”.

St. Louis was given the grace to pray well and it seems to me in writing this book on “The Love of Eternal Wisdom” He came to see how very necessary Mary is for all of us. And so his final chapter 17, he begins with this:

1. The greatest means of all, and the most wonderful of all secrets for obtaining and preserving divine Wisdom is a loving and genuine devotion to the Blessed Virgin.