Mar. 5 - Journey continues - Wk 1, Day 2 - "seeking true self-knowledge"

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Today’s Gospel is a special blessing as we contunie “seeking true self- knowledge”. We can do nothing without God’s help and Jesus assures us:

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds;
and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Which one of you would hand his son a stone
when he asked for a loaf of bread,
or a snake when he asked for a fish?
If you then, who are wicked,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your heavenly Father give good things
to those who ask him.

“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.
This is the law and the prophets.” – Mt 7:7-12

Let us continue to ask the Lord, the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Mother as St. Louis de Montfort has directed us in his treatise on “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary”:

1. During the first week they should offer up all their prayers and acts of devotion to acquire knowledge of themselves and sorrow for their sins. Let them perform all their actions in a spirit of humility… They will ask our Lord and the Holy Spirit to enlighten them saying, “Lord, that I may see,” or “Lord, let me know myself,” or the “Come, Holy Spirit”. Every day they should say the Litany of the Holy Spirit, with the prayer that follows, as indicated in the first part of this work. They will turn to our Blessed Lady and beg her to obtain for them that great grace which is the foundation of all others, the grace of self-knowledge. For this intention they will say each day the Ave Maris Stella and the Litany of the Blessed Virgin.

Litany of the Holy Spirit see HERE

Ave Maris Stella see HERE

Litany of the Blessed Virgin see HERE

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Stephie,

Thanks so much for your “faithful heart”, which lets us know you are with us on this journey of 33 Days toward “Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary”. Please let us pray for one another, for the Church and all those in most need of God’s Mercy.

As I wrote in the original post this morning, Jesus encourages us in Matthew’s Gospel Account of the Sermon on the Mount. Let us, by His Grace, remain in His Word, prayerfully pondering all Jesus said and did, in our hearts as Mary pondered and as St. Louis de Montfort and all the Saints learned from Jesus.

By God’s Grace, may we behold our Mother and grow in our supernatural faith, hope and above all Charity – looking to Our Father as Jesus and Mary did on this earth.

 

[hazcompat]

Lumen Gentium
Chapter VIII

1. This maternity of Mary in the order of grace began with the consent which she gave in faith at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, and lasts until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this salvific duty, but by her constant intercession continued to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation.(15*) By her maternal charity, she cares for the brethren of her Son, who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and cultics, until they are led into the happiness of their true home. Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked by the Church under the titles of Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Adjutrix, and Mediatrix.(16*) This, however, is to be so understood that it neither takes away from nor adds anything to the dignity and efficaciousness of Christ the one Mediator.(17*)

For no creature could ever be counted as equal with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer. Just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by the ministers and by the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is really communicated in different ways to His creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source.

The Church does not hesitate to profess this subordinate role of Mary. It knows it through unfailing experience of it and commends it to the hearts of the faithful, so that encouraged by this maternal help they may the more intimately adhere to the Mediator and Redeemer.

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear hazcompat,

Thanks again! The last paragraph in your post is especially significant:

The Church does not hesitate to profess this subordinate role of Mary. It knows it through unfailing experience of it and commends it to the hearts of the faithful, so that encouraged by this maternal help they may the more intimately adhere to the Mediator and Redeemer.