One week from today

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

One week from today, we hope to begin 33 Days of Preparation for Consecration to Jesus through Mary, following the method of St. Louis De Montfort in: True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary

If you’ve never read this book or if you started and never finished, I encourage you to read this article, in which the author states:

…the circumstances that so many do not take it up, and that many are found who are opposed to it, is evidence that it presents certain difficulties and that it has to be explained. Perhaps I am in a good position myself for attempting that task because every possible difficulty presented itself to me when originally I came in touch with De Montfort’s book…

This is a holy man whose cause has been introduced in Rome and whose life is evidence of what great things God can do in humble souls:

…Many persons are alienated from the devotion and consecration by practices which the Saint recommends and for this reason turn away from the book itself. This is unfortunate for every reason. A particular reason is that the essential of his Devotion does not consist in the things which those people recoil from but in its abiding spirit of unity and dependence on Our Lady…

God willing, at the end of our 33 Days of Preparation, we will pray our Act of Consecration on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. How good it will be, by God’s Grace to offer ourselves to those Two Pierced Hearts Who have loved us so much!