Question about True Devotion to Mary

[Dorothy]

I understand that we can go to Him though a mediator, but why is it preferable to do so?

Our Blessed Mother is our mother and we desire to imitate her. So, when I desire to do all with her, by her, for her, and in her it reminds me to imitate her virtues. She is the perfect disciple.

Christ is the One Mediator, and the last end of true devotion to Mary.

We too are mediators when someone asks us to pray for them; and others are mediators for us when we ask them to pray for us.

 

[Amiciel]

I hope some thoughts from this link can help, mathematoons.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=10295733#post10295733

Also, Blessed Pope John Paul II is quoted by Montfort Priests, Claude Sigouin, s.m.m. and Mario Belotti, s.m.m. in their book, The Totus Tuus Journey, as having said:

“The reading of this book (‘True Devotion to Mary’) was a decisive turning-point in my life. I say ‘turning-point’, but in fact it was a long journey … This ‘perfect devotion’ is indispensable to anyone who means to give himself without reserve to Christ and to the work of redemption.”

“It is from Montfort that I have taken my motto: ‘Totus Tuus’ (‘I am all yours’).” (p.xiii.)

 

[mathematoons]

I hope some thoughts from this link can help, mathematoons.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=10295733#post10295733

Also, Blessed Pope John Paul II is quoted by Montfort Priests, Claude Sigouin, s.m.m. and Mario Belotti, s.m.m. in their book, The Totus Tuus Journey, as having said:

“The reading of this book (‘True Devotion to Mary’) was a decisive turning-point in my life. I say ‘turning-point’, but in fact it was a long journey … This ‘perfect devotion’ is indispensable to anyone who means to give himself without reserve to Christ and to the work of redemption.”

“It is from Montfort that I have taken my motto: ‘Totus Tuus’ (‘I am all yours’).” (p.xiii.)

Thanks for the link. But everything that claims to answer my questions draws only from De Montfort’s work, where I’m wondering where he got all this to begin with:

“This devotion is a smooth, short, perfect and sure way of attaining union with our Lord … It is the path which Jesus Christ opened up in coming to us and in which there is no obstruction to prevent our reaching him. It is quite true that we can attain to divine union by other roads, but these involve many more crosses and exceptional setbacks and many difficulties that we cannot easily overcome. We would have to … engage in struggles for which we are not prepared, endure bitter agonies, scale precipitous mountains … But when we take the path of Mary, we walk smoothly and calmly.” (TD # 152-a)

Where is he getting this? Not the Bible. Not official Church teaching. How do I know he’s not pulling all this out of a hat or trying to mislead the faithful? I’m sure it’s obvious to everyone but me. The problem is, I’m a convert on top of not being too smart outside of logical things. Plus, I’ve been lied to so many times in matters of faith that De Montfort’s refusal to provide documentation (yes, I read that part of his book) makes me suspicious of what he says. That I’m even interested in anything he says must be God calling me to look into this.

But by simply pointing me back to the passages I’m wondering about, everyone here is, in effect, saying, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know.” I don’t know why I keep coming back to these forums. Whatever that devotion does, it doesn’t give people the gift of explaining things.

You need to explain this as you would to a Vulcan.

 

[Christine85]

He got those ideas through the Tradition of the Church. There are other books I can’t remember specifically, but De Montfort mentions in True Devotion that Fathers of the Church have had this idea of going through Mary also. I think possibly in the Glories of Mary it is mentioned??
Here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_Virgin_Mary_(Roman_Catholic
Go to the consecration section.