Summary : De Montfort , True Devotion to Blessed Virgin Mary

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This summary primarily uses paragraph #'s( Pgh. 123, etc) can be followed along from the source at fisheaters.com/totalconsecrationmontfort.html#book

Additionally this version of the book following paragraph #'s can be bought at
‘True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin’ (B2)
publications.montfortmissionaries.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=45
Mary: The Holy City of God, Treasury of the Lord, Queen of our Hearts
Alma Mater: hidden and unknown (not completely revealed in the Bible)

Angels Proclaim: “Holy, Holy, Holy, Mary, Virgin Mother of God”

fisheaters.com/totalconsecrationbook2.html

Pgh. 43: If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection.

Pgh. 46: This means that the greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.
Pgh 52: The most fearful enemy that God has set up against the devil is Mary

–grant me now the grace to praise her more worthily.

Basic Principles of Devotion to Mary
  1. Christ must be the ultimate end of all devotions. Jesus is the alpha and omega. The beginning and the end. (goal: to be transformed into Christ through Mary).
  2. We belong to Jesus & Mary as their slaves.
  3. We must rid ourselves of what is evil in us.
  4. It is more humble to have an intermediary with Christ
  5. It is difficult to keep the graces received from God
Marks of Authentic Devotion to Mary
– It is interior, trustful, holy, constant, disinterested(not concerned with what I get out of it)
 
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Pgh 115: Principle Practices of Devotion to Our Lady
(1) Honouring her, as the worthy Mother of God, by the cult of hyperdulia, that is, esteeming and honouring her more than all the other saints
as the masterpiece of grace and the foremost in holiness after Jesus Christ, true God and true man.

(2) Meditating on her virtues, her privileges and her actions.

(3) Contemplating her sublime dignity.

(4) Offering to her acts of love, praise and gratitude.

(5) Invoking her with a joyful heart.

(6) Offering ourselves to her and uniting ourselves to her.

(7) Doing everything to please her.

(8) Beginning, carrying out and completing our actions through her, in her, with her, and for her in order to do them through Jesus, in Jesus, with Jesus, and for Jesus, our last end.

Exterior Devotions

(1) Enrolling in her confraternities and joining her sodalities.

(2) Joining religious orders dedicated to her.

(3) Making her privileges known and appreciated.

(4) Giving alms, fasting, performing interior and exterior acts of self-denial in her honour.

(5) Carrying such signs of devotion to her as the rosary, the scapular, or a little chain.(Miraculous Medal)

(6) Saying the Rosary daily.

(7) Singing hymns to her or teaching others to sing them.

(8) Genuflecting or bowing to her each morning while saying for example sixty or a hundred times, “Hail Mary, Virgin most faithful”,
so that through her intercession with God we may faithfully correspond with his graces throughout the day; and in the evening saying “Hail Mary, Mother of Mercy”,
asking her to obtain God’s pardon for the sins we have committed during the day.

(9) Taking charge of her confraternities, decorating her altars, crowning and adorning her statues.

(10) Carrying her statues or having others carry them in procession, or keeping a small one on one’s person as an effective protection against the evil one.

(11) Having statues made of her, or her name engraved and placed on the walls of churches or houses and on the gates and entrances of towns, churches and houses.

(12) Solemnly giving oneself to her by a special consecration.​

Pgh. 141: “If then, we possess any hope or grace or gift of salvation, let us acknowledge that it comes to us through her” (St. Bernard).

“All the gifts, graces, virtues of the Holy Spirit are distributed by the hands of Mary, to whom she wills, when she wills, as she wills, and in the measure she wills” (St. Bernardine).

“As you were not worthy that anything divine should be given to you, all graces were given to Mary so that you might receive through her all graces you would not otherwise receive” (St. Bernard).

Pgh. 143: …it teaches us never to go alone directly to our Lord, however gentle and merciful though he may be, but always to use Mary’s power of intercession, whether we want to enter his presence,
speak to him, be near him, offer him something, seek union with him or consecrate ourselves to him.

Pgh. 144: She makes up for his failings( the sinner) and becomes his representative with Jesus. Just as one who is consecrated belongs entirely to Mary, so Mary belongs entirely to him.

Pgh 145: This produces in his soul, if he is persevering, a great distrust, contempt, and hatred of self, and a great confidence in Mary with complete self-abandonment to her.
He no longer relies on his own dispositions, intentions, merits, virtues and good works, since he has sacrificed them completely to Jesus through his loving Mother.
He has now only one treasury, where all his wealth is stored. That treasury is not within himself: it is Mary.
 
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Pgh 148: …Whenever we praise & glorify her, she immediately praises & glorifies the Jesus. When anyone praises & blesses her,
she sings today as she did on the day Elizabeth praised her, “My soul glorifies the Lord”

Pgh 149: “When you want to offer something to God, to be welcomed by him be sure to offer it through the worthy Mother of God,
if you do not wish to see it rejected.”

Pgh 152: I am taking/walking the path of Mary…is smooth and calm.

Pgh 165: Rest assured that the more you turn to Mary in your prayers, meditations, actions and sufferings,
seeing her if not perhaps clearly and distinctly, at least in a general and indistinct way, the more surely you will discover Jesus.
For he is always greater, more powerful, more active, and more mysterious when acting through Mary than he is in any other creature in the universe, or even in heaven.
… As a saint once remarked, “Only Mary knows how to fill our minds with the thought of God.” Moreover, Mary will safeguard us against the deception and cunning of the evil one.

Pgh 166: Where Mary is present, the evil one is absent. One of the unmistakable signs that a person is led by the Spirit of God
is the devotion he has to Mary, and his habit of thinking and speaking of her.

Pgh 173: “My dear Mother …, I realise that up to now I have received from God through your intercession more graces than I deserve.
But bitter experience has taught me that I carry these riches in a very fragile vessel and that I am too weak and sinful to guard them by myself.
Please accept in trust everything I possess, and in your faithfulness and power keep it for me. If you watch over me, I shall lose nothing.
If you support me, I shall not fail. If you protect me, I shall be safe from my enemies.”
 
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Pgh 175: St John Damascene quote:
" We fasten our souls to Mary, our hope, as to a firm anchor"
St John Bosco vision: The Church as a Great Ship battered by enemies
finally rests safely anchored between two pillars. One pillar, has Mary- The help of sinners
at the top. The other pillar much taller, has the Eucharist at the top.

discover-catholic-miracles.com/vision-of-don-bosco.html
Pgh 182: St John Damascene: “If I confide in you, Mother of God, I shall be saved. Under your protection I shall fear nothing.
With your help I shall rout all my enemies. For devotion to you is a weapon of salvation which God gives to those he wishes to save.”

Pgh 216: “I am yours, O Blessed Virgin, obtain salvation for me,” or with the beloved disciple, St. John, “I have taken you, Blessed Mother, for my all.”

Dear Mother of saving grace, I will do everything with confidence and without fear because you are my strength and boast in the Lord.

“I am all yours and all that I have is yours, O glorious Virgin, blessed above all created things.
Let me place you as a seal upon my heart, for your love is as strong as( the inevitability of ) death.”

Pgh 217: “May the soul of Mary be in each one of us to glorify the Lord! May the spirit of Mary be in each one of us to rejoice in God!”
“When will souls breathe Mary as the body breathes air?” “Lord, that your kingdom may come, may the reign of Mary come!”

Pgh 218: ??
Mary, the tree of life, through whom all good fruits come.
St Augustine- "You are worthy to be called the mould of God.

Pgh 233: " I am all yours and all I have is yours, O Dear Jesus, through Mary, your Holy Mother"

Pgh 235: “Virgin most holy, accept my praise, give me strenght to fight your foes”
We fly to thy patronage, Blessed Virgin Mary.

Pgh 244: Slave of Jesus in Mary.
Slave of Mary.

Pgh 259: I renounce myself to you & give myself to you, my dear Mother.
 
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In Mass : Before Communion (renew consecration)

Say short form of consecration:
Totally yours, etc and more
Pgh 266 : “I belong entirely to you dear Mother, and all that I have is yours”
“Oh Mary, I take for you my all; give me you heart”

Pgh 269: “Blessed Mary is my greatest safeguard, the whole foundation of my hope”

In Mass: After Communion( praise Mary within you to Jesus)

Pgh 272: " Lord do not look at my sins, let your eyes see nothing in me but the virtues and merits of Mary"
Mary you must increase in me and I must always go on decreasing.
O Jesus & Mary, increase in me and increase in others around me.

Pgh 273: Remember the more you let Mary act in your Communion the more Jesus will be glorified.
The more you humble yourself and listen to Jesus & Mary in peace & silence --with no desire to see, taste or feel
– then the more freedom you will give Mary to act in Jesus’s name and the more Jesus will act in Mary.
" Take and accept my whole being, O Mary, Queen of our hearts, and make me your slave with chains of love,
that I may belong to you and may repeat in all truth, I belong entirely to Jesus through Mary"

" I belong wholly to you and all that I have I offer you, O most loving Jesus, through Mary, your holy Mother"
Daily Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary:
My Queen and Mother, I give myself entirely to you and , in proof of my affection, I give you my eyes, my ears, my tongue, my heart, my whole being without reserve.
Since I am your own, keep me and guard me as your property and possession. Amen
a different version of a Warriors Prayer:

O Mary, I renounce myself and give myself totally to you, Virgin most faithful. I fasten my soul to you as securely as to an anchor.
I tread the paths you roll out for me. You are my strength and boast in the Lord. Your are my safeguard. Give me the strength to fight your foes.
 
Wow, RB2… you put a lot of work into that! I’ll have to take some time and read through and digest as I start my preparation for Dec 8 consecration.

Have you read “The Secret” by de Montfort?

ewtn.com/library/Montfort/secret.htm

I believe it is an excerpt from the book.

-Tim-
 
TimothyH said:
Wow, RB2… you put a lot of work into that! I’ll have to take some time and read through and digest as I start my preparation for Dec 8 consecration.

Have you read “The Secret” by de Montfort?

ewtn.com/library/Montfort/secret.htm

I believe it is an excerpt from the book.

-Tim-
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No, I havent…yet.
But better yet, I have ‘God Alone’ which is the nearly complete works of St Louis De Montfort available from Montfort Publications. What is missing is that It contains only a representative sample of his hymns that he wrote. Another book being devoted solely to his hymns.

The summary above is what I use for morning and evening review.
Additionally I prepared another thread using my summary and book markings to thresh out all the best sayings under the Title: Practicing the Presence of Mary
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=599877
 
RB2 said:
No, I havent…yet.
But better yet, I have ‘God Alone’ which is the nearly complete works of St Louis De Montfort available from Montfort Publications. What is missing is that It contains only a representative sample of his hymns that he wrote. Another book being devoted solely to his hymns.

The summary above is what I use for morning and evening review.
Additionally I prepared another thread using my summary and book markings to thresh out all the best sayings under the Title: Practicing the Presence of Mary
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=599877
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Hmmm… I have been reading “The Imitation of Mary” by Kempis and think I’ll cut/paste/print your posts on this thread (if you don’t mind) and head over to that other thread right now.

Keep posting. 👍

-Tim-

PS. you know, it just dawned on me, this is something I am concerned with, will it be a struggle to keep focused on Mary’s presence. She seems to remind me of her presence quite often but it is something I have been concerned with.
 
As times grow darker, the protection of the Consecration to Mary’s Immaculate Heart grows more important and more necessary to every faithful Catholic.

For a free copy of St. Monfort’s book ‘Total Consecration’ and all of the information needed to make a total consecration to Jesus through Mary, go to
myconsecration.org/

“Love the Immaculata ! Confide in her and consecrate yourself to her without reservation. Strive to do everything as she herself would do in your place, especially by loving God as she loves Him. If you want to grow in perfection, you cannot advance by yourselves – you need a guide. Hence, when you go to God, go through Mary and with Mary !” – Saint Maximilian Kolbe
 
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