St Louis de Montfort continues '*Inasmuch as grace perfects nature, and glory perfects grace, it is certain that our Lord is still, in heaven, as much the Son of Mary as He was on earth ; and that, consequently. He has preserved the most perfect obedience and submission of all children towards the best of all mothers.
But we must take great pains not to conceive of this dependence as any abasement or imperfection in Jesus Christ. For Mary is infinitely below her Son, who is God, and therefore she does not command Him, as a mother here below would command her child, who is below her. Mary, being altogether transformed into God by grace, and by the glory which transforms all the Saints into Him, asks nothing, wishes nothing, does nothing which is contrary to the Eternal and Immutable Will of God. When we read, then, in the writings of SS. Bernard, Bemardine, Bonaventure, and others, that in heaven and on earth every thing, even to God Himself, is subject to the Blessed Virgin,
they mean to say that the authority which God has been well pleased to give her is so great, that it seems as if she has the same power as God and that her prayers and petitions are so powerful with God, that they always pass for commandments with His Majesty, who never resists the prayer of His dear Mother, because she is
always humble and conformed to His WilL
**If Moses, by the force of his prayer, arrested the anger of God against the Israelites, in a manner so powerfull that the Most High and infinitely merciful Lord, being unable to resist him, told him to let Him alone, that He might be angry with and punish that rebellious people, what must we not with much greater reason think of the prayer of the humble Mary, that worthy Mother of God, which is more powerful with His Majesty than the prayers and intercessions of all the Angels and Saints both in heaven
and on earth ?
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Mary commands in the heavens the Angels and the Blessed. As a recompense for her profound humiliiy, God has given her the power and permission to fill with Saints the empty thrones from which the apostate angels fell by pride. Such has been the will of the Most High, who exalts the humble, that heaven, earth, and hell bend with good will or bad to the commandments of the humble Mary, whom He has made sovereign of heaven and earth, general of His armies, treasurer of His treasures, dispenser of His graces, worker of His greatest marvels, restorer of the human race, mediatrix
of men, the exterminator of the enemies of
God and the faithfull companion of His grandeurs and His triumphs.
God the Father wishes to have children by
Mary till the consumation of the world ; and He has said to her these words. In Jacob inherit ā " Dwell in Jacob," ā that is to say. Make your
dwelling and residence in My predestinedchildren, figured by Jacob, and not in the
reprobate children of the devil, figured by Esau.
Just as, in the natural and corporal genera-
tion of children, there is a father and a mother, so in the supematural and spiritual generation there is a Father, who is God, and a Mother, who is Mary. All the true children of God, the predestinate, have God for their Father, and Mary for their Mother. He who has not Mary for his Mother, has not God for his Father.
**This is the reason why the reprobate, such as heretics, schismatics, and others, who hate our Blessed Lady, or regard her with contempt and indifference, have not God for their Father, however much they boast of it, simply because they have not Mary for their Mother. For if they had her for their Mother, they would love and honour her as a true and good child naturally loves and honours the mother who has given him life.
The most infallible and indubitable sign by which we may distinguish a heretic, a man of
bad doctrine, a reprobate, from one of the pre- destinate, is that the heretic and the reprobate have nothing but contempt and indifference for our Blessed Lady, endeavouring by their words and examples to diminish the worship and love
of her openly or hiddenly , and sometimes under specious pretexts. Alas ! God the Father has not told Mary to dwell in them, for they are Esaus***. ā
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