"The Perfect Practice"

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

St. Louis continues in his “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin”:

1. The Holy Spirit has inspired saintly souls with other practices of true devotion to the Blessed Virgin, all of which are conducive to holiness. You can read of them in detail in “Paradise opened to Philagia”, a collection of many devotions practised by holy people to honour the Blessed Virgin, compiled by Fr. Paul Barry of the Society of Jesus. These devotions are a wonderful help for souls seeking holiness provided they are performed in a worthy manner, that is:

(1) With the right intention of pleasing God alone, seeking union with Jesus, our last end, and giving edification to our neighbour.

(2) With attention, avoiding willful distractions.

(3) With devotion, avoiding haste and negligence.

(4) With decorum and respectful bodily posture.

. The Perfect Practice

1. Having read nearly every book on devotion to the Blessed Virgin and talked to the most saintly and learned people of the day, I can now state with conviction that I have never known or heard of any devotion to our Lady which is comparable to the one I am going to speak of. No other devotion calls for more sacrifices for God, none empties us more completely of self and self-love, none keeps us more firmly in the grace of God and the grace of God in us. No other devotion unites us more perfectly and more easily to Jesus. Finally no devotion gives more glory to God, is more sanctifying for ourselves or more helpful to our neighbour.
2. As this devotion essentially consists in a state of soul, it will not be understood in the same way by everyone. Some - the great majority - will stop short at the threshold and go no further. Others - not many - will take but one step into its interior. Who will take a second step? Who will take a third? Finally who will remain in it permanently? Only the one to whom the Spirit of Jesus reveals the secret. The Holy Spirit himself will lead this faithful soul from strength to strength, from grace to grace, from light to light, until at length he attains transformation into Jesus in the fullness of his age on earth and of his glory in heaven.

Come, Holy Spirit!

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Bixx,

Thanks for your “heart” which is a symbol of your love for Jesus through Mary, as well as your liking the words of St. Louis de Montfort. I pray you will embrace this “Perfect Practice” and grow daily closer to Jesus through Mary!

Please let us pray for one another, for the Curch and for all those in most need of God’s Mercy.

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Holy Trinity and hazcompat,

Thanks to you also for your “hearts” which give evidence of your own love for Jesus through Mary, as well as liking the words of S. Louis de Montfort.

May more and more people, by God’s Grace, read his little treatise on Our Mother Mary and begin to understand and truly “Pracitice” what God has revealed to us through St. Louis de Montfort’s writing of “True Devotion”