"...This is a mystery of grace."

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Continuing to listen and to hear more deeply, the Lord as He inspired His servant. St. Louis de Montfort in the treatise on “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin”:

1. If we examine closely the remainder of the life of Jesus Christ, we see that He chose to begin his miracles through Mary. It was by her word that He sanctified Saint John the Baptist in the womb of his mother, Saint Elizabeth; no sooner had Mary spoken than John was sanctified. This was His first and greatest miracle of grace. At the wedding in Cana He changed water into wine at her humble prayer, and this was His first miracle in the order of nature. He began and continued His miracles through Mary and He will continue them through her until the end of time.
2. God the Holy Spirit, who does not produce any divine person, became fruitful through Mary whom He espoused. It was with her, in her and of her that He produced His masterpiece, God-made-man, and that He produces every day until the end of the world the members of the body of this adorable Head. For this reason the more He finds Mary His dear and inseparable spouse in a soul the more powerful and effective He becomes in producing Jesus Christ in that soul and that soul in Jesus Christ.
3. This does not mean that the Blessed Virgin confers on the Holy Spirit a fruitfulness which He does not already possess. Being God, He has the ability to produce just like the Father and the Son, although He does not use this power and so does not produce another divine person. But it does mean that the Holy Spirit chose to make use of our Blessed Lady, although he had no absolute need of her, in order to become actively fruitful in producing Jesus Christ and his members in her and by her. This is a mystery of grace unknown even to many of the most learned and spiritual of Christians.

Hopefully all who read these posts are being blessed. Please let us pray for one another and for all our brothers and sisters, especially those who as yet do not know Jesus through Mary.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the Hearts of Your faithful; kindle in us the Fire of Your Love. Jesus, I trust in You! Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us.

 

[patricius79]

For this reason the more He finds Mary His dear and inseparable spouse in a soul the more powerful and effective He becomes in producing Jesus Christ in that soul and that soul in Jesus Christ.

I pray that we may continually invite Mary into our souls, so that the Holy Spirit can unite us perfectly to Jesus Christ.

Mary loves each of us so much because she is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. St. Alphonsus Liguori explains the extremity of this love for God and for us:

The saints, then, because they loved God much, did much for their neighbor; but who ever loved God as much as Mary? She loved him more in the first moment of her existence than all the saints and angels ever loved him, or will love him; but this we shall explain at length, when treating of her virtues. Our Blessed Lady herself revealed to Sister Mary the Crucified, that the fire of love with which she was inflamed towards God was such, that if the heavens and earth were placed in it, they would be instantly consumed; so that the ardors of the seraphim, in comparison with it, were but as fresh breezes. And as amongst all the blessed spirits, there is not one that loves God more than Mary, so we neither have nor can have any one who, after God, loves us as much as this most loving Mother; and if we concentrate all the love that mothers bear their children, husbands and wives one another, all the love of angels and saints for their clients, it does not equal the love of Mary towards a single soul. Father Nieremberg says that the love that all mothers have ever had for their children is but a shadow in comparison with the love that Mary bears to each one of us; and he adds, that she alone loves us more than all the angels and saints put together.
Chapter I

 

[MariaChristi]

Thanks, dear patricius, for your “heart” and for your reply! Yes, I join in your prayer that we may all continually invite Mary into our souls! The Holy Spirit is “Love” and He has been sent by the Father and the Son to bring the Church into all Truth nad thus kindle in us the Firre of Love.

What Graces God offers us, yet men, women and children can make all the wrong choices looking for what has already been given by God! He gave His Son born of a woman by the power of His Holy Spirit, that we might regain our share in His Eternal Life, lost by our first parents. Ah, but our Mother, like Jesus, goes in search of the lost, interceding for them and asking us to pray for all those in most need of His Mercy.

She loves with His Love for their two hearts are united in the perfection of charity. Sacred Heart of Jesus, we trust in You! Mother of Mercy, pray for us who have recourse to you.

 

[patricius79]

What Graces God offers us, yet men, women and children can make all the wrong choices looking for what has already been given by God!

That’s why it’s so sad that the world ignores the Immaculate Heart of Mary, where Jesus reigns.

St. John Eudes wrote:

Consider how strange it is! The world offers nothing but crumbs and dregs of feasting, empty
fame, wealth and fleeting pleasure, but it sells you these stale crumbs and dregs at the costly price of worry, pain, bitterness, restlessness, anguish, often even at the price of your very life…

On the other hand, the Divine Son of God and of Mary offers you the refreshment and rapture of
the fountain of the fulness of the House of God, of which you are free to drink forever. 0 what blind,
blind folly it is to choose the goblet of sin instead of the chalice of Our Saviour!
…
0 dearest Lord, have pity on such wretchedness, and by the pure heart of Thy most blessed
Mother, grant unto us the living water that flows from Thee through the miraculous fountain of her
Heart. Stifle in our hearts the dangerous thirst for worldly things and grant us instead the thirst that burns only to please Thee, to love Thee, to seek our delight and refreshment in following Thy Holy Will, in imitation of the admirable Heart of Mary, fountain of sweetness and grace, who knew no joy or paradise except to accomplish Thy Divine Will most perfectly.
Full text of "The Admirable Heart Of Mary by St John Eudes"

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear patricius,

Thanks so much for this beautiful quote from St. John Eudes; who like St. Louis de Montfort was given the grace to know and to love Jesus through Mary, by the power of the Holy Spirit:

Consider how strange it is! The world offers nothing but crumbs and dregs of feasting, empty fame, wealth and fleeting pleasure, but it sells you these stale crumbs and dregs at the costly price of worry, pain, bitterness, restlessness, anguish, often even at the price of your very life…

On the other hand, the Divine Son of God and of Mary offers you the refreshment and rapture of the fountain of the fulness of the House of God, of which you are free to drink forever. 0 what blind, blind folly it is to choose the goblet of sin instead of the chalice of Our Saviour!
…
0 dearest Lord, have pity on such wretchedness, and by the pure heart of Thy most blessed
> Mother, grant unto us the living water that flows from Thee through the miraculous fountain of her Heart. Stifle in our hearts the dangerous thirst for worldly things and grant us instead the thirst that burns only to please Thee, to love Thee, to seek our delight and refreshment in following Thy Holy Will, in imitation of the admirable Heart of Mary, fountain of sweetness and grace, who knew no joy or paradise except to accomplish Thy Divine Will most perfectly.
Full text of "The Admirable Heart Of Mary by St John Eudes"