True Devotion to Mary at Holy Communion time

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

St. Louis de Montfort concludes his treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, with a “Supplement” of several paragraphs ( #266 through #273) describing ways we may practise “True Devotion” before, during and after Holy Communion. Today we begin with paragraph # 266:
SUPPLEMENT - THIS DEVOTION AT HOLY COMMUNION

Before Holy Communion
  1. 1) Place yourself humbly in the presence of God.
2) Renounce your corrupt nature and dispositions, no matter how good self-love makes them appear to you.

3) Renew your consecration saying, “I belong entirely to you, dear Mother, and all that I have is yours.”

4) Implore Mary to lend you her heart so that you may receive her Son with her dispositions. Remind her that her Son’s glory requires that He should not come into a heart so sullied and fickle as your own, which could not fail to diminish His glory and might cause Him to leave. Tell her that if she will take up her abode in you to receive her Son - which she can do because of the sovereignty she has over all hearts - He will be received by her in a perfect manner without danger of being affronted or being forced to depart. “God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved.”

Tell her with confidence that all you have given her of your possessions is little enough to honour her, but that in Holy Communion you wish to give her the same gifts as the eternal Father gave her. Thus she will feel more honoured than if you gave her all the wealth in the world. Tell her, finally, that Jesus, whose love for her is unique, still wishes to take His delight and His repose in her even in your soul, even though it is poorer and less clean than the stable which He readily entered because she was there. Beg her to lend you her heart, saying, "O Mary, I take you for my all; give me your heart."
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Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your Faithful. Kindle in us the Fire of Your Love. As you filled Mary our Mother with Jesus, fill us, and keep us remaining in Him as Mary did on this earth. and as the saints learned to do, from Jesus through Mary.
 
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Dear Greenfields,

Thanks again for your “heart” letting me know that you continue to be blessed by St. Louis de Montfort’s words. I remember reading something, somewhere about St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta who recommended to her Missionaries of Charity, “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin” and spoke especially of this practice at Holy Communion time, telling them – I believe she told them to “beg” Mary to lend her heart to them. I try to practise that good advice before receiving Holy Communion.
 
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Dear Cham, patricius and Stephie thank you all for your “hearts” also. It is such a grace to receive Jesus with Mary, and I thank God that He gave these words to St. Louis de Montfort, for the Church. Especially in our present culture, we need to learn from Mary’s Faith and her humility especially to keep our focus on Jesus – listening to His Words to discern Truth from falsehood. Asking Him to increase in us the Supernatural Faith, Hope, and Devine Charity we were given in Baptism, enabling us to open wide our hearts as Mary did, and humbly say “Yes” to all He wills.
 
Dear Katsuobushi,

Sorry to be late in thanking you for “your heart”, but better late than never! 🙂
 
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