Wk 2 - Day 2 - "acquiring a greater understanding of Mary"

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

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The work of the Holy Spirit in Mary is so important for us to ponder, in our efforts to “aquire a greater understanding of Mary”. St. Louis de Montfort’s writing helps us to begin to learn from God’s Spirit of Wisdom as he learned. He wrote in his treatise on True Devotion:

1. 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.

By God’s Grace let us pray fervently today:
Litany to the Holy Spirit
Ave Maris Stella,
In addition they will say at least five decades of the Rosary for greater understanding of Mary. ( from True Devotion, paragraph 229)

St. JPII suggested we pray on Thursdays, the Luminous Mysteries, which he introduced to the Church in his Apostolic Letter, “On the Most Holy Rosary” . If you’ve never read this Letter, it is well worth reading. As many of us may know, St. John Paul II took his Papal Motto directly from St. Louis De Montfort’s words: “Totus Tuus” “All Yours”.

 

[Wm777]

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Michael,

Thanks so much for the beautiful music – Gregorian chant is the most beautiful music to me, and especially when it gives voice to praising the Mother of God, whom Jesus, from His Cross told us:

“Behold your Mother”

How I mourn the fact that so many today do not listen, to God’s Word, nor do many today give His Mother the honor He gave her from the beginning!

Ah, but what joy there is in simply gazing upon her face! I first became acquainted with icons in making a pilgrimage to Cumbermiere, Canada and spending Christmas Eve at Madonna House (while both Servant of God Catherine Doherty and her husband who had become a Catholic Orthodox Priest were still alive). It was a very special experience for me also to spend a period of 24 hours in a “Poustinia” there.

May the Lord continue to work in the world - bringing the Light of His Beauty to scatter the darkness. May He have Mercy on His Church struggling now amid scandals and so much suffering. May Mary our Mother, St. Joseph Protector of Jesus and Mary and now Protector of the Church, and Jesus the Word Made Flesh, intercede for us all before the Father. St. Louis de Montfort wrote many Letters, beginning them with the salutation “May the perfect Love of God reign in our hearts!”

Come, Lord Jesus, reign in us through Mary!