Wk 3 - Day 4 - "seeking to understand Jesus Christ better""

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In seeking to understand Jesus Christ, St Louis de Montfort explains in many different ways how True Devotion leads us to Jesus through Mary:
  1. As all perfection consists in our being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus it naturally follows that the most perfect of all devotions is that which conforms, unites, and consecrates us most completely to Jesus. Now of all God’s creatures Mary is the most conformed to Jesus. It therefore follows that, of all devotions, devotion to her makes for the most effective consecration and conformity to him. The more one is consecrated to Mary, the more one is consecrated to Jesus.
That is why perfect consecration to Jesus is but a perfect and complete consecration of oneself to the Blessed Virgin, which is the devotion I teach; or in other words, it is the perfect renewal of the vows and promises of holy baptism.
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During this final week of preparation before our renewal or our first Act of Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary, St. Louis encourages us to pray to the Holy Spirit, to Mary and to pray the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus. Again, let us pray fervently these prayers in gratitude for all the gifts God has given us, beginning with the Goft of the Indwelling Trinity, at our Baptism – which incorporated us into the Body of Christ and began in us, our sharing His Life that we might live in Him now and for eternity. “O Jesus, living in Mary, come and live in your servants, in the spirit of Your holiness, in the fullness of Your power, in the perfection of Your ways, in the truth of Your virtues, in the communion of Your mysteries. Rule over every adverse power, in your Spirit, for the glory of the Father. Amen.” – (prayer of Fr. Olier)
  1. During the third week they should seek to understand Jesus Christ better… As during the previous week, they should recite the Litany of the Holy Spirit and theAve Maris Stella, adding every day the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus.
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You are very welcome for all I can share through our Mother Mary, dear Greenfields.

Today is the Feast day of St. Teresa of Calcutta who had great devotion to Mary also. I read in one of the books written by members of the Priest Branch of her order that she encouraged all her Missionaries of Charity to read St. Louis De Montfort and to Consecrate themselves totally, although she never made it a “requirement” for them.

The two books I read were: “Come Be My Light” by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk MC and the second book was “Mother Teresa - In the Shadow of Our Lady” Fr. Langford MC

I believe it is in one of those two books that I read also that St. Teresa of Calcutta had made De Montfort’s Act of Total Consecration herself. Certainly her holy life gives ample evidence of her love for Jesus through Mary. 🙂
 
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Thank you so much Maria Christi.

Here is a little prayer of St. Teresa of Calcutta.

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Thank you, also, dear Katie!

Yes, I’ve read this prayer and it reminds me so much of St. Louis de Montfort 's treatise on “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin” for he too knew his need and the universally human need to experience the Love God infused into Mary’s Immaculate Heart from the first instant of her Immaculate Conception. In True Devotion, following Chap. 7, he wrote:
SUPPLEMENT - THIS DEVOTION AT HOLY COMMUNION

Before Holy Communion
266…Place yourself humbly in the presence of God…
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… 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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Thank you Lord for the great Wisdom and Love which you share with Your Saints. Help us to learn from them as they learned from YOU! Come, Holy Spirit; kindle in us the Fire of Your Love. Mary our Mother and Model, give me your heart to Love God as you did. Jesus, I trust in You!
 
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The following is the last paragraph of Lumen Gentium’s chapter 8:

It gives great joy and comfort to this holy and general Synod that even among the separated brethren there are some who give due honor to the Mother of our Lord and Savior, especially among the Orientals, who with devout mind and fervent impulse give honor to the Mother of God, ever virgin. The entire body of the faithful pours forth instant supplications to the Mother of God and Mother of men that she, who aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers, may now, exalted as she is above all the angels and saints, intercede before her Son in the fellowship of all the saints, until all families of people, whether they are honored with the title of Christian or whether they still do not know the Savior, may be happily gathered together in peace and harmony into one people of God, for the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.

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Thanks for your reply, hazcompat,

Yes, in the end, her Immaculate Heart will triumph. It was the Holy Spirit sent to the Church by the Father and His Incarnate Son at Pentecost Who overshadowed Mary and Who continues to work through her. Jesus promised His disciples that the Holy Spirit will bring the Church into all Truth.

In St. Louis’ Prayer to Jesus, he concludes with these words to the Holy Spirit:
…give me great confidence in her maternal heart, and an abiding refuge in her mercy, so that by her, Thou mayest form in me Jesus Christ, great and mighty, unto the fullness of His perfect age. Amen
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