Showing posts with label Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Show all posts

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Saintly Thought for Today



                                              Our Lady of Fatima


From St. Louis de Montfort's "True Devotion to Mary:"

Mary must come forth more than ever in mercy, in might and in grace, in these latter times: in mercy, to bring back and lovingly receive the poor strayed sinners who shall be converted and shall return to the Catholic Church; in might, against the enemies of God, idolaters, schismatics, Mahometans, Jews and souls hardened in impiety, who shall rise in terrible revolt against God to seduce all those who shall oppose them and to make them fall by promises and threats; and finally, she must shine forth in grace, in order to animate and sustain the valiant soldiers and faithful servants of Jesus Christ, who shall battle for His interests.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Saintly Thought for Today

                      "Mary Queen of Heaven" by Master of the Saint Lucy Legend

From St. Louis de Montfort's "Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin:"

Moreover, we should repeat after the Holy Spirit, "All the glory of the king's daughter is within", meaning that all the external glory which heaven and earth vie with each other to give (the Blessed Virgin) is nothing compared to what she has received interiorly from her Creator, namely, a glory unknown to insignificant creatures like us, who cannot penetrate into the secrets of the king.