if (window.ue && window.ue.tag) { window.ue.tag('author:quotes:signed_out', ue.main_scope);window.ue.tag('author:quotes:signed_out:mobileWeb', ue.main_scope); } var useSSL = "https:" == document.location.protocol; He made an assemblage of all His graces and he called it Mary (Maria). "https://":"http://";i+=f?g:k;i+=j;i+=h;c(i)}if(!e.ue_inline){if(a.loadUEFull){a.loadUEFull()}else{b()}}a.uels=c;e.ue=a})(window,document); And when we ask for our daily bread, we recognize that we need Gods help every day and that we are entirely dependent upon him for his help and protection. 121 We read. At the age of 12 he entered a Jesuit College in Rennes. God of my heart and my Portion, Christ Jesus, may my heart faint away in spirit and mayest Thou be my life within me! It is true that we can attain divine union by other roads; but it is by many more crosses and strange deaths, and with many more difficulties, which we shall find it hard to overcome. var e = document.createElement("script"); e.src = "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41mrkPcyPwL.js"; document.head.appendChild(e); Act of Humility Who Am I That Thou Shouldst Deign to Come to Me? . Julian North, quote from Age of Order, FuckAlexisLex. !function(){function n(n,t){var r=i(n);return t&&(r=r("instance",t)),r}var r=[],c=0,i=function(t){return function(){var n=c++;return r.push([t,[].slice.call(arguments,0),n,{time:Date.now()}]),i(n)}};n._s=r,this.csa=n}(); His statement here is an amazing description of the love Mary has for us. function(a9, a, p, s, t, A, g) { They shall have in their mouths the two-edged sword of the Word of God. - St. Louis de Montfort. According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." if (window.csa) { Log in to Pronouncekiwi. He will plead for you and obtain for you contrition and the forgiveness of your sins. He was also known for his devotion to the angels; especially guardian angels. Prayer is all the harder when it is, naturally speaking, distasteful to the soul and is filled with those annoying little ants and flies running about in your imagination, against your will, and scarcely allowing you the time to enjoy a little peace and appreciate the beauty of what you are saying. They preferred to risk death rather than to miss their gatherings where our Lord was present. ~, Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance. ~, Finally, my dear brothers and sisters, the daily Rosary has so many enemies that I look upon the grace of persevering in it until death as one of the greatest favors God can give us., Only he who perseveres in asking, seeking, and knocking, will receive, will find and will enter. Unfortunately we all have these sad debts. monetization of National Catholic Register RSS feeds is strictly prohibited. googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); [CDATA[ page: {requestId: "JNDXSV5H96RNV4JSMA26", meaningful: "interactive"} They are gems. He joined a society of men who ministered to the poor and the sick. SCRIPTURES & ART: Todays Gospel is illustrated by Renaissance painter Paolo Moranda Cavazzola. He was . q("f", arguments) I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary. Feb. Feast Days We must see as if we saw not, understand as if we understood not, and make use of the things of this world as if we made no use of them at all (1 Cor. He will plead for you and will obtain for you contrition and the forgiveness of your sins. ~. November Feast Days (1) "It is through the most Blessed Virgin Mary. This great God has a most rich treasury in which He has laid up all that He has of beauty and splendour, or rarity and preciousness, including even His own Son: and this immense treasury is none other than Mary, whom the saints have named the Treasure of the Lord, out of whose plenitude all men are made rich. As a reward for her great humility, God gave her the power and mission of assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels who fell away through pride. var cookiePair = cookie.split('='); However, considering the fervour of those who say it, we may distinguish three kinds: Ordinary Membership, which entails saying the complete Rosary once a week; Perpetual Membership, which requires it to be said only once a year; Daily Membership, which obliges one to say it all every day, that is, the fifteen decades made up of 150 Hail Marys. May Feast Days Each quote represents a book that is Lets look at 21 of them from his works Treatise of True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, The Secret of the Rosary, and The Love of Eternal Wisdom. This is because it has the same number of Hail Marys as there are psalms in the Book of the Psalms of David. It is as if a peasant, wishing to gain the friendship and benevolence of the king, went to the queen and presented her with a fruit which was his whole revenue, in order that she might present it to the king. He studied theology in Paris. Saint Louis de Montfort (1673-1716) was a French priest whose special devotion to Mary made him one of the earliest writers on the subject of Mariology. A.src = t; You can even say it while working if your duties do not allow you to leave your job, for work with ones hands is not always incompatible with vocal prayer. ~, Blessed is the Rosary which gives us this science and knowledge of our Blessed Lord through our meditations on His life, death, passion and glory. ~, The Rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother. ~, If then we are establishing sound devotion to our Blessed Lady, it is only in order to establish devotion to our Lord more perfectly, by providing a smooth but certain way of reaching Jesus Christ. ~, One day Our Lord said to Blessed Alan: If only these poor wretched sinners would say My Rosary, they would share in the merits of My passion and I would be their Advocate and would appease My Fathers Justice. ~, Your closest enemies will attack you all the more cruelly because they are within you. Within that great work is a prayer where St. Louis writes to Mary: "Totus tuus ego sum et omnia mea tua sunt . A.L. Public prayer is more powerful than private prayer to appease the anger of God and call down his mercy, and the Church, guided by the Holy Ghost, has always advocated it in times of disasters and general distress. Death: 1716. As the world communicates more and This drove the evil spirit away forever because he could not bear such a terrible chain. Saint Louis De Monfort "Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. She is like the sun which destroys the darkness of our wiles and subtlety. ~, For never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil. If you cannot find the time to say five decades all together, say a decade here and a decade there; you will thus be able, in spite of your work and the calls upon your time, to complete the whole Rosary before going to bed. You are trying to cultivate a piece of ground which has not had any rain. choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. She shares her virtues with him her humility, faith, purity, etc. Being heavenly flowers these roses will never fade or lose their exquisite beauty., Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins., When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer., Put you on the armor of God. So arm yourselves with the arms of God-with the Holy Rosary-and you will crush the devils head and you will stand firm in the face of all his temptations. They were also the last words of St. Peter, Martyr. "Application": "GoodreadsMonolith", She engulfs him in the ocean of her graces, adorns him with her merits, supports him with her power, enlightens him with her light, and fills him with her love. Just as one who is consecrated belongs entirely to Mary, so Mary belongs entirely to him., (21) St. //]]>, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration, The Saint Louis de Montfort Collection [7 Books]. St. Louis de Montfort, quote from True Devotion to Mary, God the Father made an assemblage of all the waters and He named it the sea (mare). Turn to Mary, for her name means also Sea of Bitterness which has been filled with bitterness in this world but which is now turned into a sea of purest joy in heaven, and she will turn your sorrow into joy and your affliction into consolation. In order to pray well, it is not enough to give expression to our petitions by means of that most excellent of all prayers, the Rosary, but we must also pray with great attention, for God listens more to the voice of the heart than that of the mouth. a[a9] = { "Events.Namespace": "csa", St. Louis de Montfort, quote from True Devotion to Mary, St. Louis de Montfort May it be as you have asked, for truly you have obtained what you asked for. That is what is meant by this word: Amen. However, if you are ill, you can, of course, say it in bed; or if one is travelling it can be said while walking; if, on account of some infirmity, you cannot kneel you can say it standing or sitting. // page settings var url; Their roses are pleasures of the flesh, worldly honours and passing riches which wilt and decay in no time, but ours, which are the Our Father and Hail Mary which we have said devoutly over and over again, and to which we have added good penitential acts, will never wilt or die, and they will be just as exquisite thousands of years from now as they are today. We honour his sublimity and his glory and his majesty by the words Who art in heaven, that is to say, seated as on thy throne, holding sway over all men by thy justice. return false; Now these Canons exacted seven and sometimes ten or fifteen years penance for a single mortal sin, so that a person who was guilty of twenty mortal sins would probably have had to perform a seven year penance at least twenty times, and so on.Members of the Rosary Confraternity who want to gain the indulgences must: 1. He holds a graduate degree and formerly taught English and courses in film study that he developed at a Catholic high school in Connecticut. Feast Days Of course, you cannot say your Rosary without having a few involuntary distractions; it is even difficult to say a Hail Mary without your imagination troubling you a little, for it is never still; but you can say it without voluntary distractions, and you must take all sorts of precautions to lessen involuntary distractions and to control your imagination. Often, actually, very often, God allows his greatest servants, SEARCH; ABOUT US . God the Father has communicated to Mary His fruitfulness, as far as a mere creature was capable of it, in order that He might give her the power to produce His Son, and all the members of His mystical body. His articles have appeared in a number of national publications including Columbia magazine, Soul, Faith and Family, Catholic Digest, Catholic Exchange, and Marian Helper. 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