Saint Louis M. Grignion de Montfort, a priest, completed his studies in Paris during the last few years of the XVII century. This was a great century for the Marian cult. Mariology came about as a specific treatise on theology, producing fruitful doctrinal enhancements.
Between 1673-1716 Saint Louis de Montfort was a missionary who preached to the people in the France of Louis XIV, Le Roi Soleil. He died at the early age of 43, during a mission, consumed by work.
From the book: True Devotion to Mary
Spirituality:
This great little book remained hidden "within the silence of a trunk" for over a century, just as its author had foreseen that it would having got through the storm of the French Revolution relatively unharmed and having been recovered providentially in 1842, it has since been translated into more than 40 languages, becoming a classic of spiritual literature. Even today its spiritual teaching is fundamental for the Christians of the New Millennium.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS by St. Louis De Montfort
It was through the most holy Virgin Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it is also through her that He has to reign in the world.
Mary was singularly hidden during her life. It is on this account that the Holy Ghost and the Church call her Alma Mater – “Mother secret and hidden.” Her humility was so profound that she had no inclination on earth more powerful or more constant than that of hiding herself, from herself as well as from every other creature, so as to be known to God only.
He heard her prayers when she begged to be hidden, to be humbled and to be treated as in all respects poor and of no account. He took pleasure in hiding her from all human creatures, in her conception, in her birth, in her life, in her mysteries, and in her resurrection and Assumption. Even her parents did not know her, and the angels often asked one another: “Who is that?” because the Most High either had hidden her from them, or if He did reveal anything, it was nothing compared to what He kept undisclosed.
God the Father consented that she should work no miracle, at least no public one, during her life, although He had given her power to do so. God the Son consented that she should hardly ever speak, though He had communicated His wisdom to her. God the Holy Ghost, though she was His faithful spouse, consented that His Apostles and Evangelists should speak very little of her, and no more than was necessary to make Jesus Christ known.
HMWN Radio Maria is presenting the book "True Devotion to Mary", written by St. Louis De Montfort; narrated by Eloise Cataudella.
Join us each week on Fridays from 9:00 - 9:30 pm as we read and discover the real devotion to Mary. There will be an encore presentation of each episode on Tuesdays at 2:00 pm the following week.
The first episode will be airing on Friday May 7, 2010 at 9:00 pm.
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