Preparation for Consecration to the Most Blessed Virgin

Did you know that St. Louis-Marie de Montfort said God revealed a secret to him that works better than any other devotion to help you get closer to God?

He wrote:

"Predestinate soul, here is a secret the Most High has taught me, which I have not been able to find in any book, old or new. I confide it to you, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit" ("The Secret of Mary", \#1).

Montfort Father Jean-Marie Texier has written this complete guide to help you prepare for your consecration to Mary, so you can make the best use of this secret as you strive to grow closer to God.

The Montfort Fathers assure you that you're in good hands with Fr. Texier. They said

"These meditations are the work of a Montfortian missionary, about whom we have said: "He loved the Most Blessed Virgin with the heart of a child; he spoke of her with the heart of his Blessed Father (St. Louis)."

And in the history of their religious order, they called him "a remarkable spiritual writer."

Now, the Holy Spirit summed up the first thirty years of Jesus' life in one sentence:

"And He was subject to them" (Lk. 2:51).

That's why St. Louis declared:

"He gave more glory to God His Father during all that time of submission and dependence to our Blessed Lady than He would have given Him if He had employed those thirty years in working miracles, in preaching to the whole earth, and in converting all men, seeing that His heavenly Father and Himself had ruled it thus: "I always do the things which please Him." Oh, how highly we glorify God, when, after the example of Jesus, we submit ourselves to Mary!" ("True Devotion to Mary", \#139)

Since God revealed this devotion to him, St. Louis assures you that it

"is a path trodden by Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, our sole Head. One of His members in passing by the same road cannot deceive himself" (True Devotion, \#168).

Jesus' Sacred Heart is a human heart, with human emotions and human feelings. Jesus experienced both joy and sadness.

And since He's our Model for living this devotion to His Mother, nothing would give His Sacred Heart more joy than to see you following Him on the path of this devotion to Mary, because He said, "I have given you an example, that as I have doneso you do also" (Jn. 13:15).

Furthermore, what reason would He have not to rejoice? When you consider how He wants to lead you to His Father, how could He not rejoice at seeing you live the devotion to His Mother which He lived, and about which St. Louis said:

"I have never found a practice of devotion to Our Lady more solid than this one, since it takes its inspiration from the example of Jesus Christ. Neither have I found any devotion which redounds more to God's glory, is more salutary to the soul, and more feared by the enemies of our salvation; nor, finally, have I found a devotion that is more attractive and more satisfying" ("The Love of Eternal Wisdom", Ch. 17, \#2).

When Jesus said, "Abide in Me" (Jn. 15:4), He wanted that to happen as soon as possible.

This devotion is the best way for you to make it happen, because St. Louis emphasizes:

"This devotion to the Blessed Virgin is a short road to find Jesus Christ, both because it is a road which we do not stray from, and because, as I have said, it is a road we tread with joy and ease, and, by consequence, with speed. We make more progress in a brief period of submission to and dependance on Mary than in whole years of our own will and of relying upon ourselves" (True Devotion, \#155).

God tells us: "He that is holy, let him be sanctified still" (Apoc. 22:11).

So, when it comes to your sanctification, this isn't something He wants you to put off until later.

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