- One classical source is True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis de Montfort (honor & devotion are synonyms)
- Biography of Louis de Montfort
Feast Day April 28
Birth: 1673
Death: 1716 (43 yrs)
Confessor, Marian devotee, and founder of the Sisters of Divine Wisdom He was born Louis Marie Grignon in Montfort, France, in 1673. Educated at Rennes, he was ordained there in 1700, becoming a chaplain in a hospital in Poitiers. His congregation, also called the Daughters of Divine Wisdom, started there. As his missions and sermons raised complaints, Louis went to Rome, where Pope Clement XI appointed him as a missionary apostolic. Louis is famous for fostering devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Rosary. In 1715, he also founded the Missionaries of the Company of Mary. His True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin remains popular. Louis died at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre. He was canonized in 1947.[1]
Some of his proposed devotions included angels
One reason behind Montfort’s showing such devotion to angels is that veneration of the pure spirits was an integral part of his training, and also of his culture. His college teachers, all Jesuits, were known for their zeal in propagating devotion to the angels.[2]
- Imprimatur, nil obstat & Papal endorsements
Imprimatur (official license to print an ecclesiastical book), nil obstat (free of doctrinal error) in front of book
Louis de Montfort influenced a number of popes.[19][20] In the 19th century, Pope Pius IX considered it the best and most acceptable form of Marian devotion, while Pope Leo XIII granted indulgences for practicing Montfort’s method of Marian consecration. Leo beatified Montfort in 1888, selecting for Montfort’s beatification the day of his own Golden Jubilee as a priest. In the 20th century Pope Pius X acknowledged the influence of Montfort’s writings in the composition of his encyclical Ad diem illum.[21] Pope Pius XI stated that he had practiced Montfort’s devotional methods since his early youth. Pope Pius XII declared Montfort a saint and stated that Montfort is the guide “who leads you to Mary and from Mary to Jesus”. Pope John Paul II once recalled how as a young seminarian he “read and reread many times and with great spiritual profit” a work of de Montfort and that: “Then I understood that I could not exclude the Lord’s Mother from my life without neglecting the will of God-Trinity.”[22] According to his Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, the pontiff’s personal motto was “Totus Tuus.” The thoughts, writings, and example of Louis de Montfort were also singled out by Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Redemptoris Mater as a distinctive witness of Marian spirituality in the Roman Catholic tradition.[23]
Parallel physiological relation
TA teaching grace perfects nature
Goodness in a family, father & mother in love to give forth children.
HS overshadows BVM she begets life. Pentecost, mary naturally fruitful to all of the Church.
Mary the hinge with OT, new order of creation lead to all truth. Expand her awesome fruitfulness.
Mother in natural order. Extraordinary Mother of God Man
All of family begotten through Him in Baptism
Church image from a reality to see it through. Mary is the lens.
Maximillian Kolbe book on the conception. Mary herself visual embodiment of HS in feminine form.
A pregnant woman always has a physical bond.
Our Lord is always with our Lady. Benefit from current science.
Grow in knowledge. Could have stayed ignorance.
Luke 2: 51 Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years and in divine and human favor.
Not our right to become smarter, it is a mercy from God
Lynch pin Jesus was obedient to Mary and grew in wisdom. This is what we are to do, be obedient unto her.
[1] https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4306 accessed April 3, 2024
[2] https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4306 accessed April 3, 2024