True Devotion to Maria ... by Blessed Louis de Montfort (d. 1716 A.D.)

Extracts ... for making the Total Consecration to Jesus by Maria

Day 20 of 33 -- Maria's role in the Incarnation

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Introduction:

This sub-section of Section 129, like the others, are extracts from Blessed Louis de Montfort's book: True Devotion to Maria ... this is an absolutely top tier writing on the Blessed Virgin. The extracts from True Devotion on these sub-sections are the ones specifically called out by Louis de Montfort ... as part of the daily readings (of a four week devotional) when making the Total Consecration to Maria.

We cannot identify or call Blessed Louis de Montfort a Saint because ... anti-Pope "Pius XII" had no Catholic jurisdiction to make Saints since he was automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church for heresy. I list selected heresy of anti-Pope "Pius XII" on Section 20.2 of this site. This Catholic Dogma on automatic excommunication for heresy or for physical participation in a heretic cult (such as the vatican-2 jew-heretic cult) is listed on Section 13.2 of this site.

The Beatification of Louis de Montfort was made by Pope Leo XIII in 1888.

Subjects discussed here include ...

1.  The nature of the ever sinless Blessed Virgin.

2.  Maria is the sealed fountain and the faithful spouse of the Holy Spirit.

3.  God the Father gave His only Son to the world only through Maria.

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Start writings from True Devotion to Maria ... titles and headings may be many pages prior to the extract ...

Introduction

It is by the most holy Virgin Maria that Jesus has come into the world, and it is also by her that He has to reign in the world.

Maria has been singularly hidden during her life. It is on this account that the Holy Spirit and the Church call her Alma Mater, - Mother secret and hidden. Her humility was so profound that she had no propensity on earth more powerful or more unintermitting than that of hiding herself, even from herself, as well as from every other creature, so as to be known to God only.

He heard her prayers to Him, 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, and in her resurrection and assumption. Her parents even did not know her, and the Angels often asked of each other: Quae est ista? Who is that? Because the Most High either hid her from them, or if He revealed any thing of her to them, it was nothing compared to what He kept undisclosed.

God the Father consented that she should do no miracle, at least no public one, during her life, although He had given her the power. God the Son consented that she should hardly ever speak, though He had communicated His wisdom to her. God the Holy Spirit, though she was His faithful Spouse, consented that His Apostles and Evangelists should speak but very little of her, and no more than was necessary to make Jesus Christ known.

Maria is the excellent masterpiece of the Most High, of which He has reserved to Himself both the knowledge and the possession. Maria is the admirable Mother of the Son, who took pleasure in humbling and concealing her during her life, in order to favour her humility, calling her by the name of woman (mulier), as if she was a stranger, although in His heart He esteemed and loved her above all angels and all men. Maria is the sealed fountain and the faithful Spouse of the Holy Spirit, to whom He alone has entrance. Maria is the sanctuary and the repose of the Holy Trinity, where God dwells more magnificently and more divinely than in any other place in the universe, without excepting His dwelling between the Cherubim and Seraphim. Neither is it allowed to any creature, no matter how pure, to enter into that sanctuary without a great and special privilege.

Note 1: Regarding the text ... "Neither is it allowed ... great and special privilege" > This is not to say that all men do not get the graces they need to get to Heaven, God does not send souls into Hell without giving them a chance. See the Catholic Dogma on this in Sections 5 through 5.4.

Note 2: Regarding the text ... "Neither is it allowed ... great and special privilege" > Perhaps Louis de Monfort was speaking of the different levels of grace in the souls of the justifified. It is De Fide Dogma that the amount of grace in the souls of the justified is not equal.

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I say with the Saints, The divine Maria is the terrestrial Paradise of the New Adam, where He is incarnate by the operation of the Holy Spirit, in order to work there incomprehensible marvels. She is the grand and divine World of God, where there are beauties and treasures unspeakable. She is the magnificence of the Most High, where He has hidden, as in her bosom, His only Son, and in Him all that is most excellent and most precious. Oh, what grand and hidden things that mighty God has wrought in this admirable creature! How has she herself been compelled to say it, in spite of her profound humility: Fecit mihi magna, qui potens est! The world knows them not, because it is at once incapable and unworthy of such knowledge.

Note: The above text is struck out because the Blessed Virgin does come to the assistance of those who have recourse to her to defeat sin and to come to the knowledge of the truth (the Catholic Dogma) often times very quickly ... see Section 4 of this site. At times errors against the faith are introduced into pious writings and we will identify these errors. The Catholic Dogma and citations on this subject are on Section 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 of this site.

The Saints have said admirable things of this Holy City of God; and, as they themselves avow, they have never been more eloquent and more content than when they have spoken of her. Yet, after all they have said, they cry out that the height of her merits, which she has raised up to the throne of the Divinity, cannot be fully seen; that the breadth of her charity, which is broader than the earth, is in truth immeasurable; that the grandeur of her power, which she exercises even over God Himself, incomprehensible; and finally, that the depth of her humility, and of all her virtues and graces, is an abyss which never can be sounded. O height incomprehensible! 0 breadth unspeakable! O grandeur immeasurable! O abyss impenetrable!

Note: Regarding the text ... "even over God Himself" ... this is a statement that the will of the Blessed Virgin is identical to the will of God. Also Jesus being true God and true man, does what His mother requests of Him, as their wills are the same.

O height incomprehensible! 0 breadth unspeakable! O grandeur immeasurable! O abyss impenetrable! Every day, from one end of the earth to the other, in the highest heights of the heavens and in the profoundest depths of the abysses, every thing preaches, every thing publishes, the admirable Maria! The nine choirs of Angels, men of all ages, sexes, conditions, and religions, good or bad, nay even the devils themselves, willingly or unwillingly, are compelled, by the force of truth, to call her Blessed.

St. Bonaventure tells us that all the Angels in heaven cry out incessantly to her, Sancta, sancta, sancta Maria, Dei Genitrix et Virgo; and that they offer to her millions and millions of times a day the Angelical Salutation, Ave Maria; prostrating themselves before her, and begging of her, in her graciousness, to honour them with some of her commands.

St. Michael, as St. Augustine says, although the prince of all the heavenly court, is the most zealous in honouring her and causing her to be honoured, while he waits always in expectation that he may have the honour to go, at her bidding, to render service to some one of her servants.

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The whole earth is full of her glory, especially among Christians   (Note: The Blessed Virgin provides grace to convert people to become Christians (that is enter the Catholic Church) ... but if they don't convert, heretics and apostates have nothing to do with the Blessed Virgin who is mother of Catholics only)   amongst whom she is taken as the protectress of many kingdoms, provinces, dioceses, and cities. Numbers of cathedrals are consecrated to God under her name. There is not a church without an altar in her honour, not a country or a canton where there are not some miraculous images, where all sorts of evils are cured, and all sorts of good gifts obtained. Who can count the confraternities and congregations in her honour? How many religious orders have been founded in her name and under her protection! What numbers there are of Brothers and Sisters of all these confraternities, and of religious men and women of all these orders, who publish her praises and confess her mercies! There is not a little child, who, as it lisps the Ave Maria, does not praise her. There is scarcely a sinner who, even in his obduracy, has not some spark of confidence in her. Nay the very devils in hell respect her while they fear her.

Note 1: Regarding the discussion above about dioceses, religious orders, cathedrals, etc. -- there are no Catholic dioceses, orders, cathedrals, etc. in these times since the Catholic Church lost it's properties and personnel hierarchy on 8 December 1965 to the vatican-2 jew-heretic cult.

Note 2: Keep in mind that Louis de Montfort wrote this in the early 1700s ... when there was some semblence of righteous Marian devotion.

After that we must surely say with the Saints, De Maria nunquam satis; we have not yet praised, exalted, honoured, loved, and served Maria as we ought to do. She has deserved still more praise, still more respect, still more love, and far more service.

After that we must say with the Holy Spirit, Omnis gloria filice Regis ab intus, "All the glory of the King's daughter is within." It is as if all the outward glory, which Heaven and earth rival each other in laying at her feet, is nothing in comparison with that which she receives within from the Creator, and which is not known by creatures, who in their littleness are unable to penetrate the secret of the secrets of the King.

After that we must cry out with the Apostle, Nee oculus vidit, nee auris audivit, nee in cor hominis ascendit", Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor man's heart comprehended," the beauties, the grandeurs, the excellences, of Maria, the miracle of the miracles of grace, of nature, and of glory.

If you wish to comprehend the Mother, says a Saint, comprehend the Son; for she is the worthy Mother of God. Hie taceat omnis lingua, "Here let every tongue be mute."

It is with a particular joy that my heart has dictated what I have just written, in order to show that the divine Maria has been up to this time unknown, and that this is one of the reasons that Jesus Christ is not known as He ought to be. If, then, as is certain, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is to come into the world, it will be but a necessary consequence of the knowledge of the Kingdom of the most holy Virgin Maria, who brought Him into the world the first time, and will make His second advent full of splendour.

Note 1: This is a statement of the spiritual reality that while all graces originate with God ... all these graces go to the hands of the Blessed Virgin and then into the world. She is the Mediatrix of all grace as stated in Ecclesiasticus 24:25, Saint John 19:26, etc.

Note 2: Every King (Jesus) has a Queen Mother (Maria) ... the Kingdom of Christ and Maria is the same Kingdom ... outside of which there is no grace or truth.

Note 3: So ... heretics when you get actual grace (as opposed to sanctifying grace) to cease some manner of sin you may be in, the proximate cause of this actual grace is the Blessed Virgin. Sanctifying grace is imparted by water baptism, there are no other Catholic sacraments in the world at this time. See Section 13.6 that you can be fully Catholic and get to Heaven in these times when there is no Mass, Confession, bishops, or priests.

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Part I

On Devotion to our Blessed Lady in general

I. Excellence and necessity of devotion to our Blessed Lady

I avow, with all the Church, that Maria, being but a mere creature that has come from the hands of the Most High, is, in comparison with His Infinite Majesty, less than an atom; or rather she is nothing at all, because He only is "He who is," and thus by consequence that grand Lord, always independent and sufficient to Himself, never had, and has not now, any absolute need of the Holy Virgin for the accomplishment of His will and for the manifestation of His glory. He has but to will, in order to do everything.

Nevertheless I say that, things being supposed as they are now, God having willed to commence and to complete His greatest works by the most holy Virgin, since He created her, we may well think He will not change His conduct in the eternal ages; for He is God, and He changes not either in His sentiments or in His conduct.

God the Father has not given His Only-begotten to the world except by Maria. Whatever sighs the patriarchs may have sent forth, whatever prayers the prophets and the saints of the ancient law may have offered up to obtain that treasure for full four thousand years, it was but Maria that merited it; it was but Maria who found grace before God by the force of her prayers and the eminence of her virtues. The world was unworthy, says St. Augustine, to receive the Son of God immediately from the Father's hands. He has given Him to Maria in order that the world might receive Him through her. The Son of God has made Himself Man; but it was in Maria and by Maria, God the Holy Spirit has formed Jesus Christ in Maria; but it was only after having asked her consent by one of the first ministers of His court. (Note: Catholic Saint Gabriel).

God the Father has communicated to Maria 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. God the Son has descended into her virginal womb, as the new Adam into the terrestrial paradise, to take His pleasure there, and to work in secret the marvels of His grace.

Note: See Section 2.3 of this site for prophesies of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament (the Catholic Faith unfulfilled)

God made Man has found His liberty in seeing Himself imprisoned in her womb. He has made His Omnipotence shine forth in letting Himself be carried by that blessed Virgin. He has found His glory and His Father's in hiding His splendours from all creatures here below, and revealing them to Maria only. He has glorified His Independence and His Majesty, in depending on that sweet Virgin, in His Conception, in His Birth, in His Presentation in the Temple, in His Hidden Life of thirty years, and even in His Death, where she was to be present, in order that He might make with her but one same sacrifice, and be immolated to the Eternal Father by her consent; just as Isaac of old was offered by Abraham's consent to the Will of God. It is she who has suckled Him, nourished Him, supported Him, brought Him up, and then sacrificed Him for us.

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O admirable and incomprehensible dependence of a God, which the Holy Spirit could not pass in silence in the Gospel, although He has hidden from us nearly all the admirable things which that Incarnate Wisdom did in His Hidden Life, as if He would enable us, by His revelation of that at least, to understand something of its price! Jesus Christ gave more glory to God the Father by submission to His Mother during those thirty years than He would have given Him in converting the whole world by the working of the most stupendous miracles. Oh, how highly we glorify God, when, to please Him, we submit ourselves to Maria, after the example of Jesus Christ, our Sole Exemplar!

If we examine narrowly the rest of our Blessed Lord's Life, we shall see that it was His Will to begin His miracles by Maria. He sanctified St. John in the womb of St. Elizabeth his mother; but it was by Maria's word. No sooner had she spoken than John was sanctified; and this was His first and greatest miracle of grace. At the marriage at Cana He changed the water into wine; but it was at Maria's humble prayer; and this was His first miracle of nature. He has begun and continued His miracles by Maria, and He will continue them to the end of ages by Maria also.

God the Holy Spirit being barren in God - that is to say, not producing another Divine Person - is become fruitful by Maria, whom He has espoused. It is with her, in her, and of her, that He has produced His Masterpiece, which is a God made Man, and whom He goes on producing in the persons of His members daily to the end of the world. The predestinate are the members of that Adorable Head. This is the reason why He, the Holy Spirit, the more He finds Maria, His dear and indissoluble Spouse, in any soul, becomes the more active and mighty in producing Jesus Christ in that soul, and that soul in Jesus Christ.

It is not that we may say that our Blessed Lady gives the Holy Spirit His fruitfulness, as if He had it not Himself. For inasmuch as He is God, He has the same fruitfulness or capacity of producing as the Father and the Son, only that He does not bring it into action, as He does not produce another Divine Person. But what we want to say is, that the Holy Spirit chose to make use of our Blessed Lady, though He had no absolute need of her, to bring His fruitfulness into action, by producing in her and by her Jesus Christ in His members; a mystery of grace unknown to even the wisest and most spiritual among Christians.

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