Slaves of Love to Mary
THE CONSECRATION TO MARY COMPLETES OUR TOTAL SELF GIVING TO CHRIST IN A SUPREME ACT OF SUBMISSION
FILIAL SLAVERY OF LOVE
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“MARIANIZING” LIFE
Third, one must act in Mary, in intimate union with her, which means that an abiding unity should exist between the consecrated soul and the Mother of God. He who loves abides in the beloved; this is ardent love, tending toward a mutual union, becoming more profound and more solid with each positive act. In this way one imitates the Incarnate Word who came into the world and dwelled in Mary’s womb for nine months; and Jesus’ last command and gift becomes effective: ‘Behold your mother!’ And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home (Jn 19:27).
Therefore, every faithful slave of Jesus in Mary must invoke her, salute her, think of her, talk about her, honor her, glorify her, entrust himself to her, rejoice and suffer with her, work, pray and rest with her. In brief, one must seek to live always, through Jesus and Mary, with Jesus and Mary, in Jesus and Mary, and for Jesus and Mary.
1 IVE Constitutions # 17, 82-89.
2 Saint Louis-Marie Grignion De Monfort, TD, 70-72.
3 Cf. Gal 3:27.
4 Saint Bonaventure, Speculum Beata Mariae Virginis, 3, 5.
5 Quoted by André Frossard, Be Not Afraid!, New York 1984.
6 Saint Louis-Marie Grignon De Monfort, TD 121-125.
7 Saint Louis-Marie Grignon De Monfort, TD 47.
8 Saint Ignatius Of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, 46
9 Cf. Lk 1:49.
10 Lumen Gentium, N 65.
11 Saint Louis-Marie Grignon De Monfort, TD 265..
2 Tratado de la Verdadera devoción a María Santísima de San Luis María, NN 70, 72.
3 Cf. Gal 3,27.
4 Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis, lect. III, N 5.
5 Citado por André Frossard en No tengáis miedo, Ed. Plaza y Janes, Barcelona 1982, p. 131-132.
6 Cf. Tratado de la Verdadera devoción a María Santísima de San Luis María, NN 121-125.
7 Ibidem, N 47.
8 Cf. Ejercicios Espirituales de San Ignacio de Loyola, N 46.
9 Cf. Lc 1,49.
10 Lumen Gentium, N 65.
11 Tratado de la Verdadera devoción a María Santísima de San Luis María, N 265.