In Honor of
this Week’s
Feast of
the Assumption
From St. Louis
Marie de Montfort’s True Devotion to Mary
If you wish to comprehend the Mother,
says a saint, comprehend the Son, for she is the worthy Mother of God. Here, let every tongue be mute. Up to this time…Mary has been unknown, and
that is the reason Jesus Christ is not known as He ought to be. If then the knowledge and kingdom of Jesus
Christ are to come into this world, they will be but a necessary consequence of
the knowledge…of the most holy Virgin Mary, who brought Him into the world for the
first time, and will make his second advent full of splendor.
Mary, being 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 is “He Who
Is,” consequently that grand Lord, always independent and sufficient to
Himself, never had, and has not now an 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, God, having
willed to commence and to complete His greatest works by the Most Holy Virgin,
ever 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.
Mary is the queen of heaven and earth
by grace, as Jesus is the King of them by nature and by conquest. Now, as the kingdom of Jesus Christ consists
principally in the heart or the interior of man – according to the words, “The
Kingdom of God is within you” – in like manner the kingdom of our Blessed Lady
is principally in the interior of man; that is to say, his soul. And it is principally in souls that she is
more glorified with her Son than in all visible creatures, and so we call her,
as the saints do, Queen of All Hearts.
