Mary Vitamin for April 21st
Topic: Third Mark of True Devotion to Our Lady- Holiness of Life
Quote:
St. Louis de Montfort
Third, true devotion to Our Lady is holy, that is, it leads us to avoid sin and to imitate the virtues of Mary. Her ten principal virtues are: deep humility, lively faith, blind obedience, unceasing prayer, constant self-denial, surpassing purity, ardent love, heroic patience, angelic kindness, and heavenly wisdom.
Meditation:
St. Francis de Sales
[T]here are some virtues of universal application, and which should infuse their own spirit into everything. We have but rarely opportunities for the practice of courage, magnanimity, and great sacrifices. But every action of our daily life should be influenced by gentleness, temperance, humility, and purity. Every station in life imposes some peculiar obligation; different virtues are incumbent upon a bishop, a prince, or a soldier the wife has her duties and the widow hers, and although all should practice every virtue, still each should seek chiefly to advance in those peculiarly required by the state of life to which God has called him. Amongst those virtues not especially involved by our position, we should cultivate the most excellent rather than the most showy. It is a good practice to select some particular virtue at which to aim ---not neglecting the others, but in order to give regularity and method to the mind.
Resolution:
St. Francis de Sales says every action of our daily life should be influenced by gentleness, temperance, humility, and purity. Today, to begin to imitate Our Lady's holiness, I will attempt to work on gentleness, temperance, humility and purity in every action by choosing one of these virtues to practice during the morning. (I can make another resolution in the afternoon to continue.)
Marian Vow:
St. Alphonsus di Liguori
Ah, my Lady! If you do not carry me in your arms to God, do not expect me to walk there. Carry me, and if I resist, carry me by force.
Father Stefano M. Manelli, FI, Devotion to Our Lady, (Academy of the Immaculate), 26.
I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thanks be to God for graces received.
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