[MaryVitamin] second mark

 

Mary Vitamin for April 19th   Topic: Second Mark of authentic devotion to Our Lady   Quote: St. Louis de Montfort Second, it is trustful, that is to say, it fills us with confidence in the Blessed Virgin, the confidence that a child has for its loving Mother. It prompts us to go to her in every need of body and soul with great simplicity, trust and affection. True Devotion to Mary #  107   Meditation: St. Edith Stein explains the motherly care shown to us in the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel,   In the epistle and preface of the Feast of Mount Carmel , as we usually call the feast of the scapular, on this day we give thanks that our dear Lady has clothed us with the 'garment of salvation.' The events providing the occasion for this feast did not occur until much later in the Western world. In  the year 1251 the Blessed Virgin appeared to the general of the Order, Simon Stock, an Englishman, and gave him the scapular. But the preface reminds us that it was our dear Lady of Mount Carmel who bestowed this visible sign of her motherly protection on her children far from the original home of the Order. It was she who manifested herself to the prophet Elijah in the form of a little rain cloud and for whom  the sons of the prophets built the fist shrine on Mount Carmel . The legend of the Order tells us that the Mother of God would have liked to remain with the hermit brothers on Mount Carmel . We can certainly understand that she felt drawn to the place where she had been venerated through the ages and where the holy prophet had lived in the same spirit and also filled her from the time her earthly sojourn began. Released from everything earthly, to stand in worship in the presence of God, to love him with her whole heart, to beseech his grace for sinful people, and in atonement to substitute herself for these people, as the maidservant of the Lord to await his beckoning this was her life. The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Volume IV, The Hidden Life (ICS Publications:1992), 3.   Resolution: My scapular will remind me of my devotion to Our Lady's motherly care. I will make sure I have my scapular on and I willl take it out from time to time. I will kiss my scapular one time and pray to practice True Devotion to Our Lady's motherly care.   Marian Vow: Father Stefano M. Manelli, FI With a consecration made in this way [the explicit offering to Mary of one's whole being] one reaches the fullness of devotion to Our Lady, because in every way he is truly given  to Our Lady and unconditionally belongs to her; and one makes the choice to live, without reservation, as her child, either to be her 'slave of love' (St. Louis Grignon de Montfort), or, to go further, to make himself her 'property, an instrument within her hands' (St. Maximilian M. Kolbe), or going even further one offers himself as a 'victim of holocaust' in honor of her motherly and merciful love and for the coming of God's kingdom into all souls. Devotion to Our Lady, (Academy of the Immaculate:2001), 5.   I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

 

Thanks be to God for graces received.

 

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