Cardinal Giovanni Coppa recently recalled John Paul II's commitment to the Blessed Mother.
The former nuncio to the Czech Republic noted that the late Pope wrote the opening lines of a St. Louis Marie de Monfort prayer at the top of each page of his writings.
Cardinal Coppa said it was the John Paul II's custom to write the words from St. Louis Marie de Monfort’s prayer at the top of each page, beginning with the phrase “Totus tuus,” which was his papal motto.
“The Pope not only recited this prayer every day, but he also wrote part of it on the right-hand corner of each page of his homilies, speeches and encyclicals,” the cardinal told L’Osservatore Romano on April 1.
“On the first page he wrote the beginning of the prayer: Totus tuus ego sum, ‘I am all yours;’ on the second page, Et omnia mea tua sunt, ‘And everything I have belongs to you;’ on the third, Accipio Te in mea omnia, ‘I put you at the center of my life;’ and on the fourth, ‘Praebe mihi cor tuum,’ Give me your heart’.”
He repeated the lines on every page of the document in question, Cardinal Coppa recalled.
“At the archives of the secretary of state we have thousands of these pages on which John Paul II intimately and movingly expressed his love for the Virgin Mary,” he added.
This custom practiced by the pilgrim Pope showed that “his love for the Virgin Mary was a love without limits,” the cardinal continued. “He never lost an opportunity to speak about Mary. He dedicated his encyclical 'Redemptoris Mater' to her: redemption in fact became the common thread of his entire Petrine teaching.”
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