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Mary and the Christian Family
Mary and the Christian Family
To Catholic spouses who want practical ways to surrender daily to God's will in their lives.
If I offered to show you practical ways to surrender daily to God's will in your life...
...accomplishing more in your spiritual life in one month than most people do in years...
...without changing your daily routine...
...using a little-known, easy, and Church-approved method...
...so you can grow closer to God, Mary, and your spouse...
...would you take me up on that offer?
Here's what St. Louis-Marie de Montfort said about the devotion this book spells out for Catholic spouses to help them surrender daily to God's will in their lives...
"By this practice, faithfully observed, you will give Jesus more glory in a month than by any other practice, however difficult, in many years" ("True Devotion to Mary", #222).
Now, it's impossible to give Jesus more glory in a month than most people do in years without surrendering daily to God's will at the same time.
The reason St. Louis spoke with such conviction and without the slightest hesitation is because God revealed this devotion directly to him. Here's St. Louis again...
"Predestinate soul, here is a secret the Most High has taught me, which I have not been able to find in any book, old or new. I confide it to you, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit" ("The Secret of Mary", #1).
And since he says "the essential of this devotion consists in the interior which it ought to form" (True Devotion, #119), and not in exterior practices, he also promises that you can surrender daily to God's will in your life...
"...without scarcely doing anything by what we are obliged to do by our state of life" (True Devotion, #171).
In other words, without changing your daily routine.
That's just one reason why Blessed Pope Pius IX declared that St. Louis de Montfort's devotion to Mary was the best and most acceptable form of devotion to Our Lady.
Fr. Emil Neubert was an expert at teaching others this devotion to Mary.
So much so, that St. Maximilian Kolbe told his fellow Franciscans about him:
"He has the exact same spirit as we have."
He'd also told them about St. Louis:
"The devotion taught by Blessed Grignion is ours exactly."
In other words, St. Louis and Fr. Neubert were on the same page.
St. Louis assures you...
"This devotion, faithfully practiced, is an excellent means of making sure that the value of all our good works shall be employed for the greatest glory of God" (True Devotion, #151).
Now, you can't do all your actions for the greatest glory of God and not surrender daily to His will in your life.
Here's another way St. Louis described this devotion...
It is a short road, which leads us to Jesus in a little time" (True Devotion, #168).
Mary teaches us not to look backward once the road is decided upon.
She does not beat around the bush. She does not take winding detours. She follows a straight line to the objective: union with her Son.
That's why St. Louis emphasized...
"She unites them to Him with a most intimate union, and she keeps them unshaken in that union" (True Devotion, #211).
And so, the devotion to Mary which this book spells out is not for tire-kickers or the non-committal.
It's for Catholic families who're ready to let Mary unite them to her Son. It's for Catholic spouses who want Mary's help in surrendering daily to God's will as quickly, fully, and absolutely as she did when she said to St. Gabriel the Archangel...
"Behold the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to thy word" (Lk. 1:38).
Mary knows there's nothing that will ever satisfy you like a life completely surrendered to God's will.
So don't delay and miss out, because Mary's waiting to give you and your family a new and better chapter in life.
| Author: Casimir Valla |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Feb 16, 2012 |
| Number of Pages: 112 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1470053268 |
| ISBN-13: 9781470053260 |