True Devotion to Mary

Saint Louis Marie de Montfort wrote in the Treatise about the meaning of True Devotion to Mary:  True devotion to Mary is interior; it comes from the mind and heart. It is the tender trust in the Virgin Mary, like the confidence a child has in its mother who the child looks for in all its needs. It is holy and leads us to avoid sin and to imitate Mary in her virtues, unceasing prayer and mortifications. It is constant, gives us courage and strengthens us to do good. It inspires the soul to seek, not itself, but God above everything else.

Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin
After Holy Communion, close your eyes and recollect yourself. Then usher Jesus into the heart of Mary: you are giving Him to His Mother who will receive Him with great love and give Him the place of honor, adore Him profoundly, show Him perfect love, embrace Him intimately in spirit and in truth, and perform many offices for Him of which we, in our ignorance, would know nothing. Or, maintain a profoundly humble heart in the presence of Jesus dwelling in Mary. Or be in attendance like a slave at the gate of the royal palace, where the King is speaking with the Queen. While they are talking to each other, with no need of you, go in spirit to heaven and to the whole world, and call upon all creatures to thank, adore and love Jesus and Mary for you. "Come, let us adore."

O Mary, Our Lady, Our Queen and Our Mother, in the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, we implore you to take our cause into your hands and grant it good success.  Amen.  Fr. Dermot Roache, SMA

Let us entrust our lives, our families and all those for whom we pray through this ministry to Our Blessed Mother Mary.

Take my hand, Maria.