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Sep 30, 2022

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IN TODAY’S POST:

PART I: VIDEO — “THE SECRET OF THE ROSARY” (FR. GRAMLICH), ("The Rosary: A Mini Series" Ep. 1 continues with 003)
PART II: TEXT — EXCERPT FROM ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS, POPE PIUS XII on ST. LOUIS MARIE DE MONFORT CANONIZATION
PART III: LINK — First Saturday Devotion Options Online for Oct. 1, 2022
PART IV: REMINDER — TO ATTEND VIRTUALLY the INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF PRAYER at the NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE DIVINE MERCY, USA (Oct. 1-9) https://thedivinemercy.org
PART V: *NEW* DIGITAL TOOLKIT DOWNLOAD in the FOR the FEAST of THE ARCHANGELS: ST. MICHAEL, ST. GABRIEL, and ST. RAPHAEL!
FOOTNOTES: PROCESSION in PORTUGAL for IGREJA MATRIX PLUS ST. MICHAEL MEET THE ANGEL VIDEO by: FR. CHRIS ALAR (MIC)

PART I: THE ROSARY - A MINI SERIES of MICRO INTERVIEWS

FR. ANTHONY GRAMLICH, MIC, CONTINUES THE CONVERSATION on THE ROSARY: A MINI SERIES WITH HIS DISCUSSION ON ST. LOUIS de MONFORT’S “THE SECRET OF THE ROSARY” in Video Segment 003, Episode 1.1

In this short video, the conversation continues with FR. ANTHONY GRAMLICH, MIC.

In this engaging conversation:

Fr. Anthony discusses his favorite book THE SECRET OF THE ROSARY by: ST. LOUIS DE MONFORT.
Fr. Anthony talks about his favorite, and, perhaps the most amusing chapter in this book.

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PART II: ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS, POPE PIUS XII on ST. LOUIS DE MONFORT’S CANONIZATION

… “[St. de] MONTFORT, THE GUIDE WHO LEADS YOU TO MARY

Welcome last of all to you pilgrims gathered together from different countries.

The differences between you are only apparent for your common love of Mary creates between you all a bond of unity. In him whom you are here to honor, each one of you sees the guide who leads you to Mary and from Mary to Jesus. All the Saints, no doubt, were the great servants of Mary, all of them led souls to Her; Montfort is, without contest, one of those who has labored most ardently and most efficaciously in making Her known and served.

THE TWO POLES OF HIS LIFE

The Cross of Jesus and the Mother of Jesus were the two poles of his own personal life and of his ministry. And that is why his life, so brief in itself, was yet so full; that is why his ministry covering only Vendée, Poitou and Brittany and lasting scarcely twelve short years, has outlived him by more than two centuries and has spread over many countries. And that because Divine Wisdom, that Wisdom to Whose guidance he had committed himself, made fruitful all his labors and crowned all his activities, only apparently interrupted by death “complevit labores illius” (Sap. x, 10). The work is entirely the work of God, but it bears the stamp of one who was His faithful co-operator. It is only right that we should remark the fact.

THE SAINT'S NATURAL QUALITIES

When we consider the figure of St. Louis-Marie, we are almost dazzled by the brilliance of the light emanating from it, and our gaze must needs analyze, as it were, its radiance. In the first place it falls upon his exterior. We are surprised to notice that in dealing with him nature was not so sparing of her gifts as might have been imagined at first sight. Our Saint was not graced, it is true, by that charm of outward appearance which at once commands sympathy. He was however endowed with an exceptionally vigorous constitution, an advantage in reality much more appreciable, which enabled him to bear the tiring hardships of his missionary life, and at the same time to impose upon himself severe, very severe penances and mortifications. Without wasting his time in trying to dazzle his listeners by the facile expedients of pretty wit, or by the phantasmagoria of a subtle and studied elegance, he knew how to adapt the treasures of a deep and solid theology to the needs of the most simple people. He excelled in the art of making the most of his learning, to enlighten and convince the minds of his listeners, to move their hearts and to shake their wills. Such was his strength of persuasion that he always ended up by obtaining from them strong and lasting resolutions. Due to his great tact and keen sense of psychology he knew how to choose and to temper his teaching to suit each particular case. In order to be able to devote himself more completely to study and the practices of piety, he had, out of self-sacrifice, renounced the pursuit of fine arts towards which he had strong leanings and for which he possessed remarkable talent. But he remained rich in language, and feeling, and the artist in him knew how to use these qualities to impress more vividly upon the minds of his hearers the image of the divine model. All these were human qualities, no doubt, but they were of help to him in his task of leading the sinful to repentance, the just to sanctity and those who had strayed, to truth; of winning back to the love of Christ those whose hearts had hardened under the cold and arid breath of selfishness.

HIS SUPERNATURAL RESOURCES

… Having thus crucified his own flesh he was fully justified in preaching with authority Jesus Christ crucified (see I Cor. i, 23). Everywhere and in spite of all comers he built Calvalries, and with untiring patience rebuilt them when the spirit of this world, “inimicus Crucis Christi” (see Phil. iii, 18), had caused them to be destroyed. In his Letter to the Friends of the Cross it was less a program of life he drew up than his own portrait which he painted. “A man chosen by God from the midst of ten thousand who live according to the senses and to human reason alone, to be a man all divine, lifted up beyond reason and totally opposed to the senses, by the life and light of pure faith and by an ardent love of the Cross.”

HIS GREAT SECRET

The mainspring of all his apostolic ministry, his great secret for drawing souls and giving them over to Jesus, is devotion to Mary. This devotion is the source of all his activity; the reason for all his confidence. And it would have been impossible for him to find a more telling weapon for the times in which he lived.

To Jansenism with its joyless austerity, its sombre apprehensions, its proud depressions, he opposes the filial love of the devout servant of Mary; a love which is at once confident, ardent, expansive and effective for Mary who is the Refuge of Sinners, the Mother of Divine Grace, our life, our sweetness and our hope. She is also our advocate. Placed as she is between God and the sinner, Mary is ever busy invoking the clemency of the judge in order to move Him to pity, and she is ever trying to overcome the obstinacy of the sinner. The missioner was convinced of this part played by Mary, a conviction strengthened by his own experience, and so he used to say with picturesque simplicity “that a sinner had never resisted him once he held him by the scruff of the neck with his rosary!”

THE AUTHOR OF THE TREATISE OF THE TRUE DEVOTION

But the devotion in question must moreover be a sincere and loyal one. The Author of the Treatise of the True Devotion to Our Blessed Lady makes a clear-cut distinction between this true devotion and that other one based more or less upon superstition, whose devotees put forward a few exterior practices and superficial sentiments as their authority for living as they please and remaining in sin, counting on a miraculous grace of conversion at the final hour.

True devotion, traditional devotion, that of the Church, that shall we say of Christian and Catholic common sense must essentially lead to a closer union with Jesus, under the guidance of Mary. The precise form and practice of this devotion can vary according to time, place and personal inclination. Within the limits of sound and safe doctrine, of what is orthodox and becoming, the Church leaves to her children a just measure of freedom, for she is aware that true and perfect devotion to our Blessed Lady is not so intimately tied up with these various forms, that any one of them can claim to hold a monopoly.

And therefore, dear sons and daughters, We ardently desire, that over and above the various manifestations of piety towards the Mother of God and our Mother, you take, all of you, from the treasure of the writings and example of our Saint, that which constitutes the essence of his Marian devotion: his strong conviction of Mary’s powerful intercession, his firm resolve to imitate as closely as possible the virtues of this Virgin of Virgins, the overwhelming fervor of his love for Her and for Jesus.

APOSTOLIC BLESSING

Confident that the Queen of our Hearts will obtain for you from the Author of all Good this triple favor, We bestow upon you as an assurance, for yourselves, for those you love, for all those who place themselves under the patronage of St. Louis de Montfort and pray to him in common with you. . . . Our Apostolic Blessing.

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