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Looking for a proven and incredible boost to your prayer life?
We invite you to participate in the
33-Day Preparation for Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary
According to St. Louis Marie de Montfort
Preparatory prayers recited daily from February 20th - March 25th:
Total Consecration Preparation Prayers and Consecration Prayer
Consecration Day - March 25th
The Solemnity of the Feast of the Annunciation
Total Consecration Supplemental Reading
Join us in this devotion and invite as many people as you can to participate.
"In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph."
-The Blessed Mother in Fatima on July 13, 1917
"The more we honor the Blessed Virgin, the more we honor Jesus Christ, because we honor Mary only that we may more perfectly honor Jesus, since we go to her only as the way by which we are to find the end we are seeking, which is Jesus." -St. Louis de Montfort
Testimony from the Popes:
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.
Pope Leo XIII granted a plenary indulgence to those who make St. Louis de Montfort's act of consecration to the Blessed Virgin. On his deathbed he renewed the act himself and invoked the heavenly aid of St. Louis de Montfort, whom he had beatified in 1888.
Pope St. Pius X: "I heartily recommend True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, so admirably written by Blessed de Montfort, and to all who read it grant the Apostolic Benediction."
Pope Benedict XV: "A book of high authority and unction."
Pope Pius XI: "I have practiced this devotion ever since my youth."
Pope Pius XII: "The greatest force behind all his (St. Louis de Montfort's) apostolic ministry and his great secret for attracting and winning souls for Jesus was his devotion to Mary." (From Canonization address July 20, 1947)
Pope Paul VI: "We are convinced without any doubt that devotion to Our Lady is essentially joined with devotion to Christ, that it assures a firmness of conviction to faith in Him and in His Church, a vital adherence to Him and to His Church which, without devotion to Mary, would be impoverished and compromised."
Pope John Paul II: "The reading of this book was a decisive turning-point in my life. I say 'turning-point' but in fact it was a long inner journey...This 'perfect devotion' is indispensible to anyone who means to give himself without reserve to Christ and to the work of redemption." "It is from Montfort that I have taken my motto: 'Totus tuus' ('Iam all thine'). Someday I'll have to tell you Montfortians how I discovered De Montfort's Treatise on True Devotion to Mary, and how often I had to reread it to understand it."
Vatican II: "The maternal duty of Mary toward men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. All her saving influence on men originates not from some inner necessity, but from divine pleasure. It flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on His mediation, depends entirely on it and draws all its power from it." "...the practices and exercises of devotion to her recommended by the Church in the course of the centuries (are to) be treasured..." (LG 60, 67).
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