Treatise on the True Devotion to Mary of St. Louis de Montfort

We are going to speak a little of the school of Sanctity of Blessed John Paul II and in this school he had as the major textbook The Treatise of  The True Devotion to Mary [By St. Louis de Montfort]. He from the time he was a youth carried this book in his knapsack, even before entering the seminary. And the Devil is afraid of this book written by St. Louis de Montfort, who received the mission of being an apostolic preacher from the pope. He was preaching in France on the method of total consecration to the Virgin Mary.

After I began to preach on the Treatise on the True Devotion, I perceived that when people did not like it, they had even an irrational anger. . .  I took account of this and continued preaching.
The Devil hid the True Devotion to Mary for 130 years. St. Louis Mary de Montfort perceived when the Devil hated the True Devotion. Our work now is the opposite, since the Devil wants to hide it, it falls to us to reveal it. Pope Benedict XVI received the MontFort missionaries and said that they have as interecessor in Heaven the Blessed Pope John Paul II. When John Paul II was alive I was not tied to this devotion, for me the only fount of spirituality was Jesus Christ, but I am certain that the Blessed John Paul II there in Heaven interceded for me, and this gave me the ability to perceive the center of the True Devotion is Jesus Christ, who is given through the hands of Mary, but why “through the hands of Mary”? The finality of the Christian life is to have Jesus as the center or our lives, we proclaim our baptism Lordship of Jesus. We sin many times because we still do not allow Jesus to be center. He wants to take possession of all that we are and have. Many times, we say to Jesus, that he can act in us and even put the cross on us, but not on our family we want support through them. But know, He wants to care for everything and all.
Know that  before the major difficulties, we will have the recompense in Heaven, if here we know to act with faith.

God wants all  of us to be saved, but we need to have joy of living the life suffering for the love of God, if you have a life of suffering and bring the love of God into this life, know thatthere is a place reserved for you in Heaven. Because of original sin, we fear God, as Adam was afraid upon knowing that he was naked. In the afternoon of original sin, God said to the serpent: “I will  put emnity between you and Eve, between your descendant and hers.” From this moment the descendants of the Devil and the sons of Mary will be enemies. We need be locked into this fight, how? Through the consecration and Jesus teaches this on the cross, when he entered us through John and Mary.

Our Lady is not just some woman, but is the Woman seen from the all of eternity.

We need to be in the hands of Our Lady, there in a secure place we will not have fear. When we are afraid, it is the mother that we call. Even theologically, the Love of Jesus is infinitely greater than that of Mary, but for us she loves more than all of us. And the question of this point of view: In the eyes of God, the her love is small, but in relation to us her love is Great. When we give ourselves to Mary, she in that moment brings us to Jesus for it is the place of safety.

God saw the humility of Mary, Comparing Mary with Lucifer, we see that he was an angel of light, but his pride brought him to  hell, therefore no demon suffers as much as Lucifer, whomever has the greatest hatred suffers the most of all. Already Mary was made small, nothing, human, she was not an angel, her nature compared to the angels was negligible, but she was stripped so much of it, that even the angels remained admiring her. She is the opposite of Satan. The two were created by God, but with different destinies. Mary is all full of grace. In this life we need to choose in being sons of Mary or Satan.

Fr. Paulo Ricardo

translated from Portuguese