CONFIDENCE IN APPROACHING THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
St. Louis de Montfort
If Moses, by the force of his prayer, stayed the anger of
God against the Israelites in a manner so powerful that the most high and
infinitely merciful Lord, being unable to resist Him, told him to let Him alone
that He might be angry with and punish that rebellious people, what we must
not, with much greater reason, think of the prayer of the humble Mary, that
worthy Mother of God, which is more powerful with His Majesty than the prayers
and intercession of all the angels and saints both in Heaven and on earth?
In the Heavens Mary commands the angels and the blessed. As
a recompense for her profound humility, God has empowered her and commissioned
her to fill with the saints the empty thrones from which the apostate angels
fell by pride. The will of the Most High, who exalts the humble (Lk . 1: 52),
is that Heaven, earth and Hell bend, with good will or bad will, to the
commandments of the humble Mary, whom He has made sovereign of Heaven and
earth, general of His armies, treasurer of His treasures, dispenser of His
graces, worker of His greatest marvels, restorer of the human race , Mediatrix
of men, the exterminator of the enemies of God, and the faithful companion of
His grandeurs and triumphs.
God the Father wishes to have children by Mary till the
consummation of the world; and He speaks to her these words: "Dwell in
Jacob" (Eccles. 24: 13); that is to say: Make your dwelling and residence
in my predestined children , prefigured by Jacob, and not in the reprobate
children of the devil, prefigured by Esau.
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