I don’t ask for visions or revelations, Mary: Day 107

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I don’t ask for visions or revelations, Mary: Day 107 2015-10-30T05:16:41-05:00 Pete Socks

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I don’t ask for visions or revelations

St. Louis de Montfort realizes that extraordinary spiritual experiences, and even sweet spiritual feelings, are not to be sought out. In his devotion to Mary, he simply asks to be joined with her in glorifying her Son.

Dearly beloved Mother, grant, if it’s possible, that I may have no
other spirit but yours to know Jesus and his divine will; that I may have no other soul but yours to praise and glorify the Lord; that I may have no other heart but yours to love God with a love as pure and passionate as yours.

I don’t ask you for visions, revelations, feelings of devotion, or spiritual plea- sures. It’s your privilege to see God clearly; it’s your privilege to enjoy heavenly bliss; it’s your privilege to triumph gloriously in heaven at the right hand of your Son and to hold absolute sway over angels, men, and demons; it’s your privi- lege to dispose of all the gifts of God, just as you wish.

Heavenly Mary, this is the “best part” that the Lord has given you and that will never be taken away from you—and this thought fills my heart with joy. As for my part here below, I want nothing more than what was yours: to believe sincerely even without spiritual pleasures; to suffer joyfully without human con- solation; to die continually to myself without pause; and to work zealously and unselfishly for you until death as the humblest of your servants.

The only grace I beg you to obtain for me is that every day and every moment of my life I may say: “Amen, so be it, to all that you did while on earth; amen, so be it, to all that you are now doing in heaven; amen, so be it, to all that you are doing in my soul, so that you alone may fully glorify Jesus in me for time and eternity.”
—St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .
Do I ever seek out extraordinary spiritual experiences or pleasant spiritual feel- ings? Why are such things of much less importance than a humble encounter with Mary that transforms us into the image of her Son?

CLOSING PRAYER
From a prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola: Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and you grace, that is enough for me.

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