Lux Mundi: True Devotion to Mary

Saturday, August 4, 2012

True Devotion to Mary

You may be wondering what brought as us kids together. We are not just a random assortment of young religious men and women. We were all brought together by Our Lady. We all preformed St. Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion to Mary. It is a wonderful way of expressing your Love for Our Lord through Our Lady.

True Devotion to Mary is not just a prayer you say, it is a way of life. You give yourself totally over to Our Lady as a slave, because being a slave to Mary is the same as being a slave to Jesus. Her will is the will of God. You live a life of giving yourself over to Mary and God. You become a slave to God’s will.

True Devotion to Mary begins with a 33 day preparation period. This is laid out by St. Louis de Montfort in his book True Devotion to Mary. Each week you concentrate on something different about the lifestyle you will be living. Each day contains a set a readings that you can mediate on. They will get you in the mindset of living a life totally devoted to Our Lady.

After the 33 days you make the act of consecration. You should plan that this day to be on a Marian feast such as Our Lady of Lourdes. You should go to confession then to mass. During mass after the Homily is when you make the act. The priest doesn’t have to know you are doing it you can just kneel down at the offertory. We were lucky enough to have an intimate private mass but this is not necessary.

And again this is not just a prayer you say during mass; this is a way of life! You will renew your consecration every year using the same method all over again. This is something that will stick with you the rest of your life. You will begin to have a hunger to save souls. A major part of your True Devotion will become prayer for the conversion of sinners. You can ask Mary to offer up the littlest things for the conversion of souls. She will guide you throughout your life making sure you follow God’s Holy Will

Once you make the consecration you find how Mary can be involved with your religious life. During Holy Communion you offer Jesus to Mary. You ask Mary to receive Jesus for you because you realize you are to unworthy to realize him the way you are. Mary will lend her heart out to you to receive Our Lord. You will soon find that where ever you find Mary you will find Jesus.

Mary is waiting for you. Don’t hesitate to start this process. It will truly change your life!

AMDG

God Is Love

Peter Martin

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About Us

First of all we are all young people and proudly Catholic. We are a group of close friends in college and we are lively and practicing young men and women who have devoted our lives to the service of Christ and His Church in whatever way the Lord sees fit! That is partially the most exciting part of this group. We all went to high school together, and we met in our senior year. A string of circumstances brought us together to pray and discuss our faith. It was a truly incredible time! For now there are only a few of us working on this blog but we hope some others will join us as time goes on.

This Blog was my idea. I have been looking for a way to get involved in spreading the Gospel in a real and effective way for two years. I cannot stand being on the side lines. One day some inspiration came to me: A blog by Catholic youth for everyone. Since I can remember there has been a lack of an intense youthful presence in the Church. That is most certainly changing, and I want to be part of it! In my many experiences with catholic blogs, I have had to go to several places to read all the information and discussion I wanted, so my thought was to create a one stop blog, simple and easy, which has several “voices” with one directed sound. I don’t know if that makes sense. I want to have one direction with several different authors and perspectives but all young. I also don’t want the writing to be overly elevated nor obsessively analytical, which can sometimes scare people away. But we also can’t dumb down the faith; to do that would be an insult to the one true faith. That, for the most part was the idea! There are things similar, but none like what I was really hoping to do. One night I was blessed with this inspiration. But I have been frightened to take it on, that is one of my faults, misguided fear. The idea wouldn’t go away and I figured I needed to try but I couldn’t do it alone. There was only one group of people who could help me do this and so I enlisted the help of my friends; and here we are.

A little bit on our beliefs: We are most definitely and unapologetically Catholic. So, although this may be a cliche, if you need more information, google the phrase Nicene-Constantinople Creed. That should sufficiently point out our doctrinal backgrounds. One thing we do wish to express explicitly is our total reliance on the authentic authority of God, both in Heaven and on Earth. We commonly encounter that which is on Earth, although it is eternally united to that of the Lord! What we are saying is we submit ourselves to the judgment and guidance of the Holy Father and the Magisterium. That is of the utmost importance. Many Catholics today neglect authentic Revelation (i.e. Tradition) and authentic authority! But that is for another time!

We love Christ and His Church. We are not perfect, in fact we are sinners, and I particularly am quite the sinner! However we are striving for holiness and to live a saintly life so that we might in the next life be rewarded with entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

We hope you find your way to an informed faith through this blog. We don’t expect to reach millions but maybe a few will find us and be inspired, maybe someone will find us and through the grace of God find his way to authentic Catholicism. If but one finds this to have made a positive impact in his life, it shall all be worth it! But we will be careful; we don’t wish to have a negative effect on anyone!!!