April 28, 2020: Feast of Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

St. Louis Marie de Montfort (1673-1716), in his spiritual classic, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, speaks more powerfully than ever to our present generation:  

“...Almighty God and His Holy Mother are to raise up great saints who will surpass in holiness most other saints as much as the cedars of Lebanon tower above little shrubs… the power of Mary over all the devils will especially break out in the latter times, when Satan will lay his snares against her heel; that is to say, her humble slaves and her poor children, whom she will raise up to make war against him. … The formation and the education of the great saints who will come at the end of the world are reserved to her, for only this singular and wondrous Virgin can produce in union with the Holy Spirit singular and wondrous things.”

        We who are consecrated to Jesus through Mary, and who are seeking to live our consecration daily, are the Blessed Virgin Mary's humble slaves and her poor children, raised up to make war against Satan.''