#St Louis de Montfort

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Jesus Christ gave more glory to God the Father by submission to His Mother during those thirty years than He would have given Him in converting the whole world by the working of the most stupendous miracles. Oh, how highly we glorify God when, to please Him, we submit ourselves to Mary, after the example of Jesus Christ, our sole Exemplar!

-St Louis de Montfort

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Our Morning Offering – 8 June – Hail Mary, Queen of Our Hearts, Our Mother

Our Morning Offering – 8 June – The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Hail Mary, Queen of Our Hearts, Our MotherPrayer in Honour of MaryBy St Louis Marie de Montfort (1673-1716) Hail Mary,Daughter of God the Father!Hail Mary,Mother of God the Son!Hail Mary,Spouse of the Holy Spirit!Hail Mary,Temple of the Most Holy Trinity!Hail Mary, our mistress,our wealth, our mystic rose.Queen of our…

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Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort 1673 - 1716 Feast Day: April 28

Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, a French Catholic priest, and confessor was known in his time as a preacher and was made a missionary apostolic by Pope Clement XI. As well as preaching, Montfort wrote a number of books and is known for his particular devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Rosary.  Two of his most notable works are True Devotion to Mary and The Secret of the Rosary.  

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"Toda a sua vida Maria permaneceu oculta; por isso o Espírito Santo e a Igreja a chamam Alma Mater - Mãe escondida e secreta. Tão profunda era sua humildade, que, para ela, o atrativo mais poderoso, mais constante era esconder-se de si mesma e de toda criatura, para ser conhecida somente de Deus."

São Luís Maria Grignion de Montfort

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St. Louis de Montfort

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I’ve not seen him mentioned yet so I’d like to nominate St. Padre Pio! I’d also like to suggest in case they haven’t been added: St. John Crysostom, St. Phillip Neri, St. Louis de Montfort, St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. John Vianney, St. Rose of Lima, St. Thomas Moore, and St. Martin de Porres!

I’m sorry, I’m just so excited about this poll!!

I can smell a Catholic from a mile away and THESE are ridiculously good suggestions. SO many classics beyond the famous martyrs. Padre Pio gets another vote, St John Chrysostom enters the game, St Philip Neri gets another vote, as do St Rose and St Martin, but the others are new!

And c'mon, Louis de Montfort and Alphonsus Liguori? The best confessoin bois? C'MON we need more nominations for them!!!

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Palavras de São Luís Maria Grignion de Montfort sobre o Santo Rosário: "Não é possível exprimir por palavras quanto a Santíssima Virgem preze o Rosário mais do que qualquer outra devoção, ou quão magnânima ela será a recompensar aqueles que trabalham a pregá-lo, implantá-lo e rezá-lo; o Rosário rezado conjuntamente com a meditação dos mistérios: eleva-nos gradualmente ao conhecimento perfeito de Jesus Cristo; purifica as nossas almas do pecado; nos torna vitoriosos sobre todos os nossos inimigos; facilita-nos na prática das virtudes; provoca em nós um amor ardente por Jesus; enriquece-nos de graças e de méritos; proporciona-nos os meios para pagar as nossas dívidas quer diante de Deus quer diante dos homens e, alcança-nos toda a espécie de graças; os pecadores alcançam perdão; as almas sedentas são saciadas; os prisioneiros veem as suas amarras cair por terra; os que choram voltam a sorrir; os que sofrem tentação recuperam a paz; os necessitados alcançam auxílio; os religiosos revigoram a sua consagração; os ignorantes instruem-se; os vivos vencem as suas vaidades; os defuntos recebem, em forma de sufrágio, a misericórdia esperada.

Sê perseverante, portanto, e não duvides que receberás no céu uma coroa resplandecente, que te será dada como recompensa pela tua fidelidade.”

MONTFORT, São Luís Maria Grignion de O Admirável Segredo do Santíssimo Rosário, nº 26, 81, 115, 150.

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Devoted to Holy Mary

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The whole earth is full of her glory, especially among Christians, by whom she is taken as the protectress of many kingdoms, provinces, dioceses and cities. Many cathedrals are consecrated to God under her name. There is not a church without an altar in her honour, not a country nor a canton where there are not some miraculous images where all sorts of evils are cured and all sorts of good gifts are obtained. Who can count the confraternities and congregations in her honour? How many religious orders have been founded in her name and under her protection? How many members in these confraternities, and how many religious men and women in all these orders, who publish her praises and confess her mercies! Thee is not a little child who, as it lisps the Hail Mary, does not praise her. There is scarcely a sinner who, even in his obduracy, has not some spark of confidence in her. Nay, the very devils in Hell respect her while they fear her.

-St Louis de Montfort

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(via Quote/s of the Day – 26 August – Our Lady – AnaStpaul)

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“Pray with great confidence, with confidence based upon the goodness and infinite generosity of God and upon the promises of Jesus Christ.”

- St. Louis de Montfort

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"To all intents and purposes she may be counted among the kings of France"

The hour that struck the death of Louis VIII was arguably the most critical in the history of the Capetian family. The new king, one day to be St Louis, was still a child. The trend of events in the previous two reigns had brought the higher nobility to realise that its independence would soon be seriously threatened. But a unique opportunity was raised to the regency of the queen-mother, Blanche of Castile, on the pretext that she was a woman and a foreigner. Yet this was not the first occasion on which the king's widow had acted as regent, nor the first on which a queen had played a part in politics. Philip Augustus had been the first Capetian not to involve his wife in the government of his realm. Before his time the queens of France had often intervened in affairs of state. Constance of Arles, not content with making married life difficult for Robert the Pious, had wanted to change the order of succession to the throne. She had led the opposition to Henri I, provoking and upholding his brothers against him, and she was perhaps responsible for the separation of Burgundy from the royal domain, to which Robert the Pious had joined it. Anna of Kiev, after the death of her husband Henri I, had been one of the regents, and it was only her second marriage, to Raoul de Crépy, that took her out of politics. Bertrada de Montfort's influence over Philip I had been notorious, and so had her hostility to the heir to the throne, whom she had even been accused of trying to poison. Adelaide of Maurienne, despite a physical personality before which Count Baldwin III of Hainault is said to have recoiled, had held considerable sway over Louis VI, procuring the disgrace of the chancellor, Etienne de Garlande, and egging on Louis to the Flemish adventure from which her brother-in-law, William Clito, was to profit so much. Eleanor of Aquitaine- as St Bernard had complained- had more power than anyone else over Louis VII as long as their marriage lasted. Louis VII's third wife, Adela of Champagne, had appealed to the king of England for help against her son Philip Augustus when he had sought to free himself of the tutelage of her brothers of Champagne. Later, reconciled with Philip, Adela had been regent during his absence from France on crusade. From the beginnings of Capet rule, the queens of France had enjoyed substantial influence over their husbands and over royal policy.

But Blanche of Castile was to play a greater role than any of her predecessors. To all intents and purposes she may be counted among the kings of France. For from 1226 until her death in 1252 she governed the kingdom. Twice she was regent: from 1226 to 1234, while Louis IX was a minor, and from 1248 to 1252 during his first absence on crusade. Between 1234 and 1248 Blanche bore no official title, but her power was no less effective. Severe in personality, heroic in stature, this Spanish princess took control of the fortunes of the dynasty and the kingdom in outstandingly difficult circumstances. For in 1226 there arose the most redoubtable coalition of great barons which the House of Capet ever had to face. Loyalty to the crown, so constant a feature of the past, seemed to be in eclipse. This was at any rate true of the barons who revolted, for they appear to have tried to seize the person of the young king himself- an attempt without parallel in Capetian history.

Blanche of Castile threw herself energetically into the struggle over her son and his throne. Taking her father-in-law, Philip Augustus, as her model, she won over half her enemies by craft, vigorously gave battle to the rest, and enlisted the alliance of the Church, including the Pope himself, and of the burgess class, which in marked fashion took the side of the royal family. Blanche was able to fend off Henry III of England, who tried to take the opportunity of recovering his ancestral lands, lost by John to Philip Augustus. She broke up the baronial coalition and reduced to submission the most dangerous of the rebels, Peter Mauclerc, Count of Brittany, and Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse. She adroitly took advantage of her victory to re-establish- this time definitively- the royal power in the south of France: her son Alphonse was married to the daughter and heiress of Raymond of Toulouse. The way was now open for the union of all Raymond's rich patrimony with the royal domain.

The Capetian monarchy emerged all the stronger from a crisis which had threatened to overwhelm it. Blanche felt it her duty not to rest on her laurels. After her son came of age she continued to make herself responsible for good and stable government. By the force of her example she drove home the lessons which Philip Augustus seems to have wanted to press upon his grandson when they had talked together. To Blanche's initiative must be credited the measures taken to suppress the dangerous revolt of Trencavel in Languedoc, as also those taken to defeat the coalition broken up after the battle of Saintes. On these occasions Louis IX did no more than carry out his mother's policy. When he went off on crusade, Blanche one more officially shouldered the government of the kingdom. She maintained law and order, prevented the further outbreak of war with England, and successfully pressed on with the policy which was to lead to the annexation of Languedoc. Likewise it was she who refurnished her son's crusade with men and money, and she took all the steps necessary for the safety of the kingdom when Louis was captured in Egypt.

Robert Fawtier- The Capetian Kings of France- Monarchy and Nation (987-1328)