Commentary on the Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin

To the Catholic who wants to find peace in abandonment to God's will even when it's hard

If I offered to show you how to find peace in abandonment to God's will even when things are hard...

...accomplishing more in one month than most people do in years...

...without changing your daily routine

...using a little-known, easy, and Church-approved method...

...would you take me up on that offer?

Here's what St. Louis-Marie de Montfort said about the devotion to Mary which this book spells out...

"By this practice, faithfully observed, you will give Jesus more glory in a month than by any other practice, however difficult, in many years" ("True Devotion to Mary", #222).

Now, you can't give Jesus more glory in a month than most people do in years without finding more peace in abandonment to His will.

The reason St. Louis spoke with such conviction and without the slightest hesitation is because God revealed this devotion directly to him. Here's St. Louis again...

"Predestinate soul, here is a secret the Most High has taught me, which I have not been able to find in any book, old or new. I confide it to you, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit" ("The Secret of Mary", #1).

And since he says "the essential of this devotion consists in the interior which it ought to form" (True Devotion, #119), and not in exterior practices, he also promises that you can find peace in abandonment to God's will...

"...without scarcely doing anything by what we are obliged to do by our state of life" (True Devotion, #171).

In other words, without changing your daily routine.

You can see why Pope St. John Paul II told the Montfort Fathers this devotion "was a decisive turning-point in my life."

You can rest assured that this book brings you up to speed on this devotion, because the Montfort Fathers declared that this Commentary...

"...furnishes to readers everything they must know in order to understand and appreciate the doctrine of Bl. Louis-Marie de Montfort."

St. Louis points out...

"When the Holy Spirit, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fullness; He communicates Himself to that soul abundantly, and to the full extent to which she makes room for her Spouse" (True Devotion, #36).

You can't be full of the Holy Spirit and not find peace in abandonment to God's will, because peace is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22).

That's why St. Louis calls this devotion "a path of roses and honey compared with the other paths" (True Devotion, #152).

And that's why you'll find peace when you live in union with Mary as this book shows you how.

Here's another way St. Louis described this devotion...

It is a short road, which leads us to Jesus in a little time" (True Devotion, #168).

Mary teaches us not to look backward once the road is decided upon.

She does not beat around the bush. She does not take winding detours. She follows a straight line to the objective: union with her Son.

That's why St. Louis emphasized...

"She unites them to Him with a most intimate union, and she keeps them unshaken in that union" (True Devotion, #211).

And so, the devotion to Mary which this book spells out is not for tire-kickers or the non-committal.

It's for those who are ready to let Our Lady unite them to her Son. It's for the Catholic who wants Our Lady's help in finding peace in abandonment to God's will in their life as quickly, fully, and absolutely as she did when she said to St. Gabriel...

"Behold the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to thy word" (Lk. 1:38).

Mary knows there's nothing that will ever satisfy you like a life totally abandoned to God's will.

So don't delay and miss out, because Mary's waiting to give you a new and better chapter in life.

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