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APPENDIX 5 THE CONFRATERNITY OF MARY 349
Members will want to celebrate those liturgical feasts that
are both a symbol and fulfilment of this communion. They
will especial ly celebrate: the Annunciation of the Lord, March
25 which is the principal feast of the Association; the Nativity
of Our Lord, December 25; the Immaculate Conception,
December 8; the feast of St. Louis de Montfort, April 28.
Members likewise share in the spiritual riches with which
the Montfortian family has been endowed by Mary who
‘gives herself completely in a wondrous manner to him who
gives all to her.’” (Queen, May-June, 1992, p.25)
5. For the proper understanding and practise of this
devotion it is essential that one read not once but frequently
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort’s Treatise on the True Devotion to
the Blessed Virgin, and his smaller work, The Secret of Mary.
“St. Pius X, especially, has set out vividly the doctrine of the
universal mediation of Mary and of her spiritual Maternity in his
beautiful Encyclical Ad Diem Illum, which is substantially but a trans -
position of St. Louis-Marie de Montfort’s book of the True Devotion.
The Holy Pontiff was a fervent admirer of this celebrated little
treatise. He particularly recommended all to read it, and he conferred
his Apostolic Benediction on those who would do so. Moreover, in
that Encyclical of his on Mary, are to be found not only the most
familiar thoughts of the great servant of Mary, but often his very
expressions.” (Mura: Le Corps Mystique du Christ)
“Loving slaves of Jesus in Mary should hold in high esteem
devotion to Jesus, the Word of God, in the great mystery of the
Incarnation, March 25, which is the mystery proper to this devotion,
because it is inspired by the Holy Spirit for the following reasons:
(a) That we might honour and imitate the wondrous dependence
which God the Son chose to have on Mary, for the glory of his Father
and for the redemption of man. This dependence is revealed
especially in this mystery where Jesus becomes a captive and slave in
the womb of his Blessed Mother, depending on her for everything.
(b) That we might thank God for the incomparable graces he has
con ferred upon Mary and especially that of choosing her to be his
most worthy Mother. This choice was made in the mystery of the
Incarnation.
These are the two principal ends of the slavery of Jesus in Mary.”
(St. Louis-Marie de Montfort: Treatise on True Devotion, Par. 243)