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CHAPTER 6 THE DUTY OF LEGIONARIES TOWARDS MARY 37
appeals to them, in her Son’s own words, for a service “with
all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,
and with all your strength.” (Mk 12:30)
The legionary must only look to Mary to supplement, to
purify, to perfect, to supernaturalise the natural, to enable
weak human effort to achieve what is impossible to it. But
these are mighty things. They can mean that mountains will
be torn from their roots and hurled into the sea, and the land
be made plain, and the paths straightened to lead on to the
Kingdom of God.
“We are all unprofitable servants, but we serve a Master who is
absolutely economical, who lets nothing go to waste, not a drop of
the sweat of our brow, any more than a drop of his heavenly dew. I
know not what fate awaits this book; whether I shall finish it; or
whether I shall reach even the end of the page that lies beneath my
pen. But I know enough to cause me to throw into it the remnant, be
it great or small, of my strength and of my days.” (Blessed Frederick
Ozanam)

5. LEGIONARIES SHOULD UNDERTAKE
DE MONTFORT’S TRUE DEVOTION TO MARY

It is desirable that the practice of the legionary devotion to
Mary should be rounded off and given the distinctive
character which has been taught by St. Louis-Marie de
Montfort under the titles of “The True Devotion” or the
“Slavery of Mary”, and which is enshrined in his two books,
True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin and the Secret of Mary. (see
appendix 5)
That Devotion requires the formal entry into a compact
with Mary, whereby one gives to her one’s whole self, with all
its thoughts and deeds and possessions, both spiritual and
temporal, past, present, and future, without the reservation of
the smallest part or slightest little thing. In a word, the giver
places himself in a condition equivalent to that of a slave
possessing nothing of his own, and wholly dependent on,
and utterly at the disposal of Mary.
But the earthly slave is far freer than the slave of Mary. The
former remains master of his thoughts and inner life, and
thus may be free in everything that matters to him. But the
surrender to Mary bears with it everything: each thought, the