True Devotion

[GodChild]

St Louis is mighty waffly! I got a headache the first time I read the 'True Devotion' as its all just a little to 'philosophical' and 'theological' for me.
I find the maternity of Mary to the be the most beautiful thing expounded in the work and I'm making the consecration for the first time on Jan 1st - the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.

[Veritas]

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The Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word:

"Each year, as a community, we renew our consecration to the Immaculate Mother of God, using the method of St. Louis Marie de Montfort — including the thirty-three day preparation."

~http://www.mfva.info/1/aboutus.htm





[quote name='brendan1104' post='921287' date='Mar 24 2006, 09:35 PM']
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - both the approved and unapproved communities. - [url="http://www.saintbenedict.com"]http://www.saintbenedict.com[/url] - their whole spirit is according to St Louis Marie Grignion De Montfort.

The Carmelite Monks. - [url="http://www.carmelitemonks.org"]http://www.carmelitemonks.org[/url]
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Are the Benedictines that you link to above an approved community? As a side note, they pray the rosary three times (once in Latin -yay!) every day -wow!

[quote name='shortnun' post='926079' date='Mar 28 2006, 11:17 PM']
Has anyone ever done the consecration according to St. Maximilian Kolbe's formula (as opposed to Louis de Montfort)?
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I have not made this consecration (I am a devotee of St. Louis Marie de Montfort's method), but this community is AWESOME (CMSWR Members) and they are totally devoted to spreading Marian Consecration via St. Maximilian Kolbe's method:

[url="http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/"]http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/[/url]


As a side note, they wear one of my FAVORITE habits -I love the color!:

[url="http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/sisters.shtml"]http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/sisters.shtml[/url]

Edited August 30, 2006 by Veritas

[brendan1104]

They're not Benedictines- they're Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and yes.

[quote name='Veritas' post='1053464' date='Aug 30 2006, 04:09 AM']
Are the Benedictines that you link to above an approved community? As a side note, they pray the rosary three times (once in Latin -yay!) every day -wow![/quote]

[TeresaAvila]

oh I agree it is the best, I consecrated myself last year on the feast of St. Louis Marie De Montfort, and it was such a joy, I highly recommend it to anyone!

[sanctafamilia]

My formor spiritual director was a tertiary of the Franciscans of the Immaculata. Her name in religion is Sr. joseph Mary Maximilian and she lives an hour from me.

[shortnun]

Another community that does the de Montfort consecration: [b][url="http://www.trinhvuong.org/"]Sisters of Mary, Queen[/url][/b]

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='sanctafamilia' post='1173345' date='Jan 22 2007, 06:16 PM']
My formor spiritual director was a tertiary of the Franciscans of the Immaculata. Her name in religion is Sr. joseph Mary Maximilian and she lives an hour from me.
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And she did the Kolbean consecration or the DeMontfort consecration?

[she_who_is_not]

[quote name='Totus Tuus' post='1174801' date='Jan 24 2007, 02:01 PM']
And she did the Kolbean consecration or the DeMontfort consecration?
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How do the two differ? I've read True Devotion but no very little about St. Maximillian Kolbe.

[shortnun]

[quote name='she_who_is_not' post='1174807' date='Jan 24 2007, 01:07 PM']
How do the two differ? I've read True Devotion but no very little about St. Maximillian Kolbe.
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There's a thread on here somewhere that marks out the differences. When I have more time, I'll try and do a search and see if I can find it.

[the lords sheep]

I believe most of the Sisters of life make one of the Marian consecrations. I've talked about it with one of the Sisters before... from what I remember it is the Sister's choice which she uses but it is encourage (possibly required?) that she make one... Don't quote me though....

[shortnun]

for LilyofSaintMaria

[quote name='shortnun' post='1174956' date='Jan 24 2007, 03:49 PM']
There's a thread on here somewhere that marks out the differences. When I have more time, I'll try and do a search and see if I can find it.
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Found my own post. [b][url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=50233&st=0&p=938276&#entry938276"]The difference between deMontfort and Kolbe.[/url][/b] Edited February 4, 2007 by shortnun

[AlterDominicus]

Geee......wowzers......I actully look forward to the consencration by Montfort here, at the smme - that was a question i was going to ask Sister Joseph Andrew when i head back there in a couple weeks.

[EJames]

[quote name='Veritas' post='1053464' date='Aug 30 2006, 12:09 AM']
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The Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word:

"Each year, as a community, we renew our consecration to the Immaculate Mother of God, using the method of St. Louis Marie de Montfort — including the thirty-three day preparation."

~http://www.mfva.info/1/aboutus.htm
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Are the Benedictines that you link to above an approved community? As a side note, they pray the rosary three times (once in Latin -yay!) every day -wow!
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I have not made this consecration (I am a devotee of St. Louis Marie de Montfort's method), but this community is AWESOME (CMSWR Members) and they are totally devoted to spreading Marian Consecration via St. Maximilian Kolbe's method:

[url="http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/"]http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/[/url]
As a side note, they wear one of my FAVORITE habits -I love the color!:

[url="http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/sisters.shtml"]http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/sisters.shtml[/url]
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i met them in Rome, very Marian, and devout
have some (like 3?)pictures of them in this musical slideshow
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3WdiWw7b3o"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3WdiWw7b3o[/url]

makes me think i should do a TRUE DEVOTION YouTuBe...er hmmmm

Edited February 6, 2007 by EJames

[Thomist-in-Training]

Bump! (I'm trying to remind myself to reread "True Devotion.")

[VeniteAdoremus]

Next Sunday a bunch of young adults in my diocese will make the Consecration at the convent of the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara (who already got a lot of attention in this thread ). I'll be among them.

At the moment I just have a deal with our Mother that if I accidentally happen to do something right for a change, she gets to distribute the rewards as she sees fit (which saves me a lot of bookkeeping: "this was for the most lonely soul in purgatory, this for the second-loneliest...")

[Thomist-in-Training]

[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1522112' date='May 8 2008, 05:21 AM']Next Sunday a bunch of young adults in my diocese will make the Consecration at the convent of the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara (who already got a lot of attention in this thread ). I'll be among them.

At the moment I just have a deal with our Mother that if I accidentally happen to do something right for a change, she gets to distribute the rewards as she sees fit (which saves me a lot of bookkeeping: "this was for the most lonely soul in purgatory, this for the second-loneliest...")[/quote]

How wonderful! It's Pentecost too and, I just realized, the anniversary of my First Holy Communion. I will pray for you! Is there a good thread around here about the Servants? I know very, very little of them but I read that they are working on a project to translate the works of Cornelio Fabro, a recent Thomist scholar, which is the kind of work that sounds fascinating to me. (The other question is, what are they translating them [i]into[/i]?)

[VeniteAdoremus]

There should be a thread

And what they're translating him into... who knows? The sisters in our diocese all speak Spanish, Italian, English and Dutch. And one of them also French, I believe. ;D

[tnavarro61]

we wrote a letter to the Friends of Our Lady apostolate. A member of our lay community introduced the consecration to us and it seems very beautiful after visiting this thread!