True devotion to Our Lady is holy; that is to say, it leads the soul to avoid sin and to imitate the virtues of the Blessed Virgin, particularly her:
- Profound humility
- Lively faith
- Blind obedience
- Continual prayer
- Universal mortification
- Divine purity
- Ardent charity
- Heroic patience
- Angelic sweetness and
- Divine wisdom.
These are the ten principal virtues of the most holy Virgin.
St. Louis de Montfort
True Devotion to Mary
You have provided counsel and comfort to those who needed you, even during your earthly life when you visited your cousin Elizabeth while she carried John the Baptist in her womb. Our Lady of Good Counsel, today, I ask for your intercession for a world in need of your guidance and for counsel in my own life . . . (especially) (f)or counsel for those who are exiled from their home countries, pray for us.
Day 2
And we are all exiles. Despite appearances to the contrary and our own feeble attempts at preservation, this world is passing away. We are but pilgrims stumbling on a path to our heavenly home country. There is "nothing new under the sun."
And still we sing:
"This Earth will one day melt like snow,The Sun refuse to shine.Yet God Who sent me here below,Will be forever mine.He'll be forever mine."
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)BYU Noteworthy
Isaiah 40:31
They that hope in the Lord will renew their strength,
They will soar as with eagles' wings;
They will run and not grow weary,
Walk and not grow faint.
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