THE SECRET OF MARY
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort’s humble book which is
humble in its content and how literally little it is, is a cornerstone of all
souls who pray for a way of life that is entirely for God alone. This book is a
must for all who desire to serve God in a most majestic way but do not have the
humility yet as one’s foundation. This book, The Secret of Mary, will always be
a secret even if its contents were read and re-read for humility is a secret
virtue that this book contains. I have read a good number of books that deals
with spiritual matters but I just only found out now that The Secret of Mary is
a book that must always be read again and again amidst the great spiritual
books that other saints had written. The book can be likened to a golden ring
and necklace that must always be worn by a person. Yet, it is humble even if it
is gold when the book’s contents were put into action. How happy a thousand
times is the man who has this humble book as his cornerstone even if he had met
so many great books in his life. The secret for a life of gold is to read it
once again when the person is aware of the fact that the gold is getting
covered with dust, the fact that he is covered by everything he read, learned,
and acquired from any other books. The Secret of Mary is a book that is
practical and simple. All who prays to become a simple follower of Christ must
have a foundation for his pillars that can be seen by others, and that
foundation is The Secret of Mary. Once you found this book, you will realize
that the spirituality the book shows for you to live by is a perfect
spirituality that is so humble and easy, which is the secret of its greatness.
Humility is the cornerstone or foundation of all the virtues
and so is this book that I now exhort you to acquire. And I say that in
acquiring all the virtues so as to live a virtuous life, a person must have
humility in everything that he does that will make him virtuous. Just so,
always return to read this humble book again and again even if you have a
thousand books at hand other than this. For it is a grave danger to acquire so
many learning from a thousand books without foundation which is a great
spirituality that The Secret of Mary contains. So, practically speaking, to
avoid any danger, just be humble to read the book again and again whenever
possible and, if it is inevitable for you not to read books that are more or
less important to be read, then the more reason you must recourse to this
little book in order for you not to be lost and be led into darkness that the
many books you are about to read might bring you. The Secret of Mary is not
only a book. It is life, and its pages are alive, and it is a life for eternal
life.
God is a humble God. In Jesus Christ we see that His
Divinity and humanity were subjected to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the law of
spiritual grace and natural grace, Jesus Christ’s being as God and His humanity
was made possible and united by God through Mary and only in her. So, we humans
are the most supposed to subject ourselves to Mary if we wish to be more like
Jesus who, although He is God, preferred to subject Himself to the law of
natural grace to become human, and now He is God-man in order for the humanity
to be saved and be brought back to the law of spiritual grace. If God made it
possible through Mary, how much more we humans are supposed to subject our body
and soul to Mary in order to be more like Jesus? This reality does not require
much common sense. At the moment we found Mary; let us thank God that He made
St. Louis de Montfort as His great Marian teacher that taught that it is lawful
to go to Mary in order to be more like Jesus and there is no spirituality that
is greater than Montfort had already taught, which can be found in his
masterpiece, The Secret of Mary. As for me, this is what I can say: “Let the
reader understand. Let him accept this teaching who can.”
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