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BOOK
I, CHAPTER THREE
THOSE WHO REFUSE TO HONOR
OUR LADY WILL BE LOST
He who angers His Mother is cursed by God. (Ecclesiasticus
3:18)
The honor of Mary is so intimately
connected with the honor and glory of Jesus that to deny the one is at the
same time a denial of the other. (Ven. William Joseph Chaminade)
He who neglects the service of the
Blessed Virgin will die in his sins. He who does not invoke thee, O Lady,
will never get to Heaven. Not only will those from whom Mary turns her
countenance not be saved, but there will be no hope of their salvation. No
one can be saved without the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (St. Bonaventure)
To desire grace without recourse
to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. (Pope Pius XII)
If you would enter into Life, keep
the commandments ... Honor thy father and thy mother. (St. Matthew 19:17,19)
Behold thy Mother! (St. John
19:27)
Jesus honored her before all ages,
and will honor her for all ages. No one comes to Him, nor even near Him, no one is saved or sanctified, if he too will not honor
her. This is the lot of angels and of men. (St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe)
There is a generation that does
not bless their Mother, a generation pure in their own eyes and yet not
washed from their filthiness (Proverbs 30:11-12)
All the true children of God, the
predestinate, have God for their Father and Mary for their Mother. He who has
not Mary for his Mother has not God for his Father. (St. Louis Marie de
Montfort)
Whoever does not wish to have Mary
Immaculate as his Mother will not have Christ as his Brother either; the
Father will not send His Son to him; the Son will not descend into his soul;
the Holy Spirit will not make him a member of the Mystical Body of Christ;
for all these mysteries of grace take place in Mary Full-of-Grace, and in her
alone. And, since the First-Born Son was conceived only through the specific
consent of the Most Blessed Virgin, the same holds true for all other humans.
(St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe)
Your heart will either sing the
divine canticles of Our Lady, or echo the cursed and unhappy songs of worldlings here in dishonor to God and vibrate eternally
with the blasphemies and horrid dirges of the damned in Hell! (St. John Eudes)
REFERENCES
BOOK I, CHAPTER THREE:
1. William
Joseph: OUR KNOWLEDGE OF MARY, Kirkwood, MO: Maryhurst
Press, 1930, p.4
2.
Bonaventure: "Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary," Ps.116; DDP
p.413; IPM p.90; GM p.221, 170; cf. also SOR p.30
3. Pius XII:
PTC:969
4. Maximilian
Mary: Cf. International Center, Militia of the Immaculate, Rome
5. Louis
Marie: TDM pp.19-20, 30, 139 ff
6. Maximilian
Mary: ICS p.85
7. John: cf.
AHM p
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