28-APRIL- St. Louis De Montfort

J.M. + J.D.

Today, the Dominican Order commemorates of of my favourite Saints of all time:

St. Louis Marie Grignion De Montfort...

    Born poor. Studied in Paris, France, and ordained in 1700. While a seminarian he delighted in researching the writings of Church Fathers, Doctors and Saints as they related to the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom he was singularly devoted.

    Under Our Lady's inspiration, he founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Wisdom, a religious institute of women devoted to the care of the destitute. During this work, he began his apostolate of preaching the Rosary and authentic Marian devotion. He preached so forcefully and effectively against the errors of Jansenism that he was expelled from several dioceses in France. In Rome Pope Clement XI conferred on him the title and authority of Missionary Apostolic, which enabled him to continue his apostolate after returning to France. He preached Mary everywhere and to everyone. A member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, Saint Louis was one of the greatest apostles of the Rosary in his day, and by means his miraculously inspiring book, The Secret of the Rosary, he is still so today; the most common manner of reciting the Rosary is the method that originated with Saint Louis’s preaching. In 1715, he founded a missionary band known as the Company of Mary.

    His greatest contribution to the Church and world is Total Consecration to the Blessed Virgin. He propagated this in his day by preaching and after his own death by his other famous book True Devotion to Mary. Consecration to Mary is for Saint Louis the perfect manner of renewing one’s baptismal promises. 

In True Devotion to Mary, Saint Louis prophesied that the army of souls consecrated to Mary will be Her instrument in defeating the Devil and his Antichrist. As Satan gains power in the world, so much more shall the new Eve triumph over him and crush his head.

 The cause for his declaration as a Doctor of the Church is now being pursued.








V. Pray for us Blessed Louis Marie
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ



Let us pray:

V.O God, who didst make Thy confessor, the blessed Louis Marie, a wonderful preacher of the mystery of the cross and of the most holy rosary, and who, through his means did implant a new order in Thy Church; grant through his intercession and merits, that through the life, death, and resurrection of Thy only-begotten Son, we may attain to the rewards of eternal salvation. Throught the same Christ our Lord.


R. Amen

(Taken from the Dominican Tertiarie's Manual commemoration prayers for Vespers)