{"id":1852,"date":"2012-12-08T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2012-12-05T09:21:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T07:21:59","slug":"mary-immaculate-the-filial-devotion-of-my-whole-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"MARY IMMACULATE: THE FILIAL DEVOTION OF MY WHOLE LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To this end, I invoke the intercession of the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, daring to remind her in all humility, but with consolation, of the filial devotion of my whole life, and of the desire I have always had to make her known and loved, and to spread her devotion everywhere through the ministry of those whom the Church has given to me as children, who have had the same desire as myself\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s will, 1854, General Archives, Rome<\/em><\/p>\n

Today:<\/p>\n

Mary Immaculate is patroness of our Congregation. <\/em>
\nOpen to the Spirit, she consecrated herself totally as lowly handmaid to the person and work of the Saviour. <\/em>
\nShe received Christ in order to share him with all the world, whose hope he is. In her, we recognize the model of the Church’s faith and of our own.<\/em><\/p>\n

We shall always look on her as our mother. <\/em>
\nIn the joys and sorrows of our missionary life, we feel close to her who is the Mother of Mercy. <\/em>
\nWherever our ministry takes us, we will strive to instil genuine devotion to the Immaculate Virgin who prefigures God’s final victory over all evil.<\/em><\/p>\n

CC&RR, Constitution 10<\/p>\n

Caryll Houselander captured this spirit when she referred to Mary as the “Reed of God” through which the music of the Incarnation took flesh. She wrote:<\/p>\n

“It is the emptiness like the hollow in the reed\u2026which can only have one destiny; to receive the piper’s breath and to utter the song that is in his heart.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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