A TREATISE

THE TRUE DEVOTION

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T H E B T E S S E D V I R G I N .

DY mS VtrtrlABAEIJI EIBVA!y! Ot GOD,

LOIII$MARIE GRIGNON DE MONITOBT.

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TBA]MIJAIAD TBOI TEE OBIOB{AIJ TBIIIOE

BT FR,EDIR,ICK WILIJAM FABER, D.D,lBrxEt ot lIIs oaaroat

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190 TAUE DEVOTION TO

ttplit4rninir-(( O Jegus anil Mary, inclease in me,and mulfiply yourselves outside in others aIBo."

There a,re an inffnity of other thoughts wlichthe Holy Ghost furnishes, and will fiunish you,if you are thoroughly intorior, mortified, andfaithftl to this grand and sublimo devotionwhich I havo beon teaching vou. But alwaysromember that the more you leavo Mary to actin your Communion, the moro Josus will b€glorified. The more you loave Mary 0o act forJeeus, and Jesus Uo act in Mary, the more pro-foundly will you humble yourself, and willlisten to them in peace and silene,o, withoutputting yourself in houble about seeing, tart-ing, or feoling ; for the just nau lives through-out on faith, and particularly in Holy Commu-nion, which is an a€tion of faith. Justus meweo fidp uioir.

OONSEOBATION OT OI'RSEI,YES TO 'ESUS CEBIST,

TEE INCASNATE WTSDOM, BY TEE EANDS OFUARY.

O Eternal and Incarnatp T9'isilom ! Osweetest and most Adorablo Jesug I Trno Godand, Truo Man, only Son of the Eternal n'athe'r,and of Mary alwaye Virgin I I adore thee pro-founilly in the bosom ancl splendours of thyFather during etermty; and I adore thee also inthe Yirginal booom of Mary, Thy most worthyMothor, in the tine of lLine Inca,rnation.

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I give l!6s thsnke for that thou hastnnnihilated fryr"$ in taking the fom of aslavo, in order to roscue me ftom tho cruelelavery oftho devil. I praiso and glorify Theoforthat Thou hast boen pleased to submit thy-eolf to Ma4y, thy holy Mother, in all things,in oriler to make mo 1hy faithful slave throughhor, But, alas ! ungrateful anil faithless as Ihave boon, I havo not kept tho promises whichI made so solemnly to Thee in my Baptism; Ihave not fulfilled my obligations; I do notdoservo to be called Thyson, noryet Thy slavo;and as there is nothing in me which does notmorit thino anger and Thy repulse, f daro nomore oome by myself before Thy Most Holyand August Majoety. It ie on this account thatI havo recourse to the interoession ofThy mostho$ Mothor, whom Thou hast given me for ametliatrir with thee. It is by her means thatI hope to obtain of Theo contrition, and thepardon ofmy sins, the acquisition and the pre-sorvation of wisdom. I salute thee, then, Oimmaaulate Ma,ry, living tabernaole of the D-vinit-y, where the E0ernal Wiedom willed to behidden, and to be adored by Angels and by mon.I hail thee, O Queen of heaven and earth, towhose empiro every thing is subjeot which isuniler Goil.

f ealute theer O sure refuge sf sinnelgtwhose menoy fails to no one. Eea,r the ile-

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sir€s which I have of the Divino'TV'isdom; anilfor that end receive the vows and offeringswhich my lowness presents to thee. I, N., afaitbless sinnerr-I renew and ratifr to-day inthy haails the vows of my Baptism ; f renouncofor ever Satan, his pomps and works; and fgive myself entirely to Jesug Chriat, the Iaoar-nato Wisdomrlo aarry my cross after Eim allthe days of my life, and to bo more faithfirl toEim than I have ever been before.

In the presenco ofall the heavenly court Ichoogo thee thie day for my Mother anil Mis-tress. I delivor and consecrate to theo, as thyslavo, my body and soul, my gooda, both iu-terior and exterior, and even the valuo of all mygood aotions, past, present, anil future; leavingto you the entiro and firll right of ilisposing ofmo, and all that belongr to mo, witbout oxaop-tion, accorcling to thy good pleasure, to thogreatest glory of God, in time and in eternity.

Rocoivo, O benigaant Yirgin, this littlooforing of my slavery, in the honour of, and inunion with, that subjection which tho Etomal'Wiedom

doigned to have to thy Matemity, inhomage to the power which both of you baveover thig little worm and miserable sinner, andin thankegiving for tho prir.ileges with whichthe Holy Ilinity hath favoured thee. I protestthet I wish henceforth, as thy truo slave, tose€k thy houour and to obey **.i rltthiogc

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O admirable Mother, prosent me to thytloar Son as Eie eiernal elavo, so that as Hehath reileemed me by theo, by thee Eo mayrccoive me. O Mother of mercy, got mo thograoe to obtain the true

'W'igdom of God; anil

for that enil put me in the number of thoeowhom thou lovost, whom thou teaohegt, whomthou oonduotest, and whom thou nouriehest andprotootest, ae thy children and thJr slaves.

O faithful Yirgin, make mo in all things soporfoot a disciplo, imitator, and glave of thoIncarnato'Wisdom, Jesus Chriet thy Son, thatf mey athain, by thy intercossion, and by thyexa,mple, to the fulness of Eis qge on oartbtand of Eis glory in tho hoaven* Amen"

Qui potest capero, capiat.

Quis sapions, et intelligot heo ?

fEE END.

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