![]() ![]() This saint’s teaching had a profound influence on my Marian devotion and my own life.” ![]() ![]() Louis-Marie, and he translates it: ‘I am all yours, and all that I have belongs to you, O my lovable Jesus, through Mary, your holy Mother’ ( Treatise of True Devotion to Mary, no. This is what he confirms in that same letter of 2004: “These two words express total belonging to Jesus through Mary: ‘ Tuus totus ego sum, and omnia mea tua sunt ,’ writes St. John Paul’s papal coat of arms, is directly inspired by the spirituality of St. It happened that the devotion of my childhood and even my adolescence to the Mother of Christ gave way to a new attitude, a devotion coming from the depths of my faith, as from the very heart of the Trinitarian and Christological reality.” I say a ‘turning point’ although it is a long inner journey that coincided with my clandestine preparation for the priesthood. Reading True Devotion marked a turning point in my life. “But thanks to Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort,” he wrote in 2004 in the Letter to the Religious of the Montfortian Families, “I understood that authentic devotion to the Mother of God is truly Christocentric (…). ![]()
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