You are important in my plan of salvation for mankind
Dear Family of Mary!
“Dear children, I rejoice with you and thank you for every sacrifice and prayer
“Little children, do not forget that you are important in my plan of salvation of mankind.”
The more I pray over this sentence the more important I realize it is! Our Lady is not just speaking kind words here. She means it. We are important in her plan of salvation of mankind! !!
What does this mean? First it means that Our Lady is the Champion General who is going to save mankind from the devil! She has been given this task by the Father. And She will do it! But She needs us, her little ones, to help in this final battle. We are called to help her. And what is she about? Crushing the head of Satan.
Here are several famous paragraphs from St. Louis de Montfort – the great saint who understood the role of Mary in God’s plan of salvation like none other! It is hard to read, but try it. We need to understand what is going on in our day. This is what is going on:
St Louis de Montfort wrote in “True Devotion to Mary”:
51. It is chiefly in reference to these last wicked persecutions of the devil, daily increasing until the advent of the reign of anti-Christ, that we should understand that first and well-known prophecy and curse of God uttered against the serpent in the garden of paradise. It is opportune to explain it here for the glory of the Blessed Virgin, the salvation of her children and the confusion of the devil. “I will place enmities between you and the woman, between your race and her race; she will crush your head and you will lie in wait for her heel” (Gen. 3:15).
52. God has established only one enmity–but it is an irreconcilable one–which will last and even go on increasing to the end of time. That enmity is between Mary, his worthy Mother, and the devil, between the children and the servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and followers of Lucifer. Thus the most fearful enemy that God has set up against the
53. What Lucifer lost by pride Mary won by humility. What Eve ruined and lost by disobedience Mary saved by obedience. By obeying the serpent, Eve ruined her children as well as herself and delivered them up to him. Mary by her perfect fidelity to God saved her children with herself and consecrated them to his divine majesty.
54. God has established not just one enmity but “enmities”, and not only between Mary and Satan but between her race and his race. That is, God has put enmities, antipathies and hatreds between the true children and servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and slaves of the devil. They have no love and no sympathy for each other. The children of Belial, the slaves of Satan, the friends of the world,–for they are all one and the same–have always persecuted and will persecute more than ever in the future those who belong to the Blessed Virgin, just as Cain of old persecuted his brother Abel, and Esau his brother Jacob. These are the types of the wicked and of the just. But the humble Mary will always triumph over Satan, the proud one, and so great will be her victory that she will crush his head, the very seat of his pride. She will unmask his serpent’s cunning and expose his wicked plots. She will scatter to the winds his devilish plans and to the end of time will keep her faithful servants safe from his cruel claws. But Mary’s power over the evil spirits will especially shine forth in the latter times, when Satan will lie in wait for her heel, that is, for her humble servants and her poor children whom she will rouse to fight against him. In the eyes of the world they will be little and poor and, like the heel, lowly in the eyes of all, down-trodden and crushed as is the heel by the other parts of the body. But in compensation for this they will be rich in God’s graces, which will be abundantly bestowed on them by Mary. They will be great and exalted before God in holiness. They will be superior to all creatures by their great zeal and so strongly will they be supported by divine assistance that, in union with Mary, they will crush the head of Satan with their heel, that is, their humility, and bring victory to Jesus Christ. (St. Louis de Montfort: True Devotion to Mary. Paragraph 51-54)
Ok. Now read it again! It takes a few reads to actually understand what St. Louis de Montfort is saying. Because we don’t see it. Though I believe in these days it is making more sense than ever!
“Little children, do not forget that you are important in my plan of salvation of mankind.”
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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