The John-Henry Westen Show - June 02, 2020


St. Louis De Montfort's little known method of reception of Holy Communion changed my life


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The Secret of True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis de Montfort and the Consecration to Mary. A short introduction to the book and the secret of devotion to Mary, and how it changed my life.

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00:00:00.520 Hello, and welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, in which I'm going
00:00:05.000 to give you what I like to call the secret, inside the secret, of True Devotion to Mary
00:00:10.560 by St. Louis de Montfort.
00:00:12.280 It is something that I can tell you, I've been around the world, I've met many, many
00:00:17.700 people who practice True Devotion to Mary, who love the book, who've read it, but you
00:00:21.680 know what?
00:00:22.040 Very few people, in fact, I would say less than 1% of those who I've talked to about
00:00:27.340 it, know about this great secret in the book.
00:00:30.260 So, you're going to want to stay tuned and learn about it.
00:00:48.460 For those of you who already know all about True Devotion to Mary, and just want the part
00:00:53.560 of it that's secret, I'm going to tell you that you might want to skip to about halfway
00:00:58.000 through this video.
00:00:59.140 I want to start with a little intro for those who may not know much about St. Louis de Montfort's
00:01:03.400 greatest work, called True Devotion to Mary, and I'll tell you a little bit about what
00:01:06.880 it's done for my life, and about its origins and greatness.
00:01:10.660 First of all, it has been recommended and practiced by eight popes.
00:01:15.440 True Devotion to Mary is St. Louis de Montfort's greatest work on Our Lady, and it's actually
00:01:20.260 the greatest work on Our Lady in the entire Church, and even though it's only about 100
00:01:25.640 pages long, it surpasses all of the works on Our Lady in the Church by all of the saints,
00:01:32.340 and those works are massive, huge volumes on Our Lady.
00:01:37.640 But St. Pope John Paul II said of this work, he called it a perfect devotion, which is indispensable
00:01:46.320 to anyone who means to give himself without reserve, it is that kind of faith, that kind
00:01:51.540 of trust in the Lord, that kind of love that led me to say, after Mother Mary's example,
00:01:57.280 Behold the slave of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word.
00:02:01.820 And from that time, my life changed radically.
00:02:05.460 I, of course, went to confession, and my life of faith began with an earnestness that I had
00:02:10.520 never known before.
00:02:11.360 True Devotion was, for me, not just a book or devotion, it was kind of a way of life.
00:02:17.440 For one thing, it had the immediate effect in what seemed miraculous to me of enabling
00:02:22.040 me to overcome some of my sinful habits that I struggled with.
00:02:25.680 It also seemed to give me an immense hunger for the knowledge of the faith.
00:02:29.340 I devoured the scriptures, the catechism, the lives of the saints, and many of the most
00:02:33.560 notable spiritual works in the Church.
00:02:35.580 It drove me with an ardent desire to daily Mass and take up the daily Rosary after the
00:02:42.300 example of my dad, a practice which I have never left since.
00:02:47.400 The good news of salvation changed my life radically.
00:02:51.220 Jesus became the focus and desired end of my whole life. 0.89
00:02:54.360 I abandoned my former lifestyle and, along the way, probably lost some friends, but gained
00:03:00.120 others who are not only friends of mine, but brothers and sisters in the Lord.
00:03:04.000 Now, here's something of a secret within the secret of True Devotion, and it's this part
00:03:13.200 that I think is going to be of interest for very many people who already know about True
00:03:17.480 Devotion.
00:03:18.700 You see, for me, especially because of my life of sin, the reality of Holy Communion and
00:03:24.860 my unworthiness to receive Jesus in Holy Communion was really staggering.
00:03:28.960 I realized that here I was, this grave sinner, daring to approach the King of Kings, God
00:03:35.180 himself, and receive him into my heart, which was until so recently filled with sin, with
00:03:43.400 really a selfish disregard for others, and filth, real filth.
00:03:49.220 Yet, True Devotion contains this secret which very few know and practice, and it's this.
00:03:55.000 So, it goes this way, and if you read the most popular book on True Devotion is the one from
00:04:12.320 Tan Books, it's a blue-covered, if you have that version, it's on page 167, but it's in
00:04:18.120 most complete works of True Devotion to Mary, not the little orange books, which are basically
00:04:24.420 just the consecration itself.
00:04:26.320 It's in the full book, True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis de Montfort, and by the way, the
00:04:30.140 best English translation of it is by Father William Faber.
00:04:34.340 So, before Mass, St. Louis teaches us to place ourselves humbly in the presence of God, and
00:04:40.380 the prayer goes this way.
00:04:41.640 I renounce myself and all my inner dispositions, no matter how good my self-love may make them
00:04:47.460 look.
00:04:48.100 I'm all thine, my dear mistress, with all that I have, and I take thee for my all.
00:04:52.740 Please give me thy heart, O Mary, that I might receive thy Son here with the same dispositions
00:04:57.840 as thine own.
00:04:59.020 For it touches thy Son's glory to be put into a heart so sullied and inconstant as mine,
00:05:03.940 which would not fail either to lessen his glory or to destroy it.
00:05:07.840 But if thou wilt come and dwell with me in order to receive thy Son, he will be well
00:05:12.660 received by thee without danger of being outraged or unnoticed.
00:05:16.520 For God is in the midst of, and he shall not be moved.
00:05:20.380 Isn't that cool?
00:05:21.880 So, my heart, so filthy and poor, is given to this good mother, and she in turn gives
00:05:27.320 me her holy and immaculate heart where Jesus wants to dwell.
00:05:31.860 The prayer continues this way.
00:05:33.480 I know that of all the gifts that I have given thee of my own goods, I have given thee
00:05:38.500 nothing worthy of thee.
00:05:40.140 But with this gift, I make thee the same gift as the Eternal Father gave thee.
00:05:44.320 And I know that by giving thee this gift, I give thee more than if I gave thee all the
00:05:48.840 gifts in the entire world.
00:05:51.600 Isn't that awesome?
00:05:52.860 Remember when your mother gave you a gift for your dad, when you had nothing to give.
00:05:57.940 You were a little kid, and you, of course, couldn't get anything for your dad anyway.
00:06:01.860 What are you going to buy him when you're a little kid, and you've got a dad, and what
00:06:04.940 can you get for your dad?
00:06:05.880 Well, mom always buys you a gift for dad, and then you, as a little child, give that
00:06:10.360 to your dad, and your dad can go, wow, and appreciate it from you.
00:06:13.080 Well, here is the same opportunity from heaven to give your heavenly mother the gift of gifts.
00:06:21.820 And sure, this is like child's play, but that's what the life of faith is all about.
00:06:26.080 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter 1.00
00:06:34.000 it, said our Lord.
00:06:34.900 Remember?
00:06:36.780 And de Montfort's prayer before Mass concludes this way.
00:06:41.160 And finally, Jesus still desires to take his pleasure and repose in thee, even in my soul,
00:06:47.160 thou be far filthier and poorer than that stable where he did not hesitate to come, simply because
00:06:52.200 thou wert there.
00:06:53.360 I take thee for my all.
00:06:55.480 Please give me thy heart, O Mary.
00:06:59.100 That final part is, to me, the very best, since it so perfectly states what I feel is my reality.
00:07:05.720 My heart is very much like that stable in Bethlehem, full of animal manure and dirt and cold and stench.
00:07:15.100 And yet, there he comes.
00:07:17.680 There Jesus comes.
00:07:18.720 There our Lord comes.
00:07:19.660 I have taken to adding another little small prayer to that because Joseph, St. Joseph, was
00:07:27.100 in that stable as well.
00:07:28.900 And so that little add-on prayer that I use goes this way.
00:07:34.080 Good St. Joseph, please come and by thy intercession cleanse the stables of our hearts like that
00:07:39.080 it's the stable in Bethlehem.
00:07:41.680 And that completes the preparation before Mass as recommended by St. Louis de Montfort.
00:07:46.900 But there's more to this secret.
00:07:48.160 In the book as well, he recommends that prayer before Mass begins.
00:07:54.460 And then another prayer at the Domine Non Sumdinius part of the Mass, where it used to be said
00:07:59.480 three times, the Lord I'm not worthy.
00:08:02.280 During the Lord I'm not worthy part, which comes just before communion, de Montfort suggests
00:08:07.240 praying this.
00:08:08.640 First to God the Father,
00:08:11.420 Lord, I'm not worthy because of my sins and ingratitude towards so good a Father to receive
00:08:16.320 the body and blood of thy Son.
00:08:18.120 But I beg thee to have mercy on me, and behold not me, but behold the handmaid of the Lord
00:08:23.000 who acts for me and gives me a singular confidence and hope with thy majesty.
00:08:27.460 Think about how great that is, incorporating Mary's original prayer of her first reception
00:08:33.940 of Christ into her body into our own reception of Christ in the Eucharist.
00:08:38.380 So then, his next invocation is to God the Son.
00:08:42.680 Lord, I'm not worthy because of my sins and infidelity to thy service to receive thy body,
00:08:47.800 blood, soul, and divinity in this great sacrament of thy love.
00:08:50.840 But I beg of thee to come to me that I might bring thee into the heart of thy well-beloved
00:08:56.360 mother, into the chamber of her that bore thee.
00:08:59.380 I take no confidence in my own preparations, strengths, and merits.
00:09:02.880 I trust only in Mary, thy dear mother, as Jacob did in Rebekah, and sinner in Esau that
00:09:07.560 I am.
00:09:07.860 I dare to approach thy sanctity, supported and adorned as I am by the virtues of Mary,
00:09:14.360 thy most holy mother.
00:09:15.920 Well, there's way too much to unpack there, but let's just say we have the privilege of
00:09:23.760 bringing Jesus to the heart of his mother, Mary, of coming before the King of Kings with
00:09:28.700 her glorious virtues, of pleasing him with the only human heart which never was touched
00:09:34.840 with the slightest stain of sin.
00:09:38.000 And then finally, to God the Holy Ghost, Saint Louis de Montfort composes this,
00:09:44.160 Lord, I'm not worthy because of my sins and resistance, thy holy inspirations, to receive
00:09:49.200 this masterpiece of thy charity.
00:09:51.100 But I beg of thee to come to me and marry thy most holy and inseparable spouse.
00:09:56.920 Come to me in her whose bosom is as pure and heart as burning as ever.
00:10:01.560 For without thy descendant in my soul, neither Jesus nor Mary will be formed nor worthily lodged.
00:10:07.280 So, after receiving Jesus in Holy Communion, I welcome him into the heart of Mary, his mother,
00:10:17.580 and I renew my consecration prayer, which we all know if we read the book.
00:10:23.520 And if you read the consecration prayer, and I mean the full one, I say the short one every
00:10:27.580 day as a Thanksgiving, but if you read the full one, it works as a perfect Thanksgiving
00:10:33.040 for Holy Communion.
00:10:35.080 And if you've never heard of this book, True Devotion, it's the greatest gift I could ever
00:10:41.060 give you.
00:10:41.720 Stop watching this video now and go get it.
00:10:44.300 It will change your life.
00:10:46.700 May God bless you, and we'll see you next time.
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