“The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other. It is a perpetual exercise in mortification.”

                                         -St. Francis de Sales

  For Reflection:

To what extent have I discovered this for myself? How can the virtue of patience help me? (See tomorrow’s Grace Line for some saintly advice about these moments.)

True Devotion to Mary by Saint Louis De Montfort. Fr. Frederick Faber, translator Pb 215 Pgs Click Here For More Information:

FROM THE POPES   pages viii

Pope John Paul II:  "The reading of this book was a decisive turning point in my life.  I say 'turning-point', but in fact it was a long inner journey....This 'perfect devotion' is indispensable to anyone who means to give himself without reserve to Christ and to the work of redemption."  "It is from Montfort that I have taken my motto: 'Totus tuus' ('I am all thine')...