“For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research…To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting….

                    -Pope John Paul the Great

For Reflection:

According to this quote, how does God use patience as an instrument to work His greatest wonders?  How does this help me to appreciate the time between a prayer and its answer; a desire and its manifestation; a vision and its realization?

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

ABOUT ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT pg xii

St Louis De Montfort left several writings, ...These books were based on sermons he had given when traveling around France.  By spreading devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Louis De Montfort was teaching souls to love the devil's great enemy.  (In True Devotion to Mary,he states that the devil fears Mary more than all angels and men, and in a sense more than God Himself--see no. 52).  At the Saint's beatification investigation, many witnesses testified that during his life they had heard struggles between him and the devil, including the sound of fist blows and the swish of whips.