{"id":26960,"date":"2012-04-28T06:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T10:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/saint-louis-marie-grignion-de\/"},"modified":"2012-04-28T06:20:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T10:20:56","slug":"saint-louis-marie-grignion-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/saint-louis-marie-grignion-de\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Montfort%20detail.tif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Montfort detail.tif\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/04\/Montfort detail-thumb-285x178-11565.tif\" width=\"285\" height=\"178\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>The Church gives us an inspired, perhaps even truly brilliant preacher, as a model of grace. Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort was ordained a priest in 1700; proficient in the thinking of the Church Fathers on the Virgin Mary, Montfort&#8217;s mission was to preach on Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, in a period of time of great theological error in France. He&#8217;s famous for preaching on the Rosary and he created a series of meditations that led to a Consecration to the Blessed Mother. His preaching of Mary was really a work of preaching on the Paschal Mystery. The collect for the Mass tells us that Louis-Marie &#8216;walked the way of salvation and the love of Christ&#8221; by &#8220;meditating on the mysteries [God&#8217;s] love&#8221; which led to &#8220;the building up of [God&#8217;s] Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Montfort was a Third Order Dominican and held a papally given title Missionary Apostolic. He was also a founder of three congregations, one of men and two of women. For some time now there&#8217;s been movement to have Louis-Marie to named a Doctor of the Church.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We are more aware of Montfort through John Paul&#8217;s adoption of one of Montfort&#8217;s phrases, Totus Tuus (totally yours).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church gives us an inspired, perhaps even truly brilliant preacher, as a model of grace. Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort was ordained a priest in 1700; proficient in the thinking of the Church Fathers on the Virgin Mary, Montfort&#8217;s mission was to preach on Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, in a period of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/saint-louis-marie-grignion-de\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710,2096],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}