Behold Your Mother

Blessed Meditations

May 25, 2024. Gospel Passages: John 19:25-27; Matthew 11:29. Quoting from "True Devotion to Mary" Points 17 and 24 by St. Louis de Montfort in www.ecatholic2000.com/montfort/true/devotion.shtml, Encyclical "Doctor Mellifluus" on St. Bernard of Clairvaux Point 30 by Pope Paul VI, and "Collected Works" of St. Teresa of Ávila and "Furrow" Points 260, 261, and 259 and "The Way" Point 516 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in escriva.org/en/surco/260 escriva.org/en/surco/261 escriva.org/en/surco/259 and escriva.org/en/camino/516. For further reading: Lessons from the Sermons of St. Bernard in thepriest.com/2020/07/15/lessons-from-the-sermons-of-st-bernard-of-clairvaux and "Total Consecration to Mary" in www.livefatima.io/consecration-to-mary-st-louis-de-montfort and "Introduction to Mary: The Heart of Marian Doctrine and Devotion" by Mark I. Miravalle in books.google.com.ph/books/about/Introduction_to_Mary.html?id=8RBQWc9fWacC. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: Altarpiece "Triptych of Jan Crabbe" (detail) by Hans Memling in the Morgan Library & Museum, New York (Wikimedia Commons).