Part IV : How to give thanks to the Mother of God : Chapter 9 : § 8.1-3

Chapter 9 : Devotion – an eighth feature of the gratitude we owe the Mother of God

Continuing our translation of the 1845 reprint of Fr François Poiré’s Triple Crown of the Mother of God (1643 French edition).

Notre Dame des Grâces, Cotignac (Poggi, 2020)

§ 8. Eighth sign of devotion : frequent recitation of the Little Crown of ten Ave Marias

 1   Those who are eager to please the Queen of Heaven with their devotions, and even those to whom the shortest devotion seems best or who feel they are too busy in their daily lives to take on long devotions, will find here a prayer to their liking and at the same time most pleasing to the MOTHER OF GOD. If they refuse to render her even this little service then they can never truly claim to call themselves servants of the Virgin. It is the little Chaplet of ten Ave Marias that Our Lord inspired in blessed Jeanne de France, foundress of the Order of the Annunciation, to honour His most holy Mother.

 2   She claimed that through this number we could render homage to the ten principal virtues which she called the ten delights of the Holy Virgin : namely, her outstanding purity in body and soul, her religion[1] most pure, her prudence most religious, her humility most prudent, her obedience most humble, her honesty most childlike in words and actions, her poverty must conscientious, her incredible patience, her charity most ardent, her will in most perfect conformity with that of her beloved Son in life and in death.

This was a prayer which she recited with such fervour and attentiveness, and to which she normally dedicated so much time because of the powerful feeling she had within her of the Blessed Virgin’s great splendours. These seemed to carry her up to Paradise and it was easy to see how the MOTHER OF GOD was uniquely pleased by her devotion. She would pause  for a while at the words Ave Maria and also at the words Dominus tecum, savouring them as having a sweetness indescribable and an interior taste quite beyond the experience of most others. 

  

Footnotes

[1] Religion : The virtue which prompts man to render to God the worship and reverence that is His by right : S.T. II-II, Q. lxxxi, a. 1

 3   She distributed her Chaplets to the daughters of her Order and to any lay persons who came to visit her – just as if they were so many treasures from Heaven. In order to make the devotion still more attractive and beneficial, she asked the Holy Father Alexander VI to grant an indulgence of ten thousand days to those who would recite this prayer every day. This was increased by Pope Leo X to ten thousand years, seeking by this means to increase the estimation in which this devotion was held.

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The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen. 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.

He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin. They that explain me shall have life everlasting. Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) xxiv. 30-31.