Devotion to Mary

 We are all yours, our Queen, our Mother,

and all that we have is yours.

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort's True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin

"Therefore, let the position be stated once again: true devotion to Mary must comprise the service of souls. Mary without motherhood and the Christian without apostleship, would be analogous ideas. Both the one and the other would be incomplete, unreal, unsubstantial, false to the Divine intention.

For the proper understanding and practise of this devotion it is essential that one read not once but frequently St. Louis-Marie de Montfort’s Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, and his smaller work, The Secret of Mary." 

--Handbook of the Legion, Appendix 5, No. 5

The Confraternity of Mary, Queen of All Hearts

"St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, in his Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, expresses the desire that all those who practise this devotion should be grouped together into a Confraternity. This wish was realised in the year 1899, when the Confraternity of Mary, Queen of All Hearts, was established at Ottawa, Canada. It is under the care of the Company of Mary or the Montfort Missionaries.

The Confraternity is composed of those faithful who wish to live out their baptismal vows by means of a total consecration to Christ by the hands of Mary, that is, by the perfect practise of true devotion to Mary as taught by St. Louis de Montfort and summed up by him in the following words:

This devotion consists in giving oneself entirely to Mary in order to belong entirely to Jesus through her. It requires us to give:

(1) our body, with its senses and members;

(2) our soul with its faculties;

(3) our present material possessions and all we shall acquire in the future;

(4) our interior and spiritual possessions, that is, our merits, virtues and good actions of the past, the present and the future".

--Handbook of the Legion, Appendix 5, No. 1-2

The Medal of the Immaculate Conception Called the Miraculous Medal

"Legionaries should greatly esteem this medal, which has been prominently associated with the history of their organisation. It was not the result of deliberation that a statue of the 1830 model graced the table at the first meeting, yet it effectively summarised the devotional outlook of the organisation which came into life around it.

The use of the medal in the work was then recommended. The invocation which appears on the medal commenced to be said at that first meeting and now, as part of the Catena, is recited daily by every member. The design of the medal is incorporated in the Legion vexillum."

--Handbook of the Legion, Appendix 6

The Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary

"This is an association that unites into one great family the faithful who undertake to recite the fifteen decades of the Rosary at least once a week. Membership of a family implies a sharing among the members. Those who join the Rosary Confraternity are invited to place in Our Lady’s hands not only their rosaries, but the value of all their works, sufferings and prayers, to be distributed as seems best to her among the other members and for the needs of the Church. The Confraternity was founded by the Dominican Alan de la Roche in the year 1470. Its promotion is a special responsibility of the Dominican family. For this reason all those inscribed become sharers in the spiritual benefits of the Order.

The fact that St. Louis-Marie de Montfort was not only a member of the Confraternity, but devoted himself ardently to its propagation, should be a headline for legionaries."

--Handbook of the Legion, Appendix 7