http://www.ewtn.com/library/montfort/truedevo.htm

http://www.montfort.org/content/uploads/pdf/PDF_EN_26_1.pdf

I have already read this treatise in portuguese:

TRATADO DA VERDADEIRA DEVOÇÃO À SANTÍSSIMA VIRGEM.

http://santissima-virgem.blogspot.com.br/2009/04/capitulo-i.html

Thanks for sharing theses pictures!

Where’s your Miraculous Medals? Last photo.

Mission and charismThe mission of the Company of Mary is expressed in the Congregation’s Constitutions as follows:

“Our Mission in the Church consists in revealing the mystery of salvation to those who do not yet know it, and in helping those who have already heard the Good News to rediscover and deepen this mystery by a renewed consciousness of the meaning of their baptismal commitment.” “The Marian character of the Company is an essential possession of our Congregation. Mary is not present in the life of the missionaries in some accidental fashion: devotion toward her is an integral part of their spiritual life and apostolate. The ‘total consecration’ to Jesus through Mary is the most outstanding mark of the Marian character of our inspiration.”[5]

Vows as members of a religious congregation Montfortians embrace the evangelical counsels, taking the three traditional religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Poverty means that all possessions are held in common and that no member may accumulate wealth. Chastity means more than abstaining from sexual activity and its purpose is to make the religious totally available for service; it is also a sign that only God can completely fill the human heart. For a member of a religious congregation, obedience is not slavishly doing what one is told by the superior but being attentive to God’s will by prayerfully listening to the voice of the person in charge. Ultimately, these vows are lived out within a community and bolstered by a relationship with God.

My mistake. I failed to see the word ‘public’.

~for love of the Two Hearts!

Ave Maria!

Marie,

As far as I know, there have been forms of consecrations to Our Lady for centuries, and vows which were considered private, but the Franciscans of the Immaculate are the first in the history of the Church to officially profess public vows of consecration to Our Mother and Queen.

In the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary,

fra John Paul Marie

“I. N., a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today in thy hands, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before.
In the presence of all the heavenly court I choose thee this day for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and consecrate to thee, as thy slave, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present and future; leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.

St Louis de Montfort, pray for us.