Mother Most Amiable

VOLUME 40 De Maria Nunquam Satis ISSUE N O. 52 a To Promote Faithful Obedience to the Legitimate Teaching Magisterium of the One, TrueTrue,, Holy, CatholicCatholic,, Apostolic Church Founded by Jesus Christ... a To Preserve Without Compromise or DiluDilutiontion the TraditionsTraditions,Traditions , Dogma and Doctrines of the One, True Church... a To Work and Pray for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Our Queen and the Resultant Reign of Christ Our King... Motherhere shall always Most be thatAmiable enmity mentioned in Scripture T betweenIn the lastthe four Christian titles weforces have of considered the Our Mother’s holinessWoman by(Mary) looking and at whatthe sheAnti-Christ was not , that is, negatively. Nowforces let usof studythe serpent what she (Lucifer). is . And whileThe veryin our first presentthing that day we arethose told about her is that she is most amiable, i.e. , most lovable. The word forces of Anti-Christ (Freemasonry, “amiable,” as we commonly use it, has not in English the sameCommunism, force as theAtheistic Latin word Materialism, “amabilis,” which means, as weLiberalism have said, “lovable.”and its Protestant offspring,But is there Apostate not something Modernism, within us which tells us this withoutSocialism, its being Militant put intoIslam, words? etc.) Doare not her statues and pictures,gaining if theyuniversal are at allvictories in good taste,in depict Mary as a sweet, gentle, modest virgin? In a word is not her establishing the reign of the outstanding characteristic this—that she is one whom you Luciferian brotherhood throughout feel you must love? theShe world, is one we you who would fight neverbeneath be theafraid to go to, for you knowstandard she would of the never Cross be cross, know sharp, that sneering, unkind, or boredultimately and unwillingMary, Mother to listen of God to andyou. There is in her somethingImmaculate which Queen draws of youthe toUniverse, her, which makes you want towill be with“crush her, the to speakproud to headher, to of hear the her speak to you. What is this something? It is what is described by the Serpent”; and as the Luciferian title Mater Amabilis ; it is her lovablenss, her unselfishness, brightness,legions (both kindness, human her and interest demonic) in and desire to help you. Weare knowcast intowhat the it abyssmeans of when darkness, people are not amiable, whenHer Immaculatethey look cold, Heart cross, will and triumph forbidding, and you feel theyand wouldthere not shall put themselvesbe the universal out to listen to you, or care whatREIGN you OF were MARY suffering, and Her or Divine desire Son,to help you. Those are not the peopleCHRIST you THEwould KING! want to go and speak to, or to be with and live with. Perhaps we ourselves, in some of our course, her face was most beautiful; but we should not be moods, at least, are too often of this type; perhaps our able to recollect whether it was beautiful or not; we should selfishness, and self-centeredness, and crossness keep not recollect any of her features, because it was her sinless people away from us, and would describe us not as “most soul, which looked through her eyes, and spoke through lovable,” but as “most unlovable.” her mouth, and was heard in her voice, and compassed her WhateverMARY, IMMACULATE want of QUEENamiableness, sweetness, or all about; when she was still, or when she walked, whether attractivenessOF THE UNIVERSE, really exists SPOUSE in holy OF men arises from the she smiled, or was sad—her sinless soul, this it was which remainsTHE ofHOLY sin in GHOST, them, or MEDIATRIX again from the want of a holiness would draw all those to her who had any grace in them, powerfulOF ALL enough GRACES; to TRIUMPH overcome AND the defects of nature, any love of holy things. There was a divine music in all she whetherREIGN of IN soul THE or NAMEbody; butOF JESUJESUS,as to S,Mary, her holiness was said and did—in her appearance, her air, her deportment, such,AND that FOR if we THE saw LOVE her, OFand JESUS, heard her, we should not be that charmed every true heart that came near her. Her able to tellNOW to ANDthose FOREVER. who asked us anything about her, innocence, her humility and modesty, her simplicity, except simply thatAMEN. she was angelic and heavenly. Of sincerity, and truthfulness, her unaffected interest in 1 ††† THE R EIGN OF M ARY N EWSNOTES M– ††† IN H OC S IGNO V INCES everyone who came to her, her purity—it was these came to a qualities which made her so lovable. stately fir tree We who are children of Mary should make it our aim to near a spring. imitate our Mother in this outstanding characteristic—her Someone had, lovableness—for in this way we shall be able to do more at an earlier good and help others to love her and follow in her time, attached footsteps, than perhaps in any other. a picture of Be obliging, unselfish, ready to do a service whenever Mary in her and to whomsoever you can, try and feel with others, enter Immaculate into their feelings—this is what sympathy means—so that Conception to you will be to others what you would like them to be to the tree, but it you; then you, too, will be lovable. had fallen to All virtue will be found, when traced to its source, to the ground. Barbara picked up the picture and took it rest on the Gospel precepts. home. There she placed it on the home altar, where the It is Our Lord Himself who gives us this simple rule for whole family venerated it. Three days later Barbara our dealings with others: “All whatsoever you would that became very ill, with an affliction in her eyes. No remedy men should do to you, do you also to them.” It seems very seemed to help, so her afflicted parents begged for God’s simple, but it would take us all our lives to put it into help through Our Lady. In a dream, Barbara was told she practice. Some day when you have time, you might take a would be cured when she returned the picture to the fir piece of paper, and write down just what you would like tree by the spring. She did so and, together with her other people to be and to do to you, and then by comparing parents, prayed fervently. When Barbara washed her eyes it with your own conduct to others, you may see how far in the spring, she was instantly cured. you are from fulfilling Our Lord’s command, and how you The next year, a wood-cutter, Friedrich Schwab may do better in the future. became very ill. Having heard of the miraculous cure, he Sometimes we hear people say when talking of a Saint: made a pilgrimage to the tree-shrine and promised to “Oh! yes, he or she is all very well in a book, it is nice to make a wood carving of Our Lady if he was cured. He, too, read of; but I would not like to have lived with him or her.” washed in the waters of the spring and was instantly cured. Why not? Because they fear that, though admirable, they He kept his promise and replaced the aging picture with would not have been amiable, lovable. But with Mary, the his lovely carving. Queen and Model of all Saints, we need never have this Unfortunately the statue was almost forgotten as the fear. years passed. On December 20, 1692, three soldiers heard Love her, then, and ask her to make you amiable like beautiful singing near the area. They made inquiries and herself, so that you may draw souls to Our Lord and His discovered that others had also heard the singing. Then Blessed Mother. “After her virgins shall be brought to the they were told that there had formerly been a shrine of Our King.” Mary’s one desire is that all souls shall be brought to Lady in a fir tree in that place. They diligently searched Jesus, the King of hearts; that they should love her , in order the area and at last located the little statue, almost grown that she may teach them to love Him . over in the fir tree. The soldiers uncovered, cleaned and “All the glory and beauty of the King’s daughter is from decorated the statue, naming it, “Mary, Patroness of within.” It was the beauty of Mary’s soul which made her Soldiers.” One of them, Gabriel Maurer, was also favored so lovable. with a miraculous cure. For 35 years he helped in the building of the pilgrimage church. Motto: Whatsoever you would that men should do to This time the shrine was not forgotten. As more cures you, do you also to them. took place, more and more pilgrims came. The first small Practice: To try to enter into the feelings of others, that chapel was soon replaced by a magnificent baroque we may resemble our Most Lovable Mother. church, where the little wood carving was enshrined. Example The amiability of the Mother of God has very often been shown in the way she attracts the faithful to special places of pilgrimage, thus increasing their love and confidence in her. One such place is Triberg in the German Black Forest, where Our Lady is honored at the Shrine of Maria in der Tanne (“Mary in the Fir”). In 1644 a 7-year-old girl named Barbara Franz was walking with her mother. They 2 ††† DE M ARIA N UNQUAM S ATIS M– VOLUME 40, I SSUE N O.

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