God Alone
Poor among the poor, profoundly integrated into the Church despite the lack of understanding he had to face, St. Louis-Marie adopted as his motto these simple words: “God Alone.” He sang: “God Alone is my tenderness, God Alone is my support, God Alone is my every good, my life and my wealth.”
His love for God was total. It was with God and for God that he went towards other people and walked the roads of the mission. Constantly aware of the presence of Jesus and Mary, his entire being was a witness to the theological virtue of charity which he desired to share with everyone. His deeds and his words had only one aim, to call people to conversion and to motivate them to live for God. His writings are full of testimony to and praise of the Incarnate and also of Mary, “Masterpiece of the Most High, Miracle of Eternal Wisdom.”
The message that Fr. De Montfort has left behind for us is inseparably founded on the meditations of the mystic that he was and the pastoral teaching of an apostle. Basing himself on the great theological currents in vogue at that time, he expressed his personal faith in tune with the culture of his time.
He turns poetic and familiarly close to the language of his audience, his style can surprise our contemporaries, but that should not prevent us from being inspired by his fertile intuitions. That is why the work accomplished today by the Montfortian family is precious: it helps the faithful to grasp the coherence of a theological and spiritual vision that is always oriented towards an intense life of faith and charity. He wants us to grasp the reality of the divine presence in the time of the Church. In a notable way he writes:
“The plan adopted by the three persons of the Blessed Trinity in the Incarnation, the first coming of Jesus Christ, they adhere to each day in an invisible manner throughout the Church and they will pursue it to the end of time until the last coming of Jesus Christ.”