MARY IMMACULATE, a guiding light in Eugene’s life

As we prepare to celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, let’s do so remembering the words of our founder, St. Eugene de Mazenod:

 

To this end, I invoke the intercession of the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, daring to remind her in all humility, but with consolation, of the filial devotion of my whole life, and of the desire I have always had to make her known and loved, and to spread her devotion everywhere through the ministry of those whom the Church has given to me as children, who have had the same desire as myself…

                                                St.  Eugene de Mazenod’s will, 1854

Reference:  St. Eugene de Mazeno speaks to us, posting of November 12, 2012.