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Marc Levy

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Let me tell you a story about the time a priest laughed in my face during confession, and I had to kneel there and take it.

I lived in Philadelphia in the early 1990s. And one time I went to a penance service.

Typically, during a penance service, there aren't enough private confessionals for all of the priests. So, my confession had to be face-to-face.

I knelt down on the prie-dieu next to the priest and began making my confession. Thank goodness I didn't have any mortal sins to confess, but something I said made him laugh in my face.

I'm sure you can imagine just how I felt.

He asked to see the prayer book I had with me. It was the well-respected "Handbook of Prayers" by Fr. James Socias. He made fun of that, too.

At that point, all I wanted was to hear the words of absolution, and get out of there.

So, what's the takeaway here?

Even though Jesus said: "I am the good Shepherd" (Jn. 10:11), we don't always encounter Him that way in our interactions with His priests. Some people leave the Church because of priests.

This book will help you encounter Jesus as the Good Shepherd in a way you probably never have before.

St. Louis de Montfort revealed...

"Predestinate soul, here is a secret the Most High has taught me, which I have not been able to find in any book, old or new. I confide it to you, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit" ("The Secret of Mary", #1).

Montfort Father Jean-Marie Texier was such an expert at teaching this secret that, in the history of their religious order, the Montfort Fathers called him "a remarkable spiritual writer".

In this book, he shows you how to use this secret to prepare for Holy Communion with Mary.

Don't get discouraged if you don't see results right away, because St. Louis says...

"She is the worker of great wonders, particularly in our soul, but she works them in secret, in a way unknown to the soul itself, for were it to know, it might destroy the beauty of her works" (Secret, #55).

But stick with it, because he promises you...

"She unites them to Him with a most intimate union, and she keeps them unshaken in that union" ("True Devotion to Mary", #211).

You don't have to take this path to Jesus in preparing for Holy Communion with Mary. But St. Louis warns that any other path will make your life much harder...

"It is true that we can attain to divine union by other roads; but it is by many more crosses and exceptional setbacks, and with many more difficulties, which we shall find it hard to overcome" (True Devotion, #152).

On the other hand, he calls the devotion God revealed to him...

"...a path of roses and honey compared with the other paths" (True Devotion, #152).

St. Paul says: "Therefore, be imitators of God" (Eph. 5:1).

That's why, after discussing Mary's close relationship with each of the divine Persons of the Holy Trinity, St. Louis asks...

"After so many and such pressing examples of the Most Holy Trinity, can we, without an extreme blindness, dispense ourselves from Mary and consecrate ourselves to her, and depend on her to go to God, and to sacrifice ourselves to God?" (True Devotion, #140)

That means any thoughts of ignoring this devotion or of delaying to put it into practice can't possibly come from God. Because God will never tell you to ignore or delay putting into practice a devotion He revealed.

God gives us this backdrop to human history...

"The Lord God then asked the woman: "Why did you do such a thing?" And she answered: "The serpent deceived me, and I did eat" (Gen. 3:13).

If Eve responded immediately to the suggestion of the devil...

Doesn't it make much more sense for you to start preparing for Holy Communion with Mary just as quickly?

I think you know the answer. Your next step is easy: Just order your copy of this book today, and let Our Lady

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