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| Marian Slavery |
| | “To achieve a disposition of absolute, total and unlimited docility to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ (cf. Rm 8:9), we need the Holy Virgin Mary to be the model, the guide and the form of all our actions. For by this means can we say with all the strength of soul and heart, today and always, ‘TOTUS TUUS, MARIA!’
We want to manifest our love and gratitude to the Blessed Virgin by making a fourth vow of Marian slavery according to the method of St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort—so as to obtain her indispensable help in prolonging the Incarnation in all things. We do not want the spirit of our religious family to be any other than the Holy Spirit, and if it degenerates into another one, from now and in any place, we beg the Lord to erase our religious family from the face of the Church.
Only with the most absolute fidelity to the Holy Spirit can we use “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Eph 6:17). Our poor breath is only fertile and irresistible if it is in communication with the Spirit of Pentecost.
To achieve a disposition of absolute, total and unlimited docility to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ (cf. Rm 8:9), we need the Holy Virgin Mary to be the model, the guide and the form of all our actions. For by this means can we say with all the strength of soul and heart, today and always, ‘TOTUS TUUS, MARIA!’” (Constitutions, 17-19). |
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