GRIGNION DE MONTFORT: TRINITARIAN SPIRITUALITY AND MARY

VATICAN CITY, OCT 13, 2000 (VIS) - This morning, the Holy Father received participants in the Eighth International Mariological Colloquium, which comes to a close today in Rome and has been considering the theme: "St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort: Trinitarian spirituality in communion with Mary."

"St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort," said the Pope, "constitutes for me a meaningful figure of reference, one who has enlightened me at important moments of my life. ... Making the link between the Mother of Christ and the trinitarian mystery, de Montfort helped me to understand that, by the will of the Father, the Virgin is part of the plan of salvation as Mother of the Word Incarnate, conceived by her through the action of the Holy Spirit."

John Paul II indicated that "Mary's action in the plan of salvation is always centered on Christ, in other words it makes direct reference to a mediation that comes from Christ. I understood then that I could not exclude the Mother of the Lord from my life without being inattentive to the will of the Triune God."

"All the Christ-centered and Marian spirituality taught by de Montfort derives from and leads to the Trinity. ... Consequently, Mary appears as a place for the love and action of the Persons of the Trinity and de Montfort presents her in terms of her relationship with God. ... Repeating to her every day 'totus tuus' and living in harmony with her, it is possible to attain the experience of the Father in trust and limitless love, the docility of the Holy Spirit and the transformation of self in Christ's image."

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