THE QUEENSHIP OF MARY ACCORDING TO MONTFORTIAN SPIRITUALITY
The Annunciation (1660) by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum; benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Regina coeli, dulcis et pia, o Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, ut cum electis te videamus. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Queen of heaven sweet and merciful, O Mother of God, pray for us sinners, that with the elect we may gaze upon thee. St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort kneeling before Our Lady Queen of Hearts, Regina Cordium . The following is my translation of Chapter III from the book La Vie Spirituelle à l’école du Bienheureux Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (“The Spiritual Life in the School of Blessed Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort”) written in 1901 by Antonin Lhoumeau (pp. 198-219); Montfort would not be canonized until 1947 by Pope Pius XII. We worked from the f
