April 29th
St Louis de Montfort (1673-1716), Priest, Confessor; Montfort, France; Feast day April 29th

"Can we love someone we do not even know?  Can we love deeply someone we know only vaguely?  Why is Jesus, the adorable, eternal and incarnate Wisdom loved so little if not because he is either too little known or not known at all?...Yet this is the most noble, the most consoling, the most useful and the most vital of all sciences and subjects in heaven and on earth."

"Pray with great confidence, with confidence based on the goodness and infinite generosity of God and upon the promises of Jesus Christ.  God is a spring of living water which flows unceasingly into the hearts of those who pray."

"The cross is the greatest gift God could bestow on His Elect on earth.  There is nothing so necessary, so beneficial, so sweet, or so glorious as to suffer something for Jesus.  If you suffer as you ought, the cross will become a precious yoke that Jesus will carry with you."

"Mary alone gives to the unfortunate children of unfaithful Eve entry into that earthly paradise where they may walk pleasantly with God and be safely hidden from their enemies.  There they can feed without fear of death on the delicious fruit of the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  They can drink copiously the heavenly waters of that beauteous fountain which gushes forth in such abundance."

"She [Mother Mary] is an echo of God, speaking and repeating only God.  If you say 'Mary' she says 'God'."

"If you put all the love of all the mothers into one heart it still would not equal the love of the Heart of Mary for her children."

"Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray.  This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood."

"We fasten our souls to Your hope, as to an abiding anchor.  It is to Her that the saints who have saved themselves have been the most attached and have done their best to attach others, in order to persevere in virtue.  Happy, then, a thousand times happy, are the Christians who are now fastened faithfully and entirely to Her, as to a firm anchor!"