This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary Meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Louis de Montfort, one of my, one of two of my most favorite saints, along with St. Maximilian Colby, two great lovers of Our Lady and proponents of consecration to Mary and the Rosary.

At the age of 19, St. Louis de Montfort went to Paris to study theology.

He said goodbye to his family and friends at the bridge over the river Sasan

on the outskirts of Rennes.

I've never liked French names.

The event takes on deep symbolism, however.

Having left all, he crossed the bridge to a new life of total dependence upon divine providence.

So convinced that God was his loving father that as soon as he left the town, crossed the bridge, got out of the side of his family, he gave to the first beggars he met, all his money, his luggage, and even exchanged clothes with one of them.

Then turning, he walked joyfully to Paris,

begging for food and shelter all along the way. For the rest of his life, he was known as the vagabond preacher, with a total trust in God, his father, and Mary, his mother, knowing they would provide for his daily

needs. Now, I'm not encouraging you to be irresponsible with the responsibilities of your

state in life, but what I love about Montfort is that he really believed God was his father and Mary was his mother and that they would take care of him.

Now we need to be responsible, but too often this slips into an anxious self-reliance, forgetting we even have God as our father and Mary as our mother, thinking that everything

depends on us alone. And that's the source of our anxiety. St. Louis de Montfort, teach us to do

our part and to surrender the rest into the hands of Jesus and Mary.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallow it be your name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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