The Echo of Love

The Echo of Love

“Mary was created only for God, and it is unthinkable that she should reserve even one soul for herself.  On the contrary, she leads every soul straight to God and to union with Him.  Mary is the wonderful echo of God.  The more a person joins himself to her, the more effectively she unites him to God.  When we say ‘Mary’, she re-echoes ‘God’.”  (God Alone, Secret of Mary, St. Louis Marie de Montfort, p/268)

“…you never think of Mary without Mary thinking of God for you.  You never praise or honor Mary without Mary joining you in praising and honoring God.  Mary is entirely relative to God.  Indeed I would say that she was relative only to God, because she exists uniquely in reference to Him.  She is an echo of God, speaking and repeating only God.  If you say “Mary” she says “God.”  When St. Elizabeth praised Mary calling her blessed because she had believed, Mary, the faithful echo of God, responded with her Canticle, ‘My soul glorifies the Lord.’” (God Alone, True Devotion to Mary,

 St. Louis Marie de Montfort, p/362)

Book of Heaven, Vol. 2, October 25, 1899: 

“My daughter, my love toward creatures is so great that it resounds like an echo in the celestial regions, it fills the atmosphere and diffuses over the whole earth.  But what is the correspondence that creatures give to this loving echo?  Ah, they requite Me with an echo of ingratitude, poisonous, filled with every kind of bitterness and sins; with an echo almost deadly, fit only for wounding Me.  But I will depopulate the face of the earth, so that this echo resounding with poison may not deafen my ears.”

“Tell me, my only Good, how could I sweeten this poisonous echo for You which afflicts You so much?”  And He: “The only means is that you always do all your actions with the sole purpose of pleasing Me, and that you employ all your senses and power for the purpose of loving Me and of glorifying Me.  Let your every thought, word, and everything else, want nothing but the love you have for Me: in this way your echo will rise pleasant to my throne and will sweeten my hearing.”

Book of Heaven, Vol. 3, January 22, 1900:

“What I recommend to you is correspondence to my grace, and in order to be faithful, you must be like the echo that resounds in an empty space: as soon as a voice is emitted, immediately, without the slightest hesitation, one can hear the echo booming after it.  In the same way, as soon as you begin to receive my grace, without even waiting for Me to finish giving it, begin immediately the echo of your correspondence.”

Book of Heaven, Vol. 6, December 28, 1903:

“My daughter, all human lives are in my Humanity in Heaven as though inside a cloister; and since they are inside my cloister, the regime of their lives comes from Me.  Not only this, but my Humanity, being the cloister, conducts the lives of each soul.  What joy is mine when souls remain in this cloister, and the echo that comes from my Humanity blends with the echo of each human life of the earth?”

Book of Heaven, Vol. 24, April 16, 1928:

“My daughter, as the Divine Will pronounced Its Fiat in Creation, it formed the echo.  As it resounded in the empty space of the whole universe, this divine echo drew and carried all of Our qualities with it and it filled Heaven and earth with Our Love.  As it came out from Our Fiat, this echo created the most beautiful things – heavens, suns, winds, seas, and many other things.  This echo remained in each created thing and it maintains the life of the blue heavens with all the stars; the life of the sun, and continuing with its echo of light and heat, it preserves it full of light, whole and beautiful just as it created it.  So, each created thing has the echo of Our Fiat as its beginning and preservation; this is why they preserve the order, the power, the harmony, the magnificence of Our works.  Whenever the Divinity wants to operate and reproduce, even Our very Life, Our Fiat forms the echo and the echo creates and forms whatever We want.  See also in instituting the Sacrament of the Eucharist, Our Fiat formed the echo; the echo invested the bread and wine and formed in them my Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.  That echo still resounds in each Host and so my Sacramental Life is perpetuated continuously.  Now, this echo resounded in the creation of man, but by withdrawing from Our Will, man lost this echo – he no longer felt, inside and outside of himself its sweet, powerful, harmonizing sound which had the virtue of preserving him just as he came out of Our creative hands; so he became weak and disharmonized.  Poor man, without the echo of Our Fiat which had given him life – he was no longer able to reorder himself – he no longer felt within himself the echo of the Light of his Creator, the echo of Love, the echo of order, of power, of wisdom, of divine sweetness and goodness.  Without the echo of Our Fiat, man became like a child who grows without mama, who has no one to feed him the words, to teach him works and steps; or like a student who has no teacher to teach him how to read and write; and if he does anything at all by himself, he will do it disordered.  Such is man without the echo of Our Fiat…”  “Now, as the soul keeps calling my Will as the beginning of all of her being, she will feel Its divine echo.  This echo will call her back to her beginning and resounding in her, it will reorder her anew; and just as Our echo retreated from man because he withdrew from Our Divine Will, in the same way, as creatures recognize It, love It and want nothing but Our Divine Fiat, the echo of Our Will will return to the midst of creatures.  The Kingdom of Our Fiat is exactly this: the return of Our divine echo  not the far away echo which has often resounded to the hearing of man from the time he withdrew from Our Will; but the continuous echo which will resound in the depth of souls and transforming them, it will form Divine Life in them giving back to them the order of man as he was created.”