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.”
