15/05/2026
𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐎 - 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘
Day 15
We have still to mention the false devotees to our Blessed Lady, who are the hypocritical devotees; who cloke their sins and sinful habits under her mantle, in order to pass in the eyes of men for what they are not. There are also the interested devotees, who have re-course to our Lady only to gain some lawsuit, or to avoid some danger, or to be cured of some illness, or for some other similar necessity, without which they would forget her altogether. Both, however, of these two last classes are false devotees, and neither of them pass current before God and His holy Mother. Let us, then, take great care not to be of the number of the critical devotees, who believe nothing and criticise every thing; nor of the scrupulous devotees, who are afraid of being too devout to our Lady, out of respect to our Lord; nor of the exterior devotees, who make all their devotion consist in outward practices; nor of the presumptuous devotees, who, under the pretext of their false devotion to the Blessed Vir-gin, wallow in their sins; nor of the inconstant devotees, who by levity change their practices of devotion, or throw them up altogether on the least temptation; nor of the hypocritical devotees, who put themselves into confraternities, and wear the liveries of the Blessed Virgin, in order to pass for good people; nor, finally, of the interested devotees, who only have recourse to our Lady to be delivered from bodily evils, or to obtain temporal goods.
𝙒𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚, 𝙊 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙮 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙤𝙙;
𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨,
𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨,
𝙊 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙑𝙞𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣.
