Saint Louis IX - The just king makes the country stable
Saint Louis IX receives the crown of thorns from the hands of Jesus by Simon Vouet (1590-1649), 1639; Church of Saint Paul and Saint Louis, Paris, France;
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The just king makes the country stable
From the spiritual testament of Saint Louis to his son
(Acta Sanctorum Augusti 5 [1868], 546))
My most beloved son, the first thing I want to teach you is that you love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and all your strength. Without this salvation is not possible.
Son, you must guard yourself from everything that you know displeases God, that is to say, from every mortal sin, in such a manner that you are willing to suffer all types of martyrdoms instead of commiting a mortal sin.
In addition, if the Lord permits you suffer from some trial, you must bear it generously and with thanksgiving, thinking that it is for your own good and that it is possible that you have deserved it. And, if the Lord bestows prosperity upon you, thank Him humbly and be vigilant that you become no worse for it, either through vain pride or any other motive, because the gifts of God are not to be cause for you to offend Him.
Assist, with a good attitude and devotion, the divine worship and, while you are in the temple, guard your eyes from wandering and do not speak when it is not necessary, but instead devoutly plead to the Lord, with vocal or mental prayer, arising from the heart.
Have pity for the poor, the downtrodden and the afflicted. Help and console them according to your means. Give thanks to God for your benefits; in this way you will become worthy to receive greater ones. Be just to your subjects, operating with total rectitude and justice, without swaying right nor left. Always put yourself more on the side of the poor rather than that of the rich, until you find out which side is right. Be most diligent in that all your subjects live in peace and with justice, and above all the ecclesiastical hierarchy and members of all religious orders.
Be devout and obedient to our mother, the Church of Rome, and to the Supreme Pontiff, our spiritual father. Strive to remove all sin from your territories, especially blasphemy and heresy.
In conclusion, most beloved son, I give you all the blessings that a loving father can give to his son. May the most Holy Trinity and all the saints protect you from every evil. And may the Lord give you the grace to fulfill His will so that He receive from you service and honor and in this way, after this life, the two of us may come to see Him, love Him and praise Him, for evermore. Amen
PRAYER
O God, who has transferred Saint Louis of France from the efforts of temporal governing to the kingdom of Your glory, grant us, through his intercession, to seek Your kingdom in the midst of our temporal occupations. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Translated from Spanish by Jan Paul von Wendt -
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The just king makes the country stable
From the spiritual testament of Saint Louis to his son
(Acta Sanctorum Augusti 5 [1868], 546))
My most beloved son, the first thing I want to teach you is that you love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and all your strength. Without this salvation is not possible.
Son, you must guard yourself from everything that you know displeases God, that is to say, from every mortal sin, in such a manner that you are willing to suffer all types of martyrdoms instead of commiting a mortal sin.
In addition, if the Lord permits you suffer from some trial, you must bear it generously and with thanksgiving, thinking that it is for your own good and that it is possible that you have deserved it. And, if the Lord bestows prosperity upon you, thank Him humbly and be vigilant that you become no worse for it, either through vain pride or any other motive, because the gifts of God are not to be cause for you to offend Him.
Assist, with a good attitude and devotion, the divine worship and, while you are in the temple, guard your eyes from wandering and do not speak when it is not necessary, but instead devoutly plead to the Lord, with vocal or mental prayer, arising from the heart.
Have pity for the poor, the downtrodden and the afflicted. Help and console them according to your means. Give thanks to God for your benefits; in this way you will become worthy to receive greater ones. Be just to your subjects, operating with total rectitude and justice, without swaying right nor left. Always put yourself more on the side of the poor rather than that of the rich, until you find out which side is right. Be most diligent in that all your subjects live in peace and with justice, and above all the ecclesiastical hierarchy and members of all religious orders.
Be devout and obedient to our mother, the Church of Rome, and to the Supreme Pontiff, our spiritual father. Strive to remove all sin from your territories, especially blasphemy and heresy.
In conclusion, most beloved son, I give you all the blessings that a loving father can give to his son. May the most Holy Trinity and all the saints protect you from every evil. And may the Lord give you the grace to fulfill His will so that He receive from you service and honor and in this way, after this life, the two of us may come to see Him, love Him and praise Him, for evermore. Amen
PRAYER
O God, who has transferred Saint Louis of France from the efforts of temporal governing to the kingdom of Your glory, grant us, through his intercession, to seek Your kingdom in the midst of our temporal occupations. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Translated from Spanish by Jan Paul von Wendt -
corazones.org
King Louis IX and Page by El Greco (1541-1614); Muse du Louvre, Paris, France;
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Saint Louis IX, King of France
He is the glorious King of France who was born at Poissy in 1215. He died fighting in one of the crusades to regain the Holy Land for Christians when he was only fifty-five years old.
Saint Louis is the king who started the custom of genuflecting during the Mass when the priest said of the Son of God in the Creed: Et Homo factus est (And [He] was made Man).
Saint Louis fought in two crusades, the last two. He redeemed the Crown of Thorns of Our Lord from the Venetians and built a beautiful chapel for it in Paris, called Sainte Chapelle.
All of Saint Louis relics were destroyed by the Masons and the Jews during the French Revolution. But his memory will never die in France, nor in the whole Catholic Church. The city of Saint Louis, Missouri, was named for him by early American Catholics who came from France.
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