2. In the life and death of St. Stanislaus, St. Berchmans, St. Alphonsus, St. Francis Hieronymo and, in fact, all her Saints and her great men generally. 3. In her zeal to propagate devotions to Mary by means of her Sodalities, her devotions of the month of Mary, and countless writings of her ablest men. No one is considered as a worthy member of our Order who has not a marked devotion to Mary. How do I strive to honor her? Is there any practice that I used to perform in her honor that I have gradually abandoned? What improvement can I make in this respect? _POINT III. In what does devotion to Mary chiefly consist?_ It is an acquired habit, the result of countless acts of ours in compliance with the grace of God. Such are: 1. The devout celebration of her festivals, preparing for them by novenas and continuing them by the celebration of their octaves; 2. The daily recitation of the Rosary, or at least of the third part of it, the Beads, of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin and the Office of her Immaculate Conception; 3. The wearing of her scapular of Mount Carmel, and of medals blessed in her honor; 4. The recitation of set prayers to her at rising in the morning and retiring at night, at the sound of the Angelus bell, morning, noon and night; 5. Fervent invocations during the day, especially at the approach of temptations; 6. Reading and meditation on her prerogatives; 7. Conversing on the same, or in any way promoting her devotion. We can render no greater service to any one than to make him devout to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Are we doing as much as we can in this respect? _Colloquy_ with Mary, asking her guidance to learn to love her more and to lead many others to love her. TRIDUUM D MEDITATION I The Purpose of This Triduum _1st Prelude._ Vividly picture to yourself St. John Berchmans at his prayer. _2nd Prelude._ Beg for copious grace to imitate his spirit of fervor. _POINT I._ Consider that in the sight of God _men differ from one another only according to their interior dispositions_: _Omnis gloria filiae regis ab intus_, “All the glory of the King’s daughter is within” (Ps. 44). It matters nothing whether a person be rich or poor, learned or ignorant, man or woman, old or young, refined or uncultured, etc. We are apt to forget this and to trust in some natural superiority, as the world does. The Lord said to His prophet Samuel: “I do not judge according to the look of man; for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart” (I Kings xvi, 7). The right view of ourselves will be one of the great disillusionments at death. Let us now strive to view ourselves as we are in God’s sight.