TOTUS TUUS
	On October 16, 2002, Pope John Paul II issued an Apostolic Letter on "The Rosary of the Virgin Mary" (Rosarium Virginis Mariae) which gifted the world, for all future generations, with the five, new Luminous Mysteries (Mysteries of Light) for the Rosary. In that letter, the Pope relates his motto, Totus Tuus, to St. Louis de Montfort as follows:  (cf. Chap. 1, 15) The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth.  This enables her to train us and to mold us with the same care until Christ is "fully formed" in us. (cf. Gal.4:19).  This role of Mary, totally grounded in that of Christ and radically subordinated to it, "in no way obscures or diminishes the unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power."   This is the luminous principle expressed by the Second Vatican Council (cf. Lumen Gentium, 60) which I have so powerfully experienced in my own life and have made the basis of my episcopal motto: Totus Tuus. The motto is of course inspired by the teaching of St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, who explained in the following words Mary's role in the process of our configuration to Christ:  "Our entire perfection consists in being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus Christ.  Hence, the most perfect of all devotions is undoubtedly that which conforms, unites and consecrates us most perfectly to Jesus Christ.  Now, since Mary is, of all creatures, the one most perfectly conformed to Jesus Christ, it follows that among all devotions that which most consecrates and conforms a soul to our Lord is devotion to Mary, his Holy Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to her the more will it be consecrated to Jesus Christ."  (cf. True Devotion).  Never, as in the Rosary, do the life of Jesus and that of Mary appear so deeply joined.  Mary lives only in Christ and for Christ!