Montfort’s Spirituality: Call and Response to Happiness: Series

Introduction: A Call and Way to Happiness

The one desire which gives unity and meaning, force and decision to all human desires is happiness. It is the goal of all human activity, the perfect good which satisfies all human desires. The search for happiness is the common ground on which all human yearnings, all human ambitions meet. The child building sand castles at the seashore, the great banker computing his fortune, are all searching for happiness.

The explicit goal of Montfort’s Spirituality is happiness. Saint Louis Marie thereby appeals to the most basic yearning of all men and women. He not only clarifies the goal but teaches us the means to arrive at happiness.