The Blessed Virgin Mary
"Ut adveniat regnum tuum, adveniat regnum Mariae!"
"Ad Gloriam SS Trinitatis et Honorem Beatae Mariae Virginis"
Pages: Mary: Queen , Mediatrix of all Grace, Co-Redemptrix, and Advocate
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----------------------- "Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children." -Saint Bonaventure
"In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart. And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps. With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal."
"The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy."
"All true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have God for his father."
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However, to truly know our Lord we must do something else as well. That is to love and serve and know His Mother Mary. To know the Blessed Virgin Mary is to know our Lord Jesus. This is because there is no being in the entire universe closer to Jesus than His Mother not even the Archangels.
Remain ever close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary always and they will guide you and protect you in all your ways. They will never fail you.
Spiritually you are a small child and Mary is your mother. She will walk with you and hold your hand, so as to protect you, as you walk across the dangerous street of life to the other side where Jesus waits with open and loving arms. Take it from a Saint... “Think of what the Saints have done for their neighbor because they loved God. But what Saint's love for God can match Mary's? She loved Him more in the first moment of her existence than all the Saints and angels ever loved Him or will love Him. Our Lady herself revealed to Sister Mary Crucified that the fire of her love was most extreme. If Heaven and earth were placed in it, they would be instantly consumed. And the ardors of the seraphim, compared with it, are like cool breezes. Just as there is not one among all the Blessed who loves God as Mary does, so there is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does. Furthermore, if we heaped together all the love that mothers have for their children, all the love of husbands and wives, all the love of all the angels and Saints for their clients, it could never equal Mary's love for even a single soul.” | "We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son." -Saint Louis Marie de Montfort “As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary" -Saint Thomas Aquinas "Consequently, then, Mary the Virgin is found to be obedient, saying: 'Behold, O Lord, your handmaid; be it done to me according to your word.' Eve, however, was disobedient; and when yet a virgin, she did not obey.... having become disobedient, was made the cause of death for herself and for the whole human race; so also Mary, betrothed to a man but nevertheless a virgin, being obedient, was made the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race.... Thus, the knot of Eve's disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. What the virgin Eve had bound in unbelief, the virgin Mary loosed through faith." -Saint Irenaeus, Against the Heresies, Book II c. 180 AD “Our Mother Mary is another fountain from which we can also draw the waters of grace. As St. Bernard says, she is so rich in favors and graces that there is no one in the world who does not share in them. The Angel greeted her with the words: “Hail! full of grace!” The Blessed Virgin was filled with grace by God that she might afterwards give it to all who are devout to her.” -Saint Alphonsus Ligouri |
