We should love Mary.
Because of her incomparable sanctity. All greatness, all goodness, all perfection merits our esteem and admiration. Now, Mary is holy; she surpasses all the saints in holiness, all the seraphim in splendor. She is beautiful, so beautiful that, as St. Thomas of Villanova says, she has ravished even the heart of God. The Blessed Virgin became so beautiful and so enamored her God that, captivated as it were by her love, He descended into her womb and became man.
Dull must be the mind and cold the heart that will not love this incomparable Virgin.
Dull must be the mind and cold the heart that will not love this incomparable Virgin.
Prayer:
O Mary, Mother of God and my Mother, thou hast all power to change hearts; take mine and change it. Give me a great love for Jesus; give me a great love for thee. Amen.
Short Meditations for Priests
From the French of Rev. A. M. Meley, C.SS.R.
M. H. Gill & Son, Dublin, 1957
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