The Blessed Virgin

The Blessed Virgin is the mediatrix between her Son and ourselves.

The Son possesses the quality of justice, but the Mother is wholly love,

God has so loved us as even to die for us ; but in our Lord’s Heart there is justice, — justice a divine attribute. In the Blessed Virgin’s heart there is only mercy. . . . Her Son is about to punish a sinner, Mary hastens to stay the uplifted sword, and asks pardon for the unhappy culprit. “ Mother, ” replies our Lord, “ I can refuse you nothing. Were it possible for the damned to repent, you would obtain their pardon. ”

Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is strong, sweet, full of spiritual nourishment.

We do not enter a house without speaking to the porter; the Blessed Virgin is the portress of Heaven.

Our hands, when they have touched spices, impart fragrance to all that they touch. If we wish to embalm our prayers, let us offer them through the hands of the Blessed Virgin.

At the end of time, the Blessed Virgin will be very quiet, but as long as the world lasts, she will, like a mother with many children, be continually occupied in going from one to another.