Mary, the Holy Mother of God

The Son of God through Mary

The Son of God became man for our salvation, but in Mary and through Mary. God the Holy Spirit formed Jesus Christ in Mary, but after having asked her consent through one of the first ministers of his court.

Saint Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, §16 (excerpt)

Contemplate with Mary

All our perfection consisting in being conformed, united, and consecrated to Jesus Christ, the most perfect of all devotions is without question the one which conforms, unites, and consecrates us most perfectly to Jesus Christ. Now, Mary being the most conformed to Jesus Christ of all creatures, it follows that, of all devotions, the one which most consecrates and conforms a soul to Our Lord is devotion to the Most Blessed Virgin, his holy Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to Mary, the more it will be to Jesus Christ.

Saint Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, §120 (excerpt)

Hear the Fathers and Doctors

The bosom of Mary amazes me, that it sufficed for Thee, Lord, and embraced Thee.—All creation were too small, to conceal Thy Majesty;—Heaven and earth too narrow, to be in the likeness of wings, to cover Thy Godhead.—Too small for Thee was the bosom of earth; great enough for Thee was the bosom of Mary.—He dwelt in the bosom and healed in her bosom.

St. Ephrem the SyrianHymns on the Nativity, XVI.11 (NPNF); XXIII.11 in Beck’s numberingTranslated from Syriac by A. Edward Johnston, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, vol. 13 (1898). Complete stanza; the printed footnote marker is omitted.More from St. Ephrem the Syrian →

Whereas the Blessed Virgin Mary received such a fulness of grace that she was nearest of all to the Author of grace; so that she received within her Him Who is full of all grace; and by bringing Him forth, she, in a manner, dispensed grace to all.

St. Thomas AquinasSumma Theologiae III, q. 27, a. 5, reply to objection 1, concluding sentenceFathers of the English Dominican Province, The Summa Theologica, second and revised edition (1920). Aquinas has just distinguished Christ’s fullness, which overflows to all, from Mary’s reception of Him.More from St. Thomas Aquinas →

Pray with the saints

Permit me, then, to say to you: my mother, my most amiable mother. So I call you, and so I will always call you. You, after God, are to be always my hope, my refuge, and my love in this valley of tears.

St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary · Mary Our Mother, prayer (excerpt)

Let love become an act

Pray the act of consecration to Jesus Christ through Mary.

Renew your offering to Jesus through Mary

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