Jesus and Mary!

"The more the Holy Ghost finds Mary, His dear and inseparable spouse, in any soul, the more active and mighty He becomes in producing Jesus Christ in that soul, and that soul in Jesus Christ."~St. Louis De Montfort

The power of Mary!

"But the power of Mary over all the devils will especially shine forth in the latter times, when Satan will lay snares against her heel: that is to say, her humble slaves and her poor children, whom she will raise up to make war against him. They shall be little and poor in the world's esteem, and abased before all like the heel, trodden underfoot and persecuted as the heel is by the other members of the body. But, in return for this they shall be rich in the grace of God, which Mary shall distribute to them abundantly. They shall be great and exalted before God in sanctity, superior to all other creatures by their lively zeal, and so well sustained with God's assistance that, with the humility of their heel, in union with Mary, they shall crush the head of the devil and cause Jesus Christ to triumph."~St. Louis De Montfort, True Devotion to Mary

We go to Jesus through Mary

The more we honor the Blessed Virgin, the more we honor Jesus Christ, because we honor Mary only that we may the more perfectly honor Jesus, since we go to her only as the way by which we to find the end we are seeking, which is Jesus.~St. Louis De Montfort

Our Mediatrix!

Calling Mary a mediatrix might sound exotic and even daunting. But mediatrix simply means, according to the dictionary, a woman who is a mediator!

Throughout Christianity, Mary has placed herself between her son and humanity, advocating or mediating for her children's wants, needs, and sufferings.

Mary puts herself in the middle, and in that way acts as a mediatrix. And she does this not as an outsider, but as Mother. She knows that in her mothering she not only can point out the needs of humanity to her son, but in essence she has the right to do so!

from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mary of Nazareth by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda (Alpha Penguin)

"She was full of grace."

"How much we can learn from our Lady! She was so humble because she was all for God. She was full of grace. She made use of the almighty power that was in her: the grace of God." ~Bl. Teresa of Calcutta

Anniversary of Jacinta Marto's entrance into heaven!

Little Jacinta Marto, a Fatima visionary died on February 20, 1920, four days after Our Lady visited her for the last time here on earth. She told Jacinta that she would come to get her and bring her to Heaven soon where she would have no more pain.

Both Francesco, her brother and Jacinta were beatified at a solemn Mass in the shrine of the Cova da Iria by Pope John Paul I on May 13, 2000. Sister Lucia, their cousin (the third visionary) was present for the blessed event. She was a Carmelite nun in Coimbra, Portugal.

Let us invoke the intercession of the three visionaries and ask them to help us draw closer to Mother Mary.

"You can never love her enough."

"Do not be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her enough. And Jesus will be very happy, because the Blessed Virgin is His Mother."~St. Therese of Lisieux