Devotion ot Mary

[Nihilist]

I have lately been drawn strongly more into Marian devotion. I have been reading Bonaventure’s Psalterium Marianum as well other works of Marian devotion from previous centuries.

I find it brings me spiritual peace and joy. But I also get a certain sense that it is a ‘guilty pleasure’, as if I am escaping into a ‘secret garden’. Or maybe fulfilling some kind of psychological need to have in image of a pure, loving obedient female ideal. Does this make sense?

But, to honour God’s Mother can only make God pleased? Should I let myself fall more in love with the Blessed Virgin without reserve?

Any ideas?

 

[Dorothy]

I have lately been drawn strongly more into Marian devotion. I have been reading Bonaventure’s Psalterium Marianum as well other works of Marian devotion from previous centuries.

I find it brings me spiritual peace and joy. But I also get a certain sense that it is a ‘guilty pleasure’, as if I am escaping into a ‘secret garden’. Or maybe fulfilling some kind of psychological need to have in image of a pure, loving obedient female ideal. Does this make sense?

But, to honour God’s Mother can only make God pleased? Should I let myself fall more in love with the Blessed Virgin without reserve?

Any ideas?

We cannot go wrong when we fall more in love with Mary our Blessed Mother. She is the Lord’s perfect disciple, and was given to us as gift from our Lord Himself, at the foot of the cross.

The more we imitate Mary, the more we imitate Jesus!

“Behold your mother”

 

[erik_none]

“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.”
–Saint Maximilian Kolbe

 

[Billycourty]

Would it be possible or wrong to love your mother too much?

My priest told me to love Mary absolutely and asked me this question when I had the same fears. Now I am all in for Mary and she has never lead me anywhere for to her son.

The more you love Mary the more you love her son because she is the first to push Jesus between her and you.

An example: I have wanted to buy a large statue of Mary for a long time, every single time I go to buy a statue of Mary, I come home with one of her son.

That’s just one example.

Mary never ever puts herself first.

 

[DebChris]

When you honor the mother, you honor the Son. A priest i once knew asked the question, “What man would not be happy if you gave flowers to his mother?”
Mary leads to her Son playing a pivotal role in Salvation’s history as her acceptance of God’s Will in her life made our Salvation possible. Keep in mind always that she is not God, but in her Magnificat, when Mary visits Elizabeth, she says “all generations will call me blessed.”
It is Mary who is listed first in guest list at Cana where she intercedes and Christ performs his first public miracle.