Does anyone ever just meditate on Mary's love?

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Here are a few rough, rambling thoughts that were better in my head than written down…
Mary’s love is such a special thing to me, in so many ways…
One, she devoted her entire life to serving God and she was his first disciple. It’s outstanding because it takes a special kind of humility to submit to your own son. Her humility, faith and love enabled her to make the constant choice to sacrifice and serve God in every action and word (although this was also thanks to God’s supernatural grace and will), and also helping her through the many difficult situations which she encountered. And this is continued even now, where she leads us to Christ when we honor her. Devotion to her is like the beauty of the mood, it reflects on the sun (her Son).
She is the most important woman that ever lived, and yet she is so often scorned by humanity, and despite that, continues to pray for them. Rejected love is such a painful thing. To me, this shows the most unselfish kind of love.
Some of these thoughts are also applicable towards God’s love for us. Perhaps this is something I often specifically focus on because of the fact that her prayers hold back God’s anger from us.

These are just a few rough thoughts, anyone want to add on?
 
Rachellem56 said:
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She is the most important woman that ever lived, and yet she is so often scorned by humanity, and despite that, continues to pray for them. Rejected love is such a painful thing. To me, this shows the most unselfish kind of love.
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It’s the love of a mother for her children. Children often ignore their mothers or treat them in a very uncaring way, but the mother doesn’t ever stop loving them.
 
Beautiful thoughts. Her love leads us directly and perfectly to Jesus – because her heart was completely united to God. And she served God so well, as spouse of St. Joseph and mother of her Son. From this, we see her love for all of God’s children.
Yes, meditating on Mary’s love has been such a powerful and good thing in my life.
 
Rachellem56 said:
Here are a few rough, rambling thoughts that were better in my head than written down…
Mary’s love is such a special thing to me, in so many ways…
One, she devoted her entire life to serving God and she was his first disciple. It’s outstanding because it takes a special kind of humility to submit to your own son. Her humility, faith and love enabled her to make the constant choice to sacrifice and serve God in every action and word (although this was also thanks to God’s supernatural grace and will), and also helping her through the many difficult situations which she encountered. And this is continued even now, where she leads us to Christ when we honor her. Devotion to her is like the beauty of the mood, it reflects on the sun (her Son).
She is the most important woman that ever lived, and yet she is so often scorned by humanity, and despite that, continues to pray for them. Rejected love is such a painful thing. To me, this shows the most unselfish kind of love.
Some of these thoughts are also applicable towards God’s love for us. Perhaps this is something I often specifically focus on because of the fact that her prayers hold back God’s anger from us.

These are just a few rough thoughts, anyone want to add on?
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Thanks for your beautiful reflections Rachellem. God loves a childlike spirit, and he loves it so much when we honor His Mother.

We can never understand the extent of Mary’s love. She loves the least one of us more than all other mothers in the world combined love all their children.

Yes, I love to meditate on Mary’s love for us.

As John Paul II teaches in Redemptoris Mater, she was given to every human person from the Cross as our Mother, to have a unique mother-child, and unique child-mother, relationship

If the world only knew how Jesus loves us in Mary!

Here is a passage from Pope Pius XI:
  1. From this dogma of the divine maternity, as from the outpouring of a hidden spring, flow forth the singular grace of Mary and her dignity, which is the highest after God. Nay more, as Aquinas says admirably: “The Blessed Virgin, from this that she is the Mother of God, has a certain infinite dignity, from the infinite good which is God.” (Summ. Theo., III. a.6.) Cornelius a Lapide unfolds this and explains it more fully, in these words: “The Blessed Virgin is the Mother of God; therefore she is far more excellent than all the Angels, even the Seraphim and Cherubim. She is the Mother of God; therefore she is most pure and most holy,** so that under God no greater purity can be imagined.** She is the Mother of God; therefore whatever privilege (in the order of sancti*ing grace) has been granted to any one of the Saints, she obtains it more than all” (In Matt. i. 6).
  2. Why, therefore, do the Reformers (Novatores) and not a few nonCatholics bitterly condemn our piety towards the Virgin Mother of God, as though we were withdrawing the worship due to God alone? Do they not know, or do they not attentively consider that nothing can be more pleasing to Jesus Christ, who certainly has an ardent love for his own Mother, than that we should venerate her as she deserves, that we should return her love, and that imitating her most holy example we should seek to gain her powerful patronage?
    papalencyclicals.net/pius11/p11verit.htm
 
Usually some rosary mysteries leads me to ponder about Mary’s love and devotion to God.
 
Yes, the Rosary is the best way of coming to understand something of Mary’s great love for us.

That’s why Pope Leo XIII wrote 11 Encyclicals on the Rosary.

It’s amazing to think of Vatican II’s teaching about “the union of the Mother and the Son in the work of our salvation”. Given this union, we know our Mother’s love is inexpressible for every single human. She is the mother of each person in particular, uniquely.

Here is a beautiful passage from Iucunda Semper of Pope Leo XIII:
  1. The recourse we have to Mary in prayer follows upon the office she continuously fills by the side of the throne of God as Mediatrix of Divine grace; being by worthiness and by merit most acceptable to Him, and, therefore, surpassing in power all the angels and saints in Heaven. Now, this merciful office of hers, perhaps, appears in no other form of prayer so manifestly as it does in the Rosary. For in the Rosary all the part that Mary took as our co-Redemptress comes to us, as it were, set forth, and in such wise as though the facts were even then taking place; and this with much profit to our piety, whether in the contemplation of the succeeding sacred mysteries, or in the prayers which we speak and repeat with the lips.
    w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_08091894_iucunda-semper-expectatione.html
 
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