"Mary's love for each of her children..."

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Continuing words from “True Devotion”:

1. Here now are the services which the Virgin Mary, as the best of all mothers, lovingly renders to those loyal servants who have given themselves entirely to her in the manner I have described and following the figurative meaning of the story of Jacob and Rebecca.
2. She loves them.

“I love those who love me.” She loves them:
a)Because she is truly their Mother. What mother does not love her child, the fruit of her womb?

b) She loves them in gratitude for the active love they show to her, their beloved Mother.

c) She loves them because they are loved by God and destined for heaven. “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

d) She loves them because they have consecrated themselves entirely to her and belong to her portion, her inheritance. “In Israel receive your inheritance.”

1. She loves them tenderly, more tenderly than all the mothers in the world together. Take the maternal love of all the mothers of the world for their children. Pour all that love into the heart of one mother for an only child. That mother’s love would certainly be immense. Yet Mary’s love for each of her children has more tenderness than the love of that mother for her child.

She loves them not only affectively but effectively, that is, her love is active and productive of good like Rebecca’s love for Jacob -and even more so, for Rebecca was, after all, only a symbolic figure of Mary. Here is what this loving Mother does for her children to obtain for them the blessings of their heavenly Father:

1. 1) Like Rebecca she looks out for favourable opportunities to promote their interests, to ennoble and enrich them. She sees clearly in God all that is good and all that is evil; fortunate and unfortunate events; the blessings and condemnations of God. She arranges things in advance so as to divert evils from her servants and put them in the way of abundant blessings. If there is any special benefit to be gained in God’s sight by the faithful discharge of an important work, Mary will certainly obtain this opportunity for a beloved child and servant and at the same time, give him the grace to persevere in it to the end. “She personally manages our affairs,” says a saintly man.

Come Holy Spirit, open the eyes of our hearts to “Behold” our Mother!

 

[DMKG]

May the Immaculate heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary be praised and adored more each day. Blessed Mother, please pray for me for forgiveness for all of the times I pierced Your Immaculate heart and the most sacred heart of Jesus by my sins. May every thought, every word, every action of this day express my deep and sincere love for You, oh Blessed Virgin Mary my mother.

Ave Maria

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear DMKG

Thanks for your reply and I sincerely join you in your prayer: 1) that Mary our Mother given to us by Jesus from His Cross, may be praised for her faithfulness to Him and to us, more each day, and 2) also that Mary will plead for me, and for all her children, before the Throne of God. I know how foolish I have been in the past and am prone to sin, at any time, against the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, but I am depending on Jesus through Mary as God continues to give me His Grace. Without Him I can do nothing and Mary keeps me close to Him.

Let us continue to ask God for the Graces we need to make reparation for our sins and the sins of all the world by offering little sacrifices, with GREAT Love today. May our Mother repeat to us the words she spoke to St. Juan Deigo at Guadalupe:

Am I not your Mother? Are you not in the crossing of my arms?

Let us cry out to her: “Yes, Mother I believe in your Love for me and I thank God for all He has done and is doing for all of us through you. I thank Him for giving you to us from His Cross so filled with His Love for us.”

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.