There's something about Mary..

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What are some of your favorite saints (or any writer’s) reflections/thoughts about Mary?

I’m writing something now that requires me to delve deeper into Mary, the Mother of God.

I’m focusing especially on how she is the New Eve, God’s little masterpiece and the vessel of our salvation.
 
My favorite, hands-down, is Fulton Sheen’s The World’s First Love.
 
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My favorite, hands-down, is Fulton Sheen’s The World’s First Love.
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I second this. Amazing insight (but it’s no surprise that it’s great, coming from Fulton Sheen!).
 
JP2’s Redemptoris Mater
vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031987_redemptoris-mater_en.html
The Redeemer entrusts his mother to the disciple (John at the foot of the cross), and at the same time he gives her to him as his mother. Mary’s motherhood, which becomes man’s inheritance, is a gift: a gift which Christ himself makes personally to every individual. The Redeemer entrusts Mary to John because he entrusts John to Mary. At the foot of the Cross there begins that special entrusting of humanity to the Mother of Christ, which in the history of the Church has been practiced and expressed in different ways.
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When times are challenging for me, it is particularly edifying to think of Mary’s patient and faithful suffering at the cross.
 
If you’re writing about Mary as the New Eve, you’ll probably want to grab St. Irenaeus’ little passage about it in Against Heresies.
 
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