Behold your mother!
Jesus on the Cross said to the disciple whom He loved: “Behold your Mother!” How sweet are those words to the Christian who is able to understand what depths of love they contain!
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
The Blessed Virgin is like…
The Blessed Virgin is like a good mother who, not content with looking after all her children in general, watches over each one separately.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Live as the Blessed Virgin lived….
Let us live as the Blessed Virgin lived: loving God only, desiring God only, trying to please God only in all that we do.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Humility is like…
Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Mary adopts as…
Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
Mary opens the…
We believe that Mary opens the abyss of God’s mercy to whomsoever she wills, when she wills, and as she wills; so that there is no sinner however great who is lost if Mary protects him.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
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