All true
children of God have God for their father and Mary for their mother; anyone who
does not have Mary for his mother, does not have God for his father.
Mary is the fruitful Virgin, and
in all the souls in which she comes to dwell she causes to flourish purity of
heart and body, rightness of intention and abundance of good works. Do not
imagine that Mary, the most fruitful of creatures who gave birth to a God,
remains barren in a faithful soul. It will be she who makes the soul live
incessantly for Jesus Christ, and will make Jesus live in the soul
If we do not risk anything for
God we will never do anything great for Him.
Mary alone gives to the
unfortunate children of unfaithful Eve entry into that earthly paradise where
they may walk pleasantly with God and be safely hidden from their enemies.
There they can feed without fear of death on the delicious fruit of the tree of
life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They can drink copiously
the heavenly waters of that beauteous fountain which gushes forth in such
abundance.
If you put all the love of all
the mothers into one heart it still would not equal the love of the Heart of
Mary for her children.
Pray with great confidence, with
confidence based on the goodness and infinite generosity of God and upon the
promises of Jesus Christ. God is a spring of living water which flows
unceasingly into the hearts of those who pray.
The cross is the greatest gift
God could bestow on His Elect on earth. There is nothing so necessary, so beneficial,
so sweet, or so glorious as to suffer something for Jesus. If you suffer as you
ought, the cross will become a precious yoke that Jesus will carry with you.
She [Mother Mary] is an echo of
God, speaking and repeating only God. If you say "Mary" she says
'God'.
We fasten our souls to Your hope, as to an abiding anchor. It is to Her that
the saints who have saved themselves have been the most attached and have done
their best to attach others, in order to persevere in virtue. Happy, then, a
thousand times happy, are the Christians who are now fastened faithfully and
entirely to Her, as to a firm anchor!
How different are theirs from ours! Their roses are pleasures of the flesh, worldly honours and passing riches which wilt and decay in no time, but ours, which are the Our Father and Hail Mary which we have said devoutly over and over again, and to which we have added good penitential acts, will never wilt or die, and they will be just as exquisite thousands of years from now as they are today.'
'You must expect then to be
shaped, cut and chiseled under the hammer of the Cross, otherwise you would
remain unpolished stone, of no value at all, to be disregarded and cast aside.
Do not cause the hammer to recoil when it strikes you. Yield to the chisel that
is carving you and the hand that is shaping you.'
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