In entrusting to you, O Mother, the world, all individuals and peoples, we also entrust to you this very consecration of the world, placing it in your motherly heart. - Pope John Paul ll ( Reigned 1978 - 2005) To support me in this promise, I invoke the maternal intercession of Most Holy Mary, in whose hands I place the present and future of my person and of the Church. - Pope Benedict XVl ( Reigned 2005 to Now ) The name Mary means light or star of the sea. For it was Mary who brought forth the Eternal Light, Jesus Christ ! - Saint Isidore of Seville (540 - 636) +++ To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess. For to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign on high, and to live under her commands is a greater thing than to govern ! - Saint John Damascene (676 - 749) +++ We today also remain near you, O Lady. Yes, I repeat O Lady, Mother of God and Virgin. We bind our souls to your hope, as to a most firm and totally unbreakable anchor, consecrating to you mind, soul, body, and all our being and honoring you , as much as we can, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles. - Saint John Damascene (676 - 749) +++ Our Lady is rest for those who work, consolation for those who weep, medicine for the sick, a harbor for those assailed by tempests, pardon for sinners, sweet relief for the sad, succor for those who implore. -Saint John Damascene( 676-749) +++ May we deserve to have the help of your intercession in heaven, because as the Son of God has deigned to descend to us through you, so we must also come to Him with you. - Saint Peter Damian (1007 - 1072) +++ The Mother of God is our mother. May the good mother ask and beg for us , may she request and obtain what is good for us. - Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 - 1109) +++ O happy confidence! O perfect refuge! The Mother of God is my Mother. What firm trust we should have, then, since our salvation depends on the judgment of a good brother and a tender Mother. - Saint Anselm of Canterbury ( 1033 - 1109) +++ Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on His Mother. The more Mary is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 -1153) +++ When we speak the name of Mary, heaven becomes more beautiful, and earth rejoices. The demons are terrified, and vanish like dust in the wind- Saint Francis of Assisi ( 1181 - 1226) I command all my brothers, who are living now and who will live in the future, always to praise the Mother of God, and with every means to honor her everywhere as well as they are able, and have recourse to her with the greatest respect and surrender. - Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226) How beautiful you are in soul and resplendent in body, Mary, my Mother. In this world, the Blessed Virgin was poor and unknown, but in heaven, she is glorious and beautiful, the Queen of Angels. - Saint Anthony of Padua (1195 - 1231) +++
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