How little do our trials and sorrows appear
when compared to Our Heavenly Mother Mary’s bitter sufferings.

 
Bl. Marianne Cope, 20th century

Mary, the common refuge of all Christians,
was the first to be liberated
from the primitive fall of our first parents.

 
St Andrew of Crete, 8th century

The Blessed Mary is our mother,
the mother of our life, the mother of our light.

 
St. Aelred of Rievaulx, 12th century

Listen, do be assured of it, my littlest one,
that nothing at all should alarm you, should trouble you,
or in any way disturb your countenance, your heart.
For am I not here, I, your mother?

 
Virgin of Guadalupe; Mexico, 1531

What a great gift to have Mary Immaculate as mother,
a mother resplendent with beauty,
the transparency of God's love.

 
His Holiness, Benedict XVI

Mary shines forth on earth,
until the day of the Lord shall come,
a sign of certain hope and comfort
to the Pilgrim People of God.

 
Lumen Gentium

We ask you, our Lady, morning star,
dispel with your light
the thick fog of allurements to evil which fills our souls;
replenish our emptiness and dissipate the darkness of our sins,
that we may attain the fullness of eternal life
and the light of undiminishing glory.

 
St. Anthony of Padua, 13th century

Invoke the name of Mary, honor Mary,
recommend yourselves to Mary;
rejoice with Mary, weep with Mary,
pray with Mary, walk with Mary;
seek Jesus with Mary.

 
'The Imitation of Christ'; Thomas a Kempis,15th century