The Sanctity and the Dignity of the Blessed Virgin

I conceive it impossible... for those who believe the Church to be one vast body in heaven and on earth, in which every holy creature of God had its place, and of which prayer is the life, when once they recognize the sanctity and dignity of the Blessed Virgin, not to perceive immediately, that her office above is one of perpetual intercession for the faithful militant, and that our very relation to her must be that of clients to a patron, and that, in the eternal enmity which exists between the woman and the serpent, while the serpent's strength lies in being the tempter, the weapon of the Second Eve and Mother of God is prayer. Our Lord died for those heathens who did not know Him; and His Mother intercedes for the Christians who do not know her; and she intercedes according to His will, and, when He wills to save a particular soul, she at once prays for it. I say, He wills indeed according to her prayer, but then she prays according to His will.