Can we ask Mary anything?

Mary is like a mother! We should all start by asking ourselves about our relationship with our own mother. Was that relationship life-giving and constructive, or hurtful?

Next, we should examine our relationship with Jesus. Because Mary brings us back to her Son, every time. She doesn’t keep anything for herself, and all the graces we obtain come from Jesus.

It does not matter what we ask her. If we ask from the heart, with the faith and love we should reserve for a mother so beautiful and so perfect, then we will receive graces, even if they don’t always match our initial request.

Why ask Mary instead of Jesus? When we are Catholic, Jesus is the primary object of our prayer, with the Father and the Holy Spirit. But "the heart has its reasons, which reason does not know" (French philosopher, Pascal). Our hearts naturally turn to Christ’s Mother and ours. To pray to Mary is perhaps a way to make our prayer more concrete, closer to the realities of our daily lives. It is believing in love and thus opening our hearts wider and wider, as sons and daughters. Finally, turning to Mary in prayer is to contemplate Jesus in a different way, as Son and Brother.

Father Bertrand Cormier

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