Mary’s pleas can never be unheard

Under her guidance, under her patronage, under her kindness and protection, nothing is to be feared; nothing is hopeless. Because, while bearing toward us a truly motherly affection and having in her care the work of our salvation, she is solicitous about the whole human race. 

And since she has been appointed by God to be the Queen of heaven and earth, and is exalted above all the choirs of angels and saints, and even stands at the right hand of her only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, she presents our petitions in a most efficacious manner. What she asks, she obtains. Her pleas can never be unheard.

Blessed Pope Pius IX, excerpt from his encyclical Ineffabilis Deus, proclaiming and defining the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, published on December 8, 1854