Let’s do nothing without Mary

When we say “Mater” (i.e Mother) to Mary, “monstra te esse mater” (in the hymn Ave Maris Stella), we're really saying it to God. This word “Mama”, which springs from the depths of the human being, rises through the heart of the Blessed Virgin to God, who is more mother than all mothers. If prayer were reduced to this: Mama, Mama..., it would already be a complete prayer, because God is Love. We must love him and make him loved by loving him.

So let's do nothing without the Blessed Virgin. Not a single thing: whenever we're troubled, whenever we're worried or hesistant, let's start by invoking her. We won't go astray. 

It is the Blessed Virgin who will keep the life of Jesus within us, as she did during her earthly life. She will keep us in inner silence. She will guard our vocation. She will make us true contemplatives. It is she who will teach us to peer into the abysses of God in the joy and light of faith. It is she who will teach us to discover true freedom, for she is totally liberated from herself from the very first moment of her existence, which is what her virginity does.

Virginity means being free of oneself from head to toe, in every cell of one's being, in order to be joined to God who is infinitely free himself, in the eternal communion of inter-divine relations.

Maurice Zundel

Swiss Catholic priest and theologian (d. 1975)