With God’s holy faith forgotten, each individual will want to direct himself and rise above his peers. Civil and ecclesiastical authority will be abolished, all order and justice will be trampled underfoot. Only murders, hatred, jealousy, lying and discord will be seen, with no love of country or family.
Our Lady of La Salette
Oh, happy those who live under the protection of a mother so loving and so powerful! The prophet David, although Mary was not yet born, besought of God salvation, by dedicating himself to Mary as her son, and thus prayed; “Save the son of thy handmaid.” Whose handmaid?” asks St. Augustine, “she who says: Behold the handmaid of the Lord.”
St Alphonsus Liguori
As a mother who sees her son exposed to the sword of the enemy, makes every effort to save him, thus do I, and will I ever do for my children, sinful though they be, if they come to me for help.
The Blessed Virgin to St Bridget
Every one who loves this good mother and trusts in her protection, should take courage and repeat: What do you fear, oh my soul? The cause of thy eternal salvation will not be lost, as the final sentence depends upon Jesus, who is thy brother, and upon Mary who is thy mother.
St Bonaventure
Everything belonging to the gentle virgin, everything which is under her protection remains intact: the virtue and strength of those vowed to her worship, no less than the garment of flesh which she gave her Son, and of which it was said: ‘Not a bone of Him shall be broken’, no less than the linen tunic which was not torn.
Tragedy of Calvary
Then he began again to talk with his sweet mother Mary, and repeating the word, ‘mother, mother’, he tranquilly expired, like a child falling asleep in the arms of its mother. Soon after, it was revealed to a devout religious that he had already entered paradise.
St Alphonsus Liguori
