Five Reasons Mary Should Reign as the Queen of
Your Heart
Why should you devote yourself to the Blessed
Mother? On this feast of the Queenship of Mary, I’ve provided just a few
reasons why she should be the “queen” of your heart:
1) Many of the greatest saints devoted their hearts
to Mary
There countless saints who devoted themselves to
the Blessed Mother, but here are just a few examples:
St. Louis de Montfort wrote
many books in honor of the Blessed Mother, including True Devotion to
Mary, The Secret of the Rosary, and The Secret of Mary. He
said, “The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be
the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as
the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.”
St. Therese of Lisieux,
another doctor of the Church, said, “In trial or difficulty I
have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every
fear.”
St. Pio of Pietrelcina, a Franciscan
priest and mystic, who also had the gift of the stigmata, said, “Let us
bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and
reflect on its boundless grief and how precious is our soul.”
2) Jesus gave her to us as our mother
At the foot of the cross, Jesus put his mother into
the hands of St. John.
“When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there
whom he loved, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold, your son.’ Then he said
to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took
her into his home.” (Jn. 19:26-27)
St. John represents the entire human race;
therefore, Mary is our spiritual mother as well.
3) She is the “Mediatrix of All Graces”
The Second Vatican Council said, “in
suffering with Him as He died on the cross, she cooperated in the work of the
Savior, in an altogether singular way, by obedience, faith, hope, and burning
love, to restore supernatural life to souls. As a result, she is our Mother in
the order of grace.” (Lumen Gentium, 61-62),
In his encyclical Adiutricem,
Pope Leo XIII explained that the power “put into her hands is all but
unlimited.”
In Pope Pius X’s encyclical, Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum,
he said that Mary is the “Dispensatrix of all the gifts that Our Savior
purchased for us by His Death and by His Blood.” He also quotes St.
Bernardine of Sienna, saying that Mary “is the neck of Our Head, by
which He communicates to His mystical body all spiritual gifts.”
How incredible are the graces we can receive from
our most Holy and Blessed Mother!
4) She leads us to Jesus
When we are devoted to Mary, our love for Jesus
increases because her greatest desire is to lead us to Him. St.
Louis de Montfort wrote in his book, True Devotion to Mary:
“All our perfection consists in being conformed,
united, and consecrated to Jesus Christ; and therefore, the most perfect of all
devotions is, without any doubt, that which the most perfectly conforms,
unites, and consecrates us to Jesus Christ. Now, Mary being the most conformed
of all creatures to Jesus Christ, it follows that, of all devotions, that which
most consecrates and conforms the soul to our Lord is devotion to His holy
Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to Mary, the more is it
consecrated to Jesus.”
5) She is our perfect pathway to holiness
As St. Louis de Montfort said above, “all our
perfection consists in being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus
Christ.” Mary’s ability to bring us closer to her Son draws us to
greater holiness, because she was completely sinless. Pope Paul VI
said in Lumen Gentium,
“But while in the most holy Virgin the Church has
already reached that perfection whereby she is without spot or wrinkle, the
followers of Christ still strive to increase in holiness by conquering sin. And
so they turn their eyes to Mary who shines forth to the whole community of the
elect as the model of virtues.”
With all this said, there are many ways we can
devote ourselves to the Blessed Mother. We can pray the Rosary, the Angelus, consecrate ourselves to Jesus
through Mary, or practice the Seven Sorrows Devotion or
the Five First Saturdays devotion. The
list goes on!
Why not make a resolution to begin one of these
devotions today? It will certainly change your life.
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