In Union with Mary, continued
Mary is and remains turned towards the Spirit:
this is the fundamental attitude of her soul. And it is in him that she sees us,
in him that she loves us. Mary goes towards human beings in God, without for a
moment averting her eyes from Him. She loves us with a most intimate love, her
motherhood nourishing us droop by drop until we are fully grown!
But looking at Mary turned toward God, in the unique adherence of her fiat,
there is yet another mystery left to discover. It is not simply as an individual
that she responded. In her Amen resound all the amen’s which rise from earth
toward heaven. Mary takes us along with her!
She is not one response, but the response of humanity to the love of God. And it
is her maternal task to help us in everything that allows us to respond freely
to divine grace. What a support for finding grace before the Most High, to be
raised up toward Him by the one of whom it is said: “You have found grace before
God”. Sheltered in her, we shall not weaken under the weight of an excessive
love for our smallness, and we may dare to believe in the impossible.
If Mary is all these things, it follows that she is for us as well the path
leading to the Holy Spirit.
About this mystery, St. Louis-Marie de Montfort tells us: “When the Holy Spirit,
her Spouse, finds Mary in a soul, he hastens there and enters fully into it. He
gives himself generously to that soul according to the place it has given to
Mary.”.
It follows, therefore, that the secret of all fruitful apostolates is to unite
oneself fully to the one who had been so completely united with the Holy Spirit.
And fr. de Montfort continues: “It is a secret of grace ‘to perform supernatural
works in a short time, gently and with ease: to empty oneself, to be filled with
God...’ ”
Mary, grace for evangelization