“Just as in the natural and corporal generation of children there are a father and a mother, so in the supernatural and spiritual generation there are a Father, who is God, and a Mother, who is Mary. All the true children of God, the predestinate, have God for their Father and Mary for their Mother. He who has not Mary for his Mother has not God for his Father. This is the reason why the reprobate, such as heretics, schismatics and others , who hate our Blessed Lady or regard her with contempt and indifference, have not God for their Father, however much they boast of it, simply because they have not Mary for their Mother. For if they had her for their Mother, they would love and honour her as a true child naturally loves and honours the mother who has given him life.” – St. Louis de Montfort
Our Lady: Mother of Mercy
St. Bridget once heard Jesus say to Mary in a vision, “Ask of Me what Thou wilt. As Thou didst refuse Me nothing on earth, so I will refuse Thee nothing in Heaven.”
“No sinner, howsoever great and abominable he might be, shall be excluded from redemption and justification, nor shall he fail to attain eternal life, if he invoke the intercession of this powerful Lady and Advocate.” – Ven. Mary of Agreda
In the book, The Mystical City of God, revelations to Venerable Mary of Agreda, Spain, in the 1600’s, it says, a little before the Ascension of Christ, Mary had a vision of the Holy Trinity amid the choirs of angels and saints. Mary of Agreda heard the three Divine Persons, addressing the choir of holy angels and the saints, saying: “This is the Queen of all created things in Heaven and earth; (Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever … The Queen stood on Thy right, in gilded clothing,” Ps. 44:7,10), She is the Protectress of the Church, the Mistress of creatures, the Mother of piety, the Intercessor of the faithful, the Advocate of sinners, the Mother of beautiful love and holy hope; She is mighty in drawing Our will to mercy and clemency. In her shall be deposited the treasures of Our grace and Her most faithful heart shall be the tablet whereon shall be written and engraved Our holy law. In Her are contained the mysteries of Our Omnipotence for the salvation of mankind. She is the perfect work of Our hands, (One is My dove, My perfect one is but one … The daughters saw Her, and declared Her most blessed … Cant. 6:8), through whom the plenitude of Our desires shall be communicated and satisfied without hindrance in the currents of Our divine perfections. Whoever shall call upon her from his heart shall not perish; whoever shall obtain her intercession shall secure for himself eternal life. What she asks of us, shall be granted, and we shall always hear Her requests and fulfil Her will; for She consecrated Herself perfectly to what pleases us.”
“However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.” – St. Hilary of Poitiers (Our Lady herself confirmed these words to St. Bridget)
“He who is faithful in the service of Mary will certainly be saved . . . There is no one, however wicked, whom Marydoes not save by her intercession when she wishes . . . He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.” – St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
“No one, not even a sinner, who devoutly recommends himself to her shall ever become the prey of Hell.” – St. Catherine of Siena