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Devotion to Mary goes back to the Old Testament in Genesis. After Adam and Eve fell into sin, God gave them another chance and promised them the Mother of the Redeemer who would crush the serpent's head. "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel."1 Please notice that the original translation from the official Bible of the Catholic Church tells us in the feminine that she, the Mother of the Redeemer, the New Eve2 would crush the serpent's head - for the Blessed Virgin Mary was given this role/mission by God from all eternity.
Holy religious since the time of Adam and Eve, particularly Elias on Mount Carmel (Mary and Elijah, Symbol of Mary), had joyful hope and veneration to the Mother of the Redeemer not even knowing her name or when she would be born. The promised Mother of the Redeemer is the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Redeemer is Our Lord Jesus Christ.
One of the most amazing and astonishing aspects of Mary is that she is simply Our Mother; in fact Our Heavenly Mother. One of the main reasons to have devotion to and love Mary is that, again she is simply our true and supernatural Mother in whom Christ gave her to us to be our Mother, on the cross.3 We read in Revelation or the Apocalypse that we are the seed of Mary, her true supernatural children, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.4 Please notice that the same anger, war and enmity between the devil and the woman's seed/children in the Apocalypse also existed in Genesis.
In the order of nature children cling to their natural Mother for love and support and in fact as infants are totally dependent on her. In the order of grace we also have a supernatural Mother Mary in whom we likewise cling to for love and support and are dependent on her for our needs as we also depend on God Our Father. We should love Mary as our Heavenly Mother.
Devotion to and loving Mary in no way takes away from following Christ. By the same means Our Lord Jesus came to us; it is in imitation of Him that we also go only through Mary, to return back to Jesus.5 Devotion to Mary is actually the best means to reach and approach Our Lord and imitate the virtues of Jesus and Mary. Jesus being True God and True Man transcends us to such a degree that we are as dust before Him and so Mother Mary is the humble and sweet means to approach God.
1. Genesis 3:15
2. True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary - by St. Louis de Montfort - paragraphs 51-53
3. John 19:27
4. Apocalypse 12:1,5,17
5. The Secret of Mary - by St. Louis de Montfort - paragraph 35
I believe that every person has the ability to be saintly on earth and become a saint in Heaven. My favorite verse in the Bible is "Glory to God in the highest: and on earth peace to men of good will." (Luke Chapter 2:14) Every person who cooperates with grace can perform good actions that begins with good will and makes us friends with God and on our way to Heaven. My purpose for writing is to aid in the salvation of souls and to the glory of the triune God through Mary.
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Also - 10 of these religious articles can be found here in manuscript format: https://mothermary.website/CatholicInspirationsManuscript.pdf
