The most perfect creature that the Most High ever crafted is Jesus’s mother Mary. Not only was she conceived without the blemish of original sin, but she is the embodiment and epitome of love brought to fruition in a living person’s heart. No person can love more than our Blessed Mary, the Mother of God. No human being can be closer to our Creator’s eternal plan for mankind than Mary, the Queen of Peace, the Mirror of Justice, the Seat of Wisdom.
When it became known to Archangel Gabriel that Mary had acquiesced to give birth to the Son of Man, she did so willingly, conjoining her spirit with God’s providence – exclaiming that the redemption of the world be done according to His design. She understood what Jesus, her son of blood and flesh, would have to endure. She knew that his mission included pain, betrayal and crucifixion, before the power of the resurrection would break the chains of sin and death. It was revealed to her that God loved the world so much that he was willing to sacrifice his only begotten Son to pay for the debts of every person’s soul. So that eternity could be earned and enjoyed by all people of good faith and righteousness. The Mother of God, when accepting her role as co-redemptrix, knew perfectly well what would await her on the path to Calvary and at the place named Golgotha – and yet she did not shy away from this most sorrowful mission, because she knew that she was to bring, together with her Son, eternal life to people who have forsaken it.
How could she have done this? Is such an engagement not beyond anybody’s capacity to comprehend? After all, Mary was no different from any of us; she also was born into this world like everybody else – except, of course, without the burden of original sin. Was this the critical difference – being able and willing, in a state of perfection, to discern and to follow the will of God? Perhaps. What is striking is the paramount force of goodness that radiates from Mary’s heart and lets her embrace any sacrifice, as long as the offering is pleasing to the Almighty. Nothing is beyond comprehension, if it helps to bring forth life – every form of suffering is welcome, as long as the fruits of love, embracing humanity, pave the way to eternity.
Only because Mary loved with such intensity, was she able to bring the Redeemer to a suffering world; to raise and teach him with motherly care; and to prepare her Son to sacrifice everything for the salvation of mankind. Had her love been temporary, partial or wavering, she could not have accompanied Jesus to his torment on the cross. She would, indeed, have tried to save him and to succeed in overcoming the snares of human falsehood. But the Mother of God, who became our spiritual mother as a parting gift from her Son, saw beyond her pain and inner affliction when she stood by Jesus in fulfilling God’s master plan. During her stations of the cross, she shed countless tears to ‘save all her children’ from eternal condemnation – and could only achieve that by possessing the strength of unconditional, all-engulfing love that makes up every fiber of her brilliant being.
Our Heavenly Mother is in a state of grace, because she is – as Virgin most faithful, merciful and venerable – full of divine love. Our Holy Mother of God is the Ark of the Covenant, the Tower of David and the Gate of Heaven, because she is most pure, chaste and undefiled. As the cause of our joy, she contemplates the goodness of our Savior in her heart, prepared to always give good counsel and to fulfil God’s mission with sincere humility and thankfulness. Mary is thus rightfully called “immaculate”, for nothing in her being touches imperfection – instead, everything is made of glittering splendor: her thoughts, her prayers and humble devotion to a cause of limitless importance.
The Queen of prophets, apostles, and martyrs is the help of all Christians, and the handmaid of Christ’s mystical body, the Holy Mother Church. The Queen of Saints teaches us how to follow Jesus in our attempt to reach personal sainthood. The Queen of the most holy Rosary invites us to draw ever closer to God in our prayer and contemplative adoration.
There is nothing that Mary does not or cannot do. She intervenes for her children before the throne of the Holy Trinity; she blesses the world with her motherly love and intercedes for souls which are in dire need of God’s mercy. She tries, unceasingly, to save all of her children from destruction and death. Her blueprint is Jesus’s will. Therefore, her sight is breathtakingly beautiful, because it is the image of perfect love, of wisdom most profound and of righteousness supreme.
FAITHBOUND 