Mary and God's Maternal Love

...God remains the boundless ocean of Being. But He is equally the boundless ocean of Love. And in His abysses of light a heart beats everlastingly, and it is a Mother's heart.

All the love in the hearts of mothers is derived from this Divine Source. How loving then must that Source be!

God is more mother than all mothers, infinitely more: as also He is Father, infinitely.

And this perhaps is the deepest intention of the homage paid to the Blessed Virgin by the Church of her Son; not so much to honor the Mother of our Savior for the pre-eminent holiness with which she is endowed and the maternal share which is hers in the scheme of redemption -- though her person is so intimately dear to us and her tender compassion is so ready to aid, but even more, since everything created, even the highest, is directed towards God as its end, to reveal in her, as in a living sacrament, God's maternal love.

~Maurice Zundel in The Splendour of the Liturgy

Dear Mary, Mother most wonderful, thank you for revealing to us God's maternal love. Amen.