Hail Mary, loving-kindness of God!

Blessed be thou, in whom is no heaviness but in whom all is grace, thou who art
spread over the world like a veil of spun gold, who dost fill the universe with
invisible goodness, thou whose presence we can breathe like gentle air and a
pure breeze, thou who dost watch over our fragile bodies and upholdest our
feeble hearts!

O, teach us thy Tenderness every day!

from In Thy Presence by Fr. Lev Gillet

Mother of Tenderness, pray for us!

"It is easier to understand the meek and humble heart of Christ by looking at His Mother. She holds all the great Truths of Christianity together, as a piece of wood holds a kite. Children wrap the string of a kite around a stick, and release the string as the kite climbs to the heavens. Mary is like that piece of wood. Around her we wrap all the precious strings of the great Truths of our holy Faith - for example, the Incarnation, the Eucharist, the Church. No matter how far we get above the earth, as the kite may, we always have need of Mary to hold the doctrines of the Creed together. If we threw away the stick, we would no longer have the kite; if we threw away Mary, we would never have Our Lord. He would be lost in the Heavens, like our runaway kite, and that would be terrible, indeed, for us on earth." ~ Archbishop Fulton J Sheen, 1953 "The World's First Love."