Do not fear...

"Do not fear":  Mary also addresses these words to us....  This world of ours is a world of fear: the fear of misery and poverty, the fear of illness and suffering, the fear of solitude, the fear of death.  We have in this world a widely developed insurance system; it is good that it exists.

But we know that at the moment of deep suffering, at the moment of the ultimate loneliness of death, no insurance policy will be able to protect us.  The only valid insurance in those moments is the one that comes to us from the Lord, Who also assures us:  "Do not fear, I am always with you."  We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.

~Pope Benedict XVI, Homily of 12/18/05

Hail Mary, Mother Most Wonderful,

I have no fear for you are with me

and I am with you and your Beloved Son,

the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus.

Amen.