Blessed are you among women...

Blessed...

because you believed in the Word of the Lord

because you placed hope in his promises

because you were perfect in love

because of your attentive charity toward Elizabeth

for your maternal kindness in Bethlehem

for your strength in persecution

for your perseverance in the search for Jesus in the temple

for your simple life in Nazareth

for your intercession in Cana

for your maternal presence at the foot of the Cross

for your faith in the expectation of Resurrection

for your constant prayer at Pentecost

...for the glory of your Assumption into Heaven

for your maternal protection of the Church

for your constant intercession for all mankind.

 

~St. John Paul II, 7/3/86

 

 

And oh, how blessed we are to be your children,

Dearest Mary, Mother Most Wonderful!