THE NAME OF MARY
3. Its Usefulness.
From all this you can deduce how we should respect this holy name and how after the name of Jesus there is no other so holy, so useful for us as the name of Mary.
If the name of Jesus is sanctifying, so, provided we know how to utter it with the respect and love that it deserves, is the name of Mary. That is why after God and Jesus Mary is the most popular name of all. Mothers teach it to their children, the sick and those in sorrow invoke it, the dying have it on their lips. How many churches, how many chapels have been raised the world over in honor of the name of Mary! How many sinners have been converted through its invocation. There is nothing sweeter for holy souls and nothing more profitable for the sinner than to put those two blessed names, Jesus and Mary, together, to utter them often, so as to draw from them the great advantage that their utterance brings to our souls. Do you also do it? Have you ever meditated on the importance of this most holy name and on its divine greatness? Do you utter it with fervor and especially in the temptations, difficulties and sorrows of life? Is it especially engraved on your heart?
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
From all this you can deduce how we should respect this holy name and how after the name of Jesus there is no other so holy, so useful for us as the name of Mary.
If the name of Jesus is sanctifying, so, provided we know how to utter it with the respect and love that it deserves, is the name of Mary. That is why after God and Jesus Mary is the most popular name of all. Mothers teach it to their children, the sick and those in sorrow invoke it, the dying have it on their lips. How many churches, how many chapels have been raised the world over in honor of the name of Mary! How many sinners have been converted through its invocation. There is nothing sweeter for holy souls and nothing more profitable for the sinner than to put those two blessed names, Jesus and Mary, together, to utter them often, so as to draw from them the great advantage that their utterance brings to our souls. Do you also do it? Have you ever meditated on the importance of this most holy name and on its divine greatness? Do you utter it with fervor and especially in the temptations, difficulties and sorrows of life? Is it especially engraved on your heart?
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
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