Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Holiness
“We religious have entered the Order with the one goal of becoming saints. If sanctification is the work of grace, if the Most Holy Mother is the Mediatrix of all graces, if Her privilege of the Immaculate Conception is the ‘Franciscan Thesis’, or rather Her very name is ‘Immaculate Conception’,?, then we probably have no need to seek elsewhere. All we have to do is get working on our own conversion and sanctification and that of others under the protection and through the mediation of the Immaculate.” (cf. SK #1238)
