Ave Maria Meditations
St. Leonard of Port Maurice (Feast Day November 26th) wrote this about Our Lady: “She has had a decisive influence on our lives. Each of us has his own experience. Looking back we see her intervention behind every problem, driving us forward and with the definitive push making us begin anew. Whenever I get down to thinking about the numerous graces I have received from Mary, I feel like one of those Marian Shrines on the walls of which, covered with ‘offerings’, there is inscribed only: ‘Through grace received from Mary’. In this way, it seems that I am written all over: Through grace received from Mary’. Every good thought, every good act of will, every movement of my heart: ‘Through grace received from Mary’.”
A bit of biography:
Saint Leonard was devoted to spreading the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, the veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin (the doctrine had not yet been established). He was in no small way responsible for the definition of the Immaculate Conception made a little more than a hundred years after his death. He also wrote the Divine Praises, which are said at the end of Benediction. But Saint Leonard’s most famous work was his devotion to the Stations of the Cross. He established the Way of the Cross in over 500 places, including the Coliseum in Rome.
(as noted in http://365rosaries.blogspot.com/2010/11/november-26-saint-leonard-of-port.html)
