Ave Maria Meditations
“Mother of Mercy!” What words could be more sweet in a sinner’s ear! The past has been a long record of sin and sinfulness, of grace abused and calls neglected. God’s inspirations have been despised, His patience abused, His anger defied. In terror the soul looks back on a misspent life; in horror it thinks of a judgment, just and searching, to come.
How face the look of an angry God? How stand before Him to whom nothing is hidden? How answer for the days and years squandered which were given to serve Him alone?
Oh! Turn then, poor soul, and look to Mary. Look to her who is all merciful that she may obtain for you pardon and mercy. She is kind and loving; she has a mother’s heart full of pity for the erring, a Mother of Mercy to the sinner and the fallen.
+The Servant of God, Father Willie Doyle, S. J.
