Ave Maria Meditations

Holy Mary, Mother of God: pray for us! God could make a bigger world or a wider sky, but He could not raise a pure creature higher than Mary, for the dignity of…

Holy Virgin of Virgins: Pray for us! Most holy Virgin, give us affection for prayer and retirement, that, detaching ourselves from the love of creatures, we may aspire only after God and heaven,…

It is because she is Mother of the Church that the Virgin is also the Mother of each one of us, members of the Mystical Body of Christ. From the Cross, Jesus entrusted…

Ave Maria Meditations Mother of Divine Grace, Pray for us! To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.       St. Pius X

Mother Most Pure: Pray for us! Tota Pulchra: You are completely pure, Mary, and the stain of original sin is not within you. Your clothing is white like snow, and your face is…

Mother Most Chaste: Pray for us! Tota pulchra es, Maria et macula originalis non est in te. Vestimentum tuum candidum quasi nix, et facies tua sicut sol. Tota pulchra es, Maria, et macula originalis…

Mother Most Amiable, Mother Most Admirable: Pray for us! You alone possess all the perfections and all the merits of all the saints united.        St. Bernard