Dear Friends and Benefactors,

To know and proclaim the perfections of the noble Heart of the Queen of Angels one should have the intellect of a cherub and the flaming love of a seraph. Nay more, it would be necessary to possess the mind, the heart, the tongue and the hand of Jesus Christ, the King of all hearts, to understand, honor, proclaim or commit to writing the treasures of sanctity contained in the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the worthiest, most royal and most marvellous of all hearts after the most adorable Heart of our Saviour Himself. The incomparable Heart of Mary is and will forever be the object of the ecstatic contemplation of the happy citizens of heaven.

When the angels beheld their Queen and ours at the moment of her Immaculate Conception, they were filled with admiration at such fulness of grace and in their wonderment exclaimed: “Who is she
that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as any army set
in array?” (Cant. 6, 9) What then must their rejoicing be, now that they behold in heaven all the
marvellous perfections of her Heart from the first moment of her life on earth until the last?

The God of Angels finds even the footsteps of this glorious Queen so holy and so pleasing to His
Divine Majesty that He exclaims: “How beautiful are thy steps in shoes, 0 prince’s daughter!” (Cant. 7, 1)
Under His divine inspiration Holy Church, both Militant and Triumphant, celebrates on earth and in
heaven Our Lady’s visitation to her cousin Elizabeth. From this we see how great Our Lord’s desire is
that we should admire and honor as He does the many holy and admirable actions which were inspired
in the most amiable Heart of His incomparable Mother.

If the smallest virtuous act of this heavenly Virgin represented in Sacred Scripture by one of
her hairs, is so pleasing to God as to make Him proclaim that she has wounded and ravished His heart
with a hair of her neck (Cant. 4, 9. “Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse: thou hast wounded my heart . . . with one hair of thy neck”), what must we think of the manifold acts of love which, like sacred flames, were constantly darting from the burning furnace of her virginal Heart ablaze with divine love? These flames were incessantly rising to Heaven to the Heart of the Most Holy Trinity.

Holy Church, whom the Divine Spirit guides in all things, celebrates on earth and will forever
celebrate in heaven several feasts to honor the various events in the earthly life of the Mother of God,
such as her Presentation, in which she offered herself to God in the temple of Jerusalem, – her
Purification to honor her obedience to a law that did not apply to her, – the feast of Our Lady of Snows
in memory of the dedication of the first church consecrated to her. What praises and homage her Immaculate Heart then deserves, that Heart which for at least sixty-three years offered up so many acts of faith, hope, love of God and charity towards men, humility, obedience and every other virtue? What mind can understand and what tongue express the richness of this incomparable Heart, the Sovereign of all hearts consecrated to Jesus?

Her Heart is a vast sea of grace, a measureless ocean of perfections, an immense furnace of love. Would that we might lose ourselves as a drop of water in this ocean or be consumed like a straw in this furnace, so that nothing of what we say could be considered as coming from us, but only from Jesus Christ who is the unique source of all good!

0 most holy Mary, Thy divine Son, Jesus, hath created thy Heart, and He alone knows the great
treasures he has hidden therein. He it was who lit the fire burning in this furnace, and none but He
can measure the heights reached by the flames which leap from its abyss. He alone can measure the
vast perfections with which He has enriched the masterpiece of His all-powerful goodness, or count
the innumerable graces He has poured into this ocean of grace: “He created her in the Holy Ghost, and
saw her, and numbered her, and measured her.” (Ecclus. 1, 9)

And now we beseech thee, 0 most Blessed Virgin Mary, through thy Heart and for the honor of that very Heart to offer us to thy beloved Son and to pray that He may annihilate our personality and set Himself in the place of our nothingness, so that not our voice but His may be heard. Let us become worthy to live according to God’s Heart and to be numbered among the children of the maternal Heart of God’s own Mother.

Let us live the consecration to the Immaculate of Mary, that we may become great saints!

Fr. Pancras Raja
Spiritual Director
September 2, 2020

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