The Virgin Mary is the one human who loved Jesus most perfectly during her life on earth, and continues to love him in Heaven. She is the one who can teach us that pure love of Christ and draw us closer to his embrace.
Below is a short prayer from the Little Chaplet of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, asking Mary to bring us closer to her heart, so that we may love Jesus with the same love she had.
O Mary, Mystical Rose, whose loving heart,
burning with the living fire of charity,
did accept us for thy sons and daughters at the foot of the Cross,
becoming thus our tender Mother,
make me feel the sweetness of thy maternal heart
and thy power with Jesus,
that when menaced by the perils of this mortal life,
and most of all in the dread hour of death,
my heart united with thine may love my Jesus then and through all ages.
Amen.
And today we celebrate...