Mary, Our Most Wonderful Mother

Traditionally, in the Catholic Church Saturdays are dedicated to the Blessed Mother, so I thought it would be appropriate to talk a little about her today. I think there are some misconceptions by non-Catholics as to what we actually believe about Mary. The love we feel toward this most holy mother is not worship but rather homage and reverence. Just as you can turn to your mother on earth for aid, so can you turn to your mother in heaven. If you believe that a soul who dies in a state of grace can gain eternal life in heaven, then you know God is a God of the living and not the dead. Therefore if the Mother of God is alive in Heaven, would not her most perfect Son hear her intercessions for us? And why would a mother of such caliber  not intercede for her children when they ask her to?  In the words of St. Louis De Montfort in his book True Devotion to Mary :
Inasmuch as grace perfects nature, and glory perfects grace, it is certain that Our Lord is still, in Heaven, as much the Son of Mary as He was on earth; and that consequently, He retained the obedience and submission of the most perfect Child toward the best of all mothers. But we must take great pains not to conceive this depenence as any abasement or imperfection in Jesus Christ. For Mary is infinitely below her Son, who is God, and therefore she does not command Him as a mother here below would command her child who is below her. Mary, being altogether transformed into God  by grace and by the glory which transforms all the saints into Him, asks nothing, wishes nothing, does nothing contrary to the eternal and immutable will of God......If Moses, by the force of his prayer, stayed the anger of God against the Israelites in a manner so powerful that the most high and infinitely merciful Lord, being unable to resist him, told him to let Him alone that He might be angry  with and punish that rebellious people, what must we not, with much grater reason, think of the prayer of the humble Mary, that worthy Mother of God, which is more powerful with His Majesty than the prayers and intercessions of all the angels and saints  both in Heaven and on earth?