The Immaculate Virgin Mary is Christ's Mother; she is also mine. Christ has chosen her for both of us. He has adorned her with grace and purity. He has given her all the gifts that a mere creature can have. Christ received the fullness of the priesthood in her all-pure womb. I, although infinitely unworthy, was also conceived a priest with Christ in that virginal sanctuary. In Christ's divine plan He did not will to become incarnate and to become a priest without the previous consent and cooperation of His Blessed Mother. I would not have become her child and Christ's priest unless she had willed it also, unless she chose me as her adopted son.
How happy and grateful I am to belong to her not only through my own choice, but by the personal choice of her maternal heart and by an eternal decree of God the Father! Although Christ is God, He willed that while on earth He should receive everything through His mother. It is to her that He made known all His needs, and addressed all His requests. I likewise address to her all my prayers and I receive all from her mother's hand. Christ is infinitely good and powerful; He is ready to give me everything I ask for. Nevertheless He will not do so except on receiving a sign from His Immaculate Mother.
Mary is the distributor and Mediatrix of all graces. Let us pray to God through her. Let us offer all that we have and are to God in and through her always!
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
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