Devotion to Mary: ten minutes with the Madonna

Dear son, if you knew the beautiful gift that Providence gives you in leading you in front of me! ... I am your mother, and I possess countless treasures combined with the ardent desire to pour them over you .. So be cheerful and take courage!

What do you have?,. You do not seem to be clothed with that joy that soothes me so much ... Which front may not be serene before me ?. Deh! wake up your fervor, kindle your zeal ... Why do you want to mortify me by not showing yourself all cheerful at my feet? '

The anguish of a poor sick person may be serious; however, he covers himself with joy when he sees a. doctor who can heal him ... Son, I am the medicine of all evils.

In the midst of a sea storm the passengers do not fear, when they have a good pilot with them to reassure them, even if your dangers are great: what are you afraid of if I am in your spacecraft?

But I want you to tell me about your miseries, if you want me to be your health: I want you to reveal your dangers to me, if you yearn for me to escape.

Have confidence in me, oh son: my heart does not open before those who do not hurl themselves in my arms, as you baby boy, you used with] to your parent.

I am all sweetness and sweetness: I appeal to the Mother of Piety and Mercy. No one has ever regretted having set me aside from his secrets, to have reasoned me about his misfortunes, to have discovered his wounds, to have revealed his poverty to me.

Remember: at the wedding at Cana my heart could not resist before that cloud of confusion, which due to lack of wine was about to fall over the two spouses; and you want me not to soften me in front of affairs of greater importance and the spectacle of real misfortunes? Open your heart before me, and let yourself be benefited by those who love you.

I know that you live in a world unfortunately full of fallacious flatteries, that nights and days threaten you ... I know that your passions are alive and ardent ... I know, that your weakness is great ...

that you often let yourself be deluded, and commit lack of loyalty to my Son ... but here I am: I am ready to help you, provided that you are ready to receive my gifts.

Show me your mind ... Oh! why those thoughts of pride, of envy, of jealousy, of vanity, of flesh? .. Give me your intellect and I will purify it like gold.

Open your heart ... What are you afraid of? Why so much reluctance? Courage ... Ah, poor heart! How many affects tear it!, .. How much dust it disfigures it ... how many shadows obscure it! ... How many wounds dress it! ... Give it to me ... my Jesus placed his Heart in my hands, and will you doubt it? O dear, queen of your heart, and you will see it changed into a source of happiness for you.

Tell me now: how do you regulate your exterior? .. How do you watch over your eyes? .. How are you park and right in your words? How do you keep your ears? ... How do you regulate your whole person together? .. This redness, which appears on your face, is a very eloquent answer. Do not be discouraged, O son: if your interior is in my hands, your exterior will become Holy and precious.

Will you promise me to put my hands to work? .. What will you answer? .. Deh, don't give me a negative that would be too bitter! ... Don't want to be disheartened! ... I will always be with you ... I'll smooth you every way ... I'll make it easy for you it's difficult…

Come on, get up and walk with me on the noble path of Christian virtues.

Come back often to my feet, son ... fall in love with my lessons ... let me guide you, and not. it will never happen, that you put your foot in the wrong, and that you lose the kingdom of heaven.

Holy Mother of God, we take refuge under the mantle of your protection, do not disdain our prayers in any need, but always free us from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin ».