Marie de Nazareth
To Jesus, through Mary
The following excerpt from the Litanies of the Blessed Virgin Mary gives an idea of the number and majestic beauty of titles and other names with which generations of faithful have praised, venerated and prayed Mary over the centuries. As many titles (and the list is far from being exhaustive) recognized by the Church who made an official prayer, of them, called the Litanies of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
Litanies of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Immaculate one, conceived without sin
- Mother of Mercy
- Mother of the Eucharist
- Mother of Hope
- Mother of the Church
- Mother of All People
- Virgin of the Poor
- Handmaid of the Lord
- Seat of Wisdom
- Temple of the Holy Spirit
- Morning Star
- Gate of Heaven
- Splendor of Creation
- Mediatrix of Grace
- Guide of the consecrated
- Model of Wives
- Protectress of Families
- Comforter of the Afflicted
- Advocate of the Oppressed
- Health of the Sick (OL of the Sick, Lourdes)
- Refuge of Sinners
- Joy of God's Children
- Queen assumed into Heaven, Queen of Angels, Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Virgins, etc.
- Our Lady of Prayer
- Our Lady of Fair Love
- Our Lady of the Magnificat
- Our Lady of Good Harbor
- Our Lady of Supreme Forgiveness...
without counting the numerous titles taken from the Old Testament which concern Mary, such as Daughter of Sion, New Eve, New Ark of the Covenant, Ark of Noah ...
Her title of titles
As we can see through all these titles that many of the aspects of Our Lady's vocation are presented to our meditation and prayer: the titles resemble her, she who is unique among all creatures on earth and in heaven, because she was directly associated by the Lord himself to the work of his Incarnation and Redemption of the world, and because she is both Mother of God and Mother of sinners. For us human children, isn't the dearest title of our eternal, very caring and powerful advocate before God the one that is the most universally understood? Her title of titles is that of mother, Our Mother.