Just imagine the incredible number of Christian institutions, orders and other religious congregations both for men and women, throughout the ages and spread over the entire globe which have chosen the Virgin Mary as their model and patron saint. There is a multitude!
How can we wonder why when we can see that a Marian dimension goes all along through the entire life of a Christian?
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In the first place, Mary is the Mother of the Redeemer and the Mother of the human race. She maternally accompanies us when we meet her Son and her prayers, interceding on our behalf, have been considered since the beginning of time to be the most powerful way of touching God's heart.
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Mary is also the "smoothest" way to her Son, as the great mystics and Church Fathers have always claimed...
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Concerning the main mysteries of the faith; Christians believe to such an extent that Jesus Christ is the sole Redeemer with the exceptional participation of the Blessed Virgin, in His Incarnation and His Redemption of the world, that both the Magisterium of the Church and the humble prayers of the faithful cannot bear to separate the two...
