TELL EVERYONE - ABOUT THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

ABOUT THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

"When you are to say this, don't go and hide. 

Tell everybody that God grants us graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; that people are to ask her for them through it; and that the Heart of Jesus wants the Immaculate Heart of Mary to be venerated alongside His own.

Tell them also to pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for peace, since God entrusted it to her."

These are the words of Saint Jacinta Marto, the youngest of the Shepherds of Fatima. Imagine the duty of spreading the messages of the Blessed Virgin being upheld by a 7-year-old girl.

She said, "when you are to say this, don't go and hide." This simply means we should not be ashamed to proclaim the Blessed Virgin Mary to whoever needs to hear it. We should not hesitate to tell all those we encounter about the "Glories of Mary" - a book written by Saint Alphonsus Liguori. There is a promise attached to spreading the messages of Our Lady. It is the twelfth of the fifteen promises she gave to Blessed Alan de La Roche - that all who spread the messages of the Rosary shall be assisted by the Blessed Virgin Mary, in all their necessities. Imagine getting Our Lady's help in everything you do. Mind you, in everything necessary, not the unnecessary things you do.

So like Saint Jacinta advised, we are implored to preach Our Lady, by words and even by deeds. Don't be afraid of people calling you names because you honour Mary. Even Our Lady herself knows that "Catholics don't worship Mary," and she's been helping us, Christians, come closer to her Son. Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe advised we should not be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin Mary too much, because we cannot love her more than Jesus did. So we shouldn't give heed to those who say we worship Mary, even if it looks like she's been worshipped to them.

May Our Lady grant us all the graces we need to love her like Jesus, her only Son did.