She is good; she is tender. There is in her nothing austere, nothing forbidding, nothing too sublime, nothing too bright. Seeing her, we see our pure nature.

She is not the sun that might dazzle us by its rays. She is more like the moon, which receives and tempers the light of the sun and adjusts it to our dim perception.

Mary is so loving. She sends no one away who asks her intercession, even though they be the worst of sinners. As all the saints declare, never has it been known that anyone who had recourse to her with trust and perseverance was left unaided.

She is so powerful with God that he has never denied one of her requests. She has but to present herself with a prayer before her Son. At once he grants it. He is always vanquished by the womb that bore him, the breasts that nourished him, and the lips and eyes that worship him as they pray.

—From True Devotion to Mary, pp, 62-63, (2005), adapted by Eddie Doherty and available from MH Publications.