Month of Mary: Ark of the Covenant
God, seeing that we are unworthy to receive his graces directly from him, gives them to Mary so that we might receive from her all that he decides to give us.
His glory is achieved when he receives through Mary the gratitude, respect and love we owe him in return for his gifts to us.
It is only right then that we should imitate his conduct, "in order", as St. Bernard again says, "that grace might return to its author by the same channel through which it came to us." Ut eodem alveo ad largitorem gratia redeat quo fluxit.
This is what we do by this devotion. We offer and consecrate all we are and all we possess to the Blessed Virgin in order that our Lord may receive through her as intermediary the glory and gratitude that we owe to him. We deem ourselves unworthy and unfit to approach his infinite majesty on our own, and so we avail ourselves of Mary's intercession.
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, §142.
FSSPX.News – 5/8/2018