MOTHER OF OUR CREATOR

(1) MARY, you are the Mother of our Creator because you are the Mother of the Son of God, who is also our Creator. Of you and in you He assumed human nature. Since the three Divine Persons are only one God, they possess the same power, the same wisdom, the same goodness, the same will. St. John tells us that the Divine Word cooperated in the work of creation: "All things were made through him (the Word), and without him was made nothing that has been made" (John 1,3). Your Creator dwelt in your womb and was born to you, His creature. You can say with truth: "He who created me rested in my tabernacle" (Ecclus 24,12).

All the works of God—the earth, the heavens, the angels—though great and glorious, are indeed very small compared with Him who created them all. How then can I understand your greatness and dignity as the Mother of this Creator? Your dignity is so great the although God should create a thousand worlds more beautiful than the one we inhabit, He could never create a greater Mother, because your dignity as Mother depends upon the dignity of your Son. None but God can fully understand the perfection of His own nature and none but God can estimate your greatness as Mother of the Creator.

(2) MARY, your Son is also our Creator in the spiritual sense, for He created a new human race. As a result of sin, mankind, groping hopelessly in the black night of ignorance, had lost almost all knowledge of God and His revelation, and the grace of becoming pleasing to God. Your Son came upon earth to free men from this miserable state—to enlighten them as to what they should do to become good and be saved. He raised them up from their spiritual death to the life of grace, blotting out their guilt, justifying and sanctifying them; He conquered even death itself. This new creation is accomplished in holy Baptism and is continued in the other sacraments which receive their power to impart grace from the merits of your Son.

Mother of Our Creator, teach me to admire the power, wisdom, and goodness of my Creator, and to adore Him. Since He has created all things for my benefit, help me to show myself grateful to Him and to make use of His gifts according to His will as you have ever done. Let me never ever offend Him by abusing my body with its senses, my soul with its faculties, my temporal good or anything else by committing sin. Help me to use God's gifts in His holy service and for the benefit of my immortal soul.

(3) MARY, you are all-powerful in your prayers with our Creator. The Creator is almighty, otherwise He could not have created anything; He is infinitely good; otherwise, He would not have been willing to create us; He is infinitely merciful, otherwise He would not have re-created us. You called this Creator your Son when after finding Jesus in the temple, you asked Him, "Son, why hast thou done so to us?" Surely, this almighty, this good and merciful Creator cannot refuse you, His Mother, when you intercede for us. The Son is pleased if His Mother makes a request of Him, and He will give you everything you may ask of Him. How great then should be my confidence in you!

Mother of Our Creator, I put complete confidence in your prayers, because you have a Mother's power over the Heart of Your Divine Son. Plead then that I may reach my goal in life, the vision of God who created me to live with Him and to share in His bliss for all eternity.

O God, You never fail us in Your Providence; we humbly beg You, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Your Son, to remove all evils from us and provide us with that which will profit our souls. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen. (Feast of the Mother of Divine Providence, Sat. before third Sun. of Nov.)