We would urge our members to have a constant and ever-increasing
devotion to our Blessed Mother. No new obligation is contracted by
members, but they are requested to say frequently the invocation
inscribed on the medal: "O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us
who have recourse to thee." We would also be pleased to receive from
members an account of the special favors and graces they may receive
through Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, for such statements tend to
make her powerful intercession better known and to spread devotion to
her.
You are well aware that your great work in life, the one thing
necessary is your personal sanctification. The one thing we need in
life is greater love for Jesus. Day by day our life moves on towards
eternity, and day by day we feel that we must be busy about life's
supreme work, its greatest good,--the growing like unto Jesus. Who is
to assist us in our task, in our daily efforts? Mary, our Mother. She
is the "Gate of Heaven," the "Morning Star" of our life. No one has
ever called upon her and been left unaided.
In joy and sorrow, in peace and trouble, in life's unceasing
struggle, when temptations gather and the burden grows heavy, call
upon Mary Immaculate, and you will find peace and rest to your soul.
Strive to bring others to know her. Tell them of her beauty and her
glory, of the marvelous sanctity wherewith God has clothed her. To
know her is to love her; and they that find her shall find life and
shall have salvation from the Lord.
She is the protectress and guide of youth, the help and strength of
advancing years, and the consolation and sweetness of old age.
Through Mary we shall find Jesus, and to find Jesus is life's hope
fulfilled,--the completion of our joy, the crown and palm of victory.