My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me. I adore you with

profound reverence. I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my father, and Lord, my guardian angel, and to seed one.

Lord, as we immerse ourselves in your presence in the Blessed

Sacrament, the Blessed Sacrament always has special meaning when we contemplate Mary. And I know

the topic of Our Lady is the main topic of our monthly day of recollection, but using a phrase of St. Bernard of Clairvaux,

Ray Doctrine, the church who lived in the 12th century, De Maria numquamsates,

you could never have enough of Mary, because she is that shortcut.

As the saints have shown us, she's the shortcut to Jesus Christ.

On this Mother's Day, devoted to moms, whether our moms here on earth, or in heaven,

we honor Mary in a special way. And we ask our Lord, Lord,

how do you want us to look at your mother? The obvious answer is, as your own mother,

as in your case, a little daughter with a mom who happens to the mother of God and our mother and queen of heaven and earth.

So a very powerful and perfect mother.

And there's so many ways to look at our lady, and we should take advantage of all those

ways since she is our mother and queen of heaven and earth.

But let's look at sacred scripture.

She's revealed as our hope.

In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the first prophecy in the whole Bible is about her and

her son, and more or less the very last prophecy is about her and her son and the church. And she wants

us to see her, yes, as her mother, but at the same time as a force behind overcoming evil, a force

in extending the apostolate, a force of evangelization. What said about the blessed mother does not

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