In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

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, intercede for me.

Our topic of conversation with our Lord and with his mother is concretely on the theme of his

mother as teacher of friendship.

She could teach us every aspect of our Lord's life. And what makes Mary special is that she incarnated perfectly the life and teachings of her son. Without being too pedantic with Greek terminology, the common teaching of the church is that we venerate the saints with respect and devotion,

and the official Greek word is dula.

Sounds like the sickness.

And the veneration and honor we give to God, we give to Christ, is called Latria.

It's devotion and adoration and praise only reserved for God.

The saints are not God.

They're intercessors.

Men and women we venerate and love, since they heroically incarnated the life of Christ with imperfections,

since every human being suffers the effects of a wounded nature, barring the blessed mother.

And the veneration we give to Mary is called Hyperdulia, an intense veneration.

And only she receives that kind of devotion.

Obviously she is a human being, so she would not receive adoration only designated to God,

but at the same time, I shouldn't put it that way, but she's not one more saint.

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