It's liberating and at the same time challenging to no longer think that certain people are just predestined to go to hell, and there's nothing anyone can do for them past a certain point. But our Holy Mother is indeed close to those who need our Lord's mercy the most - for all Catholics devoted to Mary, we can pray with this confidence, that she will honor our earnest desire to see that those who need mercy most are sent up to heaven ahead of everyone else. I never thought that my own biological parents, who for their whole lives have had nothing to do with God or with any religion at all, would now be so high on the list of Mary's intercessory concerns in my devotional times. Who but this humble, immaculate virgin could have placed it in my heart to honor my parents (obey the basic commandment) in this particular way?
The greatest sacrifice that any human being can make through prayer is to find the lowest, most despised and rejected of creatures and give up one's own preferences to see to it that such creatures are placed first in line to reach the glory of God. Mary has always prayed for sinners in this way: may all who love her look forward to finding her working feverishly on behalf of such hopeless souls.
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