This is a very powerful thought: the road to salvation and sanctity can be summed up, after a fashion, as recourse to Mary, the Mediatrix of all grace interceding for us. The soul which lives habitually in dispositions of abandonment and complete confidence in Mary is wonderfully instructed by this good Mother Herself. You will not notice it, but at a given moment your ideas will change, you will understand things that were obscure to you. You will say, “I don’t know what happened.” Transformations will be worked mysteriously within you, even during your sleep. The workings of God in souls are very mysterious. How is it that sometimes from one day to the next your ideas change, your tastes for earthly, carnal things vanish and are replaced by an attraction for virtue and holy things? It is the work of grace. Before making these transformations, however, God can allow certain souls to suffer. Sometimes it takes quite a long time; do not despair! Never will God deceive a person who has placed all his trust in Him. If you expect everything from the Blessed Virgin, if you expect everything 12 MARY, THE SPEEDWAY
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