And there with Our Lord she actively shares in his love and care both for his Church and for the welfare of all its members.  How could she do otherwise?  For, as the Saviour’s Mother, she by Divine Providence and by her own deliberate choice, played a unique and essential part in the work of our salvation.

So her thoughts are turned upon the Church and her prayers are offered for it.  It could not be otherwise.  And that relationship which exists now in Heaven between Jesus and Mary sets the pattern for us to imitate in our attitude to them on earth.

Since Jesus and Mary are inseparables, we must treat them so.  It is a great error to separate in one’s mind and devotional life what can never be separated in reality.  Rather we should acknowledge and celebrate all that Our Lady is and does, with special celebrations in those parish churches which bear her name and are so entrusted to her patronage and therefore to her prayers.