Opus Dei is a Catholic institution founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá. Its mission is to spread the message that work and the circumstances of everyday life are occasions for growing closer to God, for serving others, and for improving society. http://www.opusdei.org.in/sec.php?s=310 http://www.opusdei.org/img/opusdeirss.gif http://www.opusdei.org.in/sec.php?s=310 Your love for Our Lady should be more lively, more supernatural. Don't just go to the Virgin Mary to ask her for things. You should also go to give: give her your affection; give her your love for her divine Son; and show her your affection with deeds of service to others, who are also her children. (The Forge, 137) http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15626 http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15626 My Mother! Mothers on earth look with greater love upon the weakest of their children, the one with the worst health, or who is least intelligent, or is a poor cripple. Sweet Lady, I know that you are more of a Mother than all other mothers put together. And, since I am your son, since I am weak, and ill, and crippled, and ugly ... (The Forge, 234) http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15625 http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15625 Mary, your Mother, will bring you to the Love of Jesus. There you will be cum gaudio et pace, with joy and peace. And you will be always "brought", because on your own you would fall and get covered with mud: you will be brought onward, brought to believe, to love, and to suffer. (The Forge, 677) http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15624 http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15624 When you see yourself with a dry heart, without knowing what to say, go with confidence to the Virgin Mary. Say to her, "My Mother Immaculate, intercede for me.'' If you invoke her with faith, she will make you taste in the midst of your dryness the proximity of God. (Furrow, 695) http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15623 http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15623 Without God's help it is impossible to live a clean life. God wants us to be humble, and to ask him for his help through our Mother who is his Mother. You should say to Our Lady, right now, speaking without the sound of words, from the accompanied solitude of your heart: "O, my Mother, sometimes this poor heart of mine rebels; but if you help me ..." She will indeed help you to keep it clean and to follow the way God has called you to pursue. The Virgin Mary will always make it easier for you to fulfill the Will of God. (The Forge, 315) http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15622 http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15622 Auxilium christianorum! -- Help of Christians, says the litany of Loreto with confidence. Have you tried to repeat that aspiration in time of difficulty? If you do it with faith, with the tenderness of a daughter or a son, you will discover the power of the intercession of your Holy Mother Mary, who will lead you to victory. (Furrow, 180) http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15621 http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15621 Mary's humble song of joy, the Magnificat, recalls to our minds the infinite generosity of the Lord towards those who become like children towards those who abase themselves and are sincerely aware that they are nothing. (The Forge, 608) http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15620 http://www.opusdei.org.in/art.php?p=15620