Mary"! Saint Luke and the Magnificat Saint Luke shows us also that the prayer of Mary is first of all a Magnificat: Mary teaches us to remember the great things that God does, beginning with the Incarnation: [...] the one who loves life and directs our hearts towards life. The cross of Jesus has meaning only as a passage, as Passover. The tree of life is also the cross (SM 22), but as it is always directed towards [...] The Tree of Life: Central Symbol of the Spirituality of Saint Louis Marie de Montfort ( L'Arbre de vie : Symbole central de la spiritualité de saint Louis-Marie de Montfort)

Christ who became a servant (Jn 13), took the form of a slave (Phil. 2.7), and as such was able to be the Redeemer. The word "child" certainly points to the fight in Revelation 12, a passage that mentions [...] also relies on Scripture, especially Genesis and Revelation (Gn 3:15, Rev 12), which he interprets in a Marian perspective. In actual fact, the Virgin Mary, more intensely than anyone, embraced the infinite [...] woman crushes the snake. These children, or slaves who have the spirit of childhood, are giving Satan a hard time: Mary's faithful servants and children… whom he finds more difficult to overcome than others

are read in the Church and are understood in the light of a further and full revelation, bring the figure of a woman, Mother of the Redeemer, into a gradually clearer light. Considered in this light, she [...] preceded by assent on the part of the predestined mother, so that just as a woman had a share in bringing about death, so also a woman should contribute to life. This is preeminently true of the Mother [...] faith becomes herself a mother. By preaching and baptism she brings forth sons, who are conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of God, to a new and immortal life. She herself is a virgin, who keeps in its

voice her praises and make known her compassion. There is not a child who does not praise her by lisping a Hail Mary. There is scarcely a sinner, however hardened, who does not possess some spark of confidence [...] excellence of Mary, who is indeed a miracle of miracles of grace, nature and glory. "If you wish to understand the Mother," says a saint, "then understand the Son. She is a worthy Mother of God." Hic taceat [...] the external glory which heaven and earth vie with each other to give her is nothing compared to what she has received interiorly from her Creator, namely, a glory unknown to insignificant creatures like