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Whatever our difficulty, Thomas counsels us to pray to Mary, “for in every danger you can obtain salvation from this glorious Virgin [and] in every work of virtue you can have Mary as your helper [for] she truly says of herself, ‘I am the Mother of fair love, and of fear , and of knowledge, and of holy hope, in me is all grace of the way; in me is all hope of life and of virtue.” (Ecclus 24:24)
In the plan of God, Mary’s “yes” stood for the “yes” of all God’s people thereby making it possible for every person to pronounce his or her own fiat and attain intimate union with the divine nature. St. Thomas calls Mary mediatrix and consolatrix and in his prayer he entrusts his entire person to the intimacy of her pure, grace-filled and loving heart.
