Let us never speak again of your mercy, Blessed Virgin, if anyone can recall having invoked you in times of trouble and you didn't come to help.
We, your servants, congratulate you on your other virtues, but we congratulate ourselves on your mercy. We praise your virginity, we admire your humility, but mercy has for the miserable a sweeter taste. We embrace mercy with more tenderness; we call it to mind more often, we call upon it more frequently.
It is mercy, indeed, which obtained that the world be restored, which forcefully drew by its prayers salvation for all men. Of course, Mary is concerned for the human race. She is the one to whom it was said, "Do not fear, O Mary, you found grace, precisely that grace you were looking for."
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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