Mary, Queen of Apostles

Mary plays a notable role in Pauline spirituality.The Pauline Family has the mission of making Jesus Christ known, imitated, and lived as the Master. It will carry out this privileged mission in a holy manner by making Mary, Teacher, known, loved, and invoked. She gave the world Jesus Master, who is the blessed fruit of her womb. Pauline teaching will be immensely more effective if it is inspired, guided and comforted by Mary: "With her help you will not grow tired," we sing in one of the Marian hymns. No one would want to deprive him/herself of such a great help. Pauline discipleship is to be wholly grafted onto Mary, who will form Jesus Christ in everyone. This means becoming Christians, apostles, saints. (Cf. Alberione, CISP, p. 1338)

Devotion to Mary, which is a part of the Pauline spirit, has two ends for us: our religious sanctification and the pastoral apostolate, that is, reaching out to all men and women,"To Jesus through Mary." Write well of Mary because she is the way to go to Jesus, the easiest way. (Alberione, Ariccia, meditation notes, 1936)

The Pauline Family aspires to live the gospel of Jesus Christ, Way, Truth, and Life, totally in the spirit of St. Paul, under the gaze of the Queen of the Apostles. (Alberione, AD 93)

The first devotion we find in the Church is devotion to the Queen of Apostles, as expressed in the Cenacle. It lessened a bit and became obscure with the passing of the centuries. You have the sweet mission of gathering the faithful around Mary, Queen of the Apostles. You are to reawaken this devotion. You are to fulfill this most delightful mission in the Church. It means reawakening all apostolates and arousing vocations.

Let us return to the sources. At the sources we find Mary, Queen of the Apostles, and if it was so at the beginning of the Church, there is nothing more certain than to draw from the ancient Faith. The water is purer when it is taken from its sources. (Alberione, HM VIII, 1947-1948, p. 80)

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