God, A Woman, And The Way Quotes

“It is no wonder that Mary loves our day and age. Thanks to persecution, we are giving more to her Son than any other age or day since Calvary. The Nazis in Germany, Austria, and Poland; The Reds in all the Balkan lands, Russia, and now in China, have done more for heaven than ever did the Roman Caesars, the kings and queens of England, or the madmen of the French Revolution. They have done more for the earth, too. For while peopling heaven with martyrs, they have also spread far and wide the grace of Christ Jesus, thanks to the oneness of His mystical body.”
― M. Raymond, God, A Woman, And The Way: Mediator And Mediatrix

“It takes courage to be a Christian. It takes great courage to go out and meet Christ when He is on the road to Calvary. But just as a coward has no right to call himself a man, so a slacker in any slightest degree has no right to call himself a Christian. We cannot say that we are "of Christ", far less that we are "in Christ", if we flinch the fullness of crucifixion!”
― M. Raymond, God, A Woman, And The Way: Mediator And Mediatrix

“This morning, I, and every priest who offered the Holy Sacrifice, took an almost weightless wafer of wheat, a drop of water, and a very insignificant amount of wine - three very ordinary, and truly insignificant things, no matter how we view them - and we offer them to God. Certainly in a world such as ours, these three things, plus the few words my fellow priests and I spoke, amount to nothing. Yet, when touched by God, when taken by Christ, when transubstantiated, what in the wide world can compare with them? Of the three things offered, neither you nor I, by ordinary vision, could see anything of the water; and of the wheat and the wine, the appearances remained just as insignificant after Consecration as before. But how deceiving are those appearances! The dynamism and power said to be latent in certain atoms is as nothing compared to the Power in what looks like a tiny wafer of wheat and a half ounce of wine. Omnipotence is there. And so with our insignificant lives and the truly insignificant acts that fill them. Once they are placed in Christ Jesus, touched by God, taken into His Christ, they can save the world.”
― M. Raymond, God, A Woman, And The Way: Mediator And Mediatrix

“And each Catholic father and mother who give their all to their children, laboring day in and day out to shelter these breaths of God from contamination by the world, focusing all their attention on the formation of their minds and hearts to that in afterlife purity will be prized before any pleasure, honesty above all gain, and sinlessness beyond all station in society; every engaged Catholic young man and woman who spend the time of courtship in deepening the realization of the sublimity and the sanctity of the state they plan to enter; the Catholic men and women who have given themselves to a profession or a career and accent the fact that they are Catholics first and professional or career people afterwards, are speaking to the world with the same eloquence as those behind cloister, grate, curtain, and grille. This is a startling simplicity to our Catholic way of life. There is a power to our Catholic example which is irresistible. But we forget. We forget that the world watches. We forget that it hears our testimony though we speak not a word. We forget that we are witnesses at every moment and that the testimony we give will either convert man or condemn Christ!”
― M. Raymond, God, A Woman, And The Way: Mediator And Mediatrix

“By way of parenthesis let me say that this hand on the tomb has a lovely lesson for all those unfortunate members of Christ who have fallen into mortal sin. In them, Jesus lies dead - as dead as he was on this Sabbath of twenty centuries ago. But on them, as on this tomb, the hand of Mary, the Refuge of Sinners, rests, awaiting and praying for the Resurrection of Christ within them! May those who are in such a state fell that hand as they read this book, and bring Christ to life within them by asking Mary to help them make a perfect act of contrition, which is an act of love, this moment. She can grant such a grace; for she is Mediatrix of all grace!”
― M. Raymond, God, A Woman, And The Way: Mediator And Mediatrix