Our Mother of Perpetual Help on Repentance
The Blessed Virgin Mary is called, and is truly, the Perpetual Help of all the unfortunates for whom the most loving Mother seems to reserve her most tender glances and whom She makes the special object of Her most compassionate concern: they are the poor sinners, and it is easy to understand the reason behind that predilection. The greater the misfortune of a child, the more maternal love increases. Well then, what greater misfortune is there than that of being separated from Jesus and being chained to the shameful slavery of the devil? By losing sanctifying grace, the unhappy one has made himself the target of divine anger; the ire of God's clamors against him, and if death should surprise him, oh what calamity! His lot would be among the reprobate. That is why the kindest of mothers pours out on Her children, the sinners, all the treasures of the mercy and tenderness of Her maternal Heart. She attracts them with the sweetness of Her name: Mother of Perpetual Help; with the fame...