22 May 2019
Consoling Thoughts From Father Faber
What would the sea of human sorrows be without Mary’s moonlight on it? The ocean with the dark, heavy, over spread clouds lowering upon it, does not differ more widely from the silvery plain of green and whitely-flashing waters exulting in the sunlight, than the weary expanse of life’s successive cares without the softening and almost alluring light which falls upon it from Mary’s love, differs from the life as it now lies before us before her maternal throne. How many a tear has she not already wiped away from our eyes! How many bitter tears has she not made sweet in the shedding! And there is age and the yearly narrowing circle of those we love, and sickness, and death, all yet to come, and to what amount may we not have to draw upon the treasure of consolation in her sinless heart?
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