The Love of Our Lady for Infants

by Mother Mary Potter, Catholic Family Magazine, Australia

Poor little ones, coming into this world, gifts from God, every hour, indeed every moment of the day and night, springing into existence. It is of Mary’s’ love for you we are now about to speak.

Little souls, to whom God is every instant imparting life, Mary loves you, for it is by the almighty creating power of God that you spring into life. The good God’s love is continually satisfying its desire to give, and He loves with an unspeakable love each new life He gives, for it is His, and bears His own image and likeness.

The Mother of fair love, too, loves each little infant life, as it is given to this world by God; intensely she loves it; she knows for what it is destined; she knows the throne it should have in heaven; she knows how precious that soul is to God.

Our Lady sees so much we do not see; she knows the love of the Sacred Heart for each individual soul that lives upon this earth; she knows and realizes — oh, so differently from what we do, though we believe it — she realizes, I say, how that Jesus shed His Blood for each and every soul upon this earth.

The Heart of Our Lady yearns over the infants that are daily born into the world; she wants these infants; she would have their souls washed and purified from sin as soon as they are born.

She is truly Mother of all mankind, and would do a Mother’s part by each, but she has to act by instruments: such is God’s will; thus has God ordained, and so our dear Mother anxiously, wistfully, looks for us to co-operate with her that the children daily born into the world may be baptized. This is a work we should pray about and use active exertions about, too; and yet how supine we are in a matter of such unspeakable moment.

There are some who have prayed and labored for this work, and how many little buds have they not laid at Mary’s feet in heaven, to blossom for ever in the paradise of God; how many have they not saved from the fearful calamity of dying without Baptism.

What a grand work it is, and we could do it so easily. Look at St. Francis Xavier’s anxiety about this all-important matter. See if one of the works he had most at heart in the Indies was not the baptism of infants; and let anyone go up the courts and alleys of our large towns, or into the cottages in our villages, and they will quickly discover that they need not go to heathen lands to be a St. Francis Xavier.

Poor little infants, they daily die, and the Precious Blood is not poured upon them, the Holy Ghost has not breathed upon them. By a little exertion we might have saved them, we might have sent them to heaven to adorn Mary’s crown, with their baptismal innocence upon them; but we interested not ourselves in them.

We cared not to do the work ourselves, of visiting houses and the cottages of the poor; and we cared not to support the works of charity, to assist charitable institutions, to help with our money those religious and others who make it their life to live for their neighbor, and who in their errands of charity find how much more might be done which cannot be done because “the harvest indeed is ready, but the laborers are few,” and those few cannot do what they would for want of means.

Believe me, there is work to be done for Jesus that is not thought of. There are ways of saving souls if we only wish to do so.

Now what a great work, and what an easy one, is this for those who may not feel within them the power of converting souls, who have not the perseverance, the penance, the earnest trust, the never-failing hope which it requires.

Here is easy work for you. Pray for infants, especially that they may have the grace of Baptism. It is a most efficacious prayer. Infants have no will, no malice to resist or put obstacles in the way of prayer.

When we pray for others, their perverse will may hinder the effect of our prayer, but with infants it cannot be so; it is a kind of prayer most certain in its effect, a prayer the Mother’s Heart in heaven will be most grateful for, a prayer that will bring untold blessings upon yourself; for the little ones will plead for you before the throne of God, when they are twined as a garland round Mary, giving her great joy and pleasure.

Remember what a vast proportion of the human race die in infancy. Will they not plead for you on earth whom they so love, to whom they are so indebted, to whom they will be eternally grateful?

Yes, the ages will roll on, on, on, and still the gratitude of these holy innocents will be ever fresh, ever the same, and they will be an eternal joy to you, an eternal joy to the Mother-Heart of Mary, the everlasting delight of God, the pure, fresh blossoms of the Precious Blood.

Jesus, look with an eye of mercy upon all the infants born into the world today. Remember how You suffered and died on Calvary for them. Remember how Mary loves the souls for whom You shed Your Precious Blood.

Think of the desire of her Maternal Heart, that children who are born should be washed in Thy Blood and born to a new life by baptism. Suffer not that these infants die without Thy grace. Bring to them the cleansing waters of baptism and save them.

Mother Mary pray for thy children. Pray that God may take to Himself today souls now in His grace who tomorrow might sin. Pray that children, now God’s children, innocent, may die (if it so pleases God, and He foresees they would be eternally lost), ere they become His enemies by sin.

O Mother of Christians, Mother of mankind, since Jesus was born and died for all mankind, pray for all upon this earth that they may all indeed be thine by being Christ’s, that grace may be brought to all, that none may die without baptism, and that those who have lost the innocence given them in baptism may be cleansed by contrition and penance ere they die.

Mother, inspire thy children to imitate thee, to live a life of devotion to others, a life of love for God and man. May none in God’s Church stand idle all day, saying, “No man hath hired them”; but send them, sweet Mother, into God’s vineyard to work for the good Master who has promised to those who work a reward so great.

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