It’s not hard to notice that immorality, violence, impurity and evil of all shapes and sizes is rampant in our civilization. It’s good versus evil day in and day out, and it often seems that evil prevails. Yet, for those who know their Mother in Heaven – the Virgin Mary – evil is on the run, and has been since her purity graced the earth 2,000 years ago.

The Virgin Mary, quite simply is God’s greatest creation. And although the Virgin Mary is the Immaculate Conception, she doesn’t have a trace of arrogance or pride in her entire body.

And it’s this humility and purity before God that makes the Blessed Virgin Mary – by nature – an enemy of the pride, arrogance and dissent of the devil and his minions.

Fear No Evil! For the Virgin Mary Hears Your Prayers!

This knock-down, drag-out fight between the Virgin Mary and Satan, is referenced all the way back in Genesis when God tells Satan:

“I will put enmities between thee and the woman and they seed and her seed; she shall crush thy head, and though shalt lie in wait for her heel (Gen 3:15).”

So right from the beginning, the Holy Virgin Mary was crushing evil and standing up to sin. The great St. Louis De Montfort in his book True Devotion to Mary makes it clear that the Virgin Mary and those who love her, are part of a spiritual battle.

“God has set enmities, antipathies and secret hatreds between the true children and servants of Mary and the children and slaves of the devil.”

Is it any wonder then that it was the the Blessed Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Guadalupe) who confronted the evil of  human sacrifices in the Aztec civilization of present-day Mexico, converting the people to the Catholic faith?

Today the human sacrifices aren’t done on public temples, but in private abortion clinics. And it’s only devotion to the Holy Virgin Mary that will abolish the crime of abortion in America.

St. Luis De Montfort reminds us that Satan, in his pride, can’t stand to be defeated by a humble, pure little woman named the Blessed Virgin Mary:

“Satan, being proud, suffers infinitely more from being beaten and punished by a little and humble handmaid of God, and her humility humbles him more than the divine power.”

We should recall Pope John Paul II’s Virgin Mary devotion, and that devotion to the Virgin Mary is a sign that our faith is one with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, the Holy Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

St. Padre Pio understood that the Blessed Virgin Mary was a shield against evil. When St. Padre Pio wanted his Rosary, he’d famously say: “Get me my weapon!”

Devotion to the Virgin Mary is so important to the Church and the faithful that the Catechism of the Catholic Church notes:

971 “‘All generations will call me blessed‘: ‘The Church’s devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship.’ The Church rightly honors ‘the Blessed Virgin with special devotion. From the most ancient times the Blessed Virgin has been honored with the title of ‘Mother of God,’ to whose protection the faithful fly in all their dangers and needs. . . .”

Today Roman Catholics celebrate the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The immaculate conception, refers not to the birth of Jesus, but to Mary’s birth. Mary is the mother of God; the virgin who gave birth to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Always call out to your Mother!

The Immaculate Conception means that Mary was given a singular grace by God, and that she was born entirely free of sin. The Catechism of the Catholic Church:

491 “Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, “full of grace” through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:

‘The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.’”

And she is not just the Blessed Mother of Catholics and Christians, but the mother of all the world’s people. She is the person that even those individuals who are truly lost, full of sin, rebels to authority of both heaven and earth can call out to.

If you are desperate, your back is to the wall and you don’t know where to turn: call to your mother, and she will come to you! Pray:

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.
Amen.