[Copiae indulgentiarum de institutione festi Praesentationis beatae Mariae virginis concessarum]

Sixth Lesson.

Therefore, let us venerate Mary with the whole marrow of our hearts and with all our vows, because such is the will of Him who wanted us to have everything through her. She is our advocate before God, who cannot sustain a rejection because she finds grace before God. For she was providing not for wisdom, like Solomon, not for riches, not for honors; rather, she was seeking grace. Truly, grace alone is what saves us, and we are in need of grace alone. What else do we desire? Let us therefore seek grace, but through the inventress of grace, Mary, because she who seeks finds, and she cannot be frustrated. Furthermore, whatever it is that you prepare to offer to God, remember to commend it to Mary, and hand over what you desire to offer to be presented by those most grateful and most worthy hands of Mary, if you do not wish to sustain a rejection. And do not fear to approach Mary, because she is so filled with grace and imbued with the Holy Spirit that she became higher than the heavens, more precious than the peaks of summits, more gracious than holiness...