““our worship sometimes sounds over the top (“Save us, O Virgin,” “You are our only hope”), but we know what we mean. Mostly, we mean, “Pray for us.” We don’t mean that Mary has the power to grant eternal salvation, that she was created differently than other humans, or that she supplied some additional saving factor at the Cross. It doesn’t mean that she can (or would) do anything independently from the will of her Son.¶ I think that’s where things went wrong in Western Christianity. A thread of devotion took shape that saw Mary as an independent operator, with her own allotment of power.””
![“Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but sheltered in him, forming him, but formed by him ... When she pronounces the words: 'Be it done to me according to thy word', the Mother conceives the mystery from the…” quote by Adrienne von Speyr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/428/adrienne-von-speyr-60504_done_her-mary-s-motherhood-extends-beyond-vie_209859.jpg)
