Mary, Star of the Sea

“O you, whoever you are…if you do not want to founder in the tempest, do not avert your eyes from the brightness of this star…In dangers, in hardships, in every doubt, think of Mary, call out to Mary. Keep her in your mouth, keep her in your heart.”
— Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

These inspiring words honoring the strength and comfort of Christianity’s sacred feminine tell us to direct our mind, our thoughts, our words and actions on all that Mary, mother of heaven, represents and teaches us. This passage from Bernard of Clairvaux, a French abbot and the founder of the Cistercian order, reveals this mystic’s union with the sacred feminine. Bernard preached an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary.