August 20th, Saint Bernard Reminds Us That Mary Is Our Garden of Delights!
“Learn, O man, the counsel of God; admire the intentions of Wisdom, the design of love. Before bedewing the whole earth, he saturated the fleece; being to redeem the human race, he heaped up in Mary the entire ransom. O Adam, say no more: ‘The woman whom thou gavest me offered me the forbidden fruit;’ say rather: The woman whom thou gavest me has fed me with a fruit of […]