What Pope Francis Says...Mary, Mother of Mercy

There is a Marian "stlye" to the Church's work of evangelization.  Whenever we look to Mary, we come to believe once again in the revolutionary nature of love and tenderness.  In her we see that humility and tenderness are not virtues of the weak but of the strong, who need not treat others poorly in order to feel important themselves.  Contemplating Mary, we realize that she who praised God for "bringing down the mighty from their thrones" and "sending the rich away empty" (Luke 1:52-53) is also the one who carefully keeps "all these things, pondering them in her heart" (Luke 2:19)