In confidence and joy, Marie Poussepin turned toward Mary, the Mother of Christ and our Mother. Marie Poussepin wished her community would honour and imitate Mary in the mystery of the Presentation, mystery of call, mystery of acceptance, the faith in this God who "fills the starving with good things and sends the rich away empty" . (Ratio Formationis p.12)
At the age of three, Blessed Virgin Mary was offered in the Temple of Jerusalem. She grew there under the protection and guidance of other Holy Women. She spent her life in the Temple reading the Word of God, pondering upon it and keeping it in her heart. Thus she prepared herself to be the co-redeemer of the humanity.
Within her reality as a woman, we find the most noble feelings the human heart is capable of: “the self offering totality of love; the strength that is capable of bearing the greatest sorrows; limitless fidelity and tireless devotion to work; the ability to combine penetrating intuition with words of support and encouragement. (RM 46)
In her mystery of presentation, a mystery of listening and contemplation, of acceptance and gift, which radically consecrates her to the Lord with a "YES" which is renewed day after day. Mary is for us a model of fidelity and of gift, of the life totally fulfilled in love. (Ratio Formationis p.46)
She, as Mother of merch, walked in the way of faith, remaining united with Jesus up to the Cross and with the newly born Church and the Church of all times. She is also present in the birth and growth of the religious vocation each one of us, deeply associating herself to its fulfilment in the Holy Spirit.
Marie Poussepin placed her Community under Mary’s protection. We can always have recourse to her and the Congregation can continue “hoping to obtain everything”, if it has recourse to Her with persevering trust.