3. Imitate Mary.
Indeed if we love a person we want to get to know the person better, love the person more ardently and finally to follow in this person’s footsteps and imitate his life. If we love Mary then we should make a concerted effort to imitate her most sublime virtues. In the classic Marian text, True Devotion to Mary, St. Louis de Montfort there is a number where the saint lists the ten most important virtues that Mary practiced. Here they are: her deep humility, lively faith, blind obedience, unceasing prayer, constant self-denial, surpassing purity, ardent love, heroic patience, angelic kindness, and heavenly wisdom.(True Devotion to Mary # 108) Knowledge generates love; love generates following; following generates imitation; imitation of Mary generates sanctification!
